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CANADA STOCKS-TSX futures gain as geopolitical risks fan precious metals rally
Jan 21 (Reuters) - Futures tracking Canada's resource-heavy stock index gained on Wednesday, supported by a third straight day of record gold prices, as heightened tensions between the U.S. and its NATO allies over Greenland drove investors to make safer bets.March futures on Toronto's S&...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
The Best Dividend Growth Stocks to Buy With $2,000 Right Now
Key PointsSome investors focus on companies with rapidly growing dividends, such as Visa.Other investors prefer a slow and steady dividend grower like Realty Income.The pace of a company's dividend growth can materially affect its dividend yield.10 stocks we like better than Visa › Dividend growth i...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
Newborn Town Inc. (09911.HK) Announces 2025 Annual Operating Data: Revenue Expected to Achieve RMB 6,760 to 7,000 million, Up over 32%, with Explosive Growth in Innovative Business
[Hong Kong – 21 January 2026] Newborn Town Inc. (Newborn Town or the company, stock code: 09911.HK), a leading global social entertainment company, released its unaudited operating data for 2025. For the year ended 31 December 2025, the company’s total revenue is estimated to reach approximately RMB 6,760 million to RMB 7,000 million, reflecting a year-on-year increase of approximately 32.8 % to 37.5 %. Among the total revenue, social networking business contributed approximately RMB 6,030 million to RMB 6,230 million, up approximately 30.4% to 34.8% year-on-year. The innovative business saw a year-on-year growth of about 55.7% to 64.2% to approximately RMB 730 million to RMB 770 million, continuing its robust growth momentum.In 2025, the company further deepened the integration of AI technologies into its business operations, enhancing user experience and product commercialization efficiency across business segments and driving high-quality growth.Social Networking Business Maintains Strong Momentum with Reinforced Market LeadershipAccording to the announcement, the company achieved significant year-on-year revenue growth of social networking business in 2025, primarily driven by the continued expansion of diversified social products supported by AI technology.During the year, the company's social networking business achieved structural growth across global markets, with synergies among its "bush-like" portfolio of social apps. Products such as TopTop, a game-oriented social networking platform, maintained explosive growth, acting as key engines of expansion. Meanwhile, other core social apps continued to deliver stable revenue and cash flow contributions. Particularly in the MENA region, Newborn Town has built significant competitive advantages and a robust product ecosystem. In Q4 2025, TopTop, supported by localized operations and a growing UGC ecosystem, further strengthened its market position and emerged as a nationally popular app in high-value markets such as Saudi Arabia.The company’s diverse-audiencesocialnetworkingbusiness(LGBTQ) also sustained solid development in overseas markets. Through deepening community engagement, iterating social features, andlaunchingbrand campaigns,HeeSayhas further solidified its leading position in Southeast Asia,boostingits brand influence.As the social business continued to accelerate, Newborn Town’s overall market competitiveness also strengthened. In December 2025, the company ranked 4th on Diandian’s “Top Chinese non-gaming publishers by overseas revenue”list, up one place from the previous ranking, reflecting solid growth momentum.The company’s consistently improving localization capabilities remain a key driver of its competitive moat. A research report by CLSA in 2025 highlighted Newborn Town’s distinctive competitive edge, enabled by deeper user insights, refined service experience, and diversified monetization models. With solid localization execution, Newborn Town has also demonstrated strong competitiveness in product innovation, user acquisition, and content operations.Innovative Business Delivers Strong Growth as Quality Games Enter a Phase of Long-Term OperationsIn 2025, Newborn Town’s innovative business emerged as a strong growth engine. The growth was driven by sustained expansion in traffic monetization, social e-commerce business, revenue contributions from the short drama segment and its self-developed quality games.Since Q4 2024, the quality games segment has entered its profit-harvesting phase. Flagship titles have now transitioned into long-term operations, delivering a meaningful increase in ARPU during the year. Building on the game team’s growing expertise in the merge-game genre and the deeper integration of AI technologies, Newborn Town significantly shortened development cycles in 2025, while new game titles advanced steadily as planned.Over the past year, Newborn Town’s social e-commerce business delivered steady growth, while Heer Health further consolidated its leading position in the HIV prevention and sexual health services segment. In 2025, Heer Health partnered with insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms to launch China’s first critical illness insurance product specifically designed for people living with HIV, offering an innovative solution to long-standing challenges in insurance access for this group. Meanwhile, the company’s short-drama business has also begun to demonstrate early positive results.AI Integration Accelerates Innovation-Driven MomentumIn 2025, Newborn Town continued to deepen its AI strategy, integrating AI into core business operations while launching a range of “AI + Social Entertainment” product innovations.In terms of product innovation, the company launched Aippy, an AI-powered creative content community that lowers the barrier to creation for users without coding experience. By integrating advanced AIGC technologies, Aippy enables users to easily create mini-games and other interactive content. Since it launch, the mobile version has received encouraging user feedback, achieving an average rating of 4.9 on both the Apple App Store and major Android app stores. AI technologies have now been embedded across all key operations, with the company’s self-developed multimodal algorithm model, Boomiix, continuing to undergo iterative upgrades. By further deploying AI in core scenarios - from social recommendations, intelligent operations, advertising, risk management and content safety, and creative asset design, Newborn Town has consistently optimized user experience and operational efficiency.In 2025, Newborn Town introduced Siyu, an AI-powered intelligent data platform enabling operations teams to efficiently query data, perform analytics and generate reports via natural-language interactions. The platform was subsequently selected as a flagship case by Amazon Web Services. In September 2025, the company entered a strategic partnership with Tencent Cloud to jointly explore opportunities in “AI + Global Social Entertainment,” leveraging both parties’ technical strengths and market reach.In June 2025, Newborn Town established its global headquarters in Hong Kong, marking a new milestone in its globalization strategy. Between November and December 2025, Newborn Town executed a series of share repurchases on the open market, with an aggregate amount exceeding HKD 80 million, demonstrating management’s strong confidence in the company’s long-term value and growth prospects. Moving forward, the company will continue to deepen its global business footprint and remain committed to creating positive emotional value for users.About Newborn Town Newborn Town has grown into a leading technology company which was listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) in 2019 under the stock code 9911. Committed to creating positive emotional values worldwide, Newborn Town has developed a diverse portfolio of applications in the social networking and entertainment sectors. These applications have achieved widespread acclaim, reaching over one billion users in over one hundred countries and regions.Newborn Town considers the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region a key market and has also extended its influence in Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The company aims to become the world's largest social entertainment company. For enquiries, please contact DLK Advisory pr@dlkadvisory.com21/01/2026 Dissemination of a Financial Press Release, transmitted by EQS News.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Media archive at www.todayir.comEQS
Wed, Jan 21
Yuchai Participates in Guangxi Yuchai Double Growth Fund
SINGAPORE, Jan. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE: CYD) ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), one of the largest powertrain solution manufacturers through its main operating subsidiary in China, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited ("Yuchai&q...PR Newswire
Wed, Jan 21
DXC Announces Strategic Partnership with Euronet to Expand Global Issuing and Payments Capabilities
ASHBURN, Va, Jan. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a global enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced a strategic partnership with Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), a leading global payments technology company, to expand issuing, revolving credit an...PR Newswire
Wed, Jan 21
DIARY-Federal Reserve Events
Denotes a new entry. -------------------------------------------------------- Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) MEETING DATES: 2026January 27-28 (second day: statement released 1400 EST/1900 GMT; news conference expected 1430 EST/1930 GMT)March 17-18 (second day: statement released 1...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
Read This Before Buying Sweetgreen Stock
Key PointsSweetgreen stock is trading at a cheap valuation.Its small store fleet has been falling short of operational standards, though they're making progress.The high-inflation environment isn't friendly to sales growth.10 stocks we like better than Sweetgreen › Sweetgreen (NYSE: SG) is a small b...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
United Airlines rises on upbeat Q1 and full-year outlook
Shares of United Airlines UAL.O up ~4% to $113.02 premarketAirline issues an upbeat outlook for both the current quarter and the full year, citing strong demand from higher-income and corporate travelersExpects 2026 adjusted earnings of $12 to $14 per share versus analysts' average estimate of $...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
Silver miners rise as white metal gains
Shares of silver miners rise premarket, tracking gains in the white metal's prices GOL/Spot silver XAG= rises 0.5% to $95.04 per ouncePrices rise powered by a cocktail of factors including sustained physical tightness and escalating friction between the United States and NATO over Greenland Hecl...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
3 Top ETFs Yielding 3% or More to Buy and Hold for Passive Income
Key PointsThe Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF currently has a yield approaching 4%. The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF offers a yield of more than 4%. The JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF has paid an income yield of more than 8% over the past year. 10 stocks we like better than Schwab U.S. Dividen...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
LIVE MARKETS-Could Europe run out of gas?
STOXX 600 down 0.3%Banks lag, miners leadTrump set for Davos showdownWall St futures higherWelcome to the home for real-time coverage of markets brought to you by Reuters reporters. You can share your thoughts with us at markets.research@thomsonreuters.com COULD EUROPE RUN OUT OF GAS? The short ...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
2 No-Brainer AI Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist for 2026
Key PointsThe world is going to need more data centers and chips for AI workloads.Nvidia’s GPUs remain the preferred choice for data centers, and its stock offers attractive value at the start of 2026.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is the world's largest chipmaker, with analysts expecting robust...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
3 Reasons to Buy Cameco Stock Like There's No Tomorrow
Key PointsDemand for uranium is increasing as utilities stockpile the key component for nuclear energy. Western utilities are reducing their dependence on Russian uranium, and Cameco has two high-grade mines in Canada that could benefit from this supply crunch.It also has an ownership stake in Westi...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
PRECIOUS-Gold powers above $4,800 as global risks fan record safe-haven rally
Gold hits all-time high at $4,887.82/ozPlatinum scales record high at $2,511.80/ozSilver trades below its record high of $95.87 hit on TuesdayTrump to address world leaders at DavosBy Pablo Sinha Jan 21 (Reuters) - Gold prices extended their record run to breach the $4,800 per ounce level on Wed...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
JinkoSolar's Subsidiary, Jinko Solar Co., Ltd., Announces Estimates of Certain Preliminary Unaudited Financial Results for Full Year 2025
SHANGRAO, China, Jan. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that its majority-owned principal operating subsidiary, Jinko S...PR Newswire
Wed, Jan 21
Is The Cheapest Magnificent Seven Stock a Buy for 2026?
Key PointsThis stock is trading near its lowest valuation in a year.The company has put the focus on AI and is aggressively investing in that area.10 stocks we like better than Meta Platforms › "The Magnificent Seven" first grabbed attention as a Western back in 1960. But in recent times, the words ...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
Street View: Netflix chases franchise glory, but Wall Street wants spoiler alert
Netflix NFLX.O beat Wall Street's revenue and earnings estimates for its holiday quarter on TuesdayResults came hours after it amended its $82.7 billion merger agreement with Warner Bros Discovery WBD.O, in a bid to fend off a hostile bid for WBD from Paramount Skydance PSKY.ONFLX falls nearly 6...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF: Buy, Sell, or Hold in 2026?
Key PointsCathie Wood's Ark Invest is known to invest in game-changing technologies.Given this slant, it's easy to see why Wood and her team believe in crypto and Bitcoin.Bitcoin had an up-and-down year in 2025.10 stocks we like better than Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF › Given that Cathie Wood and her t...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
Gold miners rise as bullion edges past $4,800 on Greenland tensions
U.S.-listed shares of gold miners rise premarket, tracking the price of the bullion that has zoomed past the $4,800 an ounce markSpot gold XAU= rises 2% to $4,859.09 per ounce after investors sought the metal as a safe haven following a broad selloff in U.S. assets amid heightened tensions between t...Reuters
Wed, Jan 21
A $10 Trillion Opportunity: Why This Unstoppable Stock Could Be a Better Buy Than Tesla Ahead of the Autonomous Driving Revolution
Key PointsCathie Wood's Ark Investment Management predicts autonomous vehicles will reduce the cost-per-mile of mobility, which will make travel more accessible. Ark believes this will create a $10 trillion opportunity for providers of autonomous ride-hailing services. Tesla is one of the biggest de...The Motley Fool
Wed, Jan 21
