DICK’S FY26 guidance cut: Foot Locker and the $260m midpoint bridge
DICK’S lowered fiscal 2026 sales, operating-income and non-GAAP EPS guidance. The segment ranges show Foot Locker drove most, but not all, of the reset.
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Coles FY26: A$235m underpayment charge and the A$165m NPAT gap
Coles reported A$1.255bn NPAT excluding significant items and A$1.090bn including them. Controllers should reconcile the A$235m pre-tax charge, A$165m after-tax effect, A$254m provision and cash-realisation denominator while final orders remain unresolved.
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Stripe’s reported OpenRouter agreement: billing controls from usage to provider payouts
Axios reports a cash-and-stock agreement for Stripe to acquire OpenRouter. Billing teams should map usage, credits, invoices, tax, payments and provider obligations before any integration.
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OpenAI’s Ohio data-center deal: procurement’s secured-capacity test
NVIDIA’s signed guaranties cover an initial 4.25 IT-GW, but OpenAI’s Ohio capacity is phased and remains subject to ready-for-service conditions beginning in 2028.
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Deutsche Telekom’s Fiberhost–Inea deal: the pre-close accounting file
Deutsche Telekom has agreed to acquire Fiberhost and Inea at an enterprise valuation of about €1 billion. Controllers should prepare the perimeter, asset, contract and control-transfer evidence before closing.
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Dash0 acquires Polar Signals: six controls for code-level cost attribution
Dash0’s Polar Signals deal adds continuous profiling and planned AI pull requests, but finance still needs lineage, allocation and change-control evidence before using the data.
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Alphabet’s Australian-dollar bond mandate: what treasury can count
Alphabet has mandated banks for a possible debut Australian-dollar bond. Treasury should keep mandate, pricing, settlement, fees and usable AUD cash as separate states.
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a2 Milk’s FY27 outlook: test the China-label demand and margin bridge
a2 Milk expects gradual China-label recovery in FY27, but improved availability does not yet prove customer reacquisition, unit demand or EBITDA-margin recovery.
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Workday–Silver Lake acquisition talks: financing, status and customer controls
Reuters reports ongoing Workday–Silver Lake talks, but the sources reviewed establish no signed agreement, committed financing or customer-system change.
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U.S. drone tariffs 2026: procurement landed-cost map by product, origin and entry date
The August 13 proclamation schedules tiered U.S. drone duties. Procurement must map product classification, origin evidence and customs-entry timing before repricing.
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