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News Farm financial stress rising, but no credit crisis looming An ag economist says he doesn’t expect the financial pressures facing farmers to spiral out of control. Nathan Kauffman with Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says while some producers are facing stress, broader credit conditions are relatively stable. “Even though you’re seeing a pretty significant increase in operating loans and negative profit margins, it’s not leading to what we would call a crisis where you’re seeing a significant deterioration in credit quality.” Speaking on a recent University of Nebraska-Lincoln webinar, he said access to farmland has been key. “To the extent that land values remain strong, those producers that have equity built up in land, that ensures some ...

00:00 Speaker A We have to take this conversation to what's going on in currency markets where also 00:07 Speaker A things have been interesting and may, you know, and and I guess there too the question is, you know, are we seeing a sea change with regard to, you know, real debasement concerns about the US dollar 00:23 Speaker A that mean and also a policy maybe here in the US that wants the dollar to be lower. So does that mean that the downtrend there is going to continue? 00:39 Jane You know, I I don't think debasement is really happening, but I do think that there is a theme of diversification going on in the markets and I also think that many people, even if they're not diversifying away from US assets, they want to hedge their dollar positions...

Main Street Capital recently expanded its multi-year revolving credit facility by US$30.0 million to US$1.18 billion through a new lender, while also completing a follow-on mix of senior secured term debt and equity investment in DMS Holdco to finance its acquisition of Johnson & Quin and other growth initiatives. Together, the larger credit facility and incremental DMS funding underscore Main Street Capital’s emphasis on maintaining liquidity while supporting portfolio company expansion in omni-channel direct marketing services. Next, we’ll examine how the expanded US$1.18 billion credit facility shapes Main Street Capital’s investment narrative and future capital deployment. AI is about to change healthcare. These 24 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to...

Financing the UK Industrial Transition | Oxford Economics Skip to content The UK Industrial Strategy and National Infrastructure Pipeline have set out the UK government’s roadmap for growing a modern economy that has seen decades of underinvestment. It is a welcome change in approach and demonstrates tremendous ambition. However, the challenge is equally large. From early-stage scale-up finance to the long-term funding needs of critical infrastructure, an estimated £345 billion of private finance is required to deliver the programme over the next decade. This report investigates the role of private ...

Consumer energy prices largely fell in January, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, moving in line with a broader oil market that had until January been falling. Headline energy costs, one of the more volatile categories in the Consumer Price Index, fell 1.5% in January from the previous month and ticked down 0.1% from the previous year. (Energy prices are excluded from the "core" CPI reading due to their volatility.) Energy commodities saw the largest move downward on both a monthly and yearly basis, with gasoline prices dropping by 3.2% month-on-month and fuel oil prices dropping by 5.7%, according to BLS data. On a yearly basis, gasoline prices have fallen by 7.5% since last January. While the price of gasoline is one component of the price paid by co...

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Big Tech keeps raising its spending plans for artificial intelligence infrastructure, yet shares of Nvidia Corp., one of the biggest beneficiaries of that flood of cash, have been largely stagnant for months. The stock is down more than 1% since the beginning of the fourth quarter and has been largely range bound despite hitting a record high in late October. It’s also lagging the S&P 500 Index to start 2026, a slowdown from Nvidia’s nearly 40% leap in 2025 following two consecutive years of triple-digit percentage gains. Nvidia shares sank as much as 2.6% Friday. Most Read from Bloomberg Even ballooning capital spending from Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. — estimated to e...

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Robinhood’s (NASDAQ:HOOD) proposed blockchain for trading of tokenized assets and cryptocurrencies is live on testnet. Robinhood in a Tuesday statement said its infrastructure partners for the blockchain include Web3 development platform Alchemy, blockchain oracle provider Chainlink, interoperability protocol LayerZero and blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs. "The testnet for Robinhood Chain lays the groundwork for an ecosystem that will define the future of tokenized real-world assets and enable builders to tap into DeFi liquidity within the Ethereum ecosystem," Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat said in the statement. Don't Miss: With the launch of the te...

Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Cloud Security / Cyber Espionage A previously unknown threat actor tracked as UAT-9921 has been observed leveraging a new modular framework called VoidLink in its campaigns targeting the technology and financial services sectors, according to findings from Cisco Talos. "This threat actor seems to have been active since 2019, although they have not necessarily used VoidLink over the duration of their activity," researchers Nick Biasini, Aaron Boyd, Asheer Malhotra, and Vitor Ventura said. "UAT-9921 uses compromised hosts to install VoidLink command-and-control (C2), which are then used to launch scanning activities both internal and external to the network." VoidLink was first documented by Check Point last month, describing it as a feature-rich malware framewo...

Wendy's logo Wendy’s reported a weak Q4 with global system-wide sales down 8.3% and U.S. same-restaurant sales down 11.3%, and the company is calling 2026 a “rebuilding year” launching a turnaround plan called Project Fresh to refocus marketing, menu innovation (new sandwiches and a permanent Biggie Deals value platform), operations and store optimization. International remained a strength with Q4 international system-wide sales up 6.2% (the 21st consecutive quarter of growth), 59 international openings in the quarter and a record 121 net new restaurants for 2025 with a pipeline of 338 future restaurants. Financially, Wendy’s generated $345 million of operating cash flow and $205 million of free cash flow in 2025, returned $330 million to shareholders, ended the year with $340 m...

00:00 Speaker A President Trump may be rolling back some of his planned tariffs. According to the Financial Times, the president may be narrowing the scope of his steel and aluminum tariffs and our Washington correspondent Ben Worskill is with me now to discuss. You know, this follows the roll back of various sort of specific tariffs that we have been seeing gradually. So what do we know about this potential one and and the effect it could have? 00:23 Ben Worskill Yeah, so the you're right that this would be kind of the latest in a in a string of of tariff concessions from Trump, scaling back some of his tariffs in response to these affordability concerns that have emerged as a giant political issue. In terms of this one specifically, the debate here appears to be um ami...