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Jefferies analysts highlight six investment themes shaping the European midcap landscape for 2026 and identify six companies they view as positioned to benefit. Core themes include factory automation, a sentiment-driven rebound in beaten-down names, accelerating power demand from data centers and electrification, potential upside from German fiscal…
Aviation industry figures gathered in Singapore ahead of the region's largest air show to confront persistent supply-chain bottlenecks, the politicisation of certification processes and the implications of geopolitical tensions for both freight flows and fleet maintenance. Executives and regulators reiterated commitments to emissions reduction whil…
Shares of major videogame companies in Japan and China fell on Monday following Google's introduction of an AI system called Project Genie, which can generate fully explorable digital environments from a few prompts. The announcement prompted declines across the region, mirroring steep losses seen among U.S. videogame-related stocks after the revea…
Barry Callebaut and its former chief executive, Peter Feld, parted company following a high-level disagreement about a proposal to separate the company’s cocoa processing business, people familiar with the matter said. The cocoa unit represents a significant share of the group’s revenue and profit, and the debate over its future reflected differing…
Taiwan shares closed lower on Monday, with the Taiwan Weighted index falling 1.45% as losses in the Glass and Plastic sectors pushed the market down. A small group of stocks posted double-digit percentage gains while several notable names ended with steep declines. Commodities and currency moves accompanied the selling.
Alibaba announced a 3 billion yuan ($431 million) marketing program for its Qwen AI app to attract users during the Lunar New Year holiday. The campaign, beginning February 6, offers incentives across dining, drinks, entertainment and leisure, with Alibaba saying it will distribute "large red envelopes" continuously. The move outpaces rival pledges…
Australia's equity market closed lower on Monday, with the S&P/ASX 200 falling 1.02% as losses in Gold, Metals & Mining and Materials sectors pressured the index. Market breadth favoured decliners, notable individual moves included sharp drops in Graincorp and Newmont Corporation DRC, while Contact Energy and Nine Entertainment were among the sessi…
India's factory sector recorded a modest increase in activity in January, with the HSBC India Manufacturing PMI rising to 55.4 from December's 55.0. The gain reflected firmer domestic orders and stronger output, but export demand stayed weak, hiring remained subdued despite a small rise, and business confidence fell to a three-and-a-half-year low.
Shares of Chinese electric vehicle makers dropped sharply after January delivery figures showed a muted beginning to 2026. BYD led declines after reporting a roughly 30% year-on-year fall in deliveries, while peers Xpeng, Li Auto, NIO and Xiaomi also reported mixed results that failed to match December volumes.
Recent reports indicate SpaceX is nearing an agreement to acquire xAI, a development that would support Elon Musk’s vision of orbiting data centers for high-performance AI computing. Observers and investors say combining two private, Musk-controlled companies would face fewer hurdles than integrating Tesla into that mix. Tesla’s move from conventio…
A federal judge in San Francisco declined to order Alphabet Inc.'s Google to surrender $2.36 billion in alleged profits or to impose a permanent ban on certain data collection tied to advertising, affirming a jury's earlier determinations while leaving other litigation elements intact. The judge also rejected Google's bid to decertify the class of …
Saks Global has decided to terminate its 'Saks on Amazon' partnership and wind down the dedicated storefront so it can concentrate effort and traffic on Saks.com. The move follows the retailer's recent Chapter 11 filing and comes against a backdrop of strained relations with Amazon, questions over collateral tied to a $1.75 billion loan, and resist…
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said in Taipei that the company will make a "huge" investment into OpenAI and dismissed reports that he was unhappy with the ChatGPT maker. Huang reiterated that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leading the fundraising and that Nvidia will be "absolutely" involved, describing OpenAI as one of the most consequential compa…
SpaceX filed with the Federal Communications Commission seeking authorization for a constellation of up to one million satellites designed to harness near-constant solar energy to power AI data centers in orbit. The filing was posted a day after reports that SpaceX and Elon Musk's xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned public offering this ye…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's trip to China delivered several concrete trade and travel concessions, but the agreements underline the narrow scope of benefits available to Western middle powers seeking to rebalance relations amid tensions with the United States. While Beijing can present such visits as evidence of global realignment in its …
U.S. equity futures opened lower Sunday evening as market participants adopted a cautious posture ahead of a concentrated slate of corporate results and key economic data. The move followed a recent pullback in technology stocks that accelerated after Microsoft reported results last week, leaving investors uncertain about near-term returns from hea…
Hyundai Motor confirmed it did not exercise the contractual option to repurchase its former Russian manufacturing facility, a buyback window that expired in January after the plant had been sold in 2024. The factory has been idle since March 2022 following the onset of severe supply and payments disruptions related to the conflict in Ukraine. Hyund…
Peter Mandelson has resigned his membership of the Labour Party after recent media reports renewed focus on his past connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, dismissed last year from his role as Britain’s ambassador to the United States, said in a letter that he did not want to cause “further embarrassment” to the party and that he would investig…
Oracle said it expects to secure between $45 billion and $50 billion in gross cash proceeds in 2026 through a combination of debt and equity instruments to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud computing capacity. About half of the funding will come from equity derivatives and common equity, while the remainder will be raised via a single is…
The MOEX Russia Index finished the session unchanged, with selective gains in power and banking names offset by modest declines among oil and mining stocks. Market breadth favored advancers, while volatility measures and major commodity and FX benchmarks saw mixed movement at the close in Moscow on Sunday.
U.S. equity markets enter a pivotal week as a concentrated slate of quarterly reports from large-cap technology and consumer names arrives on the heels of a disappointing Microsoft update that pressured software stocks. Investors will also parse the monthly U.S. jobs report for January, with the Federal Reserve having signaled a pause in interest r…
Former members of Ben & Jerry’s independent board filed a U.S. court challenge arguing that Magnum Ice Cream Company’s attempt to install new directors and a parent-appointed chair breaches the governance safeguards intended to preserve Ben & Jerry’s autonomy and social mission. The dispute follows a string of governance changes introduced by Magnu…
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share slipped 1.89% at Monday's close, pressured by losses in the Cement, Industrial Investment and Real Estate Development sectors. Decliners outnumbered advancers by a wide margin as several mining and industrial names posted substantial declines. Oil, Brent and gold futures each moved lower, while the US Dollar Index F…
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a banned separatist organization, has claimed responsibility for coordinated gun and bomb attacks that killed dozens of civilians and security personnel and prompted one of the most intense security responses in Balochistan in recent years. The group, the most potent of several insurgent factions in the province, h…
India's 2026-27 budget introduces a temporary tax exemption allowing foreign companies to own capital equipment used by contract manufacturers in customs-bonded zones without creating taxable income in India. The change, effective through the 2030-31 tax year for bonded-area factories, removes a key barrier that had forced manufacturers to buy mach…
