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  • Intuit warns Q3 adjusted EPS will miss consensus as tax-season marketing and support costs rise, while maintaining FY26 revenue outlook.
  • Analysts upgrade Carpenter Technology to a mid-term buy, citing tight supply and rising prices that support pricing power and momentum.
  • Grindr beat Q4 revenue, expanded share buybacks by $400 million, and unveiled a premium AI subscription to boost growth.
  • Moscow stocks slipped with telecoms, oil and power weighing as the ruble weakened and crude prices edged up.
  • Colombian equities slid sharply, with the COLCAP down 4.13% to a one-month low as financials and public services led declines.
  • U.S. markets finished mixed as gains in financials, energy and industrials offset weakness in technology and telecoms.
  • Mexico's S&P/BMV IPC climbed 0.35% as select consumer and industrial names led gains.

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Top Tech Valuations Slide as AI Spending Concerns Trigger Market Repricing

Top Tech Valuations Slide as AI Spending Concerns Trigger Market Repricing

Several of the world’s largest technology companies have seen sharp drops in market capitalization this year as investors question whether heavy investments in artificial intelligence will deliver near-term returns. Microsoft and Amazon led declines among the biggest names, while chipmakers and retail names posted gains over the same period.

Snap’s Quiet Profit Inflection: A Tactical Long at the $5 Area

Snap’s Quiet Profit Inflection: A Tactical Long at the $5 Area

Snap just reported an earnings surprise and $1.72B in Q4 revenue while producing positive free cash flow. The stock is trading near the 52-week low with an oversold RSI and elevated short interest - a recipe for a mean-reversion trade if ad demand steadies. This idea lays out a clear entry, stop and target for a long trade over the next 180 trading…

CAPZA secures nearly €1.4bn at first close of Private Debt 7

CAPZA secures nearly €1.4bn at first close of Private Debt 7

CAPZA, part of BNP Paribas Asset Management Alternatives (EURONEXT:BNP), announced the first closing of its CAPZA Private Debt 7 fund with almost 1.4 billion euros in commitments. The initial raise already exceeds half of the capital collected for the preceding fund and draws significant participation from both returning partners and new investors,…

ReNew Energy Posts Strong Q3 as Adjusted Ebitda Jumps 54%

ReNew Energy Posts Strong Q3 as Adjusted Ebitda Jumps 54%

ReNew Energy reported a 54% year-over-year rise in adjusted Ebitda for the third quarter, delivering 21.38 billion rupees and beating analyst expectations of 17.05 billion rupees. Revenue climbed 36% to 25.14 billion rupees. The company raised the lower bound of its fiscal 2026 adjusted Ebitda guidance to a range of 90 billion to 93 billion rupees,…

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5, Positioning Model for 'Agentic AI' Workloads

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5, Positioning Model for 'Agentic AI' Workloads

Alibaba on Feb 16 introduced Qwen3.5, an AI model engineered to carry out complex tasks autonomously. The company says the model is significantly cheaper and faster on heavy workloads than its predecessor, adds visual agentic features for taking actions across apps, and shows benchmark advantages over several leading U.S. models. The move comes ami…

Dollar Struggles for Traction as Markets Thin Out; Yen Weakened by Tepid GDP

Dollar Struggles for Traction as Markets Thin Out; Yen Weakened by Tepid GDP

The U.S. dollar eked out only minor gains Monday in light, holiday-affected trading after U.S. inflation came in softer than expected, reinforcing expectations for interest-rate cuts later in the year. Liquidity remained thin with several major markets closed. The Japanese yen slipped after fourth-quarter GDP data showed much weaker growth than for…

Physiomics posts 51% H1 revenue rise as it debuts Biometrics service

Physiomics posts 51% H1 revenue rise as it debuts Biometrics service

UK data science firm Physiomics reported a 51% year-on-year increase in first-half revenue to £498,000, its strongest six-month intake to date. Despite the revenue milestone, the company recorded a wider operating loss driven by onboarding and contractor costs. The firm launched a new Biometrics service line during the period, securing four initial…

Kepler Cheuvreux Lowers Rating on Norsk Hydro, Flags Aluminum Surplus Risk

Kepler Cheuvreux Lowers Rating on Norsk Hydro, Flags Aluminum Surplus Risk

Kepler Cheuvreux downgraded Norsk Hydro SA (OTC: NHYDY) from Hold to Reduce after the company reported Q4 2025 results, while modestly raising its price target to NOK73.00 from NOK71.00. The research house trimmed its estimates by roughly 4% because of a weaker downstream outlook and foreign exchange pressures that largely offset higher assumptions…

UK Considers Speeding Up Plan to Raise Defence Spending to 3% of GDP

UK Considers Speeding Up Plan to Raise Defence Spending to 3% of GDP

The UK government is considering moving more quickly to increase defence expenditure to 3% of gross domestic product, with advisers to the prime minister examining ways to achieve the target ahead of the previously stated timetable. No decision has been taken, but officials acknowledge that current plans do not fully cover escalating defence costs.…

European shares creep higher as financials gain ahead of industrial data

European shares creep higher as financials gain ahead of industrial data

European equities moved modestly higher on Monday with financial stocks providing the main lift. The STOXX 600 index rose 0.3% to 619.74 by 0810 GMT, led in part by gains in Spain’s bank-heavy benchmark. Investors are preparing for several corporate earnings reports later in the week and a euro zone industrial production read that is expected to sh…

Jefferies Raises ACS to Buy, Sees Unpriced Value in Greenfield Data-Center and Express-Lane Projects

Jefferies Raises ACS to Buy, Sees Unpriced Value in Greenfield Data-Center and Express-Lane Projects

Jefferies upgraded ACS from hold to buy and lifted its price target to €116, saying the market is not fully valuing the company's greenfield infrastructure pipeline. The brokerage's revised sum-of-the-parts model explicitly incorporates secured data-center capacity and the U.S. SR-400 express-lane project, producing an implied equity stub roughly €…

Markets Brace for Lunar New Year, Retail Results and Commodity Earnings

Markets Brace for Lunar New Year, Retail Results and Commodity Earnings

Markets enter a thin-turned-busy week as much of Asia celebrates the Lunar New Year and investors await a slate of corporate earnings and macroeconomic data. Walmart’s quarterly report will be scrutinized for clues on U.S. consumer spending after mixed retail and employment figures. European mining giants face results against a backdrop of volatile…