Alto Neuroscience prices $100M stock offering at $26.48

The US Department of Defense is seeking to purchase up to US$300 million of battery-grade lithium carbonate over the next five years as part of escalating Washington’s strategy to insulate defense and commercial supply chains from global shocks. According to a procurement solicitation published July 2 (Thursday), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) — the division…

Following its recent recognition as the ‘Best Broker for Copy Trading’ at the UF AWARDS Global 2026, Vantage Markets highlights how social trading technology continues to reshape how retail traders engage with global financial markets. Aiming to democratise access to investments, copy trading has quickly evolved within the retail CFD space, offering an efficient alternative…

Retailers have spent two decades optimizing for traffic. The metric that shaped every SEO budget, every paid search bid and every social media campaign was volume: how many visitors arrived at the site. Shopify reported in a May blog post that artificial intelligence-referred shoppers on its platform converted at nearly 50% higher rates than organic…

US destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz: the Iran conflict has tested banks’ credit monitoring processes Generative and agentic artificial intelligence could ultimately run much of the credit stress-testing process end to end, according to risk managers – but humans will still need to be accountable for the decision-making. “There are conversations around teaching GenAI…

As the nation marked 250 years of independence, new data revealed that just over 65% of American households now own their homes, amid the ever-changing U.S. housing market. A new Realtor.com analysis of federal housing legislation indicated that notable surges in U.S. homeownership have each been preceded by an act of Congress—from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing and Economic…

Why staying in your longtime home requires more planning than you think.