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Newmont Goldcorp shares rose in pre-market trading after TD Cowen raised its rating on the stock from Hold to Buy. The upgrade joins an already favorable analyst consensus and a fair-value estimate that implies substantial upside versus current levels. Investors are positioning ahead of Newmont's Q2 2026 earnings report on July 23, with the company…
Figure Technology Solutions' Figure Connect and the recently announced Kiavi acquisition materially strengthen the company's growth runway. Operating momentum (Q1 net revenue $167M, consumer marketplace volume $2.9B) and tokenization progress give the stock a compelling mid‑term risk/reward. We lay out an entry at $30.00, stop at $26.00 and a targe…
Rio Tinto's American Depositary Receipt climbed about 2.0% in pre-market trading to $91.61 after copper futures advanced, driven by production pressures in Chile. A recent wave of analyst downgrades appears largely priced in, and investors are positioning ahead of the miner's July 29, 2026 earnings release. The move stands in contrast to a softer U…
Cloudflare's infrastructure and 'pay-for-use' AI thesis are real growth drivers, but lofty valuation, recent profitability gaps and operational timing risk make a short-biased, mid-term trade attractive. Entry at $269.36, stop $295.00, target $235.00 (45 trading days).
Berenberg initiated coverage of Danish property and casualty insurer Alm. Brand A/S with a "hold" rating and a DKK17 price target, highlighting the company’s successful integration of Codan Danmark but pointing to three principal risks - softer pricing in commercial lines, a Supreme Court ruling raising claims exposure, and a regulator review of pr…
Frontier Nuclear and Minerals Inc. has launched a significant 2026 drill program comprising approximately 120 holes totaling 36,000 meters at its 100%-owned Pine Ridge uranium project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. Building on successful 2025 drilling that confirmed widespread uranium mineralization, the program aims to define multiple roll front…
Bread Financial announced leadership changes in its commercial organization with Valerie Greer, EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, retiring after nearly 40 years in financial services. Dennis McCarthy will be promoted to EVP and Chief Revenue Officer, bringing extensive industry experience to guide the company’s next growth phase. Greer will remain …
CervoMed Inc. announced new clinical, biomarker, and imaging data for its investigational drug neflamapimod in treating Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) presented at AAIC 2026. Results from the Phase 2b trial and additional studies reinforce neflamapimod’s potential to slow disease progression, particularly in DLB patients without Alzheimer’s co-pat…
America's Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRMT) announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending April 30, 2026, revealing a 7.9% decrease in total revenue to $1.281 billion, a 14.3% drop in sales volume, and a net loss of $139.1 million. The company faced liquidity constraints leading to reduced inventory purchases and dealers…
ConnectOne Bank is implementing nCino's AI-powered Agentic Operating System and Banking Advisor tools to automate and streamline its commercial lending operations. Early deployments have significantly reduced time spent on document search and relationship updates, improving banker productivity and operational efficiency. ConnectOne aims to increase…
Plus Therapeutics emphasizes the recent NCCN update for CNS cancers, reinforcing cerebrospinal fluid analysis including the use of its CNSide assay platform in diagnosing and monitoring leptomeningeal metastases (LM). CNSide shows improved sensitivity over conventional cytology and is expanding U.S. commercial coverage. The company plans a rebrand …
Major software stocks fell sharply after IBM reported softer-than-expected preliminary results and said clients had shifted spending toward hardware to secure memory and other infrastructure amid a supply-constrained market. The combination of rising memory prices driven by AI data center demand and near-term cybersecurity priorities has investors …
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. rose 1.1% in pre-market trade to $60.60 after copper futures strengthened and the company announced a cash dividend with an imminent ex-dividend date. Institutional accumulation and an upcoming Q2 2026 earnings report added to investor motivation to buy before the regular session.
B. Riley argues that second-quarter earnings from ASML and TSMC will carry outsized informational value for the semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment sectors, saying a roughly $880 billion surge in AI infrastructure spending has arrived about a year earlier than it previously expected. The firm points to upgraded CY26 hyper-scale guidan…
Goldman Sachs projects June core consumer price index (CPI) to rise 0.17% month-over-month, a touch below market consensus, while headline CPI is expected to fall 0.11% month-over-month. The firm says the release will be an important input for Federal Reserve policy choices, with nuances across rent, travel, energy and autos shaping its softer core…
Preliminary data compiled by Macquarie shows U.S. revenue per available room (RevPAR) rose 8.7% in June 2026, driven by a mix of leisure travel and World Cup-related demand. The increase reflected gains in both average daily rate and occupancy, with luxury and upper-upscale hotels outperforming lower chainscales. Macquarie favors Hyatt Hotels based…
Thomson Reuters will sell 51% of its Global Print unit to private equity firm KKR for approximately $500 million and form a venture that will hold exclusive licensing rights for distributing its legal and tax content in print and digital book formats. Thomson Reuters will retain intellectual property rights, editorial control and a 49% stake in the…
CleanSpark shares jumped in pre-market trading after the company disclosed a 20-year infrastructure lease at its Sandersville, Georgia data center campus with a high-investment-grade global technology tenant. The agreement, which includes two five-year extension options, is projected to deliver about $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the init…
IBM reported second-quarter revenue and non-GAAP EPS below analyst consensus, citing softness in its Z mainframe transaction processing and a shift in client capital spending toward servers, storage and memory. Shares fell 14% on the news as the company detailed margin contractions, cash flow generation and pockets of growth in Red Hat and Distribu…
Needham continues to expect the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance to close, even after a lawsuit brought by 12 state attorneys general alleging the transaction would harm competition. Paramount Skydance has pledged to increase film output and preserve staff and content budgets, and it still lists September 30 as the target…
Roblox (RBLX) has fallen sharply from last year’s highs and now trades at a market cap near $39.4B. The business still generates meaningful free cash flow ($1.52B last reported) and technicals show bullish momentum. This trade idea lays out a tactical long with a mid-to-long-term horizon, clear entry at $55.00, stop at $48.00 and a primary target o…
Microchip Technology introduces the VectorBlox 3.0 Accelerator SDK, a free toolchain designed to optimize and accelerate convolutional neural network deployment on PolarFire FPGA and SoC platforms. Leveraging sparsity-based model compression from its Neuronix acquisition, VectorBlox 3.0 enhances AI inference efficiency in power-constrained and miss…
Cisco's shares have recovered from 2025 lows and are trading in the low $120s, but fundamentals and the AI/data-center driven networking cycle argue there is further upside if the market reassigns a higher multiple. The company's strong ROE, $11.8B in free cash flow, and modest leverage underpin a long trade. We lay out an entry at $119.60, stop at…
Boris Nadezhdin, an opposition figure barred from the 2024 presidential race, says recent official actions - including a 'foreign agent' label and police questioning over an allegedly extremist social media link - are intended to derail his campaign for a seat in the State Duma. He has urged a freeze of fighting along existing front lines and warne…
Alimentation Couche-Tard's growing inside-store sales - coffee, fresh food, private label and higher-margin services - can blunt earnings pressure from normalizing fuel margins. This trade targets continued execution and margin mix improvement over the next ~45 trading days while protecting capital with a tight stop.
