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Jefferies upgraded ArcelorMittal to Buy from Hold and increased its price target to €62 from €44, citing planned European trade measures that could materially curb low-cost imports. The brokerage projects higher utilization, stronger prices and elevated earnings across the cycle, forecasting substantial EBITDA gains for ArcelorMittal by 2027 while …
Classover Holdings Inc reported a 71.2% surge in premarket trading Wednesday after its board authorized a $2 million repurchase program for Class B common stock. The company said the buyback will be financed from on-hand cash and expected operating cash flows, and may be executed through various trading mechanisms under regulatory rules.
Apptronik, a humanoid robotics company based in Austin, Texas, raised $520 million in a Series A extension led by investors including Google and Mercedes-Benz, valuing the firm at about $5 billion. The financing will fund development of updated Apollo robots, production scale-up, facility builds for training and data collection, and workforce expan…
Multiple company insiders disclosed notable transactions on February 6-10, 2026. Varonis Systems executives — including the CEO and two directors — made meaningful purchases, while Jana Partners sold a large block of TreeHouse Foods stock. Other sizable insider activity included sales by executives at Zurn Elkay, Coinbase, Caterpillar and Lam Resea…
PRF Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:PRFX) shares climbed sharply in premarket trading after the company disclosed a software-as-a-service agreement to install its DeepSolar AI analytics platform at the 71 megawatt Satu Mare photovoltaic site in Romania. The contract with Shikun & Binui Energy represents a commercial deployment intended to provide ongoing …
PMGC Holdings' stock spiked in premarket trading after its subsidiary NorthStrive Biosciences signed a definitive license with Modulant Biosciences. The pact grants Modulant exclusive worldwide (excluding South Korea) rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize products derived from NorthStrive's EL-22 and EL-32 technologies for non-human anim…
Upstream Bio's stock dropped 23% after the company released mixed results from its Phase 2 VALIANT study of verekitug for severe asthma. Both tested dosing schedules achieved statistically significant reductions in annualized asthma exacerbation rate (AAER), but the 100mg every 12 weeks dosing produced a larger reduction and was judged more compara…
Martin Marietta Materials posted a decline in fourth-quarter net earnings and issued a revenue outlook for 2026 that falls short of analyst expectations. While shipments and pricing benefited from demand driven by data center construction and energy and infrastructure projects, elevated costs for fuel, energy, raw materials and equipment, along wit…
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) agreed to be acquired by Saltchuk Resources in a transaction valuing the dredging firm at about $1.2 billion. Saltchuk will initiate a cash tender offer of $17.00 per Great Lakes share, a premium to recent trading levels and to the company's record closing price. The boards of both companies unan…
Aurora Mobile said it has entered a strategic agreement with PAG Pegasus Fund LP that will use Aurora’s big data capabilities to support data- and AI-driven investment strategies. The deal includes a $10 million allocation from PAG Pegasus and three-year warrants to buy up to 725,000 American depositary shares at $13.80 per ADS. Aurora Mobile share…
Rapid7 experienced a sharp premarket decline after reporting muted fiscal 2025 results and issuing guidance that points to further near-term weakness. Annual recurring revenue was unchanged year over year, revenue edged up modestly, and profitability metrics deteriorated. Broker Canaccord lowered its rating and slashed its price target amid uncerta…
Capital Economics finds that a severe stock market correction would harm global growth, but is unlikely to on its own cause a worldwide recession. Chief global economist Jennifer McKeown notes that historically the flow of causation runs from economic weakness to market declines, with only certain episodes where market stress compounded existing vu…
T-Mobile said it has begun offering a real-time AI translation service integrated directly into its wireless network that translates phone calls across more than 50 languages. The capability, activated when at least one participant is on T-Mobile’s network and described as instantaneous once turned on, coincided with a 5.5% premarket decline in Duo…
Tower Semiconductor reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations, driven by demand for silicon photonics chips used for high-speed data transmission in AI infrastructure. The company announced an additional $270 million equipment investment in silicon photonics, bringing total spending on the technology to $920 m…
Charles Schwab's CEO expressed surprise and disappointment after the firm's stock dropped following investor concerns about AI disruption. In a Bloomberg Television interview, Rick Wurster said Schwab is leveraging AI tools like Wealth.com, and that the technology has reduced the company's cost to serve accounts by 21%.
UBS Group AG shares dropped 3.8% as worries over artificial intelligence disrupting traditional advisory roles spread across wealth managers in Europe and the United States. The move followed a selloff that began after a startup introduced AI-enabled tax planning tools, stoking investor concerns that automated platforms could replace human advisers…
Webull plans to introduce a single overnight market data feed that aggregates real-time liquidity and pricing from two off-exchange U.S. venues, providing users a combined view of quotes and order book depth during extended hours trading. The initiative targets fragmented overnight markets and will be made available across most of the broker's inte…
Chairs of two influential House committees have written to U.S. cabinet officials urging new, broad export restrictions on equipment and subcomponents used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing that China cannot produce domestically. The lawmakers also seek limits on servicing of machines already operating in Chinese fabs and a month-long briefin…
Chinese automakers expanded their footprint in Europe in 2025, doubling their aggregate share of new car sales to 6% according to Inovev. Market penetration ranged from almost 14% in Norway to just over 2% in Germany and Slovakia. Growth was pronounced in the UK, Spain, Italy and Poland, while tariffs on Chinese EVs and local consumer preferences l…
Agibank completed a pared-down initial public offering in New York, raising $240 million by selling 20 million shares at $12 each. The IPO values the digital bank at $1.92 billion and follows earlier reductions to the deal size and price range. The listing comes as Brazilian companies begin to return to U.S. capital markets, though weak aftermarket…
GlobalFoundries has issued guidance for first-quarter revenue that exceeds consensus estimates and unveiled a $500 million share repurchase program. The chipmaker pointed to robust demand from data centers for specialized interconnect chips and reported accelerating sales from its silicon photonics business following a November acquisition.
Aehr Test Systems saw its shares jump 15% Wednesday morning after the company disclosed an initial production order from a leading hyperscale data center customer for its Sonoma family of ultra-high-power package-level test and burn-in systems. The order includes multiple Sonoma systems, turnkey burn-in modules and device-specific sockets for produ…
A recent machine-driven analysis from WarrenAI highlights three energy companies - Matador Resources (MTDR), Riley Exploration Permian (REPX) and Chord Energy (CHRD) - as having notable upside to fair value, strong free cash flow yields and attractive dividend yields. Each name combines analyst optimism with measurable cash generation metrics that …
Volkswagen is evaluating whether to shift production of the Cupra Tavascan electric SUV coupe from China to Europe, according to a Handelsblatt report citing company sources and internal plans. The move follows a change in the EU's tariff treatment of the model and comes amid ongoing discussions between the company and regulators.
Jefferies has upgraded BYD's A-shares to Hold, arguing that a roughly 40% drop from the stock's peak has already reflected a number of recent headwinds. The broker points to an array of near-term catalysts - including a Tech Day event in late February or early March, a concentrated launch schedule of new models and technology upgrades, and accelera…
