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Taiwan's benchmark stock index finished higher on Friday, rising 1.68% to set a new all-time high as gains in the Plastic, Electronic Parts/Components and Semiconductor sectors drove the advance. Several individual issues posted double-digit percentage moves, both up and down. Commodities and currency markets recorded modest fluctuations, with crud…
Global stock indexes moved higher on Friday amid reports of progress toward a US-Iran deal, yet major European benchmarks remained confined to a three-month trading range. Barclays strategists note that a deal easing tensions and lowering oil and interest-rate pressures could help European equities break out, but persistent flow patterns and an exp…
Axactor recorded gross revenue of EUR 75 million in Q1, unchanged from the year-ago quarter despite prior portfolio sales and lower investment activity across 2025. Total revenue was EUR 53 million, below analyst expectations of EUR 65 million. Adjusted EBITDA and reported EBITDA both fell year-over-year. The company's 3PC portfolio grew, and a EUR…
Asian equities rallied broadly as AI-focused technology stocks tracked Wall Street's record closes and reports surfaced that Washington and Tehran were close to agreeing a 60-day ceasefire extension. Major benchmarks from Tokyo to Seoul climbed strongly, though some Chinese indexes eased. Investors also weighed U.S. inflation data and fresh Japanes…
A federal judge refused to grant preliminary injunctive relief sought by the California Department of Parks and Recreation to block movement of oil through a disputed pipeline tied to the Santa Ynez offshore platform. The decision preserves Sable Offshore Corp's ability to transport oil via the line restarted in March after federal intervention and…
Huawei is promoting a chip-design shift that prioritizes reducing signal transit time across chips and systems - a principle it calls the Tau Scaling Law - and a core technique named LogicFolding that stacks and more tightly connects logic, analogue and memory layers. The approach aims to sustain performance gains as traditional transistor scaling …
A minority union at Samsung Electronics that represents workers in consumer electronics divisions has said it will ask a South Korean court to suspend a recently approved pay agreement that largely benefits employees in the company’s memory chip business. The union says the arrangement, ratified by two other unions including the largest at the comp…
Samsung Electronics has started sending samples of its newest high-bandwidth memory chip, the 12-layer HBM4E, to customers, saying the part is more than 20% faster than its prior HBM4 generation. The company highlighted the chip's use of its 1c DRAM process technology and a 4-nanometer foundry logic base die. The move follows earlier HBM4 shipments…
SpaceX has adjusted its initial public offering valuation target to at least $1.8 trillion while aiming to raise as much as $75 billion, with investor roadshows potentially starting June 4 and pricing possible by June 11. The company's revenue rose to $18.7 billion in 2025 from $14 billion in 2024, while it swung to a net loss of $4.94 billion last…
World stock benchmarks reached fresh record levels as chip and AI-related stocks rallied, even as oil futures moved toward their largest weekly decline in nearly two months amid reports that the U.S. and Iran may extend a ceasefire and lift restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Traders remained cautious, monitoring confirmation of …
At an annual shareholders meeting in New Taipei, Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the company has 'immense confidence' in its growth outlook as demand for AI-related products climbs. The contract electronics giant reported a 19% year-on-year rise in first-quarter profit, and is planning a 30% increase in capital expenditures to expand AI server manu…
KPMG Australia announced the resignations of its chief executive and the managing partner of audit and assurance after an internal investigation into whistleblower complaints about sharing client data was judged insufficient. CEO Andrew Yates and audit head Julian McPherson both accepted responsibility, with McPherson set to depart following an ord…
Electrical Trades Union members at BHP's Port Hedland bulk port terminal will vote on whether to undertake work stoppages after six months of unsuccessful negotiations with the company. The union says employer representatives were either unauthorised to bargain or unwilling to reach an agreement, and that workers have been employed on markedly diff…
Tribeca Strategic Acquisition Corp. has priced an initial public offering of 14 million units at $10.00 apiece, generating $140 million in gross proceeds. The units will trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol BIDWU beginning May 29, 2026, with separate trading of the underlying shares and rights expected to follow.
Hedgeye Asset Management has introduced the Hedgeye Index Adds ETF, a fund structured to hold companies that meet - or are close to meeting - criteria for inclusion in major U.S. market indexes, and to sell those holdings shortly after the stocks are formally added to target benchmarks. The ETF launches roughly two weeks before the planned initial …
S&P Global Ratings moved its outlook on RTX Corp. to positive from stable while keeping the company's BBB+ issuer credit rating and A-2 short-term rating. The agency expects the firm to hold leverage below 2.5x and FFO-to-debt above 30% as robust commercial aerospace activity and increased defense production support cash flow.
Mexico's main stock gauge, the S&P/BMV IPC, closed lower by 1.65% as losses in the Industrials, Consumer Goods & Services and Consumer Staples sectors pressured the market. Decliners outnumbered advancers, led by heavyweight falls at Grupo Financiero Banorte, Wal Mart de Mexico and Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico. Gold futures rose sharply, crude …
S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on General Dynamics to positive from stable while affirming the company’s long- and short-term credit ratings. The upgrade in outlook reflects expectations for sustained low leverage and robust funds-from-operations to debt ratios amid rising defense demand, expanded shipbuilding capacity and Gulfstream’s …
Apollo Global Management President Jim Zelter said wealthy clients are likely to keep seeking redemptions from certain US private credit funds after several months of outflows. He noted that while performance was solid in March, April and May, structural features of the funds and lingering doubts about valuations and AI-related disruption mean with…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging a roughly $36 billion debt financing to support Anthropic PBC’s expansion of AI compute capacity. The financing is structured to purchase custom tensor processing units (TPUs) from Google, which Anthropic would then lease. Broadcom is providing a backstop on the largest portions of the transacti…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded its outlook on Northrop Grumman to positive from stable and kept the company's BBB+ long-term issuer credit rating unchanged. The agency anticipates the company will reduce leverage and sustain strong funds-from-operations relative to debt, supported by elevated defense spending and accelerated B-21 production plans, whi…
Colombian equities finished lower on Thursday, with the COLCAP index sliding 0.56% as weakness in the Financials, Investment and Public Services sectors weighed on the market. A handful of stocks outperformed, including Celsia and Grupo Nutresa, while mining and select banking-related securities posted sharper losses. Commodity contracts and curren…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded its outlook on Lockheed Martin to positive from stable while affirming the company’s A- long-term issuer credit rating, A-2 short-term issuer credit rating, and A- issue-level ratings on unsecured debt. The ratings agency points to robust demand across major defense programs, an order backlog near $186 billion and foreca…
S&P Global Ratings raised Uber Technologies Inc.'s long-term issuer rating to BBB+ from BBB and assigned a positive outlook, pointing to substantial free operating cash flow, low debt-to-EBITDA and ongoing deleveraging. The ratings agency highlighted management guidance for strong gross bookings growth and said rising EBITDA and cash flow should ex…
Russia's equity market ended lower on Thursday, with losses concentrated in mining, oil & gas and manufacturing names. The MOEX Russia Index fell 0.24% at the close in Moscow as decliners outnumbered advancers by more than two to one. A handful of stocks, including Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank and RusHydro, posted gains, but major metals producers and…
