Category: 3. Business

  • Aave to launch app in Apple store that offers high-yield returns to consumers

    Aave to launch app in Apple store that offers high-yield returns to consumers

    The recent crypto boom has been marked by blockchain companies working to expand their appeal to mainstream consumers. That now includes Aave Labs, the developer behind a popular decentralized lending service, which on Monday announced plans to launch an app in Apple’s App Store and opened up a waitlist for interested users.  

    Aave is well-known in crypto as a leading project in DeFi, or decentralized finance. By opening up the waitlist for the app, it seeks to offer a version of its services without the litany of lingo, such as “stablecoins” and “protocol,” that is common in crypto but that may be unfamiliar or offputting to outsiders. 

    Aave’s new product acts like a savings account—but with a higher yield. Users can earn a minimum 5% in interest on their holdings and can deposit money in with a bank account or debit card. The product uses stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar, as well as the Aave protocol.

    Aave has been one of the longest-standing networks of its kind, boasting over $30 billion in deposits, according to data from the crypto analytics site DefiLlama. Customers typically can get more interest on their assets on DeFi protocols than through conventional banks, but they often come with a greater risk of hacks—and no government backing. 

    Still, Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave Labs, stressed that the Aave protocol—and therefore the forthcoming Aave app—is safe, especially since Aave has never experienced an exploit in its five-year history. “There is a security on the actual market economics. And then there’s also security on the actual code basis,” he said, pointing to how multiple security companies have audited the software.

    Wall Street and DeFi converge

    The planned launch of the Aave app comes as the chasm between traditional finance companies and crypto-native startups is growing smaller. The marquee asset manager BlackRock has leaned into Bitcoin, the fintech Stripe has embraced stablecoins, and the banking giant JPMorgan Chase has steadily deployed new blockchain products. 

    Meanwhile, crypto companies have sought to attract more mainstream users. The U.S. crypto exchange Kraken has launched its own payments app and a slew of others are aiming to create their own bank-like products built with stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar.  

    “Typically, DeFi has been accessible to very savvy, professional users,” Kulechov, CEO of Aave Labs, told Fortune. “The next step for DeFi is to bring more direct access for consumers.”

    Kulechov, the CEO of Aave Labs, is one of DeFi’s torchbearers. In 2020, he launched the Aave protocol. Since then, he’s expanded out his DeFi offerings to include a crypto wallet, a decentralized stablecoin, and a decentralized protocol for social media. 

    In October, Aave Labs acquired the stablecoin company Stable Finance for an undisclosed sum. “They had more of a consumer DeFi experience that helped our team to move faster and and improve our offering down the line,” said Kulechov.

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  • Liquid hydrogen: Fueling the future of aviation

    Liquid hydrogen: Fueling the future of aviation

    Aviation is at a turning point. 

    As the industry faces growing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, the search for sustainable alternatives has never been more urgent. Enter liquid hydrogen (LH₂) – a game-changing fuel that could redefine the future of flight.

     Why liquid hydrogen?

    • Ultra-low carbon emissions
      LH₂ produces only water vapor when used in fuel cells or combustion, making it one of the cleanest aviation fuels available.
    • High energy-to-weight ratio
      LH₂ delivers significantly more energy per unit mass than conventional jet fuel, enabling longer-range, more efficient flights.
    • Zero-emission potential
      With the right aircraft design and infrastructure, LH₂ can power fully zero-emission flights — a major leap toward climate-neutral aviation.

    What you’ll learn

    This in-depth point of view explores:

    • Comparative insights
      How LH₂ stacks up against sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and traditional jet fuel in terms of performance, scalability, and emissions.
    • Technical challenges
      The complexities of hydrogen storage, cryogenic transport, and aircraft integration — including safety, weight, and design considerations.
    • Global collaboration
      The critical role of international partnerships among researchers, manufacturers, energy providers, and policymakers in building a hydrogen-powered aviation ecosystem.

    The path forward

    Liquid hydrogen isn’t just a fuel – it’s a catalyst for innovation. As aerospace leaders reimagine the future of flight, LH₂ offers a bold, sustainable path forward. Whether you’re a researcher, engineer, policymaker, or energy provider, this is your guide to understanding and shaping the next era of aviation.

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  • Bombardier and ELIE SAAB Announce Exclusive Collaboration to Create Uniquely Elegant Global 8000 Interior Design

    Bombardier and ELIE SAAB Announce Exclusive Collaboration to Create Uniquely Elegant Global 8000 Interior Design

    • Exclusive collaboration will deliver a creative interior design for the Bombardier Global 8000 aircraft, leveraging both companies’ craftsmanship mastery
    • Bespoke interior design will be unveiled in 2026 and available for Global 8000 customers to purchase
    • The Global 8000(1) is a no-compromise business aircraft, delivering the fastest speed and best field performance to operate from short runways in all weather conditions. It also offers the lowest cabin altitude in the industry, as well as the longest range in its class

    Bombardier and ELIE SAAB are proud to announce a collaboration to create a uniquely elegant passenger cabin design for the Bombardier Global 8000(1) aircraft. This creative collaboration brings together two masters of their craft, with Bombardier’s leading aviation expertise and ELIE SAAB’s world-renowned artistry in haute couture and design. Centered on delivering an exceptional passenger experience, the ELIE SAAB-designed jet will combine refined aesthetics, exceptional craftsmanship and innovative functionality, creating an environment where comfort and elegance seamlessly meet. 

    This marks Bombardier’s first-ever design collaboration with a luxury fashion house such as ELIE SAAB, underscoring its commitment to providing its customers with the ultimate in personalization and sophistication. Customers of the Global 8000 will have the unique opportunity to select the ELIE SAAB design, a statement of elegance and refinement. The design will be presented at an official unveiling, which will be held in 2026. 

    “Bombardier Global 8000 customers are already enjoying the finest in business aviation with exceptional comfort, the fastest speed and lowest cabin altitude in the industry, as well as the best field performance to operate from short runways in all weather conditions. This collaboration with ELIE SAAB further sets apart this aircraft’s distinctive characteristics and exemplifies Bombardier’s commitment to offering a unparallelled customer experience,” said Éric Martel, President and CEO, Bombardier. “As two iconic family businesses and two world-class brands, we share a profound commitment to heritage and excellence, driven by our talented teams and fueled by a spirit of innovation. By combining our engineering and craftsmanship expertise with ELIE SAAB’s iconic design vision, we are offering our customers something truly unique – an aircraft that reflects the pinnacle of elegance and a spectacular attention to detail.”

    “Partnering with Bombardier marks an important milestone in ELIE SAAB’s strategic expansion into lifestyle. Together, as two businesses united by family values and a commitment to excellence, we are shaping a new expression of luxury in aviation. By bringing our craftsmanship into dialogue with Bombardier’s engineering mastery, we are creating an experience designed for a global clientele seeking unparalleled refinement and comfort. This vision comes to life in the Global 8000 cabin design, where our signature aesthetic meets Bombardier’s performance leadership to set a new standard for sophistication in air travel,” commented Elie Saab Junior, Vice Chairman and CEO of ELIE SAAB Group.

    The Bombardier Global 8000 is the industry’s no-compromise flagship aircraft, setting a new standard for performance, comfort, and innovation. With a top speed of Mach 0.95, an impressive range of 8,000 nautical miles and the lowest cabin altitude in the industry, the Global 8000 redefines long-distance travel. Its advanced technology, smooth ride, and meticulously configurated cabin make it the ultimate choice for those who demand excellence without compromise. Thanks to its exceptional field performance, the Global 8000 also provides access to more airports with shorter runways, offering unmatched flexibility for travelers.

    About Bombardier

    At Bombardier (BBD-B.TO), we design, build, modify and maintain the world’s best-performing aircraft for the world’s most discerning people and businesses, governments and militaries. That means not simply exceeding standards, but understanding customers well enough to anticipate their unspoken needs. 

    For them, we are committed to pioneering the future of aviation—innovating to make flying more reliable, efficient and sustainable. And we are passionate about delivering unrivaled craftsmanship and care, giving our customers greater confidence and the elevated experience they deserve and expect. Because people who shape the world will always need the most productive and responsible ways to move through it.

    Bombardier customers operate a fleet of more than 5,100 aircraft, supported by a vast network of Bombardier team members worldwide and 10 service facilities across six countries. Bombardier’s performance-leading jets are proudly manufactured in aerostructure, assembly and completion facilities in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In 2024, Bombardier was honoured with the prestigious “Red Dot: Best of the Best” award for Brands and Communication Design.   

    For Information

    For corporate news and information, including Bombardier’s Sustainability report, as well as the company’s initiative to cover all its flight operations with a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blend utilizing the Book-and-Claim system visit
    bombardier.com.

    Learn more about Bombardier’s industry-leading products and customer service network at bombardier.com. Follow us on X @Bombardier.

    About ELIE SAAB

    Founded in Lebanon in 1982, ELIE SAAB is one of the world’s leading Haute Couture lifestyle brands. As one of the first international members of France’s prestigious Chambre Syndicale, the House has established a global presence with flagship boutiques in major fashion capitals including Paris, London, Milan, Dubai, Beirut and other key cities around the world. 

    Sought after by A-list celebrities and royalty around the globe, the house offers Haute Couture, Ready-to-Wear, and Bridal collections, complemented by accessories, eyewear, childrenswear, watches, fragrances and furniture. The brand has also expanded into interior design partnering with leading developers worldwide.

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    Bombardier, Global and Global 8000 are registered or unregistered trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries.

    (1) The Global 8000 aircraft received Transport Canada Type Certification on November 5, 2025; certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and from the European Aviation Safety Agency is pending. All specifications and data are subject to certain operating rules, assumptions and other conditions. It is expected to enter into service in 2025. Please also see the forward-looking statements disclaimer at the end of this press release.

    Forward-looking statements
    This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements require the Corporation to make assumptions and are subject to important known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results in future periods to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the “Forward-Looking Statements” disclaimer contained in Bombardier Inc.’s most recently published financial report for additional details.

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  • UBS chair talked to Scott Bessent about moving bank to US

    UBS chair talked to Scott Bessent about moving bank to US

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    UBS chair Colm Kelleher and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent have privately discussed moving the bank’s headquarters to the US, as the Zurich-based lender explores contingency plans to leave Switzerland if the government does not back down on new capital rules. 

    Kelleher and Bessent held talks in recent months about what a move to the US would look like for the lender, with the Trump administration receptive to welcoming one of Switzerland’s most prized assets, according to three people familiar with the conversation. 

    The talks with Bessent are part of an ongoing effort by Kelleher to put pressure on the Swiss government over proposed capital requirements that would force UBS to hold an additional $26bn of capital, a move UBS has described as “extreme” and disproportionate. 

    The uncertainty surrounding the planned changes has weighed on the bank’s share price, and a public and private lobbying campaign by the lender’s management has so far yielded few results. 

    UBS has argued that the new requirements go further than those required of global peers and would reduce its ability to compete internationally. 

    Meanwhile, the Swiss government has said it needs to shore up the country’s banking system to avoid another Credit Suisse-style collapse. UBS acquired its crosstown rival in 2023 in a state-orchestrated rescue. 

    “As we have said repeatedly, we want to continue to operate successfully as a global bank out of Switzerland,” UBS said.

    US regulators have been wary of large lenders redomiciling in the country, given public anger over taxpayer-funded bailouts of banks during the financial crisis. However, the Trump administration has been more open to the idea of attracting European financial institutions.

    UBS executives want the bank’s headquarters to remain in Switzerland if they can convince parliament to reduce the proposed hit, according to people familiar with their thinking. However, they believe they have a fiduciary duty to examine all potential options and are open to the idea of leaving if the proposals do not change, the people added. 

    Activist investor Cevian Capital, which has a sizeable stake in UBS, said in September that the proposed Swiss capital changes would make it “not viable” to run a large international bank from the country. It added that UBS would have “no other realistic option” but to leave Switzerland if the proposals were not watered down. 

    The intervention by Europe’s largest dedicated activist investor added weight to the idea that UBS could move its headquarters out of Switzerland, an idea that some in the industry view as a negotiating tactic that is unlikely to happen in practice. 

    Switzerland’s decision to impose stricter capital rules comes as the US pursues deregulation in various parts of the economy to boost growth and encourage businesses to expand their operations in the country.

    The administration has signalled its intent to loosen rules governing banks, with the US Treasury secretary using the growth of private credit as an example that lenders have been “too tightly constrained”. He has also argued in favour of minimising capital and liquidity rules in a bid to free up more space for lending. 

    The Trump administration’s push to relax bank rules has sparked concern among European authorities that US deregulation will give American lenders an advantage over transatlantic rivals and create risks for the stability of the global financial system. 

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  • ActiveState Joins Trivy Partner Connect to Cut CVE Noise and Reduce Alert Fatigue for Developers

    ActiveState Joins Trivy Partner Connect to Cut CVE Noise and Reduce Alert Fatigue for Developers

    Integration brings ActiveState’s VEX advisories and secure libraries directly into Trivy scans, providing high-fidelity results and faster remediation paths

    VANCOUVER, BC and TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ActiveState, a global leader in open source language solutions and secure software supply chain management, today announced it has joined Trivy Partner Connect, bringing ActiveState’s CVE advisories, secure open source containers, and language libraries to Trivy’s trusted scanning capabilities. This collaboration delivers CVE-free open source directly into the workflows developers already use, helping teams build and ship secure software more efficiently.

    ActiveState joins a growing community of organizations collaborating with Aqua to advance Trivy, the world’s most popular open source vulnerability scanner. Together, ActiveState and Trivy help reduce the noise associated with CVE alerts by integrating ActiveState’s advisory feed into the scanning process. Trivy users can now see an accurate risk profile for any ActiveState open source artifacts they use. The advisory feed also includes VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) information, enabling Trivy to suppress CVEs that have been fully investigated and deemed non-exploitable by ActiveState. When valid CVEs are found, Trivy users will also receive remediation options provided by ActiveState for affected containers and language packages.

    Through this integration, users will have the most up-to-date information verified by both parties. This collaboration extends the value of Trivy Partner Connect, making it easier for organizations to ensure their open source components are secure, compliant, and production ready.

    “ActiveState’s participation in Partner Connect brings their deep expertise in the open source supply chain directly to the Trivy community,” said Matt Richards, CMO at Aqua Security. “By combining ActiveState’s advisories, trusted libraries and secure containers with Trivy’s powerful scanning, developers get the best of both worlds: high-quality, vetted components and reliable, high-fidelity validation. This is a big step forward for developer-first security and supply chain integrity.”

    Recent industry research1 shows that 86% of commercial code bases contain open source vulnerabilities and 81% contain high or critical CVEs. ActiveState found that researching the potential impact of CVEs consumes about 26% of the overall vulnerability discovery-to-remediation process. This involves hands-on research to understand if the vulnerability is reachable and exploitable, and then determining the next step based on those findings (remediate or VEX). The integration between Trivy and ActiveState aims to reduce time spent researching vulnerabilities, giving developers back time to focus on delivering innovation.

    “Partnering with Trivy underscores our shared commitment to enabling and securing open source in enterprise applications,” said Stephen Baker, CEO of ActiveState. “Our mission at ActiveState is to provide developers with a trusted, ‘paved path’ for open source, eliminating the complexity, risk, and manual vetting associated with securing the supply chain. This collaboration enables developers to confidently build applications using secure, curated components that are validated by Trivy, allowing them to maintain speed, compliance, and trust in their open source.”

    Learn More
    Organizations can explore ActiveState’s Trivy-integrated secure open source containers and language libraries at https://trivy.dev/partners or activestate.com. Trivy Partner Connect is open and expanding quickly. Organizations interested in joining can learn more and apply at Trivy Partner Connect.

    About ActiveState
    ActiveState enables DevOps, InfoSec, and Development teams to improve their security posture while simultaneously increasing productivity and innovation to deliver secure applications faster. We are the only solution in the market today that offers vulnerability-free open source language packages and containers and Intelligent Remediation, which identifies which vulnerabilities to prioritize, assesses the impact of updates causing breaking changes, prioritizes what to fix first, securely builds open source packages from source, and facilitates the build and deploy process to get fixes into production quickly and easily. All from the trusted partner that pioneered and continues to lead enterprise adoption and use of open source software.

    About Aqua Trivy
    Trivy is the most popular open source scanner for containers, IaC, code, cloud, and Kubernetes, detecting vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets. Trusted by millions worldwide, Trivy is maintained by Aqua Security. Learn more at https://trivy.dev/.

    About Aqua Security
    Aqua Security protects every cloud native application from code to cloud to prompt. As the pioneer in container security and vulnerability management, Aqua delivers full protection across the application lifecycle in real time. Our unified CNAPP combines agentless and agent-based controls with industry-leading runtime security for cloud, on-prem, hybrid, multi-cloud, VM and mainframe environments. The Aqua Platform provides best-in-class security agents and advanced contextual analysis to reduce noise and accelerate remediation. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, Israel and secures more than 40% of the Fortune 100. Learn more at aquasec.com.

    1 https://news.blackduck.com/2025-02-25-New-Black-Duck-Report-86-of-Commercial-Codebases-Contain-Vulnerable-Open-Source,-Exposing-Organizations-to-Security-Risks

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  • Central Bank of Ireland fines crypto firm Coinbase Europe €21.5m for anti-money laundering breaches

    Central Bank of Ireland fines crypto firm Coinbase Europe €21.5m for anti-money laundering breaches

    The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has imposed sanctions on crypto-asset service provider Coinbase Europe for contraventions of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010, which occurred between 23 April 2021 and 19 March 2025.

    The sanctions imposed by the CBI include a reprimand and a monetary penalty in the amount of €30,663,906, – reduced to €21,464,734 after a settlement scheme discount was applied. The sanctions relate to failures to uphold anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing monitoring obligations over a twelve-month period.

    The sanctions require confirmation of the Irish High Court before taking effect, and would be the fourth largest fine ever issued by the CBI.

    Coinbase Europe is part of the global Coinbase Group, which operates a significant global trading platform for crypto assets. In April 2021, it became a “designated person” under the CJA 2010 and was registered as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) with the CBI in December 2022, meaning it was required to monitor transactions for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing purposes.

    Where Coinbase suspects that a transaction is facilitating anti-money laundering or counter-terrorist financing, it must make a suspicious transaction report (STR) to the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) and the Revenue Commissioners as soon as possible.

    However, due to technical faults in the configuration of Coinbase’s transaction monitoring system, more than 30 million transactions were not properly monitored over a 12 month period. The value of these transactions amounted to €176 billion. The company took three years to fully complete the proper monitoring of the transactions, resulting in the filing of 2,708 STRs with the GNECB.

    Sarah Twohig, a crypto fraud and enforcement specialist with Pinsent Masons in Dublin, said the fine should send a signal to others in the industry of their obligations.

    “The enforcement action taken by the Central Bank of Ireland against Coinbase Europe is a reminder of the significant impact a failure to comply with anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing obligations can have on all businesses that operate in the financial services industry,” she said.

    “Businesses such as crypto exchanges and virtual asset service providers must prioritise these obligations, to ensure that the monitoring of assets in their custody is carried out in real time, so that it can be verified that such assets are not the proceeds of crypto fraud and are not being used for money-laundering purposes.” 

    As part of a settlement with the CBI (PDF, 543kb/36 pages), Coinbase Europe agreed it had failed to properly monitor 30,442,437 transactions during the 12-month period, and failed to conduct increased monitoring of 184,790 of these transactions.

    It also accepted it had not adopted required internal policies and procedures to prevent and detect money laundering and terrorist financing.

    The Central Bank of Ireland said the suspicious transactions were associated with serious criminal activities – including money laundering, drug trafficking, cyber attacks and child sexual exploitation.  The fine is the first imposed on a regulated entity in the crypto industry by the regulator.

    Colm Kincaid, deputy governor for consumer and investor protection with the Central Bank, said: “Crypto has particular technological features which, together with its anonymity-enhancing capabilities and cross-border nature, makes it especially attractive to criminals looking to move their funds.

    “This is why it is especially important that firms engaged in crypto services have robust controls in place to identify and report suspicious transactions.”

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  • AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief | Artificial intelligence (AI)

    AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief | Artificial intelligence (AI)

    Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.

    Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI will become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”.

    Speaking to CBS News, Amodei said a lack of transparency about the impact of powerful AI would replay the errors of cigarette and opioid firms that failed to raise a red flag over the potential health damage of their own products.

    “You could end up in the world of, like, the cigarette companies, or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers, and they didn’t talk about them, and certainly did not prevent them,” he said.

    Amodei warned this year that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs – office jobs such as accountancy, law and banking – within five years.

    “Without intervention, it’s hard to imagine that there won’t be some significant job impact there. And my worry is that it will be broad and it’ll be faster than what we’ve seen with previous technology,” Amodei said.

    Anthropic, whose CEO is a prominent voice for online safety, has flagged various concerns about its AI models recently, including an apparent awareness that they are being tested and attempting to commit blackmail. Last week it said its coding tool, Claude Code, was used by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”.

    “One of the things that’s been powerful in a positive way about the models is their ability to kind of act on their own,” said Amodei. “But the more autonomy we give these systems, you know, the more we can worry are they doing exactly the things that we want them to do?”

    Logan Graham, the head of Anthropic’s team for stress testing AI models, told CBS that the flipside of a model’s ability to find health breakthroughs could be helping to build a biological weapon.

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    “If the model can help make a biological weapon, for example, that’s usually the same capabilities that the model could use to help make vaccines and accelerate therapeutics,” he said.

    Referring to autonomous models, which are viewed as a key part of the investment case for AI, Graham said users want to an AI tool to help their business – not wreck it.

    “You want a model to go build your business and make you a billion,” he said. “But you don’t want to wake up one day and find that it’s also locked you out of the company, for example. And so our sort of basic approach to it is, we should just start measuring these autonomous capabilities and to run as many weird experiments as possible and see what happens.”

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  • EU Lowers Growth Outlook for 2026 on Higher-Than-Forecast U.S. Tariffs – The Wall Street Journal

    1. EU Lowers Growth Outlook for 2026 on Higher-Than-Forecast U.S. Tariffs  The Wall Street Journal
    2. Euro area economy to grow quicker than estimated in 2025 – EU Commission  investingLive
    3. EUR: European Commission autumn forecasts in focus – ING  FXStreet
    4. Europe Gauges Growth Fallout From Trump  Bloomberg.com
    5. EU urges focus on domestic growth drivers but stays upbeat on eurozone  MSN

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  • US Undiscovered Gems to Watch in November 2025

    US Undiscovered Gems to Watch in November 2025

    As the United States market navigates a mixed landscape with major stock indexes showing varied performances, investors are paying close attention to small-cap stocks, which often hold potential for significant growth despite broader market volatility. In such an environment, identifying promising opportunities requires a focus on companies with strong fundamentals and innovative strategies that can thrive amid economic shifts and evolving investor sentiment.

    Name

    Debt To Equity

    Revenue Growth

    Earnings Growth

    Health Rating

    First Bancorp

    57.63%

    1.47%

    -2.43%

    ★★★★★★

    Morris State Bancshares

    1.99%

    2.14%

    1.63%

    ★★★★★★

    Franklin Financial Services

    127.01%

    5.48%

    -4.56%

    ★★★★★★

    Senstar Technologies

    NA

    -18.50%

    29.50%

    ★★★★★★

    Epsilon Energy

    NA

    2.43%

    -4.36%

    ★★★★★★

    Metalpha Technology Holding

    NA

    75.66%

    28.60%

    ★★★★★★

    ASA Gold and Precious Metals

    NA

    13.18%

    16.77%

    ★★★★★☆

    Seneca Foods

    41.64%

    2.31%

    -23.77%

    ★★★★★☆

    Pure Cycle

    4.76%

    6.42%

    -1.58%

    ★★★★★☆

    FRMO

    0.10%

    35.28%

    40.61%

    ★★★★★☆

    Click here to see the full list of 294 stocks from our US Undiscovered Gems With Strong Fundamentals screener.

    We’ll examine a selection from our screener results.

    Simply Wall St Value Rating: ★★★★★☆

    Overview: Anterix Inc. specializes in commercializing spectrum assets to facilitate private broadband networks for utility and critical infrastructure sectors, with a market capitalization of $424.31 million.

    Operations: Anterix generates revenue primarily from its wireless communications services, amounting to $5.93 million.

    Anterix, a small player in the telecom sector, has recently turned profitable with net income of US$53.54 million for Q2 2025 compared to a net loss of US$12.77 million last year. The company is trading at 76% below its estimated fair value and has repurchased 691,534 shares worth US$23.26 million under its buyback program since September 2023. Anterix’s collaboration with Crown Castle on the TowerX initiative aims to expedite the deployment of private LTE networks for utilities, enhancing operational resilience and grid modernization efforts across the U.S., leveraging over 40,000 tower sites nationwide.

    ATEX Earnings and Revenue Growth as at Nov 2025

    Simply Wall St Value Rating: ★★★★★★

    Overview: Spok Holdings, Inc., via its subsidiary Spok, Inc., delivers healthcare communication solutions across various regions including the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East with a market capitalization of $286.31 million.

    Operations: Spok generates revenue primarily from its Clinical Communication and Collaboration business, which recorded $139.74 million. The company’s market capitalization stands at $286.31 million.

    Spok Holdings, known for its role in healthcare communications, has embraced a SaaS model that enhances recurring revenue and margin profiles. Despite this strategic shift, the company faces challenges like declining core wireless service revenues and reliance on existing clients. Recent financials show third-quarter sales of US$16.07 million, slightly down from US$16.61 million last year, with net income at US$3.2 million compared to US$3.66 million previously. The firm is debt-free and trades 15% below estimated fair value but saw significant insider selling recently; analysts project modest future growth with a consensus price target of US$21 per share.

    SPOK Earnings and Revenue Growth as at Nov 2025
    SPOK Earnings and Revenue Growth as at Nov 2025

    Simply Wall St Value Rating: ★★★★★★

    Overview: CompX International Inc. is a company that manufactures and sells security products and recreational marine components primarily in North America, with a market cap of $277.88 million.

    Operations: CompX International generates revenue primarily from two segments: security products, which contribute $121.76 million, and marine components, accounting for $37.25 million.

    CompX International, a nimble player in its sector, showcases strong financial health with no debt over the past five years and high-quality earnings. The company reported third-quarter sales of US$39.95 million, up from US$33.67 million last year, while net income rose to US$4.22 million from US$3.48 million. Basic earnings per share increased to US$0.34 from US$0.28 a year ago, reflecting solid performance amidst industry challenges. With free cash flow remaining positive and trading at 25% below estimated fair value, CompX seems well-positioned for continued stability and potential growth in the commercial services landscape.

    CIX Earnings and Revenue Growth as at Nov 2025
    CIX Earnings and Revenue Growth as at Nov 2025

    This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.

    Companies discussed in this article include ATEX SPOK and CIX.

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  • Devon and Cornwall trains cancelled due to collapsing badger sett

    Devon and Cornwall trains cancelled due to collapsing badger sett

    Train passengers have been warned of disruption between Plymouth and Penzance due to a collapsed badger sett.

    Great Western Railway (GWR) said train movement had been stopped after a collapsing badger sett, a network of tunnels used by the animals, was identified under the rail line in the Hayle area.

    The operator said train services would be cancelled, delayed or revised and disruption was expected until midday.

    It said rail replacements were in place but that some lines would be “reopened shortly”.

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