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Century Aluminum will take a 40% stake in Emirates Global Aluminium’s joint venture to construct the first new primary aluminium smelter in the United States in nearly five decades. The partners have increased the planned annual capacity to 750,000 metric tons, with construction slated to begin by year-end and production targeted by the end of the …
KeyBanc Capital Markets has raised its rating on Solvay (NYSE:SOLV) from Sector Weight to Overweight in its 2026 Medical Technology outlook. The bank highlights a narrowing of the sector's valuation premium, stronger underlying demand signs in late 2025, and an uptick in M&A as supporting a selective stock-picking strategy. The report also names se…
BofA Securities trimmed its price target on Unity Software (U) to $18 from $21 and retained an Underperform rating, citing a steep valuation and limited margin for growth setbacks in Unity’s Vector product. The move contrasts with several other firms that have recently upgraded the stock and raised targets as they express confidence in Vector-drive…
OpenAI is charging advertisers premium fees for placing ads inside ChatGPT, with rates reported to be on par with high-value video inventory such as NFL programming and higher than fees charged by competitors like Meta. Early advertisers are being given only high-level metrics - primarily impressions and aggregate click counts - rather than detaile…
Silicon Labs (SLAB) looks like a pragmatic mid-term IoT recovery trade: a focused wireless IoT portfolio, a balance sheet with no leverage (debt-to-equity 0), and improving technical structure above key moving averages. Valuation is not cheap on sales and cash flow, but the market is paying for operating leverage into a cyclical upturn and design-w…
William M. Gottwald, a roughly 10% owner of Tredegar Corp (TG), sold 79,092 shares across January 22-23, 2026, realizing $683,494, according to a filed Form 4. The stock trades near $8.56 with a market capitalization of $292.23 million, carries a high P/E multiple, but also shows a free cash flow yield of 7%. Separately, Tredegar finalized a CEO su…
Gold Resource Corporation agreed to be purchased by Goldgroup Mining in an all-stock transaction that sends Gold Resource shareholders roughly 1.4476 Goldgroup shares per Gold Resource share (adjusted to 0.3619 after a planned four-for-one consolidation). Gold Resource shares climbed 17.4% in premarket trading; the deal values Gold Resource at $2.2…
Mizuho now projects global handset shipments in calendar 2026 will decline about 4% year on year, with downside risk exceeding 5%, driven by rising memory costs and supply shortages that are expected to hit production especially in the second half of the year. The bank trimmed price targets on Qualcomm and Skyworks Solutions and highlighted sharper…
Nvidia introduced the Earth-2 family of open models and tooling for AI-driven weather prediction at the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting on Monday. The suite is presented as the first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack and is designed to shorten the time and expense of running forecasts, from ingesting observations to…
Envirotech Vehicles Inc (NASDAQ:EVTV) saw its stock rise 42.8% in premarket trading after the company and partner AZIO AI Corporation announced delivery, installation, and power/network connection of a 40-foot immersion-cooled AI data center container. The project has moved into final engineering coordination ahead of CPU integration and system com…
Benchmark reaffirmed a Hold rating on Meta Platforms Inc. (META) ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings due Wednesday, January 28, citing uncertainty around future returns as the company increases capital spending and pursues new monetization pathways. The research firm called attention to potential deeper cuts at Reality Labs, the shift fr…
Insiders completed a series of notable transactions reported for Friday, January 24, 2026, including substantial purchases by QT Imaging’s chairman and a large stake increase by Mitsui Sumitomo in Berkley. Several executives at public companies also moved stock through planned sales and option exercises, with activity spanning medical device, insur…
Amazon is a phenomenal business. That’s exactly why the stock is dangerous when it’s priced like nothing can go wrong. At roughly $2.56T in market cap and about 33.8x earnings, investors are paying a premium multiple while the company’s cash flow picture looks awkward and the chart is losing momentum just under key highs. This trade idea leans into…
Ubisoft’s ADR (UBSFY) is trading around $0.95, down dramatically from its 52-week high of $3.35 and sitting on a fresh 52-week low print near $0.90. The valuation looks optically cheap (P/B ~0.33), but the market is also signaling real doubt about execution after an earnings delay and trading halt in late 2025. This is a trade, not a marriage: the …
Relay Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: RLAY) saw premarket gains after Oppenheimer upgraded the stock from Perform to Outperform and set a $14.00 price target. Analyst Matt Biegler pointed to a possible competitive tailwind for Relay's mutant-selective PI3K inhibitor zovegalisib if gedatolisib's upcoming VIKTORIA-1 readout disappoints in PI3K-mutant patie…
Stilwell Joseph, identified as a 10% owner of Peoples Financial Corp (NASDAQ: PFBX), acquired 1,840 shares of the company's common stock on January 23, 2026, at $20.50 per share, for a total cash outlay of $37,720. The filing details Stilwell's aggregate holdings through multiple Stilwell-managed investment vehicles and includes a disclaimer regard…
JPMorgan raised its price target on Apple to $315 from $305 and retained an Overweight rating, citing expectations for stronger iPhone revenues and increased earnings power. The firm projects 16% growth in iPhone revenue and anticipates only modest margin impact from higher memory costs, noting supplier contracts and scale advantages. Apple reports…
JPMorgan reduced its price target for Varonis Systems to $50 from $62 while retaining an Overweight rating and placing the stock on Positive Catalyst Watch ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings. The bank expects new SaaS-specific disclosures to clarify the trajectory of recurring revenue after the company’s third-quarter weaknesses in on-p…
JPMorgan increased its price target on SLB to $54 from $43 while maintaining an Overweight rating, backing the oilfield services company's 2026 guidance. Management expects improvements in three international problem areas that weighed on 2025 results - Saudi Arabia, Mexico and deepwater operations - and sees growth driven by its Digital segment, P…
JPMorgan has kept Overweight ratings on Digital Realty Trust and Equinix, maintaining December 2026 price targets at $210 and $950 respectively while modestly raising 2026 revenue and profitability estimates. The bank points to pricing strength in a capacity-constrained environment and new lease signings as drivers for improved stock performance in…
Cipher Mining (CIFR) has rallied hard off its 2025 lows, and the market is no longer treating it like a pure-play bitcoin miner. With a growing development pipeline and headlines around AI/HPC hosting, the setup for 2026 is straightforward: execution has to replace speculation. This trade idea leans long, using nearby technical levels and high liqu…
President Donald Trump announced he is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota following a weekend incident in Minneapolis in which immigration agents fatally shot a U.S. citizen. The president said Homan will travel Monday night, described him as "tough but fair," and indicated Homan will report directly to him. Trump also referenced ongoing pr…
Shares of German space technology company OHB SE rose 27% to their highest-ever level after the firm confirmed it is engaged in discussions with Rheinmetall Group. The talks center on potential cooperation tied to participation in public procurement processes. OHB provided no further specifics on the scope or timing of the possible partnership, lea…
DA Davidson moved BOK Financial (BOKF) from a Buy to a Neutral rating even as it increased its one-year price target to $135 from $125. The broker pointed to constrained upside after reworking its valuation to a forward multiple tied to 2027 earnings, despite projecting among the highest 2026-2027 EPS forecasts and flagging several positive operati…
James T. Gottwald, identified as a ten percent owner of Tredegar Corporation (TG), disposed of 79,092 shares across two days in late January 2026 for roughly $683,494. The Form 4 filing details the tranches, weighted average prices and price ranges. Following the sales, Gottwald retains a mix of direct and indirect holdings across several trusts an…
