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MOL Group reports profit before tax of 1.3 billion USD, down 11 percent in 2025
thediplomat_ro45d ago

MOL Group reports profit before tax of 1.3 billion USD, down 11 percent in 2025

MOL Group announced its financial results for the full year as well as the fourth quarter of 2025. Profit before tax reached USD 1.3 billion in 2025, representing a 11 percent decrease compared to 2024. MOL sets 2026 profit before tax guidance at around USD 1.5 billion. Chairman and CEO Zsolt Hernádi commented the results: “The [...]

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financialpost45d ago

OTC Markets Group Welcomes Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund to OTCQX

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of regulated markets for trading 12,000 U.S. and international securities, today announced that Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (TSX: CHE.UN; OTCQX: CGIFF), a diversified operator and producer of industrial chemicals and services, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. [...]

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Altcoin Liquidity Crunch: 83% Of Crypto Tokens Slip Into Bear Trend
newsbtc45d ago

Altcoin Liquidity Crunch: 83% Of Crypto Tokens Slip Into Bear Trend

Altcoin breadth on Binance has deteriorated sharply, with a large majority of tokens now trading below a widely watched long-term trend level, an exhaustion signal that CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost frames as a liquidity problem as much as a price problem. In a post on X, Darkfost (@Darkfost_Coc) shared a CryptoQuant chart tracking the share of Binance-listed altcoins trading below their 50-week moving average alongside Bitcoin’s price. His headline claim: “LIQUIDITY CRUNCH PUSHES 83% OF ALTCOINS INTO BEAR TREND,” arguing that most investors exposed to non-Bitcoin, non-stablecoin assets are “now in significant difficulty,” particularly those still holding positions. Altcoin Breadth Breaks Down On Binance Darkfost’s chart, titled “Altcoins performance (Binance)”, shows the percentage of altcoins below the 50-week moving average rising back into historically stressed territory. In his latest read, 83% of Binance altcoins are below that threshold, a sign that weakness is not isolated to a handful of names but spread across the tape. He also pointed to an even more extreme episode earlier this month. “Since the end of the bear market in 2023, a new record was set on February 7, with more than 92% of altcoins on Binance trading below this key technical support,” he wrote, describing it as a post-2023-cycle high in downside participation. Related Reading: House Democrats Urge Treasury Probe Into Trump Family’s Crypto Venture That stands in stark contrast to the conditions seen during earlier upside phases. Darkfost noted that in March 2024 only 6% of Binance altcoins traded below the 50-week line, and in December 2024 the figure was 7%. Outside of those multi-month windows, he added, at least half of altcoins remained under the threshold, behavior he characterized as meaningfully different from the prior cycle’s breadth dynamics. Darkfost framed the altcoin drawdown as inseparable from Bitcoin’s trend and the macro backdrop, suggesting that the market’s risk budget has tightened while altcoin supply has expanded. Related Reading: House Democrats Urge Treasury Probe Into Trump Family’s Crypto Venture “The market continues to be driven by BTC’s movements, which has been in a downtrend since October 2025 following an ATH at $126,000. At present, BTC’s momentum remains highly uncertain, with price still hovering at roughly 46% of its all time high. Rising geopolitical tensions, particularly between the US and Iran, alongside increasingly hawkish projections and tone from the Fed expressed in the latest FOMC minutes, are making the current environment especially challenging for highly volatile assets such as altcoins,” he wrote. The chart itself marks BTC near the mid-$60,000 range, underscoring his broader point: in a regime where Bitcoin direction is unclear and macro inputs are hostile to duration and volatility, breadth in higher-beta tokens can deteriorate quickly and then stay impaired. Why The 50-Week Line Matters Darkfost emphasized the 50-week moving average as a long-horizon filter used by market participants to separate corrective phases from structurally constructive ones. When a majority of tokens sit below it, rallies tend to be narrower, selection pressure rises, and “alt season” narratives become harder to sustain without a decisive shift in liquidity conditions. He attributed the current setup to “the increase in altcoin supply across the broader crypto market combined with still constrained liquidity conditions,” a combination that can mechanically dilute marginal flows. In that environment, he argued, outperforming becomes less about broad beta exposure and more about understanding how market structure has changed. At press time, the total crypto market cap excluding Bitcoin stood at $943.46 billion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

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Borders town sees plans approved to turn historic church into community hub
deadlinenews45d ago

Borders town sees plans approved to turn historic church into community hub

PLANS to transform a parish church in the town of Selkirk have been approved by Scottish Borders Council. Selkirk Parish Church dates back to 1880, when the current building was erected at an estimated cost of £6,000 – or around £629,000 today. One of the most notable buildings in the small town of around 5,000, [...]The post Borders town sees plans approved to turn historic church into community hub appeared first on Deadline News.

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globenewswire45d ago

Bitdeer Announces Pricing of Upsized US$325.0 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering

SINGAPORE, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitdeer Technologies Group (Nasdaq: BTDR) (“Bitdeer”), a world-leading technology company for Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure, today announced the pricing of US$325.0 million principal amount of 5.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 (the “notes”) in a private placement (the “notes offering”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The aggregate principal amount of the convertible notes offering was increased from the previously announced offering size of $300.0 million. Bitdeer also granted the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, for settlement within a 13-day period beginning on, and including, the date on which the notes are first issued, up to an additional US$50.0 million principal amount of notes. The sale of the notes is expected to close on February 24, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

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