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Overview Strategy disclosed in a Form 8-K filed on October 16, 2026 a conditional schedule of daily cash dividends on its STRC preferred stock for November, at an annualised rate of 12.00%. The board declared a dividend for each calendar day from November 1 through November 30, at $0.03 or $0.04 per share per day, totalling $1.00 for the month, with each payment made on the business day immediately following its record date. Two conditions govern the whole arrangement. Stockholders must approve

On October 16 NiSource (Ticker: NI) signed an agreement with Microsoft (Ticker: MSFT) for about 1100MW of new generation on a 20-year term, serving Microsoft's data center campus in northwest Indiana from 2028, with Microsoft funding all of the generation and transmission. A separate 600MW storage tolling agreement signed the same day put about $2.20B of payments over 20.5 years on the record in an 8-K, the only value this issue that is both disclosed and filed. The weekend added two larger but

Overview Summing the daily figures published by Farside Investors, US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net outflows of roughly $320.1 million across the full trading week of October 12 to 16, against roughly $228.4 million for spot Bitcoin ETFs over the same days. A product line holding about one seventh the assets lost more money in absolute terms. Two points on methodology come first. This is the complete week through October 16 and should not be described as October 19 flow data, since Farside upd

1. Today's Market: Change the Gauge and the Same Day Gives a Different ConclusionUnit: %, absolute values of the single-day fall on October 16, each gauge computed from its own index close on the same day; all four bars are drawn from zero on one shared scale. The Dow reads 0.34, the S&P 500 1.09, the Nasdaq Composite 2.14 and the PHLX Semiconductor index 3.83. The gradient is clean: the Dow fell just 0.34% and the semiconductor index 3.83%, about 11 times as far. What was sold on Friday was not

Overview Western Digital reports fiscal first-quarter 2027 results after the US close on October 22, with the call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, which is 04:30 on October 23 in Singapore. Per MarketBeat, consensus sits at $4.08 per share on revenue of $4.14 billion, against $1.78 and $2.82 billion in the year-ago quarter. Fundamentals and the share price are moving in opposite directions. Last quarter delivered revenue of $3.75 billion, up 44%, at a non-GAAP gross margin of 54.4%, and guidance calls for

IntroductionApple closed Friday, October 16, at a record $343.46, up 0.43% on the day and 2.03% for the week, in a stretch when the Nasdaq Composite lost 4.5%. The close sits $4.69, or 1.35%, below the all-time intraday high of $348.15 set on October 13, and the stock has now reached the $347 to $348 area on four consecutive sessions while closing at least $4.69 below the high. The move arrived on the day Apple opened preorders for the $1,999 iPhone Duo, which sold out within minutes and pushed

IntroductionNVIDIA closed Friday, October 16, at $214.13, down 1.43% on the day and 6.61% for the week, which puts the world's most valuable company 10.50% below the record close of $239.24 it set on October 6. The shares have returned to a price band between roughly $207 and $215 where they posted three separate session lows and seven closes in August and September, and where each earlier pullback ended before the stock moved higher. This time the test comes with the stock below both its 20-day

IntroductionTesla ended the week at $354.72 after a 2.13% decline on Friday, October 16, the day after its Roadster demonstration. The stock gapped higher at the open, then sold off by more than 5% to a low of $349.33, producing the widest trading range of the past 50 sessions. That move extended a five-session losing streak, left the shares 7.31% lower for the week and parked the close just $1.88 above the $352.84 closing floor that has held for 34 sessions. With third-quarter earnings due on W

Cysic has suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker exploited a vulnerability that allowed 10 million CYS tokens to be minted without authorization on BNB Smart Chain. The attacker managed to sell 7.2 million of the newly created tokens and move approximately $727,000 in proceeds to Ethereum before Cysic blacklisted the receiving address.The incident has raised fresh concerns around the security of cross-chain infrastructure, particularly systems responsible for processing messages and

On October 14, 2026, Polygon Labs officially announced the completion of its acquisition of Coinme, a U.S.-based company providing fiat-to-digital asset conversion services. The deal expands Polygon's regulated payment capabilities across 48 U.S. states, marking a significant step in its strategy to develop enterprise-focused stablecoin infrastructure.Through Coinme, Polygon gains access to 37 state-level Money Transmitter Licenses, 11 applicable licensing exemptions, and Money Services Business