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First Watch retired its low-double-digit unit growth target for a flat 50 company-owned openings from 2027 after capex outran operating cash flow.

Demant reported the global hearing aid market grew 4% in value on 3% in units in H1 2026, about a point of ASP, and priced its new flagship above the last one.

PGG Wrightson says New Zealand wool prices hit a decades high and nearly doubled in FY2026, with export volumes up and agency operating EBITDA 23% higher.

About 60% of Kornit's Q2 and first-half 2026 system sales went to traditional screen printers as retailers held inventory down high-single to low-double digits.

Data I/O (DAIO) and SEALSQ (LAES) say the EU Cyber Resilience Act's 11 September 2026 and 11 December 2027 deadlines turn per-device key injection into a condition of selling into the EU.

Japan's conditional approval pathway set a ¥53.2 million reimbursed price for ReHeart, making MHLW the first regulator to price cardiac cell therapy.

Kura and Syndax each report about 40% of menin inhibitor use in physician-led combinations, moving the revenue variable to treatment duration rather than the label.

The draft KDIGO acute kidney injury guideline raises regional citrate to 1B and names nafamostat as a fallback, a protocol most US ICUs do not run today.

SPMC's FY2027 Q1 net investment income stayed below its common distributions partly because it raised model loss reserves on AI-affected software loans.

Denmark exempted the 0-30% LTV band from its 7% CRE systemic risk buffer, cutting sector buffer capital from DKK 11.6bn to about DKK 9bn in Q2 2026.

After UBS completed its Credit Suisse client migration, BCV's mortgage book grew just 2% in H1 2026 against a 4% target while pension cash moved in.

Erdene and Largo say buyers are approaching molybdenum and tungsten assets with no current study - one pre-PEA, one idle since 2012 - after China tightened export licensing.

Ceribell says FDA-cleared hardware lets one system do both rapid bedside EEG screening and the formal study, merging two hospital purchases into one from 2027.

Barco chose Valens' HDBaseT chipset for a wired ClickShare extension kit, putting a cabled 4K-plus-USB link back into large meeting rooms.

RTL Group's H1 2026 streaming revenue rose 27% to EUR 299m while streaming profit improved EUR 65m, lifting FY streaming EBITA guidance to about EUR 100m.

On its Q2 2026 call, GHI said new OBBBA rules give affordable-housing deals in its pipeline larger taxable-debt tranches while tax credit pricing stays weak.

Codan (CODAF), Unusual Machines (UMAC), Mobilicom (MOB) and Twin Disc (TWIN) say drone orders outrun electronics supply: parts need 6-18 months' notice, orders only 4-6.

KEPCO will spread grid and generation capex for Korea's fast-tracked AI and chip projects across years to cut bond issuance to two times capital by end-2027.

Cigna's Evernorth sized the specialty pharmacy market near $500 billion and said roughly $200 billion of it sits in hospital-owned pharmacies it barely serves.