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Greek equities ended the session lower on Friday, with the Athens General Composite slipping 0.85% as losses in the Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources sectors weighed on the market. A subset of stocks posted gains, while broader market breadth favored decliners. Commodity and currency contracts showed sizeable moves during the day.
Apeira Capital founding partner Natalie Hwang warns that as AI shifts from experimentation to mass-market use, the economics of operating inference at scale - including power efficiency, cost per inference, and system utilization - will eclipse model size as the central competitive factor. Energy availability and deployment feasibility are expected…
Advanced Micro Devices shares dropped Friday amid reports the company’s next-generation MI450-series AI accelerators could be delayed. The decline reached as much as 6% before trimming losses to about 3% after a Wells Fargo analyst disputed the delay claims and pointed to evidence that development on TSMC’s N2 (2nm) process remains on track.
Equities across market-cap tiers experienced significant intraday moves on Friday. Notable rallies included Tesla and several small- and mid-cap names, while chip-equipment and software firms posted declines. The session featured outsized percentage changes spanning mega-cap giants to micro-cap stocks.
Turkey's BIST 100 closed modestly higher, rising 0.05% to a record level as strength in Banking, Financials and Holdings & Investments stocks supported the market. Individual winners included Sekerbank TAS, Kiler Holding AS and Akbank TAS, all of which climbed to all-time highs. Market breadth was uneven, with more decliners than advancers. Commodi…
Shares of Unity Software, Take-Two Interactive and Roblox fell sharply after Alphabet unveiled Project Genie, an experimental AI tool designed to create interactive virtual worlds. The prototype, powered by the Genie 3 world model and being made available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., lets users generate and remix immersive environmen…
Netflix shares are trading more than 35% below their June 2025 high, prompting investor scrutiny around near-term profitability, user engagement trends and the strategic implications of a possible Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Bernstein frames the debate around three core issues: 2026 margin expectations, changes in viewer consumption, and the poten…
Moroccan equities closed lower on Friday, with the Moroccan All Shares index down 1.52%. Gains among select insurers and industrial firms were offset by steep losses in major mining names. Market breadth favored decliners, while oil, gold and currency moves showed mixed signals across commodities and foreign exchange.
Morgan Stanley highlights a set of application software firms it views as well-positioned for 2026, citing resilient growth, platform momentum, and potential upside from AI-enabled product engagement. While broad estimate upgrades remain limited, the firm points to specific opportunities where multiple expansion, product adoption, or operational le…
Parazero Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:PRZO) saw its shares increase 5.8% on Friday after the company disclosed that it had received a second significant order from the same major global defense corporation for operational interception net-pods. The systems are intended to kinetically neutralize aerial drone threats while minimizing collateral damage, a…
Orion Energy Systems Inc. said it will offer 500,000 shares at $14.00 per share in a public offering expected to raise roughly $7.0 million in gross proceeds. The company plans to use most of the funds to pay down debt under its existing credit agreement, with the remainder allocated to working capital and general corporate purposes. Following the …
Starbucks' 2026 investor day presented a roadmap toward fiscal 2028 objectives that analysts at Bernstein and Morgan Stanley judged credible and, in Bernstein's words, largely beatable. The company outlined a fiscal 2028 EPS range of $3.35 to $4, a $2 billion gross savings target and initiatives aimed at lifting customer checks through food and pro…
Wolfe Research increased its Nvidia price target to $275 from $250, based on supply-chain checks and modeling that emphasize rack-scale deployments, rising average selling prices and persistent gross margins. The firm projects substantial Blackwell and Rubin rack volumes, strong GPU unit growth through 2027, and very large data center revenue figur…
Jiuzi Holdings saw its Nasdaq-listed shares decline in premarket trading after announcing a $30 million investment from Xinhui Solar Technology Group to develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new energy vehicle service networks across Southeast Asia. The capital will be paired with co-development efforts and local resources aimed at a…
Nuwellis Inc. shares fell about 17% in premarket trading after the company named Carisa Schultz as its new chief financial officer, effective February 2, 2026. The cardiorenal-focused medtech firm also disclosed an agreement to acquire Israeli kidney-monitoring company Rendiatech Ltd., announced Thursday evening.
London’s FTSE 100 recorded a modest gain on Friday as investors digested U.S. President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh for the Federal Reserve’s top job. European indices also advanced, while the pound weakened below $1.38. Market participants parsed a mix of corporate developments in the U.K. and broader monetary policy signals ahead of …
Kazia Therapeutics Ltd ADR (NASDAQ:KZIA) saw its stock climb 2.5% in premarket trading after releasing preclinical results for NDL2, a protein degrader aimed at nuclear PD-L1. In models of triple-negative breast cancer, NDL2 cut primary tumor volume substantially as a single agent and showed greater reductions when paired with anti-PD-1 therapy, al…
Franklin Resources reported a substantial increase in first-quarter profit as elevated equity markets pushed investment management fees higher. The firm reported $255.5 million in quarterly profit on rising assets under management and meaningful net inflows, prompting a modest rise in its share price in premarket trading.
KGHM's stock fell more than 8% on Friday after the Polish copper and silver producer abruptly removed chief executive Andrzej Szydlo and Vice President Piotr Stryczek. Supervisory board member Remigiusz Paszkiewicz has been appointed acting CEO. Morgan Stanley called the move a "negative surprise" and highlighted uncertainty around the company's ne…
This report catalogues the most notable insider transactions disclosed on Thursday, January 29, 2026. Key highlights include a large purchase by a USA Rare Earth director, additional buys by company insiders and large shareholders at Under Armour and ASA Gold & Precious Metals Ltd, and sizeable sales by executives at Microchip Technology, Micro…
Stifel has downgraded Unite Group (UTG) from Buy to Hold and reduced its price objective to 600p from 975p, citing weaker-than-expected sales momentum for the upcoming academic year and lower occupancy assumptions after the Empiric acquisition. The broker expects limited dividend growth over its forecast period and models the shares trading at a 6.…
Kepler Cheuvreux has moved Derwent London from Buy to Hold while retaining a 2,050p price target. The broker pointed to a 17% share rally since September and the uncertainty created by the company's announced CEO retirement as reasons for the downgrade. Kepler kept its forecasts and target methodology unchanged, noting limited upside from the curre…
Wolfe Research upgraded Broadcom to Outperform and set a $400 price target after its checks pointed to rapid growth in Google's TPU program and related custom silicon demand. The firm boosted revenue and EPS forecasts for 2027 and raised near-term AI ASIC and networking estimates, while leaving non-AI semiconductor and infrastructure software proje…
Citi upgraded Spotify to a Buy rating and maintained a $650 price target, arguing the streaming company’s shares are undervalued relative to 2027 free cash flow metrics. Analyst Jason Bazinet says Citi expects Spotify to outpace Wall Street revenue and adjusted EBITDA forecasts, driven by slightly stronger Premium average revenue per user and margi…
AstraZeneca has obtained global rights (excluding certain Chinese territories) to several of CSPC Pharmaceutical Group's experimental obesity therapies under a deal that carries $1.2 billion in upfront consideration and up to $17.3 billion in milestone payments. The agreement expands an existing collaboration between the two firms, covers developme…
