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Mexico's benchmark S&P/BMV IPC closed modestly higher on Tuesday, rising 0.22% as Industrials, Consumer Goods & Services and Consumer Staples stocks drove the advance. Market breadth favored winners, while commodity and currency price moves registered notable swings during the session.
Colombian equities finished higher Tuesday, with the COLCAP index up 0.80% as Industrials, Services and Agriculture-related names provided the principal upside. Grupo Nutresa led gains, reaching an all-time high, while Ecopetrol and several preferred shares declined. Commodity prices for coffee and cocoa climbed, gold futures fell, and the peso edg…
Meta reported a surprise-beating Q1 FY2026 with EPS of $10.44 versus an estimate of $6.65, driven by more than 30% year-over-year growth in advertising revenue tied to AI improvements in ad targeting. With the company scheduled to report Q2 results after the market close on Jul 29, investors are parsing whether the AI-powered revenue trajectory can…
Russian equities finished lower on Tuesday, with the MOEX Russia Index retreating 0.93% as losses in Oil & Gas, Power and Mining stocks outweighed gains among individual names. Advancers were outnumbered by decliners on the Moscow exchange, while volatility eased and commodities showed mixed moves including a near 4% drop in September crude.
AWS entered 2026 with a $244 billion contracted backlog, growing 40% year-over-year, and consensus forecasts point to a revenue acceleration to 31-33% year-over-year for Q2 2026. At the same time, Amazon's consolidated gross margin has risen from 42.0% to 50.3% across four fiscal years, driven largely by higher-margin AWS growth. The company plans …
Lazard reported a 91% drop in second-quarter profit as it reshaped its financial advisory arm, replacing over 80 managing directors with higher-performing staff between 2023 and 2025. The turnover affected roughly 40% of its managing director positions and coincided with a 9% decline in advisory revenue, even as asset management delivered strong in…
Shares of O-I Glass tumbled sharply in after-hours trading following a Q2 2026 report that missed expectations on several fronts, included an $873 million non-cash goodwill impairment, and prompted management to reduce full-year guidance for 2026 and 2027. Adjusted EPS and revenue both came in below analyst estimates amid volume pressures and risin…
Several developments have aligned to create a stronger upgrade case for iPhone replacement cycles: Apple Intelligence has been cleared for China with local model integration; Apple launched a Klarna-backed 24-month leasing program that may compress replacement cycles; and HSBC's upgrade cites an agentic Siri built on distilled Gemini models running…
Teradyne Inc. jumped sharply in after-hours trading after reporting another record quarter, beating analysts on both earnings and revenue and issuing Q3 guidance that exceeded Street expectations. Adjusted EPS and revenue for Q2 2026 topped consensus, and management cited AI-driven demand and increased wafer fab equipment investment as drivers for …
Avis Budget's stock plunged in after-hours trading after second-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue missed analyst estimates, undermining hopes of a quick rebound following a deep loss in the previous quarter. The results, combined with an already cautious analyst consensus and heavy insider sales, pressured the shares toward the bottom of their …
Varonis Systems' stock fell sharply in after-hours trading following its second-quarter 2026 results. While revenue modestly exceeded expectations, investors reacted to a constrained near-term profitability profile and conservative Q3 guidance as the company continues shifting from on-premise perpetual licenses to a subscription-first SaaS model.
Mondelez International reported stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter of 2026, beating consensus on both adjusted EPS and revenue and raising its full-year organic net revenue growth target to at least 2%. The combination of the earnings surprise, an improved commodity cost backdrop driven by a global cocoa surplus, and reiterated b…
Boston Scientific shares have plunged from their September 2025 highs and face another pivotal earnings release tomorrow. Management’s board-approved restructuring targets $700M–$800M in charges to yield roughly $500M of annual savings by 2029, but WATCHMAN sales headwinds and an FDA notice on a separate device complicate the outlook. Wall Street r…
KLA Corporation shares fell sharply in after-hours trading despite quarterly earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street estimates. Investors reacted negatively to the company's fiscal 2027 guidance range, which the market viewed as insufficient to justify the stock's lofty valuation amid existing worries about wafer fab equipment demand and compe…
Bloom Energy shares jumped nearly 9.8% in after-hours trading after the company reported record second-quarter 2026 results that outperformed analyst expectations across major metrics. The fuel-cell specialist posted its first quarterly revenue above $1 billion, reported wide margin expansion and sharply higher profitability, and issued a materiall…
Visa reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 adjusted earnings of $3.32 per share and net revenue of $11.6 billion, both ahead of analyst estimates. Shares fell 2.2% in after-hours trading after the company revealed plans to cut roughly 2,600 roles, or about 7% of its workforce. Market context - including a recent run to a 52-week high and a cautious ba…
Citi has identified its favored stocks within the US application software sector, ranking four companies based on partner feedback, sales execution, platform adoption, and guidance visibility for the remainder of the year. The firm highlights achievable ramp scenarios for one company, durable platform traction for another, while expressing caution …
Hormel Foods' shares dipped on the day John Ghingo was elevated to CEO, reflecting investor skepticism after annual EPS fell from $1.82 to $1.37 over four fiscal years. Revenue has remained roughly flat near $12 billion while analysts have trimmed EPS forecasts sharply. The company still draws strong responses to earnings beats, but the imperative …
Ferrovial reported €4.7 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, an 11.3% like-for-like increase year over year, and adjusted EBITDA of €746 million, up 21.6% on a like-for-like basis. Despite operating gains, net profit dropped to €258 million from €540 million in H1 2025, a gap the company attributes to capital gains recorded in the prior-y…
Seagate Technology said it expects the coming quarter's revenue and adjusted earnings to exceed analyst estimates, citing strong demand for high-capacity hard disk drives from AI infrastructure buildouts. The Singapore-based storage supplier highlighted its use of HAMR technology to increase per-disk capacity without major new factory investments a…
Wells Fargo announced an 11.1% increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.50 (annualized $2.00) alongside Q2 2026 results that beat expectations, including EPS of $2.00 and revenue of $22.62 billion. The combination of a higher payout, sizable buybacks and improving operating metrics underscores management's emphasis on returning capital to sharehold…
U.S. equity markets finished mixed on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrials rose 1.03%, the S&P 500 edged up 0.22% and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.22%. Sector performance was uneven: Healthcare, Telecoms and Consumer Goods led gains, while Oil & Gas, Technology and Industrials lagged. Several individual stocks recorded large moves, including double…
Canadian equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the S&P/TSX Composite climbing 0.51% to a new record high. Strength in information technology, telecommunications and consumer staples supported the advance, while select energy and materials names fell amid declines in oil and gold prices. Market breadth favored losers, and implied volatility retrea…
Brazil's Bovespa ended the trading day up 0.70%, supported by advances in Basic Materials, Industrials and Consumption stocks. Grupo Vamos, Hapvida and Fleury were among the top performers, while Telecom and sanitation names weighed on the index. Volatility as measured by CBOE Brazil Etf Volatility rose, and commodities and FX showed mixed moves in…
After-hours activity reflected a spectrum of corporate results and guidance. Ford and several storage names rallied after quarterly beats and aggressive guidance, while a handful of semiconductor and real-estate related companies fell on cautious forward outlooks. Bloom Energy stood out with a sizeable beat and a raised fiscal 2026 outlook, underpi…
