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Oregon's Department of Justice has withdrawn a court motion that sought to delay Paramount's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. The state had asked a Multnomah County court to force Paramount to hand over internal records and to impose a 60-day hold on the deal while it reviewed documents related to the transaction. Oregon says it wi…
Fraport stock climbed 2.6% to €71.15 after the company published June 2026 operating traffic figures early in the morning and CEO Stefan Schulte reiterated full-year 2026 guidance. The traffic update showed a small year-over-year decline in Frankfurt passenger volumes but growth across the group’s international airport network. Institutional backin…
Albania’s specialised anti-corruption prosecutors have alleged that a Miami-based businessman, identified in case files as the seller of coastal land earmarked for a Kushner-backed resort, may have used forged ownership deeds and laundered proceeds from narcotics trafficking to build a property portfolio. The businessman’s lawyer denied the accusat…
ANI Pharmaceuticals announced that its Phase 4 SYNCHRONICITY trial evaluating the fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant ILUVIEN for chronic non-infectious posterior segment uveitis met both co-primary endpoints with statistically significant improvements in visual acuity and retinal thickness at 6 months. The safety profile was consistent wit…
Meta said it has disabled an AI-driven image generation feature introduced earlier this week that could draw on photos from public Instagram accounts. The tool, Muse Image, was integrated into Meta’s Meta AI chatbot and allowed users to use photos as input and edit generated images with sketches. The feature was widely criticized for being an autom…
NIQ Global Intelligence combines sticky, proprietary consumer shopping data with cloud analytics — a business that’s hard to displace. Recent operational headwinds and restructuring create a visible path to margin recovery and $70M in run-rate savings. At $11.25, NIQ trades at ~0.8x price-to-sales with free cash flow of $214.5M; this trade idea tar…
Futures tied to Canada's main equity benchmark were flat Monday morning as a sharp jump in global crude prices helped stabilize the resource-focused S&P/TSX complex, even as broader markets reacted to escalating hostilities in the Middle East and technology sector weakness abroad. Brent crude climbed 4.4% to $79.36 a barrel after weekend missile an…
Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte announced a third round of reductions in personnel, saying the office is eliminating redundant or non-critical roles. The statement did not disclose how many positions will be cut. The move follows public pressure from President Donald Trump to shrink the intelligence workforce and comes amid conc…
Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) announced the hiring of Thomas Cowan as Head of Tokenization, aiming to leverage his expertise to accelerate the company's position as a leader in tokenized securities infrastructure. This appointment complements Bullish's pending $4.2 billion acquisition of Equiniti, a global transfer agent, expected to close in early 2027. Bu…
Brookfield Corporation will release its second quarter 2026 earnings on August 13, 2026, followed by a conference call and webcast for investors to review the results. The company highlights its long-term investment track record and diverse business segments including asset management, infrastructure, energy, private equity, and real estate.
HSBC has downgraded AstraZeneca to Hold from Buy and reduced its price target to 13,750 pence from 16,500 pence following the Phase 3 Wainua trial's failure to meet its primary endpoint. The bank said the setback weakens the upside case, and cited a more volatile and delayed catalyst path that leaves the stock's re-rating contingent on later readou…
Citi Research has moved UK equities from overweight to underweight, arguing that the market’s defensive and commodity-heavy profile is less attractive as earnings growth and leadership broaden across global markets. The bank maintains selective UK sector preferences but is reallocating toward more cyclical markets, raising its outlook for Japan and…
German defense technology company Helsing said it raised $1.8 billion in a new funding round that values the business at $18 billion. The round included participation from both new and existing investors, among them JPMorgan Chase and venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Iconiq. Helsing said investor demand significantly exceeded a…
Chinese automakers invested nearly $101 billion in overseas electric vehicle and battery projects between 2019 and 2025, significantly more than the just-over $38 billion invested by U.S. companies in the same period, according to data compiled by Atlas Public Policy. American firms led foreign direct investment through 2021, but Chinese investment…
BYDFi attended the Peru Blockchain Conference 2026 on July 10-11 at JW Marriott Larcomar in Miraflores, Lima. The event, in its fifth year, hosted more than 4,000 attendees, over 100 speakers, and 50+ sponsors, with programming spanning crypto, Web3, trading, fintech, AI, and regulatory frameworks in Peru and LATAM. BYDFi staffed an active booth, d…
Mitsubishi Estate has announced plans to develop domestic data center capacity with a total project cost of ¥1.5 trillion through 2036 to address expected growth in artificial intelligence demand. The company is targeting 2,500 megawatts of power capacity and intends to leverage its real estate development expertise. Mitsubishi Estate says the head…
Indian equities closed slightly higher on Monday, with the Nifty 50 posting a 0.02% gain and the BSE Sensex 30 rising 0.06%. Leaders were concentrated in IT and technology-related names, while certain heavyweights including Grasim, Tata Steel and Nestle India declined. Market breadth favored advances on both exchanges, even as the India VIX rose an…
Nova Minerals Corp announced the completion of engineering and design for its Estelle antimony pilot processing plant in Alaska, a key step supported by a US$43.4 million Department of War award. The modular pilot plant will produce military-grade antimony trisulfide and aims to establish a secure US supply chain for this critical mineral with cons…
Costamare Inc., a leading international containership owner and provider, announced the scheduling of its 2026 annual meeting of stockholders to be held virtually on October 6, 2026. Stockholders of record as of August 11, 2026, will be notified and able to vote. The company operates a significant fleet of containerships and is actively expanding t…
U.S. stock futures were mixed as a steep selloff among South Korean memory-chip manufacturers spilled into U.S. equities, hitting semiconductor and storage names, while biotech stocks rose after a financing announcement. Agenus surged on a private placement; Micron and Western Digital declined amid sector-wide weakness tied to SK Hynix and Samsung …
Papa John’s stock fell in pre-market trading after BofA Securities issued its first outright bearish rating on the shares, lowering its price target to $34 from $42. The downgrade, combined with a sudden CFO departure and a recent earnings miss, has intensified investor caution ahead of the next quarterly report scheduled for late July.
SK Hynix looks like one of the most leveraged ways to own the AI memory cycle. With aggressive capacity expansion into HBM and DDR for data center GPUs, the stock at a $60 entry implies roughly a 4-5x multiple on conservative 2028 earnings assumptions. This trade targets a re-rating to mid-teens multiples as supply/demand balances tighten and AI in…
Samsung Electronics shares tumbled more than 10% in a single session after investors reacted to results that, while large in absolute terms, failed to match elevated expectations. The pullback was amplified by profit-taking after SK Hynix's NASDAQ ADR listing, heavy selling tied to single-stock leveraged ETFs, and a weekend geopolitical escalation …
Saia shares jumped in pre-open trading after BofA Securities upgraded the less-than-truckload carrier from Neutral to Buy and raised its price target to $502. The move adds to recent positive analyst actions from Citigroup, UBS and Evercore ISI, and follows a Q1 beat on both earnings and revenue plus improving LTL tonnage trends. The stock remains …
AstraZeneca shares fell after HSBC downgraded the stock and trimmed its price target, citing increased execution risk tied to upcoming clinical readouts. The move follows the CARDIO-TTRansform Phase III trial miss and recent insider selling, leaving the company vulnerable to competition and market reassessment.
