Capital Southwest is an internally managed BDC that provides loans to lower-middle-market companies and earns interest on those loans. It borrows at lower rates, lends at higher rates, and passes the spread through to shareholders as income.
X4 Pharmaceuticals drew a fresh initiation from Guggenheim, which assigned a Buy rating and $12 price target, framing the company as a "differentiated hematology play" with significant upside in the next 18 months. The firm's thesis centers on mavorixafor, a potential first-in-class oral CXCR4 antagonist already approved for WHIM syndrome and currently in Phase 3 development for primary chronic neutropenia.
Hedge funds and other money managers spent $2.8 billion on alternative data in 2025, according to a new report from consultancy Neudata, a 17% jump from the year before. It's more than double what asset managers spent on alternative data in 2021, which includes a wide range of non-traditional information sources. The report projects that the total spend on alternative datasets could jump to more than $23 billion in the consultancy's bull case in 2030 and just under $8 billion in the bear case.
Shares surged 40.6 per cent to 27.2 pence as the company defied the challenging backdrop for advertising groups, but reported a fall in revenue. The company anticipates full year net revenue of roughly £664m, representing a like for like drop of 8.5 per cent. But operating profit is expected to jump 12 per cent to £75m, beating initial forecast and buoying the share price after it declined 18.5 per cent over the last twelve months after a succession of profit warnings.
The most violent move came in a single session when Anthropic announced that its Claude Code tool is positioned as an ideal solution for code modernization, including COBOL legacy system work. That announcement hit IBM where it hurts most. A significant portion of IBM's consulting revenue comes from exactly that kind of work: helping large enterprises modernize aging mainframe and legacy codebases.
Blue Owl, based in New York City, recently agreed to provide $240 million of financing for a data center in Minneapolis that was purchased by investors Cloud Capital and Arcapita Group, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. The company plans to both invest in and lend to a recently announced large data center development in Wichita Falls, Texas, being built by the Dallas-based firm Skybox Datacenters.
The stadium project is clearly front and centre and represents a strategic priority because it will allow new revenues to further strengthen their economic and sporting competitiveness. The leadership and strategic vision of Cardinale and RedBird have accelerated the process, and now Milan and Inter hope there will be no further setbacks or delays.