Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Hershey ended a cocoa- and tariff-hit 2025 with full-year net income down 60% to $883 million on sales up 4.4% to $11.7 billion, then guided 2026 to 4-5% sales growth and a 30-35% rebound in adjusted earnings per share.

Sowmyanarayan Sampath stepped down as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, with Chief Transformation Officer Alfonso Villanueva, a former PayPal colleague of Dan Schulman's, taking over on an interim basis.

Versace confirmed Pieter Mulier, who had just left Alaïa after five years as its creative director, as Dario Vitale's successor, ending the vacancy left by Vitale's December 2025 dismissal; no date for his debut show has been set.

Hershey lifted its quarterly dividend to $1.452 a share from $1.370, its first increase after holding the payout flat through the cocoa and tariff squeeze of 2025, alongside a forecast of a 30-35% earnings rebound in 2026.

The Gateway Development Commission began shutting down its five job sites on the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel after the Trump administration kept withholding federal grants; a federal judge ordered the money released the next evening.

Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.

The Munich Security Conference opened with Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying the rules-based international order 'no longer exists', while Marco Rubio defended US policy and the Ukrainian people received the Ewald von Kleist Award.