"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops.
Today's guests: Emmanuel Cau, Barclays Head of European and APAC Equity Strategy, Negah Angha, King's College London Visiting Fellow; Mike Doustdar, Novo Nordisk CEO; Morris Reid, Actum Partner (Source: Bloomberg)
Bats can produce ultrasonic pulses with high frequencies between 20,000 and 120,000 hertz, which are inaudible to humans. The sound waves they produce travel forward, hitting nearby objects and bouncing back in the form of echoes.
Morris Reid, Partner at Actum and former official in the Clinton administration, describes the Democrat sweep of Congress in the US midterm elections as a "protest vote", saying it shows the American people were against President Trump but that's not to say the Democrats now have a mandate. Reid was speaking on Bloomberg Television's The Pulse With Francine Lacqua. (Source: Bloomberg)
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa said hackers stole money from it after gaining access to its computer systems, underscoring the growing cybersecurity risks for the banking sector.
The UK’s use of anti-terror powers to outlaw Palestine Action has led to the group’s total destruction, its lawyers said at the UK’s highest court in the latest attempt to overturn the ban.
Vishay (VPG) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -6.67% and -1.61%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
Zimmer (ZBH) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +0.53% and +0.81%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
United Therapeutics (UTHR) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -2.39% and +6.28%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +100.00% and +7.96%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
Nearly every agent security pitch now ends on the same promise: the product stops the bad action in real time. The promise holds for one kind of agent, the kind whose traffic passes through a gateway the enterprise owns. Most agents never touch one.
One recent case shows what that gap looks like in practice. An employee asked an AI assistant to trigger a mass-email automation. The automation
Smith & Nephew plc reported its third quarter 2026 trading update, with revenue of $1,551 million compared to $1,501 million in the third quarter of 2025, representing 3.4% revenue growth on both an underlying and reported basis. The company revised its full-year guidance to
Townsquare Media, Inc. reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026. Net revenue for the quarter was $110.9 million, representing a 3.9% increase compared to the third quarter of 2025. The company reported a net loss of $4.0 million, which narrowe
Clear Secure, Inc. reported its third quarter 2026 financial results, with revenue increasing 27.8% year-over-year to $292.9 million and Total Bookings rising 24.4% to $323.5 million. Operating income reached $82.9 million, representing a 28.3% operating income margin, while net