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Poland's benchmark index WIG30 climbed 1.72% to a fresh all-time high at the close in Warsaw, driven by strength in Basic Materials, Energy and Food stocks. KGHM Polska Miedz SA led the index with an 8.38% gain and new record share price, while several names on the WSE registered declines. Commodity and currency markets showed modest moves alongsid…
Bridgewater Associates' co-chief investment officers said in a client note that large corporations' spending on artificial intelligence will continue to expand rapidly, reshaping corporate capital plans and supporting equity markets. The firm highlighted how investment across the AI supply chain - from data centers to chips and power - has lifted m…
Danish equities finished higher on Monday, with the OMX Copenhagen 20 climbing 0.14% to reach a six-month high. Gains in Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Industrials supported the advance, led by a strong move in Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Several large-cap names lagged, and commodity prices and currency moves were mixed in European trading.
Morgan Stanley expects Apple to report fiscal first-quarter revenue above company guidance, driven primarily by demand for the iPhone 17. The firm projects March-quarter revenue will also top Street estimates, but cautions that higher operating expenses and memory-related gross margin pressures may constrain earnings improvement and could keep shar…
PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Emergency/Load Management Alert and an Energy Emergency Alert 1 (EEA1) on Monday, setting the alert for the full day on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. The operator forecasts a winter record peak of 147,200 megawatts (MW) for that day and has asked generation dispatchers to report estimated return times fo…
Microsoft announced the Maia 200, a new AI inference accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process and equipped with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, 216GB of HBM3e, and 272MB of on-chip SRAM. The company says the chip delivers over 10 petaFLOPS in 4-bit precision and over 5 petaFLOPS in 8-bit within a 750W power envelope, and will be used to run OpenAI's GP…
Bank of America finds that the second week of Q4 earnings remains constructive but trails the strong momentum seen in Q3. While a majority of companies have topped profit expectations, sales beats are fewer and investor responses to positive surprises have turned muted. Industrial firms report limited near-term improvement in demand, and guidance h…
Microsoft unveiled the Maia 200, the second generation of its internally developed AI accelerator, which this week begins operation in a data center in Iowa with a follow-up deployment planned in Arizona. The company is also releasing a set of programming tools, including Triton contributions from OpenAI, to counter Nvidia's software lead with deve…
Norwegian equities closed modestly higher on Monday, with the Oslo OBX rising 0.29% as Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities were the strongest sectors. Gains in insurers, shipping and telecoms contrasted with losses among semiconductor and energy producers. Commodity and currency moves accompanied equity tra…
Israel's equity benchmark, the TA 35, closed higher on Monday, reaching a fresh record as gains in Banking, Oil & Gas and Technology stocks lifted the market. Several individual names posted strong advances — including two that hit all-time highs — while other sizable components slipped. Commodity and currency movements were mixed, with crude and B…
Greek equities ended Monday's trading session higher, with the Athens General Composite rising 0.64% to a fresh five-year high. Gains were concentrated in the Banking, Construction and Travel sectors, while market breadth showed more advancers than decliners. Several individual stocks reached new multi-year or all-time highs. Commodity and currency…
Booz Allen Hamilton's stock dropped 8% after the U.S. Treasury Department cancelled all contracts with the firm, citing failures in safeguarding sensitive taxpayer information. The move affects 31 contracts worth $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations and follows a data theft by a former employee that exposed roughly 4…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC that the Federal Aviation Administration will need two more days to recover from a weekend winter storm that prompted massive cancellations and delays across U.S. aviation. Airlines have waived cancellation fees as operations and staffing recover, with Duffy targeting Wednesday as the return to normal o…
Bank of America identifies a cluster of compute-oriented semiconductor firms whose valuations, the bank says, remain materially below historical norms even as AI-related investment accelerates. BofA highlights Nvidia, Broadcom, AMD and Credo as preferred compute plays, pointing to strong forecasted sales and earnings growth from 2025-2027 and a com…
Stocks across market-cap segments moved unevenly on Monday. Mega-cap semiconductor names Intel and AMD posted declines, while Cisco and Oracle were among the notable gainers. Activity extended beyond the largest names, with biotech, mining, cloud compute, and SPAC-related listings recording some of the largest percentage changes.
The European Commission has formally designated Meta Platforms' WhatsApp as a very large online platform under the EU Digital Services Act after user figures showed WhatsApp channels averaged 51.7 million monthly active users in the EU for the first half of 2025. The designation triggers heightened obligations to address illegal and harmful content…
Micron Technology's stock dipped after reports that Samsung Electronics is close to obtaining Nvidia certification for its HBM4 high-bandwidth memory. Samsung has supplied initial HBM4 samples, is in the final qualification stage and aims for mass production in February, with shipments to follow. The move could reshape competition among memory supp…
Turkey's BIST 100 index finished higher on Monday, climbing 1.42% to reach a new all-time high. Strength in Technology, Basic Metals and Tourism sectors powered the advance, with Enerya Enerji, Mia Teknoloji and Aselsan among the session's top performers. Market breadth favored advancing issues, while selected names in healthcare and retail posted …
Wolfe Research now sees a delayed recovery for U.S. self-storage REITs, forecasting flat sector earnings in 2026 and only modest growth of about 3% to 4% in 2027. The firm lowered ratings on Public Storage and CubeSmart, upgraded National Storage Affiliates, and removed all Outperform ratings for the sector, citing rich valuations and slower-than-e…
Morocco's stock market closed lower on Monday, with the Moroccan All Shares index sliding 1.39% to a fresh one-month low. Sector declines in Utilities, Banking and Mining drove the market down; several companies registered double-digit directional moves during the session. Commodities and currency markets showed mixed moves, while the US Dollar Ind…
Google has reached a proposed $68 million settlement in a class action that accused its Google Assistant of improperly recording and sharing private conversations after misinterpreting wake words. The agreement, filed in federal court in San Jose, awaits approval by U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman and applies to people who bought Google dev…
BlackRock TCP Capital reported a preliminary fourth-quarter 2025 net asset value (NAV) per share of $7.05 to $7.09, a drop from $8.71 at the end of the prior quarter. The company attributed the roughly 19% decline to issuer-specific developments concentrated in six portfolio companies. Non-accrual debt, leverage and a modest adviser fee waiver were…
Shareholders have filed a proposed class action against Beyond Meat in Los Angeles federal court, alleging the plant-based meat maker hid the necessity for a substantial writedown while publicly stressing cost cuts and margin expansion. The company later recorded a $77.4 million impairment and reported a $112.3 million third-quarter loss, following…
KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded Solventum from Sector Weight to Overweight, citing a valuation gap created by the medical technology group's recent underperformance. The firm set a $97 price target based on 14 times 2027 earnings and noted the stock currently trades at 11.4 times the same metric, placing it in the bottom quintile of peers. Broader…
Lands' End shares climbed 28% after the apparel retailer agreed to create a 50/50 joint venture with WHP Global for which WHP will pay $300 million for its controlling stake. Lands' End will contribute its intellectual property and related assets to the venture, use the proceeds to repay a roughly $234 million term loan and for general corporate pu…
