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Intuit shares rose at Thursday's open after Morgan Stanley elevated the stock to its Top Pick list. Analyst Keith Weiss pointed to a compelling valuation - roughly 20X GAAP PE - and two major product cycles, Assisted Tax and Mid-Market Accounting & Services, as drivers that could reaccelerate revenue growth. The firm highlighted robust F2Q results …
A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has preliminarily concluded that Apple’s current Apple Watch models do not violate patents held by Masimo for blood-oxygen reading technology. The decision rebuffs Masimo’s attempt to extend an import ban on Apple’s smartwatches and sends the matter to the ITC’s full commission for a final determin…
Stifel is highlighting smaller government services companies as potential beneficiaries of changing U.S. defense procurement priorities. Despite recent heavy selling attributed in part to DOGE concerns and broader industry uncertainty, the firm sees select contractors and emerging defense-technology integrators as positioned to capture growth throu…
Morocco's stock market closed lower on Thursday, with the Moroccan All Shares index down 1.53% as Utilities, Banking and Mining stocks led declines. Declining issues outpaced advancers by a wide margin, while oil futures rose and gold futures fell. Local currency pairs moved marginally lower against the euro and the dollar, and the US Dollar Index …
Norway's stock market closed higher, with the Oslo OBX rising 0.93% to a fresh all-time high. Gains were concentrated in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities sectors. Energy-related names posted the largest advances, while select technology and industrial names recorded notable declines. Commodities and curr…
Israel's main index finished modestly higher on Thursday with the TA-35 rising 0.23% at the close in Tel Aviv. Sector-level advances in Oil & Gas, Technology and Banking contributed to the uptick. Several individual stocks led the session, including Tower Semiconductor, Shapir Engineering and Navitas Petroleum, while Azrieli Group and parts of the …
The Athens market closed sharply lower on Thursday, with the Athens General Composite falling 2.47% as declines in the Banking, Telecoms and Household sectors weighed on the exchange. A handful of small-cap utilities posted gains while several industrial and infrastructure names were among the session's steepest decliners. Market breadth was negati…
Guggenheim has started coverage of Paychex with a Neutral rating, pointing to execution risks over the near term even as the firm views Paychex as relatively well insulated from longer-term disruption tied to artificial intelligence. Concerns center on aggressive Management Solutions growth targets, potential pressure from smaller deal sizes and we…
Turkey's benchmark BIST 100 closed lower on Thursday, slipping 0.51% as declines in the Banking, Technology and Basic Metals sectors outweighed gains among several mid- and small-cap names. Market breadth was narrowly positive, while commodities and currency pairs showed varied performance across the session.
Unilever shares fell after reports the company may separate its packaged food division and ended merger talks with Kraft Heinz. Investors worry the potential split could distract management, especially following a lengthy ice cream unit separation and prior executive turnover linked to portfolio reshaping efforts. Although the food business posts h…
Exxon Mobil's fifth floating production, storage and offloading vessel for Guyana, Errea Wittu, is approaching completion in Singapore and is scheduled to depart for Guyanese waters ahead of plan. The FPSO will handle up to 250,000 barrels per day from the Uaru field. Company officials say higher crude prices may allow earlier recovery of local cos…
Bank of America data show long-only funds broadly bought non-U.S. stocks in February while reducing U.S. positions. Emergent markets and Asia Pacific led inflows, with sizable sector rotation into Consumer Staples and Materials and heavy selling in Software and Media. Several large-cap names were prominent among the biggest buys and sells, and a se…
Bernstein says pan-European biopharma remains a preferred defensive sector despite a recent re-rating, pointing to steady earnings growth, robust cash generation and valuations that do not fully reflect fundamentals. The firm initiated coverage across large-cap names with a range of ratings, identified top picks, and projected mid-single-digit EPS …
Citi analysts retained Circle Internet Financial and Bullish Group as their leading crypto sector recommendations despite stalled legislative progress on the CLARITY Act. Citi cites expanding USDC monetization, cross-border payments potential and Arc Blockchain development for Circle, and rising institutional volumes, product launches and growing U…
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have created baskets of publicly traded firms tied to the $1.8 trillion private credit market, offering hedge fund clients structured ways to take short or protective positions. The bank-assembled indices span European lenders, business development companies and alternative asset managers. The move comes as the private cr…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 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 …
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 …
Barclays upgraded Evonik to Overweight from Equal Weight and raised its price target to €17 after supply disruptions in Asia tightened methionine availability and logistics. The bank sees higher spot prices and improved pricing power for non-Asian producers like Evonik, revising its 2026 EBITDA estimate upward and highlighting Evonik's energy hedgi…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that a continuing partial government shutdown could leave roughly 50,000 Transportation Security Administration airport security officers without pay, potentially leading to small airport closures. He said an upcoming missed paycheck on March 27 could make disruptions more severe than current long lin…
