I wrote about Howmet Aerospace ( HWM ) before with an upgrade to a buy rating as the business earnings power has gotten significantly better than I thought, especially given the demand seenI am an individual investor that is now fully focus on managing my own capital that I have saved up over the years. My investing background spreads across a wide spectrum as I believe there are merits to each approach, for instance: Fundamental investing [Bottoms-up etc.], Technical investing [historical charts analysis], ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skyward Group (Nasdaq: SKWD) (“the Group” or “the Company”), the specialty insurance organization whose operating businesses include Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc.® (“Skyward Specialty”) and Apollo Group Holdings Ltd. (“Apollo”), announced the planned succession of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mark Haushill, Skyward Group CFO, has informed the Company of his intention to retire effective March 31, 2027, after a distinguished career with the Company. ...

SK Hynix (NASDAQ: SKHY) and Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) are among the leading names in the memory industry, and both companies have been clocking outstanding growth in recent quarters amid favorable demand-supply dynamics. Sandisk is a pure-play NAND flash memory manufacturer. Its growth has been powered by the booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI) data center storage, which has led to a shortage of traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). As AI data centers started shifting to flash-based enterprise solid ...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices are getting closer to the $4,450 per ounce session low on Thursday morning following the release of better than expected labor market data after the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits came in below economists’ forecasts.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits came in at seasonally adjusted 206,000 for the week ending August 15, the Labor Department announced on Thursday. The number was below expectations, as consensus estimates forecasted a read ...

Bond Wins Deal with Leading Southeastern Real Estate Company to Protect All AgentsNEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Our Bond, Inc. (“Bond”) (NASDAQ: OBAI), the creator of the world’s first AI-powered Preventative Personal Security platform adopted by leading multinational companies, today announced a signed agreement with one of the Southeast’s leading residential real estate brokerages, to provide Bond’s personal security services to all of their real estate agents across Florida and Georgia. The ...

Company Posts Second Quarter Results with $2.8 Million in Revenue, Gross Profit of $888 Thousand, and a 32% Gross Margin ROSEVILLE, MN, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SecureTech Innovations, Inc. (OTCQB: SCTH), a diversified technology holding company advancing artificial intelligence initiatives, industrial 3D printing and manufacturing technologies, and blockchain-based digital infrastructure and assets, announces its unaudited financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 (Q2 2026 ...

Alexander Spatari/Getty Images CVC Capital Partners is deepening its push into insurance capital, co-leading a consortium of institutional investors committing capital to Standard Life's UK pension risk transfer business. CVC will commit £400 million ($545.8 million) of capital to the partnership, to be drawn over multiple years, as part of a consortium led by CVC and Prudential Financial, alongside Goldman Sachs and MS&AD. Together with £500 million from Standard Life, the consortium will fund up to £2 bil ...

Quick Read Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Canadian Pacific Kansas City didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Late Tuesday night, President Trump announced a three-day pause on new 50% U.S. tariffs that were scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday, saying a deal had been reached "subject to the finalization of documents." The measures would have hit roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods, including wine and hockey sticks. The White Ho ...

The British online fashion seller Boohoo has been fined €2.3m (£2m) by France’s consumer watchdog ⁠for deceptive ⁠practices ​such as offering fake discounts.The Manchester-based firm, whose parent company renamed itself Debenhams Group last year, was found to have exaggerated the discounts it was offering, giving shoppers a false impression ⁠of the savings they were making, ​according to the directorate-general for competition, ‌consumer affairs and ‌fraud control.Of ‌the promotions examined by the watchdog ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cannabix Technologies Inc. (the “Company or Cannabix”) developer of marijuana and alcohol breath testing devices, is pleased to announce the deployment of its BreathLogix alcohol screening solution with the Big Horn County Misdemeanor Probation and Pre-trial Services in Montana. The BreathLogix system will be located at the county detention center and overseen by the misdemeanor probation and pre-trial staff. The technology will support particip ...