First Carolina Financial Services (FCBM) shares rose over 3% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday.
The holding company for First Carolina Bank priced its initial public offering of 5.5 million shares at $12.50 each, according to a statement late Wednesday.
Underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 825,000 shares, the company said. The offering is expected to close Monday.
Price: $12.85, Change: $+0.35, Percent Change: +2.80%
Top cryptocurrencies fell Wednesday, with Bitcoin (BTC-USD) dropping below the $65,000 level.The CoinDesk Market Index, which tracks dozens of digital assets including Bitcoin, fell almost 1.6% in the past 24 hours. The Nasdaq 100 fell 1.1%, the S&P 500 decreased 1.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.1%.Bitcoin dropped 2.2% to $64,152, according to CoinMarketCap data. The most popular cryptocurrency's 24-hour trading volume rose 14% to $29.92 billion.Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second-largest digital asset by market value, declined 3.3% to $1,733.XRP (XRP-USD) dropped 3.4%, BNB (BNB-USD) fell 1.5%, and Solana (SOL-USD) lost 3%. Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) declined 2.2%, and Cardano (ADA-USD) shed 4.3%.The US 10-year Treasury yield stood at 4.461% at 3 p.m. ET Wednesday, up from 4.426% Tuesday, while the five-year yield rose to 4.229% from 4.149%.The total market value of the cryptocurrency industry fell 2.1% in the past 24 hours to $2.21 trillion, with trading volume rising 0.6% to $79.23 billion.Price: $64197.34, Change: $-1408.11, Percent Change: -2.15%
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Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) said Wednesday it will integrate with Amazon.com's (AMZN) Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to extend its security controls into agentic workflows.The integration will enable Check Point to offer AI behavioral monitoring for destructive or misaligned actions, guardrails for content moderation, and partner-specific detection signals.The signals feed into AgentCore policy that acts at the gateway, allowing enterprises to pair Check Point's detection capabilities with automated enforcement, according to a statement.Price: $121.08, Change: $-0.88, Percent Change: -0.72%