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Thursday's trading session saw pronounced movement across market-cap segments. Energy and select retail names posted the largest gains, while large-cap technology and several industrial and mining stocks posted sharp declines. Below are the session highlights by market-cap category and the specific drivers noted in company disclosures and analyst c…
Endeavour Mining offers a leveraged, under-owned way to play a higher-for-longer gold price. Operational hiccups and regional risk have pressured the stock, creating an opportunity to buy a portfolio of West African mines at an attractive entry. This trade idea lays out an actionable entry, stop, and target for a long-term (180 trading days) swing …
Morgan Stanley upgraded Carnival to Overweight in a note issued on Thursday, arguing that recent share weakness has created a better risk-reward profile for the cruise operator. The bank trimmed earnings estimates and lowered price targets even as it pointed to valuation, limited regional exposure and historical rebound patterns as reasons for the …
House Republican leader Mike Johnson and senior intelligence officials are urging a rapid, straightforward extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The provision permits the NSA to collect intelligence on foreigners via U.S. communications infrastructure and allows law enforcement to query that data without a warrant. …
The air campaign against Iran has rearranged political and strategic calculations across the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerges politically fortified as public attention pivots from Gaza to Iran, where there is broader national consensus. By contrast, U.S. President Donald Trump faces constrained choices and growing expo…
UBS analysts project Tesla will report approximately 345,000 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2026, a modest year-on-year increase but a marked sequential decline. The forecast sits below prior UBS guidance and broader market consensus, reflecting weaker electric vehicle demand across key regions and potential downside absent a late-quart…
The European Central Bank left its main interest rate unchanged at 2% and highlighted the war in the Middle East as a growing risk to growth and inflation in the euro zone. ECB President Christine Lagarde said services and private consumption remain the primary supports for expansion, but noted the conflict is disrupting commodity markets, denting …
A sudden rise in oil prices tied to an intensifying U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has further reduced the prospect of an interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve this year. The move in energy markets has pushed gasoline costs higher, prompted Fed officials to lift inflation projections, and diminished near-term odds of monetary easing, complicating th…
House Republican leader Mike Johnson and senior U.S. intelligence officials are advocating for a rapid, uncomplicated reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the National Security Agency to collect foreign intelligence from data traversing U.S. digital infrastructure. The effort faces unresolved po…
Jonathan L. Marcus, Senior Managing Director and General Counsel at CME Group, sold 3,291 Class A shares on March 17, 2026, at $333.37 per share, generating roughly $1.1 million. The transaction was carried out under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted Feb. 18, 2025. CME shares have traded at $311.82, up nearly 16% year-to-date and 21% over the past six mon…
Farm equipment dealers report activity stabilizing at low levels with guarded optimism for a gradual recovery in late 2026 and into 2027, but Raymond James warns the near-term agricultural picture is clouded by fertilizer and fuel price spikes, geopolitical tensions, and policy uncertainty that are driving volatility in grain and oilseed markets.
Google has reached demand response agreements with five U.S. utilities spanning states from Arkansas to Minnesota to temporarily reduce electricity consumption at some data centers during periods of peak grid demand. The contracts make up to 1 gigawatt of Google’s data‑center demand available for curtailment and supplement earlier deals signed last…
Three Israeli officials speaking anonymously said Israel coordinated a Wednesday strike on Iran's South Pars gas field with the United States but does not expect to repeat such an operation. U.S. President Donald Trump said he was unaware of the strike and warned Israel would refrain from further attacks on the gas field unless Iran again struck Qa…
New Street Research moved Nvidia onto its 2026 best idea list after analyst Pierre Ferragu interpreted CEO Jensen Huang's recent GTC remarks as signalling a far larger long-term revenue base than markets have priced in. The firm highlighted an apparent increase of $500 billion in orders since October and said Nvidia may be on a run-rate exceeding $…
A U.S. Senate committee voted to forward Senator Markwayne Mullin's nomination for Homeland Security secretary to the full Senate, even as the committee's Republican chairman criticized Mullin's past statements and announced his opposition. The nomination follows the abrupt firing of Kristi Noem and comes amid controversy over federal immigration e…
A senior director at an NDRC research institute projects that China’s electricity use by data centers will climb from roughly 300 billion kilowatt-hours today to 1 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2030, equivalent to about 7% of national power consumption. The projection accompanies forecasts for rapid renewable capacity additions, deeper integration of …
Three unnamed Israeli officials told reporters that Israel coordinated its strike on Iran's South Pars gas field with the United States, but they said the operation would likely not be repeated. The attack prompted Iranian aerial assaults on energy infrastructure across the Middle East, causing significant harm to facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia …
The European Central Bank left its main interest rate at 2% on Thursday and flagged that the war in Iran is weighing on the outlook for growth and inflation across the euro zone. Short-dated sovereign yields moved sharply higher, the euro strengthened modestly against the dollar, and European equities fell amid renewed selling linked to the Middle …
Credo Technology (CRDO) just reported a blowout revenue quarter and ultra-high gross margins, yet the stock has pulled back into technical support and below its moving averages. I was bearish earlier; new data and product ramps force a rethink. This is a trade idea: aggressive long entry at current levels with a medium-to-high risk posture and a lo…
Macquarie began coverage of Okta with an Outperform rating and a $100 price target, identifying several operational levers and artificial intelligence adoption as potential drivers of renewed revenue growth. The brokerage highlighted contract and go-to-market changes, deeper channel engagement and AWS Marketplace traction as ways to accelerate the …
The European Central Bank raised its baseline inflation forecasts on higher energy costs and signalled additional downside risk to growth if a prolonged conflict in the Middle East disrupts oil and gas supplies. The ECB now projects 2026 inflation at 2.6% and 2027 inflation at 2.0%, both above previous December estimates, and will publish alternati…
The European Central Bank left its policy rates unchanged on Thursday, maintaining the deposit facility at 2.0%, main refinancing at 2.15% and marginal lending at 2.4%. In its statement, the ECB flagged that a joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran has made the outlook "significantly more uncertain," highlighting higher energy prices - notably natural …
The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on March 19, citing close monitoring of growth and inflation risks arising from a recent spike in energy prices after the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28. The bank said it stands ready to adjust its tools if the situation threatens to lift inflation persistently above its 2% targ…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States may soon remove sanctions on roughly 140 million barrels of Iranian crude currently stranded aboard tankers, a move intended to add near-term physical supply to global markets and help lower oil prices. Officials also plan further unilateral Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases and are pu…
Palantir sits at the junction of massive government spend, enterprise AI adoption, and unique data-operating assets. This trade targets asymmetric upside if Palantir converts existing contracts into platform-led recurring revenue while protecting capital via a clearly defined stop. The trade is high risk but offers a favorable reward-to-risk profil…
