For the three months ended Dec. 27, profit totaled $85 million.

That was down 76% from a year ago and lower than Wall Street analysts expected, according to FactSet.

Quarterly sales rose 5% to $14.31 billion, beating forecasts.

On an adjusted basis, Tyson earned 97 cents a share, outpacing analysts’ expectations.

The quarterly loss in the beef division widened to $319 million, from $26 million a year earlier. Beef prices rose about 17%, while sales volumes fell 7%.

McDonald’s is launching a limited-edition giveaway ahead of Valentine’s Day that pairs one of its most recognizable menu items with a traditionally high-end product: caviar.

The fast-food chain announced Monday in a release that it will offer McNugget Caviar kits through an online-only drop at McNuggetCaviar.com.

The kits will be available free of charge while supplies last and will not be sold in McDonald’s restaurants.

The promotion marks McDonald’s first collaboration with Paramount Caviar, a U.S.-based caviar supplier known for serving Michelin-starred restaurants and luxury hotels, the company said in a press release.

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Each kit includes a 1-ounce tin of Baerii Sturgeon caviar labeled as McNugget Caviar, a $25 Arch Card redeemable toward Chicken McNuggets, crème fraîche and a Mother-of-Pearl caviar spoon.

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McDonald’s did not say how many kits will be available but said quantities are limited and expected to go quickly once the drop opens at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 10.

Paramount Caviar, founded in 1991, has built its reputation on sustainably sourced caviar and has expanded from the professional culinary market to direct-to-consumer offerings, according to the company.

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“The crispy, golden goodness of our signature McNuggets and the salty, savory, black pearls of Paramount’s Baerii Sturgeon caviar make for a true match made in heaven for the special occasions in life,” the press release stated.

“McNugget® Caviar was created because of our customers,” a McDonald’s spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business.

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“They’ve been pairing Chicken McNuggets with caviar long before we made it official,” they continued. “We know our fans want to enjoy elevated experiences without the price tag, so we want to treat them to something special — completely on us.”

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Shares of Waaree Energies, the country’s largest solar module manufacturer, have surged nearly 28% over the past two weeks, including an 11% jump on Tuesday, after India and the US agreed to a trade deal. The rebound has narrowed the stock’s three-month decline to 10%. The US contributed 15–20% of Waaree’s revenue in the December 2025 quarter compared with 57% in the March 2024 quarter. With tariffs now set to ease, the company’s exports to the US have significant room to recover.

Apart from the trade deal, investors have reacted positively to the company’s strong third-quarter results. The management expects to exceed its earlier guidance for operating profit before depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of ₹5,500–6,000 crore for FY26, backed by robust execution and expanding order book.

As part of its backward-integration strategy, the company is setting up a 10 Gigawatt (GW) ingot and wafer facility and expanding cell capacity by another 10GW, both targeted to be operational by FY27. This will give it a fully integrated solar value chain covering polysilicon, ingots, wafers, cells and modules, reducing dependence on imports and improving margins.

The company’s order book grew 28% sequentially to ₹60,000 crore in the December quarter, supported by an order pipeline exceeding 100 GW that provides multi-quarter revenue visibility. Around 65% of the order book is international, while domestic orders are increasingly skewed towards highermargin segments, including domestic content requirement (DCR) modules, which are solar panels manufactured in India using locally sourced components and command a pricing premium.

The company also plans to expand into related areas such as battery energy storage systems (BESS), inverters, and green hydrogen. It is setting up a 20-gigawatt-hour BESS manufacturing facility that is expected to be ready by FY28. In the December quarter, it raised around ₹1,000 crore in equity to fund lithium-ion cell and battery-pack plant.
In green hydrogen, the company intends to build a 1GW electrolyser manufacturing facility supported by production-linked incentives of ₹444 crore. The project, with planned capital expenditure of ₹676 crore, is expected to be commissioned by FY27.To comply with US non-Chinese sourcing requirements, the company has invested $30 million in an Oman-based polysilicon facility, with production expected to begin in the current quarter. This is expected to give it a fully traceable, non-Chinese supply chain, a key differentiator for its US expansion.

For the Dember quarter, the company posted its highest-ever consolidated revenue of ₹7,565 crore, doubling year-on-year, while Ebitda surged threefold to ₹1,928 crore. Module production rose by 94% to reach a record 3.5GW and cell output touched 0.75GW from a near-zero base.

Following strong quarterly performance, PL Capital has raised the earnings estimate by 5.7% and 1.2% for FY27 and FY28 respectively. The broking firm has maintained a ‘Buy’ rating on the stock with a higher target price of ₹3,600 compared with ₹4,084 earlier implying an FY28 expected price-earnings (P/E) multiple of 21.

Siemens Energy said Tuesday it will invest $1 billion to expand power grid and gas turbine manufacturing in the United States as rising electricity demand from data centers and artificial intelligence strains the nation’s energy infrastructure.

“The U.S. is the hottest electricity market at the moment in the world,” CEO Christian Bruch said in an interview, Bloomberg News reported. “The Trump Administration’s push for data centers and speeding that up” is helping to drive demand. 

The investment is expected to create more than 1,500 highly skilled jobs across manufacturing, engineering and operations as Siemens Energy increases production capacity and workforce levels in the U.S.

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Bruch’s comments echo President Donald Trump, who repeatedly has described America as “hot” and the “hottest country in the world” under his second term as part of an ongoing sharp rebuke of the Biden administration and its various foreign and economic policies that Trump claims stifled American growth and hobbled the nation’s standing on the world stage. 

The Siemens deal will lead to benefit at least six states specifically, Fox News Digital learned, with hiring concentrated in the southeast United States. 

“This massive investment underscores President Trump’s commitment to reshore American manufacturing, create high-skilled jobs for American workers, and secure our power grid as electricity demand continues to grow,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital of the investment. “Together, President Trump and private partners are working to make America wealthy and energy dominant again.”

In Mississippi’s Greater Richland area, the company plans a new high-voltage switchgear facility with a training center and up to 300 new hires. North Carolina is slated for the biggest job lift — about 500 roles across Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh — as turbine manufacturing resumes in Charlotte, parts production expands in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and grid engineering, project execution and R&D grow in Raleigh, North Carolina. 

Alabama, Florida, Texas and New York also are expected to benefit from the deal, including upgrading facilities that manufacture and service equipment used to move gas and liquids through pipelines in the Empire State. 

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who chairs Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, called the investment “tremendous” as the administration locks down an expanded supply chain that simultaneously brings manufacturing and jobs back to U.S. soil. 

“We appreciate great partners like Siemens Energy, who proactively partner with the Trump administration for the benefit of the American people, prioritizing critical components to make the United States Energy Dominant!” Burgum said. 

The move comes as major technology companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into new U.S. data centers, driving a sharp increase in electricity demand that utilities say the country’s aging power grid was not designed to handle.

Government reports have warned that data centers could account for as much as 12% of U.S. electricity demand within two years, nearly triple their share in 2024.

“Siemens Energy has been making things in the United States for more than a century, and we are experiencing a once-in-a-generation growth opportunity driven by the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing and the expansion of artificial intelligence,” Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch said in a statement.

Surging power needs tied to large technology projects have fueled a wave of deals aimed at adding new generation and grid capacity, though supply-chain constraints, lengthy permitting timelines and regulatory hurdles continue to slow those efforts.

Siemens Energy said the $1 billion U.S. investment is part of a broader $7 billion global expansion plan and includes targeted upgrades at existing American facilities, as well as construction of a new grid-equipment factory in Mississippi.

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The expansion is expected to increase Siemens Energy’s global production capacity for large gas turbines by roughly 20%.

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