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, Cruises and are three stocks that hold powerful positions in their respective industries. Additionally, over the recent past, their shares have delivered impressive performances. However, amid these gains, company insiders are selling. Let’s dive into these trades and decipher the signals they are sending investors. APH CEO Initiates +$75 Million Sale After Option Exercise Amphenol manufactures a wide variety of connectors, antennas, sensors, cables and other electronic equipment. The stock was remarkably strong in 2025, delivering a total return of 96% as the company saw extensive data center demand. This helped Amphenol post 52% revenue growth in 2025, by…

A worker unloads packages from a FedEx truck on Cyber Monday in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Bess Adler | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Express on Monday sued the U.S. government, seeking a “full refund” of the money the shipping giant paid for tariffs unilaterally imposed by President Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court last week ruled are illegal.FedEx’s suit appears to be the first one filed by a major American company after the Supreme Court decision seeking a refund of the tariffs it has paid.Other companies previously filed lawsuits seeking refunds, before the high court ruled…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.US software stocks were hit with a fresh burst of selling on Monday as investors fretted that AI will upend the industry, in a sell-off that cascaded to private capital groups that have lent heavily to tech companies. Wall Street’s S&P 500 index ended the session down 1 per cent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost 1.1 per cent. Software stocks that have been hit hard in recent weeks by fears around AI disruption were among the worst performers on Monday, with Workday,…

Uber on Monday said it had agreed to buy the parking-reservations app SpotHero, a move that will allow people to book parking reservations on the Uber app.

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26) today is down -69 (-2.17%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26) is down -80 (-3.54%).Cocoa prices are under pressure today but remain above last week’s significant lows.  Cocoa prices extended their seven-week selloff last week, sinking to 2.75-year lows on the nearest futures chart.  International cocoa buyers are reluctant to pay official farm-gate prices for beans in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, as those prices are much higher than current world prices.  The lack of buyers is boosting supplies as ICE cocoa inventories rose to a 5.25-month high of 2,111,554 bags last Friday. Don’t…

February 23, 2026 Following earlier actions to remove reputation risk from its supervision of banks, Federal Reserve Board requests comment on proposal to codify that removal For release at 5:00 p.m. EST Following earlier actions to remove reputation risk from its supervision of banks, the Federal Reserve Board on Monday requested comment on a proposal to codify that removal. The proposal reiterates the Board’s policy against penalizing or prohibiting an institution from banking a customer engaged in legal activity. “We have heard troubling cases of debanking—where supervisors use concerns about reputation risk to pressure financial institutions to debank…

A $7.8 trillion cash pile sits in US money market funds, earning, rolling, waiting. The Federal Reserve began this easing cycle on Sept 18, 2024, and it’s now been 522 days since that first cut.Looking at historical market movements, we’re entering a window whereby funds have typically started to rotate back into riskier assets. Bitcoin analyst Matthew Hyland made exactly this claim on X over the weekend.Historically around 500-1000 days after the FED begins rate cuts the liquidity begins to leave the money market funds and flow out into the markets.The calendar supports the setup, but the incentives will decide…

Futures-options traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange’s NYSE American (AMEX) in New York City, U.S., Feb. 6, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersSpeculative investing tools have boomed in popularity since the Covid pandemic as more retail traders have entered the market, according to forthcoming data shared exclusively with CNBC.Leveraged and inverse funds are expected to see average daily trading volumes of 1.41 billion in 2025, per a report from exchange-traded fund manager Direxion due out on Tuesday. That’s a gain of more than 130% from 2024 and 250% from 2020, the firm found.Leveraged funds aim to…

Madison Realty Capital, a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm with a focus on real estate private credit, has officially launched a new Middle East office in Abu Dhabi.Located within the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre of the UAE, the new office will act as a strategic hub to support both the firm’s existing and new investors across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). To facilitate this expansion, Madison secured Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM.Leadership appointment to drive GCC engagementAdam Tantleff, managing principal at Madison Realty CapitalIn conjunction…

There is a moment in Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business when Julie Maughan holds the body of her dead child and lets out an anguished cry. It is as brutal as it is compelling.Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage. She became ill with diarrhoea and blood loss. Transferred to Bristol children’s hospital, her parents agreed to switch off her life-support machine after she suffered kidney failure and brain damage.The…