🆕 Newsmakers — 11:30a ET, 2026-08-24 — new since last alert

📰 NEW MARKET THEMES: • Orion180 Insurance Group Grows Into U.S. IPO Plan Orion180 Insurance Group is a quickly growing hybrid insurer and MGA, targeting the residential E&S market across 14 U.S. states. OIG has demonstrated strong consolidated profitability, robust revenue growth, and impressive cash generation, but underwriting performance remains c… — seekingalpha.com · 08/24 11:15a https://seekingalpha.com/article/4939644-orion180-insurance-group-grows-into-us-ipo-plan • Tech Stocks Take A Tumble; Nasdaq Composite Leads Pullback Alibaba spooks investors with $10.2 billion share sale. Investors sour on Samsung's shareholder return plan. — seekingalpha.com · 08/24 11:06a https://seekingalpha.com/article/4939661-tech-stocks-tumble-nasdaq-composite-leads-pullback • The 10-year bond yield is simply back to normal, says Ed Yardeni Ed Yardeni, Yardeni Research president, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the Treasury doubling the size of bond buybacks, the Treasury announcing it could use its General Account to help fund purchases of government bonds, and more. — youtube.com · 08/24 11:04a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxCiHVuObE • Monetary historian says US Treasury fragility points to sudden dollar shift Barry Eichengreen tells Kitco News he has changed his mind about how fast the dollar could break, explains where its losses have actually gone, and makes a case for trimming bonds anyway. — kitco.com · 08/24 11:02a https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-08-24/monetary-historian-says-us-treasury-fragility-points-sudden-dollar-shift • VACCINE BREAKTHROUGH: Personalized cancer treatment takes major leap Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel joins ‘Mornings with Maria' to discuss the company's landmark cancer vaccine partnership with Merck. Bancel details the promising Phase 3 melanoma trial results and outlines Moderna's latest financial growth outlook. — youtube.com · 08/24 11:00a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3K9-vXRSw

🐘 NEW BIG-CAP MOVERS:

1. BMNR +9% $24.90 (14B cap) Strive Jumps 5% as CEO Declares the Bitcoin Bear Market Over, Strategy and Bitmine Rise 3% Strive's CEO just called the Bitcoin bear market dead, insiders are buying shares, and treasury stocks are surging while miners slide. Whether this breakout holds or fades by the close could determine which side of that divide you want to be on. — 247wallst.com · 08/24 9:34a https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/24/strive-jumps-5-as-ceo-declares-the-bitcoin-bear-market-over-strategy-and-bitmine-rise-3/

2. MSTR +7% $127.63 (42B cap) Strive Jumps 5% as CEO Declares the Bitcoin Bear Market Over, Strategy and Bitmine Rise 3% Strive's CEO just called the Bitcoin bear market dead, insiders are buying shares, and treasury stocks are surging while miners slide. Whether this breakout holds or fades by the close could determine which side of that divide you want to be on. — 247wallst.com · 08/24 9:34a https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/24/strive-jumps-5-as-ceo-declares-the-bitcoin-bear-market-over-strategy-and-bitmine-rise-3/

3. IBIT +4% $45.22 (75B cap) BlackRock’s Bitcoin Fund Just Paid Its First Dividend: 18.5% Annualized, While Bitcoin Sleeps at $65K BlackRock just launched a Bitcoin fund that writes covered calls to generate monthly income, and its debut distribution caught a lot of IBIT holders off guard. Before you dismiss it or rush into it, there are some tradeoffs that could change the math entirely. — 247wallst.com · 08/24 10:36a https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/24/blackrocks-bitcoin-fund-just-paid-its-first-dividend-18-5-annualized-while-bitcoin-sleeps-at-65k/

📈 NEW GAINERS:

1. ALVO +18% $5.25 (1.8B cap) Napco Security Technologies Posts Upbeat Q4 Results, Joins Alvotech, Rum Group And Other Big Stocks Moving Higher On Monday U.S. stocks were mixed, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 150 points on Monday. — benzinga.com · 08/24 10:22a https://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/movers/26/08/61383984/napco-security-technologies-posts-upbeat-q4-results-joins-alvotech-rum-group-and-other-big-stocks-moving-higher-on-monday

2. CAPR +15% $7.25 (417M cap) Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Capricor Therapeutics Investors of the Pending Class Action Lawsuit With a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of September 28, 2026 - CAPR Wall Street's view of Capricor Therapeutics reversed within hours after FDA briefing documents allegedly exposed unagreed changes to the HOPE-3 statistical analysis plan, with analysts questioning data integrity as CAPR shares fell 78.7% Wall Street's view of Capricor Therapeuti… — globenewswire.com · 08/24 10:10a https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/24/3349857/3080/en/levi-korsinsky-reminds-capricor-therapeutics-investors-of-the-pending-class-action-lawsuit-with-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-september-28-2026-capr.html

3. BRCC +15% $10.09 (321M cap) (no fresh news today — likely technical / low-coverage move)

— new items only (already-sent headlines filtered). Full list in the 10am/3pm digest.