July 2026 — page 10
Construction Partners to Acquire Ellsworth Construction
The acquisition expands the civil infrastructure company's footprint in Oklahoma's fastest-growing metropolitan areas.
Ferguson to Buy FloWorks in $1.6 Billion All-Cash Deal
The acquisition adds industrial distribution capabilities and geographic reach that Ferguson plans to extend across its non-residential customer base.
Supreme Court ruling sparks tariff refund wave
Companies begin reclaiming IEEPA tariffs after the Court’s decision, though recovery remains uneven and uncertain.
Gary Friedman reduces RH stake
The RH executive sold shares to fund personal residence improvements and debt repayment.
Capex Push Cuts Across Banking, Industrials, Health and Retail
Eight companies disclosed economic commentary this week across five industries, and seven of them, from banking to biotech to storage, pointed to capital deployment as the throughline.
Trico NIM Expands as Deposit Costs Ease
The California-based regional lender saw net interest margin rise 6 basis points to 3.25% in the second quarter.
Plug Power Turns to Asset Sales as Cash Position Slides
Plug Power's unrestricted cash fell to roughly $162 million at quarter-end, down from $223 million three months earlier, pushing the company to lean on asset sales for liquidity.
First Hawaiian's NIM Hits Five-Quarter High as TriCo Deal Reshapes Footprint
Net interest margin expanded 6 basis points to 3.25%, the strongest in five quarters, as the Hawaii lender agreed to acquire TriCo Bancshares in a $63.12-a-share all-stock deal.
Babcock & Wilcox Bookings Jump 1,971% on Project Volume
The energy technology provider reduced net debt to $42.4 million as of March 31, 2026, down from $349.3 million a year earlier.
First Hawaiian to Buy TriCo Bancshares in $2.02 Billion All-Stock Deal
The combination creates the leading Pacific banking franchise and gives First Hawaiian its long-sought scale on the California mainland.
Plug Power to Buy Texas, New York Projects in $218.5 Million Asset Deal
The transactions advance Plug’s infrastructure optimization plan targeting over $275 million in liquidity improvement.
First Hawaiian to Buy TriCo Bancshares in $2.02 Billion All-Stock Deal
The transaction aims to create a leading Pacific banking franchise by accelerating First Hawaiian's growth on the U.S. mainland.
DT Midstream expands interstate footprint via ONEOK acquisition
The company secured a 55% revenue increase for its Viking Gas Transmission unit through a FERC-approved settlement.
HF Sinclair Maintains Midstream Structure Across Delaware Pipeline Entities
The company's regulated pipeline operations remained centered on its Delaware-incorporated limited liability subsidiaries during the 2024 reporting cycle.
Ameren accelerates coal retirement and expands MISO transmission footprint
The holding company utilized securitized bonds to fund the closure of the Rush Island Energy Center while pursuing long-range transmission projects in Illinois and Missouri.
Occidental Petroleum Income Rises on Higher Crude Prices
The energy company reported oil and gas pre-tax income of $1.0 billion for the first quarter.
Invesco Flows Stall as Passive Demand Cools
Net long-term inflows collapsed to $8.0 billion in the second quarter, down from $18.9 billion in the prior period.
New AI Module Turns 3D Pose Data Into Biomechanical Insights
BioModule enables standard 3D skeletal tracking to predict how the body loads and activates without requiring new hardware.
RL Agent Optimizes Bitcoin Lightning Network Liquidity
A new graph reinforcement learning approach maximizes routing capacity by strategically placing liquidity under fixed budget constraints.
Stablecoins Fail as Uniform Safe Havens During Market Stress
New registry-based data from Austrian service providers reveals a sharp divide in how retail and institutional actors move assets during financial shocks.
New Framework Fixes Value Forecasting in Recommender Systems
PIT-SUN improves the accuracy of high-value metrics like LTV and GMV by solving a fundamental mathematical conflict in target transformation.
MiLSD Brings Line Detection to Low-Cost Microcontrollers
A new micro-detector enables high-accuracy line segment detection within a sub-megabyte memory budget for edge AI.
TopoBrick Enables Zero-Shot IoT Forecasting via Topology Sampling
A new training-free framework uses building knowledge graphs to select the most relevant exogenous variables for sensor forecasting.
U.S. Economic News Sentiment is Becoming More Persistent
Analysis of 45 years of newspaper data shows sentiment shocks now linger longer and resist short-term correction.
Physics-Based Model Shows Proportional Taxes Fail to Redistribute
New research using the Fokker-Planck framework suggests only progressive taxes can shift wealth distributions within policy-relevant timescales.
New Model Quantifies Coordination Risks in Regime Change
Researchers have developed an estimable framework to separate the feasibility of a coup from the perceived benefits of overthrowing a government.
AdaStop Cuts AI Testing Costs via Dynamic Stopping
A new cost-benefit framework allows developers to stop labeling test data once the marginal value of finding faults drops below the cost of labor.
High-Frequency Data Can Mask Massive Forecasting Errors
New research reveals a 'Granularity Paradox' where finer time-series data improves in-sample fit while compounding out-of-sample failure.
New Sinhala Dataset Enables Fine-Grained Market Sentiment Analysis
The SalAngaBhava dataset allows NLP models to move beyond general sentiment to specific product aspects in a low-resource language.
US Private Ag R&D Shifts Toward State-Level Dispersion
New patent-based data reveals that private agricultural innovation is highly persistent and closely tied to the size of state agricultural economies.
IMF Growth Impact May Be Statistically Negligible
A rigorous reanalysis suggests that the perceived positive effect of IMF programs on economic growth lacks robustness.
High-Res Satellite Data Slashes Farm Boundary Errors
A new dataset proves that 3m resolution imagery drastically improves the mapping of smallholder farms across 24 countries.
New Distillation Framework Cuts Fusion Prediction Costs
A hierarchical knowledge distillation method allows tokamak safety models to maintain multimodal accuracy using only time-series data during inference.
EchoStar and BlackSky Lead Surge in Short Crowding
Delayed FINRA settlement data shows a sharp increase in short interest relative to real float for several issuers.
Cerberus Shuffles Board Seats at Eos Energy
The private-equity firm replaces one director with another at the battery maker, exercising its rights as a major preferred shareholder.
Simon Property Group Directors Lead Weekly Buying Surge
A concentrated wave of director-level purchasing at Simon Property Group anchors a week of broad insider conviction.
Paycom shares slump as growth slows and buybacks surge
The payroll-software provider spent $1.06 billion repurchasing stock in the quarter while revenue growth decelerated to 7.8%.
Ionis Raises Revenue Guidance Following First Independent Commercial Launch
The biotechnology company increased its full-year total revenue projection to as high as $900 million.
Forte Biosciences' FB102 Posts Statistically Significant Vitiligo Improvement in Phase 2 Trial
The clinical-stage biotech reported a 29.6% mean FVASI improvement from baseline at week 24, with the benefit widening progressively after treatment ended.
Ares Real Estate Funds to Acquire Whitestone REIT in $1.7 Billion All-Cash Deal
Shareholders approved the $19-a-share buyout, giving Ares a portfolio of 56 open-air retail centers across fast-growing Texas and Arizona markets.
U.S. Energy Inventories See Unexpected Builds in Gas and Oil
Weekly storage data shows natural gas and crude oil inventories rising well above trailing averages.
Severn Trent Reports 46% PBIT Growth and Record Capital Investment
The company increased its total dividend to 126.02 pence per share and invested £1.9 billion in assets during the 2025/26 financial year.
Agentic AI Drives Explosive Small-Cap Infrastructure Demand
Smaller firms are seeing a sharp divergence between surging AI-driven infrastructure orders and a cooling rural and consumer economy.
HSBC, BNY Lead RoTE Surge as G-SIB Capital Ratios Split
A four-bank cluster is pushing returns higher across three straight periods even as capital buffers move in opposite directions across the same panel.
Divergent Credit Loss Trends Hit Global Banking Reserves
HSBC expanded its expected credit loss allowance while Bank of America and UBS saw reserves contract.
Real Estate Operators Pivot to Liquidity and Asset Recycling
Real estate firms are aggressively optimizing balance sheets through strategic asset sales and debt refinancing as demand for specialized housing holds firm.
EPA Redesignates Michigan's St. Clair Area to SO2 Attainment
The redesignation relieves local sources of Nonattainment NSR permitting requirements in favor of less restrictive standards.
US Treasury Yield Spread Widens to 0.38 Percentage Points
The 10-year minus 2-year Treasury yield spread rose slightly as broader economic data shows persistent price pressures.
Sterling Infrastructure Doubles Credit Line as Revenue Growth Accelerates
Sterling Infrastructure expanded its credit facility to $1.5 billion, a $1.05 billion increase, days after posting 92% revenue growth in the strongest quarter of a four-quarter acceleration.
RH Swings to a Loss as Tariffs Squeeze Backorders
RH posted a $13.7 million net loss in its most recent quarter, its first in five, as backorders swelled by roughly $75 million on tariff-related delays.