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Singapore, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Origin Investment Corp I (the “Company”), a newly organized special purpose acquisition company, today announced that, the underwriters of its recently completed initial public offering of units, which closed on July 3, 2025, have exercised in full their option to purchase an additional 900,000 units. The additional units were sold at a price to the public of $10.00, before underwriting discounts. The issuance and sale of these additional units closed today.

DUBLIN, Ohio, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- reAlpha Tech Corp. (Nasdaq: AIRE) (the “Company” or “reAlpha”), an AI-powered real estate technology company, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of an aggregate of 13,333,334 shares of its common stock, together with Series A-1 warrants to purchase up to 13,333,334 shares of common stock and Series A-2 warrants to purchase up to 13,333,334 shares of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $0.15 per share and accompanying warrants. The Series A-1 warrants and the Series A-2 warrants have an exercise price of $0.15 per share and will be exercisable beginning on the effective date of stockholder approval of the issuance of the shares upon exercise of the warrants. The Series A-1 warrants will expire five years from the date of stockholder approval and the Series A-2 warrants will expire twenty-four months from the date of stockholder approval.

SL Green raised FFO guidance by $0.40 per share after a strong Q2. Despite planned Manhattan occupancy declines and political uncertainty, management expects occupancy to climb in 2024. SL Green's control of prime Manhattan locations sets it apart from other office REITs.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. just secured the largest lease in its history—a 16-year, 466,598 SF deal at its flagship San Diego mega-campus. Despite a challenging life science market with high vacancy and weak demand, ARE's strong tenant relationships are delivering results. Risks remain: San Diego's market is still softening, with over 4 million SF available and ongoing construction that could pressure rents.

Major U.S. equities indexes were mixed heading into the weekend as a report showing an uptick in consumer sentiment suggested that unease over possible tariff impacts could be dwindling.

As earnings season approaches, investors should review their portfolios and assess whether there is still upside left or if the next piece of news could be negative. This could apply to Apple (AAPL 0.46%), as investors have been fairly bearish on the stock for a good reason.

PNC Financial and U.S. Bancorp are the largest regional banks in the U.S. Both are solid options for dividend growth investors. Both banks reported good Q2 results with stable credit trends. U.S. Bancorp is currently trading at lower valuation multiples, offers a higher total shareholder yield, and has attractive fee income diversification.

Vancouver, British Columbia - July 18, 2025 – TheNewswire - Goldgroup Mining Inc. (“ Goldgroup ” or the “ Company ”) (TSX-V:GGA, OTC:GGAZF) is pleased to announce that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 15,000,000 units of the Company (“ Units ”) at a price of $0.80 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $12,000,000 (the “ Private Placement '). Each Unit will consist of one common share (a “ Common Share ”) and one-half common share purchase warrant, with each full warrant (a “ Warrant ”) being exercisable to purchase one additional Common Share at a price of $1.10 for twenty-four (24) months from the date of issuance; provided that if the closing price of the Company's common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (or any other stock exchange or quotation system on which the Company's common shares are then listed or quoted) for a period of 10 consecutive trading days is $1.25 or higher, the expiry date of the Warrants will be acceler

DALLAS, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beneficient (NASDAQ: BENF) (the “Company”), a technology-enabled platform providing exit opportunities and primary capital solutions and related trust and custody services to holders of alternative assets through its proprietary online platform AltAccess, today announced that on July 16, 2025, the Company was notified by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that, due to its continued non-compliance with the minimum $1.00 bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) and the delay in the filing of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, in contravention of Nasdaq's periodic reporting requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), the Company's securities were subject to delisting unless the Company timely requests a hearing before the Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the “Panel”). The Company plans to timely request a hearing