BOCA RATON, Fla. & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 5, 2026--
Invested Inc., the money media platform for today’s generation, and Ticker Take, one of the fastest-growing next-generation financial media brands, co-founded by Jon Erlichman and Caroline Lesley, today announced a strategic partnership to launch Invested After Hours, a new live market show hosted by Erlichman. The launch marks a significant step for both companies, expanding Ticker Take into live programming and adding a new live franchise to Invested’s growing slate of original shows. The partnership brings together Ticker Take’s fast-growing audience and Erlichman’s on-air experience with Invested’s media network, live production capabilities, original programming strategy, and retail investor reach.
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Billed as “the nightcap of finance,” Invested After Hours will air live Monday through Thursday after the market close, breaking down the biggest stories, trades and market-moving moments from the trading day and looking ahead to what investors should be watching the following trading day. The show blends market analysis, breaking news, commentary and conversation in a more personality-driven format than traditional financial television. It will feature Caroline Lesley as a weekly contributor and co-host and stream simultaneously across Invested’s platforms and Ticker Take’s own channels.
“Live is the next frontier for Ticker Take, and partnering with Invested is exactly the kind of move that gets us there,” said Erlichman. “As Ticker Take continues to grow, we’re being deliberate about who we build with, and Invested shares our mission of making investing simple and accessible for everyday people. Brandon has built and sold a media company before, and that experience shows in how Invested thinks about content.”
Since launching in October 2024, Ticker Take has surpassed 3.5 billion total views and 2 million followers across platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and Substack. Its partnership footprint includes the New York Stock Exchange, iHeartMedia, BNN Bloomberg and Bell Media’s streaming service Crave. As Ticker Take continues with its own programming, Invested After Hours adds a live component to that footprint.
“We’ve always believed financial media could be more dynamic, more creative, and more accessible,” said Lesley. “Streaming live with Invested lets us bring that to our audience in real time, and it’s a natural next step as Ticker Take continues to grow.”
Invested was founded by entrepreneur Brandon Harris, who has built the company into a next-generation financial media network reaching over two million followers and subscribers across newsletters, social media, digital brands, and live programming. Invested After Hours is part of the company’s broader expansion into original, personality-led financial programming.
“Jon is one of the most experienced voices in financial media, and what he and Caroline have built with Ticker Take in such a short time is remarkable,” said Harris. “We share a mission to help retail investors navigate an increasingly complex market with content that’s informative, accessible and entertaining. Live is the highest form of content, and Jon has the rare ability to carry a live show with real polish. That’s the energy we want for Invested After Hours: the smart, relaxed conversation you’d want to have over drinks after the closing bell, breaking down the news that matters and what it means for investors.”
Invested After Hours, hosted by Erlichman, is set to launch on November 5, with new live-episodes every Monday through Thursday.
About Invested Inc.
Invested Inc. is a next-generation financial media network built to educate and empower everyday retail investors. Through newsletters, social media, digital brands such as Stocks & Income, live programming, and original shows, Invested reaches over two million followers and subscribers across platforms, delivering actionable insights across markets, investing strategies, and emerging asset classes. The company is expanding into original, personality-led financial programming, including Invested After Hours.
Brandon Harris is the founder of Invested Inc. He previously founded Playmaker, the sports media and athlete-content company he built into a platform with more than 20 million social media followers and 30-plus original shows before it was acquired by Better Collective in 2023 for up to $54 million.
About Ticker Take
Ticker Take is a financial media network co-founded by Jon Erlichman and Caroline Lesley. Launched in October 2024, Ticker Take breaks down the stock market in plain English, and has surpassed 3.5 billion total views and 2 million followers across platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and Substack. The network’s partnerships span the New York Stock Exchange, BNN Bloomberg, Bell Media, and iHeartMedia, with content also featured on platforms including Crave.
Jon Erlichman spent over 25 years on air at Bloomberg, BNN Bloomberg, ABC, and CNN, and has interviewed hundreds of the world’s most successful investors and business leaders, including Ted Sarandos, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Bob Iger, and Michael Burry.
Caroline Lesley produces and co-hosts Ticker Take. She spent over 25 years in the entertainment business as an actor, producer, and on-air host for outlets including CBC and CTV, and interviewed hundreds of celebrities, including Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, and Al Gore, as a celebrity interviewer for Entertainment Weekly.
Host Jon Erlichman at the new Invested After Hours Set
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine exchanged airstrikes overnight as the second day of talks on Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction and security guarantees once the fighting ends wrapped up in Brussels on Thursday.
The latest Russian aerial barrage underscored the scale of the rebuilding task, as did the continuing search for people missing beneath the rubble after a deadly airstrike in southern Ukraine on Monday.
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones at Russian targets. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down nearly 500 drones overnight.
A Ukrainian attack on a bus killed five people and wounded 13 others Thursday in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to Leonid Pasechnik, the region’s Moscow-backed leader. Further details were not immediately available.
Meanwhile, rescue teams continued searching for more than 30 people believed trapped in the wreckage of a former school and a nearby shelter hit by Russian guided bombs on Monday. The attack in Komyshuvakha, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, struck as residents waited for humanitarian aid.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 43 people had been confirmed dead. In a message on X, he said one person previously reported missing had been found alive.
The second day of talks wrapped up at NATO headquarters in Brussels as officials from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and the European Union discussed postwar reconstruction, funding for 2027 and security guarantees backed by the Ukrainian government's Western allies.
Ukraine’s lead negotiator Rustem Umerov said that representatives from the World Bank and the U.S. investment group BlackRock were also present. “We separately discussed the threats from Russia to Ukraine and all of Europe, as well as joint steps to counter them,” Umerov wrote in an online post.
Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and peace envoy, described the meeting as “productive and substantive."
The Brussels meetings are taking place days before negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the United States are due to meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, for talks aimed at trying to end the war. Late Wednesday, Zelenskyy said that he had held a 90-minute conversation with U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
“The negotiations must move forward at full throttle to bring this war to an end as quickly as possible,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “Ukraine is ready to take the necessary steps. Our proposals are clear, and we have given them to the American side.”
In excerpts from an interview with German broadcaster ZDF, to be aired in full on Friday, Zelenskyy expressed hope that the Democratic Party's win in the U.S. midterm elections could usher in a new era of support for Ukraine.
“We have support from two parties — support from both parties. I am also grateful to the Republicans,” Zelenskyy said. He added that the Democrats “speak of renewing the ties between the U.S. and Europe, which have been somewhat lost in recent years. And that is very important to us.”
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna told The Associated Press that the midterm results could change the atmosphere in Washington.
“The understanding that Russia is an aggressive country and is not serving U.S. interests” may become more prevalent on Capitol Hill after the elections, Tsahkna said in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital.
But “the president is President Trump,” he added, and Trump can dictate foreign and security policy. Ukraine’s situation will depend in part on Trump’s actions, Tsahkna said, and the president may feel freer to act because he is not running for reelection.
“Unpredictability” should be expected, he said.
The European Commission on Thursday sent Ukraine 4.4 billion euros ($4.9 billion) as part of a 90 billion euro ($100 billion) loan agreed in April by EU leaders to support the embattled nation.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the money will help Ukraine fund essential spending on defense and public services.
“As Russia continues its relentless attacks, Ukraine is about to start its fifth wartime winter,” she said. “And as efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace for Ukraine continue, so too does the EU’s unwavering support.”
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or suppressed 105 of 128 Russian attack drones overnight and into early Thursday, while Russian strikes wounded four people in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions, Ukrainian officials said.
Russian drones struck six areas in the Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding three people in the city of Dnipro, regional administrator Oleksandr Hanzha said. A Russian attack on logistics infrastructure west of the capital, Kyiv, caused a fire and wounded a man, the State Emergency Service said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its forces shot down 496 Ukrainian drones over 13 Russian regions overnight, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Russia, and the Black and Azov Seas.
More than 200 Ukrainian drones targeted Russia’s Ryazan region southeast of Moscow, wounding one person, local governor Pavel Malkov said.
Malkov said that falling debris from the attack damaged power lines and sparked a fire at an industrial site. Russian media outlets later reported a blaze at the Ryazan oil refinery, sharing pictures of plumes of smoke and the night sky glowing red.
Farnoush Amiri in New York, Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, and Emma Burrows in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the second and final day of the 30th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters walk at the site of a destroyed warehouse after a Russian drone attack in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, an elderly woman passes by a burnt car on a damaged bridge across the Kazennyi Torets River in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)
A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire at a destroyed warehouse after a Russian drone attack in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)
