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U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs recorded net inflows in the week ending January 28, reversing the prior week's redemptions and driven by optimism ahead of major technology company earnings. Sector-specific funds logged their largest weekly net investments since at least 2022, while bond and money-market funds also attracted fresh capital.
Canada's finance ministry reported a C$26.39 billion budget shortfall for the first eight months of the 2025/26 fiscal year as program spending rose faster than revenues. Year-to-date revenues increased 1.9% while program expenses grew 3.1%; public debt charges edged up 0.3% due to offsetting movements in short-term and longer-term interest rates. …
Eli Lilly said it will construct a $3.5 billion pharmaceutical plant in Pennsylvania to produce injectable weight-loss medicines, including retatrutide. The facility - the company’s fourth new U.S. site in a multi-site expansion - is slated to begin construction in 2026 and become operational in 2031. The investment, chosen from more than 300 appli…
Bonnie M. Tompkins, a director at Muncy Columbia Financial Corp (NASDAQ: CCFN), reported two purchases totaling 648 shares on January 29, 2026, at $60.00 per share for a combined value of $38,880. The Form 4 shows 267 shares were bought directly and 381 shares were acquired indirectly by a spouse. Separately, the company’s board approved a $0.45 pe…
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told analysts the company possesses the technical capability to produce Venezuela’s higher-cost, heavy crude. Woods reiterated the firm's willingness to send a technical team to the country, described recent Venezuelan priorities as stabilisation and economic restart, and said potential changes could improve conditions …
Sandisk shares surged after the data storage company issued a fiscal third-quarter revenue and profit forecast well above analyst expectations and extended a key flash-chip supply pact. The move, fueled by strong AI-related demand for data storage, coincided with broader gains across memory chipmakers even as supply constraints persist.
Norwegian equities closed higher on Friday with the Oslo OBX index rising 0.22% to a fresh record high. Gains were driven by the Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities sectors. Frontline Ltd and Cmb.Tech NV reached 52-week highs, while several industrial names paced the session's declines. Key commodity and cu…
Transfers of Islamic State detainees from Kurdish-held facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq began in late January but have proceeded much more slowly than U.S. officials initially indicated. Iraqi authorities say fewer than 500 detainees have arrived so far amid Baghdad's demand for time to negotiate repatriations, prepare holding facilities and m…
Stifel increased its 12-month price target for Plexus (PLXS) to $200 from $150 while keeping a Hold rating, a move that follows the company beating or meeting key fiscal first-quarter 2026 metrics and announcing program wins that bolster revenue guidance. Plexus shares are trading above the new target and above fair value measures, while analysts f…
Stifel reaffirmed its Buy rating on Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) and raised its price target to $700.00 after the company delivered better-than-expected results to close 2025. The firm points to Thermo Fisher’s sizable biopharma exposure and recent operating momentum as the rationale for anticipating mid-single-digit organic growth in 2026, while…
Stifel reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $188.00 price target on Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ:NBIX) ahead of the company's fourth-quarter 2025 earnings due February 11. The firm made a small revision to Ingrezza sales to reflect one fewer selling week and highlighted both clinical progress and setbacks across the pipeline, while noting that consensus…
Stifel has reaffirmed a Buy rating on Starbucks (SBUX) with a $105 price target following the company’s Investor Day. The firm cited confidence in Starbucks’ plan to exceed 5% revenue growth and reach a 13.5% to 15.0% EBIT margin by fiscal 2028, supported by marketing initiatives and operational technology, even as the stock trades below that targe…
Stifel raised its price target on KLA Corporation to $1,700 from $1,600 and kept a Buy rating after the semiconductor equipment maker reported fiscal second-quarter results and provided third-quarter guidance that slightly exceeded both Stifel's and consensus expectations. KLA projects wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) spending to grow in the low-t…
Verizon reported a surge in fourth-quarter retail wireless additions driven by heavy device and bundle promotions, prompting the company to raise its 2026 adjusted earnings and free cash flow targets above market expectations. Management also announced a multiyear $25 billion share repurchase program and set a robust subscriber-growth target for 20…
Israel's benchmark TA-35 index closed up 0.62% on Friday, with strength concentrated in Financials, Insurance and Banking. Tower Semiconductor, Nova and Harel were the session's top performers, while Next Vision, Enlight Renewable Energy and Elbit Systems were among the largest decliners. Market breadth showed more falling issues than rising ones, …
Through the week ending January 28, global equity funds recorded a third straight week of net inflows totalling $33.39 billion, driven by optimistic earnings expectations. European funds led regional inflows, while U.S. and Asian equities also saw substantial additions. Safe-haven assets including global bond, short-term bond, money market and gold…
Greek equities ended the session lower on Friday, with the Athens General Composite slipping 0.85% as losses in the Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources sectors weighed on the market. A subset of stocks posted gains, while broader market breadth favored decliners. Commodity and currency contracts showed sizeable moves during the day.
Apeira Capital founding partner Natalie Hwang warns that as AI shifts from experimentation to mass-market use, the economics of operating inference at scale - including power efficiency, cost per inference, and system utilization - will eclipse model size as the central competitive factor. Energy availability and deployment feasibility are expected…
Stifel increased its 12-month price target on AO Smith (NYSE: AOS) to $85 from $80 while keeping a Buy rating after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that included an earnings-per-share beat but missed revenue and delivered guidance below expectations. Shares climbed intraday, a move Stifel partly attributed to short covering, and th…
Stifel has increased its price target on Deckers Outdoor to $140 from $117 and kept a Buy rating following a stronger-than-expected fiscal third quarter. The company posted revenue and earnings beats, showed a return to comparable sales growth in its direct-to-consumer channel, and reported healthy liquidity metrics. Multiple analysts adjusted targ…
Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an Overweight rating and a $160.00 price target on Hartford Financial Services (HIG), signaling roughly 20% upside from the stock's current $132.85 level. The firm pointed to a robust quarter marked by broad-based margin outperformance and notable Business Insurance growth that produced a clear headline beat. InvestingP…
Advanced Micro Devices shares dropped Friday amid reports the company’s next-generation MI450-series AI accelerators could be delayed. The decline reached as much as 6% before trimming losses to about 3% after a Wells Fargo analyst disputed the delay claims and pointed to evidence that development on TSMC’s N2 (2nm) process remains on track.
Kaspi is transitioning from a P2P payments story to a merchants-and-mcommerce play inside its Super App. With a $15.5B market cap, a P/E of 7.0, and a 5.7% dividend yield, the stock looks attractively priced for a mid‑term swing as merchant GMV and take rates rise. This trade plan identifies an entry at $79.21, conservative stop at $72.00, and a ta…
Cantor Fitzgerald has left its rating on Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) unchanged at Neutral and maintained a $282 price target after the broker reported fourth-quarter results that slightly exceeded expectations. The target implies roughly 12% upside from a $250.98 share price, while AJG trades at a high P/E of 39.7. Cantor characterized the quarter as…
Cantor Fitzgerald has raised its price target on SanDisk to $800 from $550 while retaining an Overweight rating, citing stronger-than-expected quarterly results and very bullish guidance for the March quarter. The firm and several other analysts have revised earnings and revenue forecasts sharply higher, driven by rapid average selling price gains,…
