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CrowdStrike is still growing quickly, but the stock’s valuation assumes that pace holds up with little noise.Shares of cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike (CRWD 9.81%) are down meaningfully early in 2026, despite the company announcing another quarter of strong growth and cash generation when it reported quarterly results last December. Is the disconnect between the stock’s recent performance and the underlying business the basis for a buying opportunity? With the company scheduled to release its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results on March 3, this is a timely question. After all, better-than-expected results could cause shares to rebound when the company reports earnings.…

As the UK government on Monday published a call for evidence on the future of the country’s downstream sector, the Fuels Industry UK association called for urgent change in Britain’s policy to protect its four remaining refineries from extinction.    The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero launched today a call for evidence, aiming to publish a strategy for the downstream oil sector in the autumn of 2026.The UK has been left with just four refineries, after two processing sites closed over the past year: the Prax Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire and the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland.   Despite the critical…

A significant development has occurred in the investigation into the deaths of workers in the disaster at the Ashdod oil refinery. The police arrested the supplier of equipment for the factory and decided to increase the suspicion against him to murder with indifference.The victims of the disaster were Irina Radchuk (52), who left behind a husband and daughter, and Nitzan Goykhman (39), who left behind a husband and three children. Both were residents of Ashdod and worked at the refinery as chemical engineers.The suspect denied any connection to the incident during his investigation. According to him, the containers he supplied…

Which? has crunched the numbers to see how overpaying your mortgage, saving and investing compare11:37, 23 Feb 2026Updated 12:39, 23 Feb 2026Think carefully when deciding whether to overpay your mortgage or save (Image: Getty)Which? has revealed whether it is always worth overpaying your mortgage – or if your spare cash could be put to better use elsewhere.You could potentially save thousands of pounds in interest and knock years off your mortgage by making overpayments – but it isn’t always the right choice for everyone.Which? has crunched the numbers to see how overpaying, saving and investing compare. The content from Which?…

Image source: Getty Images Artificial intelligence stock Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) has been on my watchlist for years now. I’ve never bought it though due to its high valuation. With the stock recently falling more than 35% from its highs, however, the valuation has come down quite a bit. So, I decided it was finally time to pull the trigger and get on the Palantir bandwagon. Palantir’s unbelievable growth was a key factor behind my investment decision. This is a technology company that is benefitting from the AI revolution in a big way. Just look at recent Q4 results. For the…

A commercial and industrial property firm is cheering a trio of deals. Towngate is working with We Do Tennis CIC, Optimum Padel and Routes Healthcare. The operator has agreed a ten-year lease with We Do Tennis CIC to occupy two units at Hull’s Sutton Fields Industrial Estate. Bosses say the move will deliver the organisation’s “first standalone pickleball venue” at the 21,900sq ft base, with seven courts complemented by an on-site café. Brighouse-based Towngate has also welcomed Optimum Padel on a ten-year lease to a 30,747sq ft unit at Towngate Link, in Leeds’ Cross Green Vale, with the space transformed…

3 min readRohtakFeb 23, 2026 06:57 PM IST A large-scale protest by labourers at a refinery in Haryana’s Panipat turned volatile on Monday after a heated altercation between contract workers and personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) escalated into stone-pelting, leaving the site tense for nearly an hour and a half before the police intervened to stabilise the situation. The unrest comes amid ongoing construction activity inside the refinery complex, where multiple projects are underway, and an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 workers are engaged through various contractors across different sites. Workers had earlier announced a coordinated protest over…

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may have been out of the spotlight in recent years, but behind the scenes the race is on — and the stakes are high. What would be different about CBDCs, why do some central banks want to introduce them, and who is ahead? What are CBDCs?CBDCs are digital public money issued by a central bank. There are two types: wholesale CBDCs for financial institutions, and retail CBDCs for individual users. Wholesale CBDCs would be used to settle interbank payments and other transactions between financial intermediaries, both domestically and internationally. Retail CBDCs, by contrast, are a…

OSMIUM by OSMIUM Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Words can, like Shelley’s, bring a certain irony to a situation. Written down, the bare facts about experimental supergroup Osmium and their self-titled debut look daunting. Oscar-winning composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, Emptyset and Subtext engineer and producer James Ginzburg, Rully Shabara from Indonesian experimental duo Senyawa and Grammy-winning sound designer and producer Sam Slater used an array of custom-built instruments, self-designed robotics and modulations of the voice to “explore the relationships between humans and technology, tradition and progression”. Osmium is, as Rully Shabara pointed out during our interview, “the heaviest metal”.  How on…

Priced-out Britons are using AI for financial advice. Critics call it ‘dangerous’ – we put the chatbots to the test Swathes of the population are relying on AI chatbots for “dangerous” financial advice. Priced out by traditional advisers, 40% of Britons are turning to unregulated guidance from the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini and Co-Pilot. More may be tempted to join them after the government announced its mission to turn a nation of savers into investors – but financial experts warn AI advice could spell disaster. “There’s nothing to stop it putting out rubbish or putting out things that are completely inappropriate for the consumer,”…