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The head of South Africa’s budget office resigned last week, after helping the National Treasury stabilize public debt.

This morning a “Potential Dividend Run Alert” went out for ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc. (NYSE: ARR), at our DividendChannel.com Dividend Alerts service (a free email alerts feature). Let’s look at the situation in greater detail, shall we? First of all, what is a “Dividend Run” anyway? This is an interesting concept which we first learned about at a past ValueForum conference. And to best explain the concept, we need to start with the expected behavior of a stock on its ex-dividend date.For anyone unfamiliar with the term, the ex-dividend date marks the trading day when any buyer of the stock…

Arete Wealth Advisors LLC trimmed its position in Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA – Free Report) by 16.1% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 21,393 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock after selling 4,103 shares during the period. Arete Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in Tesla were worth $9,514,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Brighton Jones LLC increased its stake in shares of Tesla by 11.8% in the 4th…

Crude-oil markets won’t officially open for a few more hours, but traders are already using prediction markets like Kalshi to take bets on where prices will settle on Monday.

Now that the supreme court has found that the Donald Trump exceeded his authority to levy tariffs, the big question for many businesses – particularly small businesses who were so hard hit by these tariffs – is are they able to get their money back?Don’t hold your breath. When it comes to tariffs, Trump still has many more tricks up his sleeve.He can use section 223 of the Trade Expansion Action Act of 1962 (along with section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974) to levy tariffs on specific industries and sectors, like Joe Biden did on Chinese steel, semiconductors,…

Safe haven Japanese yen and Swiss franc gain after weekend Iran strikes

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped off amid warnings from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. What happens next could have major implications for the global economy.

Datacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK’s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns the sites could double national electricity demand.Campaign groups have written to the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, warning that the energy required by new AI infrastructure poses a “serious threat to efforts to decarbonise the electricity grid”.Developers should demonstrate that their projects will not cause an increase in the UK’s overall CO2 emissions or local water scarcity, as part of a forthcoming national policy statement (NPS) on datacentres, the letter says.“Without these commitments, such vast electricity use will inevitably generate…

Ubisoft (OTC: UBSFY) is a France-based video game publisher known for franchises including Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry. The company was once one of the most powerful players in the gaming industry, but it’s suffered an incredible fall from grace. I purchased shares of the company in 2022 amid the backdrop of an intensifying market for video game acquisitions. Early in January of that year, Take-Two announced that it would be acquiring mobile games publisher Zynga at a substantial premium. Soon after, Microsoft announced that it was buying Activision Blizzard — once again at a substantial premium. Will…

CoreWeave Reaches $5 Billion in RevenueThursday, CoreWeave (CRWV) reported Q4 earnings results after the market close. The large-scale GPU-accelerated operator reached an impressive milestone, becoming the fastest cloud provider to reach $5 billion in annual revenue. Total annual revenue more than doubled from $1.9 billion in 2024 to $5.1 billion in 2025, marking a 168% increase.CoreWeave Backlog SurgesMeanwhile, revenue backlog surged to $66.8 billion, more than quadruple where it started the year ($15B). Recently, CoreWeave received a $2 billion investment from Nvidia (NVDA), the AI king. The investment is significant for the company because it remains a preferred partner for…