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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading measurement and analytics company Adjust released today its Gaming App Insights Report: 2026 Edition, highlighting continued engagement across mobile gaming and a growing industry focus on long-term player value. Global gaming app sessions saw an increase vs. last year with the paid-to-organic ratio rising 61% globally, reflecting evolving acquisition dynamics as studios balance user growth with strategies designed to deepen engagement and retention. “As...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Just under one in five (18.8%) house hunters looked to move to a different part of the country in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from Redfin, the real estate brokerage powered by Rocket. That’s up slightly from 17.9% a year earlier and up from 15.9% about five years earlier. Migration from one part of the country to another ticked up in 2025 as mortgage rates eased and more homes came on the market. While home sales were still slow, more buyers and rente...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Women’s sports advertising continues to outperform primetime TV, according to the third annual Women’s Sports TV Outcomes Report from EDO, the TV outcomes company. Women’s sports ads generated 15% more impact than the average ad on primetime broadcast and cable, marking the second consecutive year this programming has exceeded the benchmark. From NCAA basketball, lacrosse, and gymnastics to U.S. Open tennis and the WNBA, women’s sports are an exciting and rich platfor...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA releases research discussing the Trump Administration's mass transit funding pause and the implications for infrastructure investment, including examinations of four major infrastructure projects that are affected. In October 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it had paused funding for several major mass transit projects, citing a review of administrative contracting practices. In KBRA’s view, the unilateral pause in federal funding has significant imp...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released the results of its monthly Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans. During February, discount rates fell by 14 basis points, to 5.33%, and raised the PFI projected benefit obligation to $1.235 trillion. However, monthly returns of 2.15% offset the impact and lifted the market value of plan assets by $22 billion, to $1.351 trillion...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The diamond market was uncertain in February as tariffs underwent sudden changes. US prices declined; prices of diamonds located elsewhere were up in some categories and down in others. The Iran war, which affects Israel and Dubai, added to the uncertainty in early March. Dubai is an important trading center for rough and polished. The US and India reached an agreement on February 2 that reduced duties on Indian diamonds to 25% and was set to abolish the levies compl...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global smartphone shipments are forecast to decline by around 7% year-on-year in 2026 according to Omdia’s latest outlook. This projection based on Q1 memory price assumptions, which indicate that pricing pressure and constrained supply will begin to ease in the second half of the year. The global smartphone market will face significant challenges in 2026 as tightening memory supply and elevated pricing place increasing cost pressures for vendors. Memory now accounts fo...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the March 16 deadline approaching for farmers to purchase crop insurance for spring-seeded crops like corn and soybeans, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) today released record-setting results for the 2025 crop year. Farmers purchased 2.54 million crop insurance policies in 2025 — an all-time high — protecting a record 561 million acres of farmland nationwide. Nearly 117 million acres have been added to crop insurance since 2021. The policies sol...

ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, today reported February 2026 trading volume and related revenue statistics, which can be viewed on the company’s investor relations website at https://ir.theice.com/ir-resources/supplemental-information in the Monthly Statistics Tracking spreadsheet. February highlights include: Total average daily volume (...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The typical U.S. homeowner stays put in their house for 12 years, the longest median tenure since 2022. That’s according to a new report from Redfin, the real estate brokerage powered by Rocket. Homeowner tenure peaked at 13.4 years in 2020, then gradually declined each year until 2024. The declines were driven by the pandemic-driven homebuying and selling frenzy, when record-low mortgage rates and remote work motivated many Americans to move. Tenure inched up from 11....