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Cineplex, AMC, Cinemark and IMAX each built movie merchandise into a real business in fiscal Q2 2026, and two now sell it to buyers who never enter a theater.

Everest now writes $5M data center umbrella limits where $10M once sat, attaching higher at what its CEO calls dramatically better pricing.

PennantPark (PNNT) and Ares Capital (ARCC) reset loan securitizations in July, cutting spreads 97 and 35 basis points, while unsecured note costs held near 7%.

On its Q2 2026 call, DarioHealth said compliance rules bar AI training on employer- and health-plan-owned member data, leaving only its own B2C data.

Record beef, pork and chicken price gaps moved no volume between the three categories this quarter, and discounts stopped lifting sales, JBS, Tyson and Smithfield told investors.

Ingram Micro and TD SYNNEX each confirmed HPE named them its only two global distribution partners for its full networking, cloud and AI portfolio.

The FDA told uniQure a sham-surgery control is no longer required, moving the cost of rare-disease gene therapy onto delivery hardware and endpoint instruments.

Altius Minerals and Clearway Energy told 2026 earnings calls that fewer investors bid to finance US renewable projects; Altius took GBR from 29% to 50%.

Viant says over 80% of its CTV ad spend now clears through direct access to publisher ad servers, up from just over 50% in Q1, at 35% lower CPMs.

CEVA said a company that builds both its hardware platform and OS licensed its NPU design. Licensing revenue hit a three-year high; royalties stayed flat.

Alcon and Bausch + Lomb reported flat US cataract volume in Q2 2026; growth now comes from premium intraocular lenses, worth $15 million a point to Alcon.

AST SpaceMobile's Japanese GLEO award brings up to about $1 billion of non-dilutive, non-debt government capital, covering roughly half the cost of those satellites.

Hesai booked its first RMB 45 million of actuation revenue while XPeng said 85% of IRON's core parts are in-house, as humanoid joint actuators stay scarce.

Non-traded fund redemptions of 10-38% pulled bidders out of large sponsor loans; KBDC printed SOFR+566 and FSK saw spreads up to 75bp wider.

On 23 August 2026 Nuix and Tongdao Liepin repriced AI as governed access to their own data: AI billings nearly doubled on a paying base that grew 0.4%.

NAPCO radio unit sales rose 40% year over year and Chorus pulled copper retirement forward to end-2028 after regulators freed carriers to set the shutoff date.

Pivotree and Multiconsult both report already-funded projects failing to start, and both say money is not the reason: clients are waiting on AI, not on budget.

Applied Materials hands suppliers an eight-quarter build schedule and KLA is signing 2029 component capacity deals; Camtek's orders now ship in 2027.

China's May 2026 plan makes offshore brokers block mainland deposits and buy orders in their own apps; Futu says mid-single-digit percent of client assets left.