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U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.79%, the S&P 500 off 0.71% and the Nasdaq Composite down 1.03%. Losses were concentrated in Industrials, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials. Notable winners included Apple, Chevron and Johnson & Johnson, while Sherwin-Williams, Home Depot and Caterpillar were among the…
Dell Technologies' after-hours rally followed a Q2 beat and aggressive fiscal 2027 guidance driven by strong enterprise demand for AI-optimized, liquid-cooled servers. The move produced positive read-throughs for data center hardware peers including HPE and Super Micro Computer. Cybersecurity and DevOps names also reported beats, while MongoDB and …
Bank of America downgraded PG&E Corp. to Neutral from Buy and reduced its price target to $13 from $24, citing that California's recent wildfire legislation, Senate Bill 492, improves survivor protections but does not deliver the enduring liability or financing framework the utility needs to underpin its large investment program. The bank now model…
Dell Technologies raised its fiscal-year revenue and profit forecasts for a second time this year after reporting a record quarter driven by strong demand for AI-optimized servers. The company increased its long-term AI server revenue projection and raised near-term revenue and adjusted earnings targets, beating Wall Street estimates for the quarte…
A recent screen of large-cap U.S. REITs that yield at least 3% identifies Independence Realty Trust Inc (IRT) as the most balanced pick, combining a 14.1% fair-value upside with a 4.4% dividend yield and improving FFO metrics. Other high-yielding names on the screen show steeper financing or cash-flow risks, underscoring the need for selective secu…
The market open offers exceptional liquidity and swift price movement but also concentrated, misleading volatility. A methodical stack of timeframes - using 1-hour charts for context, 15-minute charts for structure, and 5-minute charts for execution - tends to produce more consistent results for most traders than attempting to trade the very first …
Zoox and Waymo announced separate rollouts that extend their autonomous ride-hailing operations into additional U.S. metropolitan areas. Zoox will begin testing in Houston and San Diego using retrofitted vehicles ahead of deploying its purpose-built robotaxis, while Waymo will open fully autonomous rides to initial public users in Denver, San Diego…
Medtronic reported $1.45 adjusted EPS and $9.80 billion in revenue, beating expectations and lifting FY2027 guidance. Much of the upside was attributable to an extra selling week that contributed roughly $570 million, making underlying organic growth and Q2 results the next important tests for the company.
Broadcom is scheduled to report quarterly results after the market close on September 2, with consensus expectations set at $3.21 in earnings per share and $29.25 billion in revenue. Market participants are focused less on a single quarterly beat than on management's forward commentary - particularly whether AI-related demand, margin resilience and…
Citi has increased its price target for Collins Foods Ltd to A$9.12 from A$8.77, a 4% rise, while retaining a neutral rating. The upgrade follows a modest uplift to FY27 and FY28 earnings forecasts and early sales momentum, but the broker remains cautious about Germany's sales productivity and the durability of cost-offsetting measures in Australia…
Shell has agreed to acquire the remaining ownership of Tri Star Energy from The Parman Corporation, Kimbro Oil Company and their units. The transaction, for which financial terms were not disclosed, will bring 320 additional fuel and convenience retail sites in Tennessee and nearby states under Shell's control and includes supply agreements coverin…
Options activity in Boston Scientific spiked sharply on September 1, with 118,890 contracts traded by 2:30 p.m., more than 95% of which were calls. The largest single structure was a 100,144-contract December vertical call spread using the December 18, 2026 $60 and $75 strikes. Open interest prior to the trades was far smaller, indicating fresh ins…
Options trading in Argan Inc spiked to a record 5,340 contracts on September 1, with calls accounting for over 95% of the flow. The unusual concentration of activity - including 4,000 contracts in three September 18 call strikes - occurred as the stock slid 4.95% to $403.94. Despite a modest fall in implied volatility, measures remain high and opti…
EU antitrust authorities have circulated a questionnaire to publishers asking whether they would use Google's proposed opt-out from AI-generated search summaries and what factors would affect that decision. Responses may shape the outcome of an EU investigation into whether Google’s AI features and related search changes harm competition or imprope…
Several large technology and consumer-facing firms are scheduled to report quarterly results on Wednesday, September 2. The most prominent names include Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snowflake, NetApp and Five Below. A broader group of companies across materials, apparel, software and retail also carry estimates for earnings per share and r…
CrowdStrike is expanding its Falcon security platform within Google Cloud’s enterprise AI environment to give organizations protections for AI runtime risks, integrate threat intelligence into Gemini Enterprise workflows, and offer regional deployments aligned with hyperscaler preferences and operational needs.
Howmet Aerospace shares rose 3.3% on Tuesday after analysts reiterated bullish views, arguing that recent price weakness following SpaceX’s announcement represents a buying opportunity. Bernstein SocGen Group’s Douglas Harned and Citi’s John Godyn maintained constructive ratings and high price targets while noting the uncertainty around SpaceX’s ab…
MicroStrategy (MSTR) presents a stronger Bitcoin-correlated upside but carries sharper volatility and negative free cash flow. Coinbase Global (COIN) delivers positive free cash flow and an exchange-based business, yet its fair value and analyst-target upside trail MSTR and its recent revenue contracted.
Interactive Brokers Group shares dropped after UBS analyst Michael Brown initiated coverage with a Neutral rating and a $102 price target, citing a valuation that already embeds much of the company's competitive strengths and anticipated earnings growth through 2030. UBS forecasts low-teens EPS growth to 2030 and expects margins to remain in the hi…
Nestlé has reached agreement to sell its mainstream vitamins, minerals and supplements business - the Holistic Health portfolio - to private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners for $1.0 billion. The transaction, which requires regulatory approval, is slated to close in the first half of 2027 and transfers seven established consumer brands along with a…
Goldman Sachs refreshed its conviction lists for September, adding and removing several stocks in the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., Vertex Pharmaceuticals was added while Interactive Brokers was removed, keeping the U.S. list at 23 names. In Europe, RWE, Adyen and Talanx were added as Enel, Wise, Hannover Re and Zalando were taken off. Analysts cit…
J.P. Morgan analyst Sebastiano C Petti published his September rankings for cable, satellite and telecom services equities, leaving AT&T as the top recommendation. The firm’s list weighs build programs, spectrum opportunity and subscriber trends, and includes upgraded conviction for Anterix and a view that the recent T-Mobile pullback presents a bu…
Shares of Apollo Global Management slid after Brightspeed, a broadband company backed by Apollo-managed funds, disclosed a going-concern warning and weaker quarterly revenue, prompting investor concern about potential losses in Apollo’s private equity holdings. Apollo’s simultaneous conversion of a Oneok stake into structured debt to support a take…
U.K. equities closed lower on Tuesday, with the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 falling 0.31% as losses in mining, aerospace and defense, and industrial engineering weighed on the market. Major movers included BP, Reckitt Benckiser and Rentokil Initial on the upside, while Antofagasta, Weir Group and Fresnillo ranked among the session's biggest de…
Germany's major equity benchmarks finished lower, led by weakness in Software, Construction and Industrials. The DAX closed down 1.14%, with the MDAX and TecDAX also registering declines. A handful of insurers and industrials outperformed, while large-cap technology and defense names were among the heaviest decliners. Commodity moves included a dro…
