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The gym giant is resetting its balance sheet with new financing as it gears up for a new year that will bring a price increase to its Black Card tier Planet Fitness is tightening up its capital structure as it heads into 2026, locking in new long-term financing. The gym giant has priced $750 million in new fixed-rate notes, issued in two tranches with five- and seven-year repayment timelines and fixed rates in the mid-5% range, the company said. Planet Fitness had approximately $2.2 billion in outstanding securitized debt as of Sept. 30. In addition to the new notes, Planet…
Meta will soon allow Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union to choose to share less data and see less personalized ads on the platform, the European Commission announced. The change will begin to roll out in January, according to the regulator.”This is the first time that such a choice is offered on Meta’s social networks,” the commission said in a statement. “Meta will give users the effective choice between: consenting to share all their data and seeing fully personalised advertising, and opting to share less personal data for an experience with more limited personalised advertising.”The move from Meta…
Crypto markets head into this week’s Federal Reserve meeting focused less on rate cut and more on whether Jerome Powell quietly declares the start of quantitative easing (QE). The key question on Wednesday for macro-sensitive traders is whether the Fed shifts into a bill-heavy “reserve management” regime that starts rebuilding dollar liquidity, even if it refuses to call it QE. Futures markets suggest the rate decision itself is largely a foregone conclusion. According to the CME FedWatch Tool, traders are assigning roughly 87.2% odds to a 0.25 percentage point cut, underscoring that the real uncertainty is not about the size…
Analogue just announced new colorways for its recently-launched Analogue 3D console. The appropriately-named Funtastic limited-edition consoles are heavily inspired by Nintendo’s translucent N64 models from the late 1990s. Analogue even borrowed the Funtastic branding.In other words, these are going for the nostalgic jugular for gamers of a certain age. There’s even a see-through green colorway that calls to mind the Nintendo 64 variant that shipped as a bundle with Donkey Kong 64. Just imagine booting up that bad boy as you roam around the house spouting the lyrics of the DK rap song.There are eight translucent colors to choose from…
The Dogecoin price has been drifting through a subdued stretch over the past few days, holding around the mid-$0.13 to $0.14. The recent decline has slowed down in the past 48 hours, and the chart now shows the meme coin attempting to steady itself after weeks of persistent selling pressure. Trader Tardigrade, a well-known crypto analyst on X, shared a new three-day chart suggesting that an important MACD signal is on the verge of forming, and historical performance shows that Dogecoin tends to move bullish once this signal appears. Approaching The MACD Bullish Cross Dogecoin’s quiet phase in the past…
Part of Sequel Brands, the newly created Ultimate Longevity Center will offer services including biomarker testing, metabolic profiling and other personalized protocols In a wellness-focused world racing toward an $8 trillion longevity economy, a trio of heavyweights just stepped into the ring with a new franchise concept. Anthony Geisler, the founder and former CEO of Xponential Fitness and now the founder of Sequel Brands, has teamed up with longevity expert Gary Brecka and Tony Robbins’ Lifeforce platform to launch the Ultimate Longevity Center. The move, the team says, will give members easier access to leading longevity protocols that have long been limited to…
Uber will begin selling customer data to marketers, according to a report by Business Insider. The company’s ad division just launched a new insights platform called Uber Intelligence that’s tasked with hoovering up and selling trip and delivery data.The data will technically be anonymous, via the use of a platform called LiveRamp. This will “let advertisers securely combine their customer data with Uber’s to help surface insights about their audiences, based on what they eat and where they travel.”Basically, it’ll provide a broad view of local consumer trends based on collected data. Uber gives an example of a hotel brand…
Waukesha County, Wisconsin has introduced an AI-based system to handle non-emergency calls. The AI service, named “Ava,” can create reports for routine incidents and even transfer callers to human 911 operators if an emergency call accidentally reaches the non-emergency line. ABC WISN reports that the Waukesha County, Wisconsin has taken a significant step forward in modernizing its dispatching services by implementing an AI-powered assistant named Ava. This innovative system is designed to handle non-emergency calls, allowing human dispatchers to focus on more pressing matters that require immediate attention. Chris Becker, the operations manager at the Waukesha County Communications Center, explained…
Top-order batter Shubman Gill and all-rounder Hardik Pandya are fit and available for Tuesday’s T20 series opener against South Africa, India captain Suryakumar Yadav said on the eve of the match. Gill, who had been thrown out of action with a neck injury sustained during the opening test against the Proteas, was included in the T20 squad for the five-match series subject to his fitness. Pandya, who has been active in domestic cricket, is set to return to action after suffering a quadriceps injury in September. “Both are looking healthy and fit,” Suryakumar told reporters in Cuttack on Monday. Pandya’s…
Bitcoin’s recent movement has left many traders waiting for signs of an altcoin season, and a post shared by crypto analyst Crypto Nova offers a different way to understand when this will actually begin. The explanation, supported by charts from 2017 and 2021, shows that altcoins have historically performed their best while Bitcoin’s price action was already climbing, not after it had reached its peak. The charts she shared show how those earlier cycles unfolded and why the timing of Bitcoin’s surge has been the important factor each time. Altseasons Form During Bitcoin’s Strongest Surges This outlook goes against the…