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  • Manufacturing PMI and ISM releases, plus Treasury auctions, will focus markets on industrial activity, growth momentum, and near-term inflation signals.
  • Equities swung intraday, with streaming and hardware stocks rallying while multiple financial and technology names declined.
  • Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V raised $250 million in a Nasdaq SPAC IPO and began trading under ticker FVAV.
  • London mortgage firm MFS entered administration, triggering steep losses for lenders and renewed private-credit contagion concerns.
  • U.S. signaled looser fuel sales to private Cuban firms and floated a 'friendly takeover' comment, shifting geopolitical and energy-risk dynamics.
  • Trump Media is in talks to spin Truth Social into a new public company, and TMTG shares fell over 3%.
  • Analysts upgraded FIGS after stronger-than-expected sales and customer growth, lifting sentiment for apparel retail stocks.

Latest Articles

Mizuho Raises Shopify to Outperform, Cites AI as Structural Growth Driver

Mizuho Raises Shopify to Outperform, Cites AI as Structural Growth Driver

Mizuho upgraded Shopify (NASDAQ: SHOP) from Neutral to Outperform while maintaining a $150 price target, highlighting artificial intelligence as a structural tailwind and pointing to strong recent execution. The stock trades near $118.71 after a 6.72% one-week gain but remains down 26.25% year-to-date. Recent fourth-quarter 2025 results beat expect…

Orkla posts solid Q4 as organic sales outpace estimates

Orkla posts solid Q4 as organic sales outpace estimates

Orkla closed 2024 with stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter organic growth across its Consolidated Portfolio Companies, driven by an outperforming Snacks division and robust Food Ingredients results. The company reported higher revenue, an improved adjusted EBIT margin, and adjusted earnings per share that exceeded analyst forecasts. Management id…

William Blair Raises Fastly to Outperform Citing Rising AI-Driven Traffic

William Blair Raises Fastly to Outperform Citing Rising AI-Driven Traffic

William Blair has upgraded Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLY) from Market Perform to Outperform, highlighting the company’s positioning to capture increasing traffic driven by large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI. The upgrade follows a quarter William Blair called a "stellar quarter," stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 results and recent upw…

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Sparks Social Buzz as China Eyes a New DeepSeek Moment

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Sparks Social Buzz as China Eyes a New DeepSeek Moment

ByteDance on Thursday introduced Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI model capable of processing text, images, audio and video together to generate high-quality cinematic footage. The system, aimed at film, e-commerce and advertising production, has gone viral on Chinese social media, elicited public praise including a comment from Elon Musk and drawing …

Flow Traders Q4 EBITDA Tops Estimates as Europe Drives Revenue Capture

Flow Traders Q4 EBITDA Tops Estimates as Europe Drives Revenue Capture

Flow Traders reported fourth-quarter EBITDA of €49.2 million, beating consensus by 9% as European operations delivered higher-than-expected revenue capture. Net trading income was €123.8 million, while the company signaled higher fixed operating expenses for 2026 than analysts had forecasted, with the midpoint implying double-digit growth in costs …

Datwyler posts improved margins despite slight sales shortfall

Datwyler posts improved margins despite slight sales shortfall

Datwyler reported second-half 2025 sales of CHF538 million, a touch below expectations, while delivering stronger-than-expected profitability with a 12.6% EBIT margin. Full-year 2025 group sales reached CHF1.101 billion with an adjusted EBIT margin of 12.4%, up from 12.0% in 2024. The company proposed a CHF3.20 per share dividend and outlined a qua…

Dollar Edges Down After Payrolls; Markets Focus on CPI and Policy Signals

Dollar Edges Down After Payrolls; Markets Focus on CPI and Policy Signals

The U.S. dollar slipped modestly on Thursday and was poised for a weekly decline despite a stronger-than-expected January payrolls report. The Dollar Index fell 0.1% to 96.700 at 04:30 ET (09:30 GMT), putting it on track for about a 1% loss on the week. Investors pared back expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts after the jobs data, but the cur…

JPMorgan Lifts LuxExperience to Overweight, Boosts Price Target to $14

JPMorgan Lifts LuxExperience to Overweight, Boosts Price Target to $14

JPMorgan upgraded LuxExperience (NYSE:LUXE) from Neutral to Overweight and raised its price target to $14 from $9 following management meetings in New York City. The bank substantially increased its adjusted EBITDA projections for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and cited management confirmation that the company remains on track for targeted EBITDA marg…

World Liberty Financial to Introduce World Swap FX Remittance Service

World Liberty Financial to Introduce World Swap FX Remittance Service

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture associated with the Trump family, announced plans to launch World Swap, a foreign exchange and remittance platform that aims to connect users directly to debit cards and bank accounts worldwide and to settle cross-currency transfers at significantly lower fees. Company co-founder Zak Folkman disclosed the r…

UK GDP Ends 2025 on Soft Footing as Construction and Business Investment Weaken

UK GDP Ends 2025 on Soft Footing as Construction and Business Investment Weaken

Official GDP figures show the UK economy finished 2025 with subdued growth, driven by weakness in construction and a drop in business investment. ING links part of the investment fall to a cyberattack on a major carmaker late in Q3, and expects the Bank of England to cut rates in March and June if labour-market and wage trends remain soft. EUR/GBP …

Morgan Stanley Moves Zegna to Equalweight After Strong DTC Momentum

Morgan Stanley Moves Zegna to Equalweight After Strong DTC Momentum

Morgan Stanley raised its rating on Ermenegildo Zegna Group (ZGN) from Underweight to Equalweight and set a $11.00 price target following stronger-than-expected preliminary fourth-quarter sales, notably in the Zegna brand's direct-to-consumer channel. The company also reported Q4 and full-year 2025 revenue gains and drew a separate upgrade from UBS…

Kioxia’s Blowout Q4 Forecast Sends Memory Sector Higher

Kioxia’s Blowout Q4 Forecast Sends Memory Sector Higher

Kioxia reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and issued a fourth-quarter outlook that far exceeded consensus, prompting fresh gains across memory stocks. The company said its full NAND flash production capacity for 2026 is already sold out, while SSD, storage and smart device sales each showed year-over-year growth. Micron executive…

HSBC Lowers BP to Reduce, Citing Long Timeline for Strategic Payoff

HSBC Lowers BP to Reduce, Citing Long Timeline for Strategic Payoff

HSBC has downgraded BP Plc from Hold to Reduce and reduced its price target to GBP4.30 from GBP4.75, flagging roughly 9% downside versus the current share price. The bank says BP's strategic moves - including faster deleveraging and a rebuilt upstream pipeline - are appropriate but will take years to materially alter the company’s outlook. HSBC hig…

BYDFi Sponsors Solana Accelerate APAC at Consensus Hong Kong, Deepening Engagement with Solana Community

BYDFi Sponsors Solana Accelerate APAC at Consensus Hong Kong, Deepening Engagement with Solana Community

BYDFi participated as a sponsor of Solana Accelerate APAC during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exchange used the forum to engage with Solana-native teams and users, present its CEX + DEX dual-engine model and MoonX onchain trading engine, and highlight its operational protections including over 1:1 …