Key insights: Adyen is powering payments on Uber's new ride-hailing kiosk at La Guardia airport in New York. What's at stake: Uber has been relying on Adyen to process more of its global payments. The pair's latest venture presents the fintech with an opportunity to improve payment personalization. Forward look: The ride hailing giant is also considering hotels and popular tourist destinations as potential sites to deploy kiosks. For the better part of 17 years, Uber has sought to gain ubiquity in ri ...

Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) currently has a big-time dividend yield. The master limited partnership (MLP) yields nearly 7.2%, several times higher than the S&P 500's dividend yield (1.2%). As a result, you can generate more income from every dollar you invest in the pipeline company. Here's how much you'd need to invest in the MLP to earn $500 a month. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing ...

Cyber stocks have endured a rough 2026 alongside an AI-driven sell-off in software stocks. That may create a buying opportunity, according to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. "AI will be a major tailwind to the cyber security sector over the coming years as protection of use cases, data, and end points expand markedly," Ives wrote in a research note published Tuesday. While the growing use of AI has raised questions about business models in sectors ranging from enterprise software to real estate, Ives argued ...

Streaming platform specialist Roku (ROKU) is back in the spotlight, and this time, it’s not hype driving the buzz. It’s hard numbers. The company’s fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter results, released last week, didn’t just top Wall Street’s expectations - it staged a powerful turnaround and provided an optimistic financial outlook. Roku swung from a loss in the year-ago quarter to posting a meaningful profit in Q4, marking a major shift in momentum. Of course, the market has taken notice. Since delivering that ...

Escalation of geopolitical risk in the Middle East has added a risk premium to crude oil, supporting prices. The Wall Street Journal said last Wednesday that the US has discussed seizing tankers carrying Iranian oil. Also, the US is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East to prepare for military action should nuclear talks with Iran fail. The US Department of Transportation recently issued a maritime advisory stating that American-flagged ships should stay as far as possible from I ...

On Feb. 3, 2026, Arena Capital Advisors, LLC- CA disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it sold out its entire position in Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD), with an estimated transaction value of $34.9 million based on quarterly average pricing. What happened An SEC filing dated Feb. 3, 2026, shows Arena Capital Advisors, LLC- CA liquidated its full holding of 611,495 shares in Diebold Nixdorf. The estimated transaction value was $34.9 million, calculated using the average clo ...

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for a new fund — the largest fund it has ever raised and nearly double the size of its last fund. Of this, $1 billion is dedicated to early-stage investments, while the rest is for growth-stage investments, according to an announcement from the firm. Thrive told Bloomberg that this latest fundraise was oversubscribed. This is the firm’s 10th fund — called Thrive X — and comes as some of the firm’s biggest investments, including OpenAI, Stripe, and SpaceX, continue t ...

Most dividend announcements don't move the needle for investors. This one might. Dell Technologies came into its fiscal third-quarter earnings call already riding high on a wave of AI momentum. But it was a single commitment buried in the financial framework that caught income investors off guard: Dell (DELL) pledged to increase its quarterly dividend by at least 10% each year through fiscal 2030. What makes the news even more compelling is the backdrop. AI is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here — and ...

Bitcoin price just did something it hasn’t done in 12 years. It broke its long-term trend against gold. That line held through bull markets, crashes, bans, ETFs, everything. Now it is gone. And some analysts are not calling it random noise. They are pointing at something much bigger. Quantum computing. On-chain analyst Willy Woo argues that the breakdown aligns with rising awareness of quantum risk. The concern is simple but heavy. Bitcoin relies on ECDSA cryptography. In theory, a powerful enough quant ...

Key Takeaways Comfort in retirement depends on factors like your lifestyle, the cost of living, and how long you’ll need your money to last. The age at which you retire impacts how long your savings need to last and how much income you’ll need each year. In 2025, BlackRock, the asset manager, surveyed Americans to see how much they thought they needed to retire comfortably. The average was $2.09 million. "That's a lot," BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote. "More than I was expecting. And almost no one is ...