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Dallas-Fort Worth's growing financial hub, commonly referred to as Y'all Street, has turned Uptown Dallas into a premier office market in the region, commanding North Texas' highest rents and accounting for nearly 94% of its development pipeline.
Rents for the newest trophy office ****** e in Uptown have grown nearly 31% over the last two years as companies seek the highest-quality product available in the submarket that has become the heart of Dallas-Fort Worth's growing financial sector. That increase is almost double the just over 16% rent growth recorded across the metro in that same time frame, according to JLL data.
The 1.3M SF of top-tier office ****** e delivered in Uptown over the last two years also accounts for nearly 31% of the metro's new inventory during that time. Continued demand for trophy office ****** e near Y'all Street companies and the premium rents they fetch have developers scrambling to build new projects in Uptown, according to JLL Dallas Director of Research Micah Rabalais.
"Is it going to be what it was 10 years ago from a construction volume standpoint, where we might have had, in Uptown alone, 3M SF or 4M SF underway at certain points in time? Probably not, but I do think we maintain this pace," Rabalais said of his forecast of another 1.3M SF that could be delivered by the middle of 2028.

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Dell (NYSE:DELL) is gearing up to report its fiscal 2027 second-quarter earnings results after the market closes on Tuesday, Sept. 1. Management will also hold a live conference call with Wall Street ***** ysts.
A longtime maker of personal computers, Dell has gotten involved in the artificial intelligence trade by selling servers to data centers and other companies implementing AI solutions, serving as the skeletal structure connecting the components that power AI.
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This includes central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), memory, storage, and more.
The stock has had a phenomenal year, up roughly 264%. While trading around a near-term event like earnings is always very difficult to predict, Dell's next earnings report could send the stock soaring. Here's why.

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Nayax Ltd. (NASDAQ:NYAX) agreed to acquire smart-parking technology provider IPS Group for $350 million in cash on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
The headline valuation is demanding. Nayax Ltd. (NASDAQ:NYAX) is paying approximately 17 times IPS's estimated 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $21 million before synergies. The multiple falls to roughly 12 times after including more than $8 million of run-rate adjusted EBITDA synergies expected by 2029.
IPS is also expected to generate more than $90 million in 2026 revenue and achieve an approximately 80% company-defined conversion rate. Applying Nayax's company-defined conversion rate to the adjusted EBITDA estimate produces approximately $16.8 million of adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures. That implies a yield of approximately 4.8% under that company-defined measure. It is not operating cash flow less capital expenditures and does not capture cash taxes or working-capital movements. Nayax did not provide an IFRS reconciliation for these forward-looking IPS measures.
The strategic logic is credible. IPS manages more than 250,000 parking **** es for over 550 customers across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. More than 60% of its revenue is recurring, while estimated 2026 organic growth is approximately 20%.
Nayax Ltd. (NASDAQ:NYAX) can bring IPS into a payments and mobility platform operating across more than 120 countries. Management sees opportunities to migrate IPS's payment volume to its processing platform, expand the parking business into Continental Europe, cross-sell electric-vehicle charging products and lower equipment costs through supplier relationships.

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Tokio Marine is nearing what would be its largest-ever acquisition, with Suncorp now the preferred target after months spent weighing rival prospects in Australia and Canada, the Financial Times reported.
The push for an overseas takeover by the Berkshire Hathaway-backed ****** anese insurer is part of a broader strategy under CEO Masahiro Koike to expand the group's footprint beyond its domestic market.
Tokio Marine had reportedly been weighing several options including Australia's Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and Suncorp, alongside Canada's Intact Financial Corporation.
Suncorp and IAG are valued at approximately $14bn (A$19.55bn) and $13bn, respectively, whilst Intact carries a market value of around $34bn (C$47.08bn).
According to sources cited in the report, Intact was dropped from consideration on account of its size, leaving Suncorp as the frontrunner.

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The beauty group's repricing rests on a profit plan it controls, while the low end of its new sales guidance is no faster than the year just ended.
Estee Lauder Companies (EL) stock rose 18.4% over the past week, while the S&P 500 slipped 1.4%. The jump came on Wednesday, when the beauty group reported its fiscal 2026 results and raised its profit margin outlook for fiscal 2027. That raise is what the week was about, and the profit behind it is being driven by overhead cost reductions and structural operational savings.
Beauty did not move as a block: Coty fell 3.9% over the same week, and e.l.f. Beauty's 11.5% gain is well short of Estee Lauder's 18.4%. The quarter itself beat, with fiscal Q4 2026 revenue of $3.6 billion, up 6% year over year and ahead of an ***** yst estimate of $3.54 billion. The forward sales plan moved less. Organic sales grew 3% in fiscal 2026, and management guided fiscal 2027 organic growth of 3% to 5%—meaning no acceleration at the low end.
Operating margin before restructuring charges reached 11.2% in fiscal 2026, up 320 basis points, and management now expects 12.7% to 13.5% in fiscal 2027, a further 150 to 230 basis points, with the top end above its own preliminary view a quarter earlier. A large part of that next step is SG&A rather than gross margin, according to CFO Akhil Shrivastava on the earnings call. The Profit Recovery and Growth Plan carried $823 million of ***** ulative charges in fiscal 2026, mostly employee-related, and it shows in the operation: media buying in most markets has moved to WPP, and freestanding M·A·C stores have closed where productivity per door did not justify them.
Cash from operations was $1.8 billion in fiscal 2026. For fiscal 2027 management guides $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion, a step down it attributes to higher restructuring payments and working capital, with debt paydown and the dividend first in line. So the margin the market just repriced is still being paid for. The company's net margin is 1.2%, better than its three-year average of -1.0%, and revenue has only just turned up after averaging -1.7% growth over three years. A company still paying for its own profitability is a different proposition from the Trefis High Quality Portfolio, which holds businesses that already grow, earn strong margins and generate cash.

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When you're ghosted by a match on your dating profile or they are no-show for a date, it can be a difficult pill to swallow. Unfortunately, there's not much your elected officials can do about that.
But in the case of "ghost jobs," where companies post open positions on job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed without the intention of actually filling them right away, lawmakers are working to provide a solution, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
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German ice cream maker Florida Eis is expanding local production capacity with a new factory in Schönebeck (Elbe).
On Thursday (20 August), Florida Eis said the new plant in Schönebeck's West Industrial Park on Wilhelm-Dümling-Straße will be designed to produce around 5,000 metric tonnes of ice cream each year.
Operations are due to start in 2028.
The company plans to spend about €25m ($29.1m) on the factory, which will include a roughly 4,000-square-metre production hall, logistics areas, and an office building with an ice cream parlour and a factory outlet.
In a separate statement to Just Food, the company said the new factory is intended to ease capacity constraints at its current plant in Berlin-Spandau, where it has operated since it was founded in 1927.

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Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRVL) has expanded its partnership with Google to develop custom chips for AI infrastructure, strengthening its position in the growing custom-silicon market. The agreement covers several areas linked to Google's Tensor Processing Unit ecosystem, including AI inference accelerators, storage and networking products, memory interface controllers, and near-memory computing.
Alongside the commercial agreement, Marvell issued Google a warrant to buy up to 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each. If fully exercised, the warrant would be worth about $12.18 billion. The headline figure is important, but it needs some context because Google is not committing $12.18 billion upfront. Most of the warrants will vest only as Marvell generates revenue from Google over the coming years.
Investors reacted strongly to the news, with Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRVL) shares gaining more than 11% in premarket trading. Broadcom, Google's existing custom-chip partner, fell more than 2%.
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The most important part of the deal may be the way the warrant is structured. Most of the shares are linked to actual revenue from Google rather than simply vesting over time. That gives investors a fairly clear way to track how the relationship develops.

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Nvidia shares have shown explosive growth since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. The stock minted a lot of millionaires and retail investors rejoiced. But doubts are creeping in now and growth is not what it used to be. The logical question every long-term investor asks is this: what is the next Nvidia? Which stocks can you get in early on for the big gains?
To find out what retail investors are betting on, we went through long discussion threads on the Reddit subreddits r/Stocks_Picks and r/TheRaceTo10Million. We skipped the one-word ticker drops and the pump posts. We picked two stocks where Redditors named specific reasons for their bullishness. Let's see whether their arguments have juice.
Zeta sells enterprise marketing software. Big brands use its platform to find customers, target them, and message them through one system instead of paying five different vendors. Its moat is the data. Zeta owns its consumer dataset rather than renting it, covering more than 535 million profiles.
Redditors like the growing market Zeta is moving into and two partnerships the company signed this year. Earlier this year, Zeta partnered with OpenAI and Palantir. Under the Palantir deal, Zeta rebuilds its data cloud on Palantir's Foundry software. Redditors also point out that Zeta is expanding from marketing software into business intelligence, which is a much bigger market. One commenter gave a careful two-sided read. He flagged the shift to positive GAAP profitability and the raised fiscal 2026 guidance, but said he would not chase the stock short term unless the price holds above the post-earnings range.
Bull case. Zeta is solving a key problem for major companies. Paying five vendors costs more, and the separate systems do not share data properly, so the marketing team ends up with an incomplete picture of its own customers. Zeta's pitch is that one platform handles all of it. That pitch is working on the customers that matter most. In the second quarter of fiscal 2026, super-scaled account count grew 17% year over year to 197, and the average revenue from each of those accounts grew 17%.

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There are two components to an investment's total return: price return and dividend return. Add those together, and you get the total return.
Most people who invest in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) treat the dividend as a footnote. Since the current yield on the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF is only 1%, it's understandable.
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That hasn't always been the case, though. Over the past century, dividends have provided roughly one-third of the total return for the S&P 500. On a decade-by-decade basis, however, that number has fluctuated wildly.
Here are the annualized price, dividend, and total returns for the S&P 500 for each decade going back nearly 100 years.

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By Mike Dolan
Aug 11 (Reuters) -
What matters in U.S. and global markets today
By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets
With U.S. Treasuries on tenterhooks ahead of tomorrow's big inflation report, the renewed tightening of energy markets is adding to the tension, with Brent ‌crude trading at nearly $90 a barrel on Tuesday after rising 5% yesterday.

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