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BioLive Wire · AI-collected

AstraZeneca Scraps Late-Stage Lung Cancer Trial After Data Setback

AstraZeneca scrapped a late-stage lung cancer clinical trial after a data setback, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

ConsumerLive Wire · AI-collected

Nestle Looks to Develop New Products to Serve Users of Weight-Loss Drugs

Nestle is looking to develop new products to serve users of weight-loss drugs, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

Thailand Q2 GDP Grows 1.9%, More Than Expected

Thailand's economy grew 1.9% in the second quarter, more than expected, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

Sandoz to Pay Up to $77 Million for Three Biosimilar Drug Rights From Shanghai Henlius Biotech

Sandoz agreed to pay up to $77 million for the rights to three biosimilar drugs from Shanghai Henlius Biotech, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

Hutchmed Shares Rise 5% After Positive Phase III Lung Cancer Trial Results

Hutchmed shares rose 5% after the company reported positive results from a Phase III lung cancer clinical trial, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Alphabet Eyes Inaugural Australian Dollar Bond, Bookrunner's Message Says

Alphabet is eyeing its first-ever Australian dollar-denominated bond offering, according to a message from a bookrunner cited in an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

ConsumerLive Wire · AI-collected

Australia's JB Hi-Fi Shares Slide After Flagging Weak Start to FY27

Shares of Australian electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi slid after the company flagged a weak start to fiscal year 2027, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

EnergyLive Wire · AI-collected

First Philippine Rejects KKR's Offer for First Gen Shares

First Philippine Holdings rejected an offer from private equity firm KKR to acquire shares in power generation company First Gen, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Alibaba to Sell Gaming Arm for $1.5 Billion as AI Focus Intensifies

Alibaba is set to sell its gaming arm for $1.5 billion as the company intensifies its focus on AI, according to a Bloomberg report via Investing.com.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

JPMorgan's Dimon Cautions UK on Bank Tax Increases

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned the UK against increasing taxes on banks, according to a Financial Times report via Investing.com.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

IndustrialsLive Wire · AI-collected

BlueScope FY Profit Jumps Over 100% on U.S., Asia Strength

Australian steelmaker BlueScope reported full-year profit jumping more than 100%, driven by strength in its U.S. and Asia operations, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

HIVE Digital Revenue Jumps 74% But Swedish Tax Charge Drives Net Loss

HIVE Digital Technologies reported total revenue of $79.1 million for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 73.5% from a year earlier, with $72.1 million from bitcoin mining (up nearly 77%) after it earned 1,004 bitcoin during the quarter, up 147% year over year, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
The company's AI-focused BUZZ business brought in $7.1 million, up 52% from the prior quarter, helped by a new Nvidia GPU cluster at its Manitoba, Canada site; average operational hash rate expanded to 24.0 EH/s from 8.7 EH/s.
Despite the revenue gains, HIVE reported a net loss of $142.9 million, driven mainly by an $84.7 million non-cash provision related to a contested value-added tax assessment from Swedish authorities, which the company said it is appealing.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Berkshire's Delta Air Lines Stake Jumps 44% to $5.4 Billion in Q2

Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Delta Air Lines jumped 44% during the second quarter of 2026, climbing to 57.3 million shares worth roughly $5.4 billion at the end of June, according to recent 13F filings cited in a Yahoo Finance report; the position was worth about $2.6 billion at the end of March.
Berkshire dumped its entire airline portfolio in 2020 during the pandemic, with Buffett previously calling airlines a 'capital trap'; the Delta position was built during Greg Abel's tenure as CEO, who wrote to shareholders in February that Berkshire has 'core' positions it won't sell but otherwise plans to stay 'disciplined and concentrated.'
Delta reported record second-quarter revenue of $17.7 billion, up 14% year-over-year, with unit revenue growth of 12.4% despite capacity growing only about 1%; pretax profit was $1.4 billion, with earnings of $1.56 per share and a 9% operating margin, all ahead of the company's guidance.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

David Tepper's Appaloosa Fully Exits 12 Positions Including SanDisk, RTX, L3Harris in Q2 13F

David Tepper's Appaloosa Management closed out 12 positions entirely in its Q2 2026 13F filed August 14, including SanDisk (281,250 shares), Corning (1,129,500 shares), PDD Holdings (900,000 shares), JD.com (1,305,000 shares), L3Harris Technologies (198,000 shares) and RTX (342,000 shares), according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Tepper walked entirely out of SanDisk despite the stock being up 591.34% year-to-date through August 14 with a five-quarter EPS beat streak; he exited RTX and L3Harris in the same quarter despite RTX raising its FY2026 EPS guidance to $7.10-$7.25 and L3Harris signing a roughly $12 billion THAAD/PAC-3 production framework.
Tepper also exited PDD, JD.com and the KWEB ETF and trimmed Alibaba by 1,465,000 shares, while holding $1.1 billion in Micron and adding to Baidu; both SanDisk and Corning shares have since dropped 28% and 35%, respectively, since his Q2 close.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

Bank of America Sees 'Great Convergence' as K-Shaped Economy Gap Narrows

Bank of America's newest consumer data shows a 'great convergence,' with spending growth across lower-, middle- and higher-income households moving at roughly the same rate, converging near 5% year over year in discretionary categories, according to a Yahoo Finance report on a BofA webinar featuring economists Aditya Bhave and David Tinsley.
For most of 2025 and early 2026, after-tax wage growth for lower-income households was stuck at 1% to 1.5%; over the past two to three months, BofA said that rate accelerated toward 5%, roughly aligning with growth for other income groups, with lower-income card spending also growing near 5%.
The top 5% of households remain an exception, with spending growth still running nearly 1.5 percentage points faster than the rest; Bhave said 'the K is converging for now, but I wouldn't be completely shocked if it starts to open out again.'

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Prosecutors Focus on Four Businesses Tied to Dodgers Owner Mark Walter

Federal prosecutors are focusing on four businesses tied to Mark Walter, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Proceeds from loans made by insurers controlled by Walter passed through firms purportedly controlled by each of the four entities under scrutiny, the report said.

Published Aug 16Source: WSJ ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Stripe Finalizes Deal to Acquire AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that lets customers select different AI models for different tasks, according to a Bloomberg report relayed by Yahoo Finance/TechCrunch.
OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B in May at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, with investors including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures; the company claims 8 million global users and access to more than 400 AI models.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Stripe and OpenRouter were in acquisition talks; Bloomberg now says the discussions led to a deal price of more than $7 billion. A Stripe spokesperson told TechCrunch the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Musk Can't Sell SpaceX Stock Until June 2027, but 6 Billion More Shares Unlock Before Then

SpaceX went public on June 12, selling 638.9 million shares at $135 in its IPO and raising a record $85.7 billion; CEO Elon Musk, who owns more than 6 billion combined Class A and Class B shares (about 42% of the company by value), agreed to a 366-day lock-up barring him from selling until June 12, 2027, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Early investors and employees face shorter lock-ups: the first release, on Aug. 6, unlocked just shy of 912 million shares, more than doubling shares available for sale, with further staggered releases scheduled over the coming year, including one two full trading days after Q3 2026 results.
By spring 2027, about 10 times as many shares will be eligible for sale as were sold in the IPO, and by mid-June 2027, when Musk can finally sell, roughly 20 times as many shares will be eligible as at the IPO.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

EnergyLive Wire · AI-collected

Eight Oil Majors Post Combined $90 Billion-Plus Profit in Q2 on Iran War Price Spike

Eight of the largest oil companies — Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil — posted combined profits of over $90 billion in the April-June quarter, nearly double the just-below-$50 billion combined total in Q2 2025, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Saudi Arabia's Aramco benefited most from the spring price surge, reporting a 34% rise in quarterly net income to over $33 billion; Chevron posted its highest quarterly profit in at least six years, with adjusted earnings of $12 billion, including $8.2 billion from upstream operations, a 200% increase year-over-year.
Brent crude rose from around $68 a barrel in late February to nearly $100 in May following the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and Iran's move to close the Strait of Hormuz; President Trump criticized ExxonMobil and Chevron on Aug. 3 for making 'too much money' on high crude prices, and governments worldwide are floating windfall-tax proposals.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

SEC Preparing to Release Framework for Trading Tokenized Versions of Wall Street Stocks

The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to launch a framework for trading blockchain versions of popular Wall Street-listed stocks, with its 'innovation exemption' for tokenized-stock trading expected as early as Friday, according to a Bloomberg report cited by Yahoo Finance/Benzinga.
Officials are still 'working on the proposal' and details may change before release; the SEC has scheduled an open meeting Friday to 'create a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.'
SEC Chair Paul Atkins first hinted at the 'innovation exemption' in April; the proposal aims to give qualified firms a regulatory sandbox to issue and trade tokenized securities on-chain under lighter-touch compliance conditions. A similar report emerged in May, but the agency delayed release to weigh feedback from stock-exchange officials and public companies.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

IndustrialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Archer Aviation Guides to $170-200 Million Q3 Loss, Holds $1.56 Billion Cash

Archer Aviation reported second-quarter revenue of $5 million, mostly from operating Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles, against a net loss of $263 million, and guided to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $170 million to $200 million for the third quarter, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Total operating expenses rose 61% year over year to $284 million, reflecting expanded flight testing, certification work and production of its Midnight aircraft; cash and investments fell by $215 million during the quarter to $1.56 billion, down from $1.96 billion at the end of December.
In April, Archer became the first in its industry to close the third phase of the FAA's four-phase type certification process and is now in the final phase; in July, Midnight flew its first piloted city-to-city trips in California, with Los Angeles-area operations planned soon and Texas operations expected later this year.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Anthropic CEO Amodei Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded to investor Gavin Baker's argument that Amodei's warnings about AI dangers have fueled backlash against the industry, particularly data centers, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Amodei disagreed that his messaging has been 'disproportionately negative' but acknowledged 'the public has a negative view of AI,' saying 'I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust... ordinary people don't trust companies, governments, or the tech industry.'
Amodei said the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that 'we haven't yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world,' and argued Anthropic's policy proposals aim to slow down frontier AI companies while advantaging smaller competitors.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Peter Thiel's Fund Returns to Stocks With $118 Million Amazon Bet, Its Largest Q2 Position

Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro hedge fund reported zero 13F stock holdings at the end of December 2025 and again as of March 31, 2026, but its Q2 filing showed a rebuilt $418.7 million public-equity portfolio, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Thiel Macro's largest position is nearly $118 million in Amazon stock, about 28% of the fund's total 13F portfolio; every position in the portfolio was newly established during the quarter.
Amazon shares rose roughly 14% on July 31 following earnings that showed its AI spending translating into visible returns, and management raised its 2026 capital spending guidance to $220 billion; the stock closed at $278.09 on August 10, up about 19% for the year at that point.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

AbbVie Raises 2026 Neuroscience Revenue Guidance to $12.7 Billion

AbbVie now expects its neuroscience portfolio to generate approximately $12.7 billion in revenue during 2026, raising guidance by another $100 million after a strong first half, up from $10.8 billion generated last year, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Second-quarter neuroscience revenue climbed 20.3% year over year to $3.23 billion, with migraine drugs Ubrelvy and Qulipta rising a combined 22.6%; Q2 immunology revenue reached $8.79 billion, driven by Skyrizi and Rinvoq.
AbbVie is also developing bretisilocin, a psychedelics-based candidate for major depressive disorder acquired from Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, which remains in clinical trials.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

NLP · 3-line summary

AI Articles & Report Summaries

Expert articles and reports as a 3-line summary + takeaway

All Semis Big Tech Bio Consumer Financials Energy Industrials Macro Battery

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

AstraZeneca Scraps Late-Stage Lung Cancer Trial After Data Setback

AstraZeneca scrapped a late-stage lung cancer clinical trial after a data setback, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

ConsumerLive Wire · AI-collected

Nestle Looks to Develop New Products to Serve Users of Weight-Loss Drugs

Nestle is looking to develop new products to serve users of weight-loss drugs, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

Thailand Q2 GDP Grows 1.9%, More Than Expected

Thailand's economy grew 1.9% in the second quarter, more than expected, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

Sandoz to Pay Up to $77 Million for Three Biosimilar Drug Rights From Shanghai Henlius Biotech

Sandoz agreed to pay up to $77 million for the rights to three biosimilar drugs from Shanghai Henlius Biotech, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

Hutchmed Shares Rise 5% After Positive Phase III Lung Cancer Trial Results

Hutchmed shares rose 5% after the company reported positive results from a Phase III lung cancer clinical trial, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Alphabet Eyes Inaugural Australian Dollar Bond, Bookrunner's Message Says

Alphabet is eyeing its first-ever Australian dollar-denominated bond offering, according to a message from a bookrunner cited in an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

ConsumerLive Wire · AI-collected

Australia's JB Hi-Fi Shares Slide After Flagging Weak Start to FY27

Shares of Australian electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi slid after the company flagged a weak start to fiscal year 2027, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

EnergyLive Wire · AI-collected

First Philippine Rejects KKR's Offer for First Gen Shares

First Philippine Holdings rejected an offer from private equity firm KKR to acquire shares in power generation company First Gen, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Alibaba to Sell Gaming Arm for $1.5 Billion as AI Focus Intensifies

Alibaba is set to sell its gaming arm for $1.5 billion as the company intensifies its focus on AI, according to a Bloomberg report via Investing.com.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

JPMorgan's Dimon Cautions UK on Bank Tax Increases

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned the UK against increasing taxes on banks, according to a Financial Times report via Investing.com.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

IndustrialsLive Wire · AI-collected

BlueScope FY Profit Jumps Over 100% on U.S., Asia Strength

Australian steelmaker BlueScope reported full-year profit jumping more than 100%, driven by strength in its U.S. and Asia operations, according to an Investing.com report.

Published Aug 17Source: Investing.com ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

HIVE Digital Revenue Jumps 74% But Swedish Tax Charge Drives Net Loss

HIVE Digital Technologies reported total revenue of $79.1 million for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 73.5% from a year earlier, with $72.1 million from bitcoin mining (up nearly 77%) after it earned 1,004 bitcoin during the quarter, up 147% year over year, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
The company's AI-focused BUZZ business brought in $7.1 million, up 52% from the prior quarter, helped by a new Nvidia GPU cluster at its Manitoba, Canada site; average operational hash rate expanded to 24.0 EH/s from 8.7 EH/s.
Despite the revenue gains, HIVE reported a net loss of $142.9 million, driven mainly by an $84.7 million non-cash provision related to a contested value-added tax assessment from Swedish authorities, which the company said it is appealing.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Berkshire's Delta Air Lines Stake Jumps 44% to $5.4 Billion in Q2

Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Delta Air Lines jumped 44% during the second quarter of 2026, climbing to 57.3 million shares worth roughly $5.4 billion at the end of June, according to recent 13F filings cited in a Yahoo Finance report; the position was worth about $2.6 billion at the end of March.
Berkshire dumped its entire airline portfolio in 2020 during the pandemic, with Buffett previously calling airlines a 'capital trap'; the Delta position was built during Greg Abel's tenure as CEO, who wrote to shareholders in February that Berkshire has 'core' positions it won't sell but otherwise plans to stay 'disciplined and concentrated.'
Delta reported record second-quarter revenue of $17.7 billion, up 14% year-over-year, with unit revenue growth of 12.4% despite capacity growing only about 1%; pretax profit was $1.4 billion, with earnings of $1.56 per share and a 9% operating margin, all ahead of the company's guidance.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

David Tepper's Appaloosa Fully Exits 12 Positions Including SanDisk, RTX, L3Harris in Q2 13F

David Tepper's Appaloosa Management closed out 12 positions entirely in its Q2 2026 13F filed August 14, including SanDisk (281,250 shares), Corning (1,129,500 shares), PDD Holdings (900,000 shares), JD.com (1,305,000 shares), L3Harris Technologies (198,000 shares) and RTX (342,000 shares), according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Tepper walked entirely out of SanDisk despite the stock being up 591.34% year-to-date through August 14 with a five-quarter EPS beat streak; he exited RTX and L3Harris in the same quarter despite RTX raising its FY2026 EPS guidance to $7.10-$7.25 and L3Harris signing a roughly $12 billion THAAD/PAC-3 production framework.
Tepper also exited PDD, JD.com and the KWEB ETF and trimmed Alibaba by 1,465,000 shares, while holding $1.1 billion in Micron and adding to Baidu; both SanDisk and Corning shares have since dropped 28% and 35%, respectively, since his Q2 close.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

MacroLive Wire · AI-collected

Bank of America Sees 'Great Convergence' as K-Shaped Economy Gap Narrows

Bank of America's newest consumer data shows a 'great convergence,' with spending growth across lower-, middle- and higher-income households moving at roughly the same rate, converging near 5% year over year in discretionary categories, according to a Yahoo Finance report on a BofA webinar featuring economists Aditya Bhave and David Tinsley.
For most of 2025 and early 2026, after-tax wage growth for lower-income households was stuck at 1% to 1.5%; over the past two to three months, BofA said that rate accelerated toward 5%, roughly aligning with growth for other income groups, with lower-income card spending also growing near 5%.
The top 5% of households remain an exception, with spending growth still running nearly 1.5 percentage points faster than the rest; Bhave said 'the K is converging for now, but I wouldn't be completely shocked if it starts to open out again.'

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Prosecutors Focus on Four Businesses Tied to Dodgers Owner Mark Walter

Federal prosecutors are focusing on four businesses tied to Mark Walter, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Proceeds from loans made by insurers controlled by Walter passed through firms purportedly controlled by each of the four entities under scrutiny, the report said.

Published Aug 16Source: WSJ ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Stripe Finalizes Deal to Acquire AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that lets customers select different AI models for different tasks, according to a Bloomberg report relayed by Yahoo Finance/TechCrunch.
OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B in May at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, with investors including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures; the company claims 8 million global users and access to more than 400 AI models.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Stripe and OpenRouter were in acquisition talks; Bloomberg now says the discussions led to a deal price of more than $7 billion. A Stripe spokesperson told TechCrunch the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Musk Can't Sell SpaceX Stock Until June 2027, but 6 Billion More Shares Unlock Before Then

SpaceX went public on June 12, selling 638.9 million shares at $135 in its IPO and raising a record $85.7 billion; CEO Elon Musk, who owns more than 6 billion combined Class A and Class B shares (about 42% of the company by value), agreed to a 366-day lock-up barring him from selling until June 12, 2027, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Early investors and employees face shorter lock-ups: the first release, on Aug. 6, unlocked just shy of 912 million shares, more than doubling shares available for sale, with further staggered releases scheduled over the coming year, including one two full trading days after Q3 2026 results.
By spring 2027, about 10 times as many shares will be eligible for sale as were sold in the IPO, and by mid-June 2027, when Musk can finally sell, roughly 20 times as many shares will be eligible as at the IPO.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

EnergyLive Wire · AI-collected

Eight Oil Majors Post Combined $90 Billion-Plus Profit in Q2 on Iran War Price Spike

Eight of the largest oil companies — Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil — posted combined profits of over $90 billion in the April-June quarter, nearly double the just-below-$50 billion combined total in Q2 2025, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Saudi Arabia's Aramco benefited most from the spring price surge, reporting a 34% rise in quarterly net income to over $33 billion; Chevron posted its highest quarterly profit in at least six years, with adjusted earnings of $12 billion, including $8.2 billion from upstream operations, a 200% increase year-over-year.
Brent crude rose from around $68 a barrel in late February to nearly $100 in May following the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and Iran's move to close the Strait of Hormuz; President Trump criticized ExxonMobil and Chevron on Aug. 3 for making 'too much money' on high crude prices, and governments worldwide are floating windfall-tax proposals.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

SEC Preparing to Release Framework for Trading Tokenized Versions of Wall Street Stocks

The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to launch a framework for trading blockchain versions of popular Wall Street-listed stocks, with its 'innovation exemption' for tokenized-stock trading expected as early as Friday, according to a Bloomberg report cited by Yahoo Finance/Benzinga.
Officials are still 'working on the proposal' and details may change before release; the SEC has scheduled an open meeting Friday to 'create a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.'
SEC Chair Paul Atkins first hinted at the 'innovation exemption' in April; the proposal aims to give qualified firms a regulatory sandbox to issue and trade tokenized securities on-chain under lighter-touch compliance conditions. A similar report emerged in May, but the agency delayed release to weigh feedback from stock-exchange officials and public companies.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

IndustrialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Archer Aviation Guides to $170-200 Million Q3 Loss, Holds $1.56 Billion Cash

Archer Aviation reported second-quarter revenue of $5 million, mostly from operating Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles, against a net loss of $263 million, and guided to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $170 million to $200 million for the third quarter, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Total operating expenses rose 61% year over year to $284 million, reflecting expanded flight testing, certification work and production of its Midnight aircraft; cash and investments fell by $215 million during the quarter to $1.56 billion, down from $1.96 billion at the end of December.
In April, Archer became the first in its industry to close the third phase of the FAA's four-phase type certification process and is now in the final phase; in July, Midnight flew its first piloted city-to-city trips in California, with Los Angeles-area operations planned soon and Texas operations expected later this year.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

Big TechLive Wire · AI-collected

Anthropic CEO Amodei Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded to investor Gavin Baker's argument that Amodei's warnings about AI dangers have fueled backlash against the industry, particularly data centers, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Amodei disagreed that his messaging has been 'disproportionately negative' but acknowledged 'the public has a negative view of AI,' saying 'I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust... ordinary people don't trust companies, governments, or the tech industry.'
Amodei said the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that 'we haven't yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world,' and argued Anthropic's policy proposals aim to slow down frontier AI companies while advantaging smaller competitors.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

FinancialsLive Wire · AI-collected

Peter Thiel's Fund Returns to Stocks With $118 Million Amazon Bet, Its Largest Q2 Position

Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro hedge fund reported zero 13F stock holdings at the end of December 2025 and again as of March 31, 2026, but its Q2 filing showed a rebuilt $418.7 million public-equity portfolio, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Thiel Macro's largest position is nearly $118 million in Amazon stock, about 28% of the fund's total 13F portfolio; every position in the portfolio was newly established during the quarter.
Amazon shares rose roughly 14% on July 31 following earnings that showed its AI spending translating into visible returns, and management raised its 2026 capital spending guidance to $220 billion; the stock closed at $278.09 on August 10, up about 19% for the year at that point.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗

BioLive Wire · AI-collected

AbbVie Raises 2026 Neuroscience Revenue Guidance to $12.7 Billion

AbbVie now expects its neuroscience portfolio to generate approximately $12.7 billion in revenue during 2026, raising guidance by another $100 million after a strong first half, up from $10.8 billion generated last year, according to a Yahoo Finance report.
Second-quarter neuroscience revenue climbed 20.3% year over year to $3.23 billion, with migraine drugs Ubrelvy and Qulipta rising a combined 22.6%; Q2 immunology revenue reached $8.79 billion, driven by Skyrizi and Rinvoq.
AbbVie is also developing bretisilocin, a psychedelics-based candidate for major depressive disorder acquired from Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, which remains in clinical trials.

Published Aug 16Source: Yahoo Finance ↗