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By John Jannarone World Gym Corp. (TAI: 2762.TW) reported a surge full-year net profit driven by higher revenue, with the fourth quarter finishing the year out strong. The company, which owns the World Gym brand with over 280 locations across 10 countries, said net profit rose to NT$409.1 million (US$12.8 million), up 16.3% compared to 2024. For the fourth quarter, revenue rose 13.2% to to NT$2.9 billion. Net income, meanwhile, nearly tripled to NT$166.9 million. WATCH MORE: World Gym CEO John Caraccio & Exec. Committee Member Mark Harms on Considering a US Listing: ICR Conference 2026 “2025 was a transformative…

“Botox on steroids”: Old hair-loss drugs are getting an upgrade, and new ones are on the way.

Embedded Finance North AmericaDailyPay, a platform for On-Demand Pay and financial wellness solutions, has closed a $200million upsizing to its secured credit facility.The latest injection increases the firm’s total committed capacity to $960million. With this expansion, DailyPay has now surpassed $1billion in total debt financing backed by its On-Demand Pay receivables. This milestone figure includes both the newly upsized $960million secured credit facility and a previous $200million asset-backed securitization completed in June 2025.Banking on employer partnershipsDeepa Subramanian, chief financial officer at DailyPayThe expanded facility is designed to support the sustained growth of DailyPay’s core On-Demand Pay platform. The technology allows…

UK public inflation expectations fall in January, Citi/YouGov survey shows

Trade escalation can contribute to a slowdown in economic growth and weaken silver demand, but silver’s a “dual-natured metal” that benefits from both investment and industrial uses. That’s a key reason why it has been more of a go-to hedge than gold lately.

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Consumer Products stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 1.4% loss. Within that group, Brown-Forman Corp (Symbol: BF.B) and Molson Coors Beverage Co (Symbol: TAP) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss of 8.9% and 5.0%, respectively. Among consumer products ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the iShares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF (Symbol: IYK), which is down 0.6% on the day, and up 14.22% year-to-date. Brown-Forman Corp, meanwhile, is up 6.29% year-to-date, and Molson Coors Beverage Co is up 1.51% year-to-date. TAP makes up approximately 0.3% of the underlying holdings…

Now available on your favorite food delivery app: restaurant reservations. The still-simmering reservation wars of the last decade could fully reignite this year, as a shifting tech landscape pits some of the biggest players against each other to capture businesses and users alike. Reservation incumbents, delivery app newcomers and premium credit card partnerships are all ramping up the fight for a shrinking pool of diners. Delivery giant DoorDash announced in June its $1.2 billion acquisition of SevenRooms, a reservation platform focused on direct bookings through a restaurant’s own website. Several months earlier, UberEats and Booking Holdings’ OpenTable announced a partnership…

Check out some of the companies making headlines in midday trading. Coinbase — The cryptocurrency exchange’s stock jumped 12% as it launched stock trading on its platform. The move is part of Coinbase’s strategy to become the place for investors to trade not only cryptocurrency but also stocks, exchange-traded funds and place prediction market bets. Paramount Skydance — Shares of the entertainment giant crept slightly higher after Paramount Skydance lifted its Warner Bros. Discovery takeover offer to $31 per share . That’s up from $30 a share. Warner Bros. said its board would review the proposal. Netflix , which already…

Regulated US crypto bank Anchorage Digital has officially confirmed it holds Strategy’s STRC perpetual preferred stock on its balance sheet. Conviction compounds.Institutions don’t just talk about Bitcoin, they structure around it.Today, @Anchorage Digital has announced it holds $STRC, @Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock, on our balance sheet.When the company that operationalizes Bitcoin infrastructure puts…— Nathan McCauley (@nathanmccauley) February 25, 2026 CEO Nathan McCauley disclosed the position on X today, framing it as a major strategic alignment between the sector’s largest digital asset treasury and its critical banking infrastructure. This move validates the use of high yield Bitcoin proxies even as ETF…

Amid a more than six-month consolidation among major AI infrastructure players like Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom, leadership within the broader ecosystem has begun to rotate toward smaller, specialized suppliers as infrastructure needs evlove. One standout example has been Lumentum (LITE), which has emerged as a major winner during this period, leading the industry in optical networking technology, a critical solution for the high-speed data transmission required by AI compute and data center workloads.Lumentum shares have surged several hundred percent over the past several months, and while I’m not one to shy away from momentum stocks, as readers know from when…