Universal Music Group (UMG) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of €3,294 million, up 10.5% year on year, or 13.3% in constant currency. The company said the increase was supported by the consolidation of Downtown Music Holdings, pricing benefits from Streaming 2.0 agreements, and strong physical, licensing and other sales. For the first half of 2026, revenue rose to €6,194 million, up 5.3% year on year, or 10.8% in constant currency. Adjusted EBITDA for Q2 2026 was €674 million, down 0.3% year on year, while the adjusted EBITDA margin fell 2.2pp to 20.5%.

UAE telecom group e& reported first-half 2026 consolidated revenue of AED 38.1 billion, up 11.6% year on year. EBITDA rose 13.1% to AED 17.7 billion, with a margin of 46.5%. Net profit was AED 6.0 billion, up 2.4% year on year after excluding the gain from the sale of Khazna and the Maroc Telecom settlement in H1 2025. The company said it is resetting its portfolio, including selling its Vodafone stake at a premium and partially selling a 12.5% stake in Careem Technologies.

Tetragon Financial Group Limited said on 29 July 2026 that its board declared a cash dividend of U.S.$ 0.12 per share for the second quarter of 2026. The ex-dividend date is 31 July 2026, with a 3 August 2026 record date, and payments scheduled from 26 August 2026. Shareholders can elect to receive the dividend in shares by 13 August 2026; those who do not elect will receive cash. The company also said it intends to conduct a tender offer for nonvoting shares with a maximum value of up to U.S.$50 million, with shares to be held as treasury stock.

BioArctic AB said its global partner Eisai reported Leqembi® sales of 29.3 billion yen in the second quarter of 2026. Based on those sales, BioArctic is set to receive SEK 179 million in royalties, up about 10% year on year when excluding a one-off stockpiling impact in China in Q2 2025. The company said the royalty income reflects the monetization of its core commercialization rights and supports its equity fundamentals.

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London’s Brent Cross shopping centre and John Lewis are in a legal dispute over whether click-and-collect sales should be included in turnover-rent calculations. Price Bailey said that if a court finds such sales should be counted, retailers’ effective rent bills could rise. The firm cited data showing nearly 79,500 UK retail companies have negative net assets, with 52% in the highest insolvency-risk category, up 19% from last year.

Bitmine said it holds 5.62 million ETH, or 4.66% of Ethereum’s 120.7 million supply, and reported crypto plus cash and marketable securities plus “moonshots” totaling $10.4 billion. The company also said it closed a 3,500,000-share offering of 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock for about $273.8 million in net proceeds and expects the shares to begin trading on the NYSE as BMNP on June 16, 2026. It projected annualized staking-related cash flow of about $226 million and said it has 4,718,677 staked ETH valued at $8.1 billion at $1,718 per ETH. Bitmine said it was named to the Fortune Crypto 100 list for 2026 and described the SEC’s Project Crypto and the GENIUS Act as transformational.