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Kirby Corporation stock surged about 7.2% on Wednesday after BofA Securities increased its price target to $182 from $169 while keeping a Buy rating. BofA highlighted upside in Kirby’s Marine Transportation and Power Generation businesses, with Power Gen singled out as an expanding growth engine driven by behind-the-meter demand. Company executives…
Wednesday's trading session produced notable rotation across market-cap segments. Gains in storage and semiconductor names contrasted with declines in cybersecurity and home improvement retail. Movers ranged from mega-cap technology names to small-cap real estate and microcap stocks, with an acquisition announcement and analyst action noted among t…
Intuit (INTU) has been punished in 2026 alongside other legacy software names as AI optimism concentrated flows into chip and infrastructure stocks. The sell-off created a clear entry opportunity: with a market cap near $73.9B, P/E ~16.8, $7.76B in free cash flow and a defensible subscription franchise, the risk/reward favors a tactical long. Trade…
Blue Origin is raising approximately $10 billion in its first outside funding round, assigning the company a $130 billion valuation. Jeff Bezos will contribute $2 billion, hedge fund Coatue Management is providing about $4 billion, and the remaining $4 billion has drawn significant investor interest. The round follows a record-setting public offeri…
Penguin Solutions jumped 16.3% in morning trading to $72.92 after reporting record fiscal third-quarter results that materially beat expectations and prompted management to raise full-year guidance. Revenue and non-GAAP earnings surpassed Wall Street forecasts, AI-driven businesses accounted for the bulk of growth, and the company issued preliminar…
SELLAS (SLS) pulled back from recent highs into a technically constructive zone; with a market cap near $2.42B, clear catalysts on the calendar and elevated short interest, SLS offers an asymmetric swing opportunity if you size the position and protect downside. Entry $13.00, stop $11.50, target $17.00 - horizon mid term (45 trading days).
Strategy Inc. shares dropped 3.7% in morning trading to a session low of $91.78 after the company disclosed a sizable Bitcoin sale to meet preferred dividend obligations and reported an $8.32 billion loss on digital assets for the quarter. A reduced analyst price target and renewed geopolitical tensions that sent Bitcoin and broader risk assets low…
China’s National Vulnerability Database has issued an alert saying Anthropic’s AI coding assistant Claude Code contains a built-in monitoring mechanism that can transmit sensitive information, including users’ geographic locations and identity-related identifiers, to remote servers without consent. The advisory covers Claude Code versions 2.1.91 th…
Navitas Semiconductor stock slid sharply in morning trading after Wolfspeed filed a patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging that a broad set of Navitas products infringe five of Wolfspeed's patents. The legal action, which touches most of Navitas's power-chip families, compounded investor worries a…
In Ankara at the close of a NATO summit attended by both leaders, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she does not regret having invested political capital in fostering a close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, despite recent public criticisms and social media barbs between the two.
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) shares declined roughly 4.6% in morning trading to $321.57, reversing part of a recent run to a 52-week high of $368.17. The pullback reflects growing unease over a stretched valuation, a downgrade and removal from an analyst focus list, persistent insider selling, and a sudden macroeconomic shift tied to heightened Middle…
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) remains a cash-generative midstream franchise with a ~5.8% yield, attractive margins and a defensible fee-based business. However, a compressed upside after the spring rally, elevated leverage and anemic free-cash-flow coverage tighten the margin of safety. We downgrade to neutral and lay out a mid-term short trad…
NextEra is a market leader in utility-scale renewables and regulated distribution with a $183.8B market cap. The company sits at the intersection of two secular forces - rising electricity demand from AI data centers and a transformational $67B Dominion acquisition - creating a speculative, asymmetric opportunity. This trade idea outlines a long tr…
Palantir Technologies Inc. stock fell about 4.3% to $128.63 in morning trading as a pullback across AI-focused software names and insider selling weighed on sentiment. A comment from Meta’s CEO about slower-than-expected progress on AI agents, continued bearish positioning from a prominent short seller, and softness in major indices all contributed…
Lemonade shares dropped sharply in morning trading after Morgan Stanley cut its rating from Overweight to Equalweight, citing the stock’s roughly 50% rise over the prior month and a lack of near-term catalysts. Despite keeping a $75 price target and reiterating confidence in the company’s tech-driven growth and path to net income profitability by t…
Broadcom shares rose sharply after Apple announced a multi-year agreement worth in excess of $30 billion through 2031 under which Broadcom will supply custom ASICs and advanced wireless components for multiple generations of Apple products. The pact includes a $1.5 billion investment to expand Broadcom's Fort Collins facility to produce more than 1…
Expedia Group shares dropped about 4.7% in morning trading, pulling back from an intraday high of $267 to trade near $257.31. The move followed a roughly 17% run-up in recent weeks and came despite a fresh price-target increase from Argus. Traders cited profit-taking, a lack of additional catalysts, and a weak broader market that pressured other tr…
U.S. President Trump has directed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to "cut off all trade... including visits" with Spain amid a dispute over defence spending. This article explains the legal tools a U.S. president could use to impose an embargo, alternatives to a full blockade, the U.S.-Spain trade relationship, and Spain's contributions to NATO, u…
Toll Brothers Inc., a leading US luxury home builder, has opened two new collections of single- and two-story homes in the established Toll Brothers at Heron Lakes community in Berthoud, Colorado. Positioned within a master-planned community featuring resort-style amenities and natural scenic beauty, the new Vista and Summit collections offer homes…
MISTRAS Group, Inc., a NYSE-listed company, has been recognized in the 'Star' quadrant by MarketsandMarkets’ 360Quadrants evaluation for its leadership in the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and inspection services and equipment markets. The recognition highlights MISTRAS' integrated approach combining advanced inspection technologies, proprietary so…
AXT rallied in morning trading after its AXT-Tongmei unit disclosed a three-year Master Development and Supply Agreement with Coherent Corp. for 6-inch indium phosphide wafer substrates, accompanied by a $22.3 million prepayment earmarked for capacity expansion at AXT’s Beijing plant. The transaction, disclosed in an SEC Form 8-K on July 2, 2026, r…
Waymo, the autonomous driving division of Alphabet Inc., has enabled fully driverless operation in Las Vegas immediately and announced that Denver, San Diego and Tampa will follow. The company urged users to download its app for notifications about availability. Waymo already runs autonomous services in 11 U.S. metropolitan areas and partners with …
Lemonade Inc. shares slid about 9% on Wednesday following a downgrade from Morgan Stanley, which moved the stock from Overweight to Equalweight and set a $75 price target. The bank highlighted valuation concerns after roughly a 50% rally in the prior month, while maintaining a constructive view on the company’s technology-enabled growth and underwr…
Terawulf stock rallied 11.1% in morning trading, rebounding from a brief pullback after the company revealed a 20-year lease with AI developer Anthropic at its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The agreement covers about 401 megawatts of IT capacity and is expected to generate roughly $19 billion in contracted revenue over its initial …
Poland's central bank updated its macroeconomic projections, increasing projected inflation ranges for 2026 through 2028 while lowering GDP growth forecasts for 2026 and 2027. The bank said it could intervene in the foreign exchange market and emphasized that future policy moves will be guided by incoming data. It identified fiscal policy and wage …
