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Options traders executed 28,262 contracts in Rezolve AI Plc by 2:30 p.m. New York time on Tuesday, with call options representing the bulk of transactions. Several near-term $3 strikes attracted the largest volumes, and the underlying share price rose 15.6% to $3.01. Market-implied volatility measures moved lower across the three-month horizon.
Options trading in Mobileye Global Inc. spiked to 27,433 contracts by 2:30 p.m. New York time on Tuesday, with call volume overwhelmingly larger than put volume. Several August 2026 and July 2026 call strikes were among the session's busiest series, while the stock advanced 14.1% to $9.47 during the same period.
Options volume for Nike Inc. reached 199,431 contracts by 2:01 p.m. New York time on Tuesday. Calls accounted for 100,014 contracts, while puts totaled 99,417. The most traded contracts were concentrated in July 2026 expirations, with notable open interest at several $40 strikes across mid- and late-2026 expiries.
Options trading in RTX Corp. escalated sharply by mid-afternoon Tuesday, driven largely by heavy activity in the July 2, 2026 $200 call. Equity and derivatives metrics moved modestly alongside the options flows, with a small rise in the stock price and a slight decline in three-month volatility measures.
Tuesday's trading session produced notable intraday moves across market-cap tiers. Several large-cap semiconductor and equipment names recorded strong gains, while a handful of small-cap issuers and acquisition vehicles posted steep declines. The session's standout moves spanned mega-caps to micro-caps, reflecting company-specific headlines and sup…
Saab has entered into a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the sale of 16 Gripen E combat aircraft to be designated for Ukraine. Valued at approximately SEK 24.6 billion, the agreement will be recorded in the third quarter of 2026 and foresees deliveries between 2029 and 2030. The package covers the fighters plus sp…
Markets face a packed U.S. economic calendar on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, with the ADP Nonfarm Employment Change offering a private-sector preview of the official jobs report, two manufacturing PMI readings tracking factory conditions, and the EIA weekly crude inventories figure that can influence energy prices and inflation expectations. Policymake…
Earnings season presses on with a set of notable companies scheduled to report on Wednesday. Key names include General Mills, FactSet Research Systems, MSC Industrial Direct and Unifirst, with additional results from firms such as Greenbrier Companies, Franklin Covey, Bassett Furniture and Culp following after the market close. The published estima…
Anthropic introduced Claude Sonnet 5, its latest Sonnet-class model, which the company says narrows the performance gap with its pricier Opus 4.8 while outperforming the previous Sonnet 4.6 on reasoning, tool use, coding and knowledge work. The model is available across subscription tiers, carries introductory usage pricing through August 31, 2026,…
Nestle said it will consider the recent decline in coffee bean costs when deciding retail prices, offering a potential easing for consumers after steep increases in 2024 and record highs in 2025. The company warned that final consumer prices depend on stock levels and the prices it has already paid, and industry timing lags mean cafe and shop price…
Nestle said it will take the recent decline in raw coffee bean prices into account when setting retail prices, with any reductions depending on market circumstances, stock levels and the prices the company paid for its supplies. The comments came from Axel Touzet, head of Nestle’s coffee brands strategic business unit, at the group’s Vevey headquar…
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told attendees at an Amazon Web Services conference that critics of the rapid build-out of data centers have overstated their concerns and urged supporters to push back in their communities. Wright acknowledged real issues raised by opponents but called public concern disproportionate, citing poll results that sho…
Morgan Stanley reduced its rating on Affirm Holdings Inc from Overweight to Equal-weight and removed the company from its top pick list, attributing the change to valuation pressures following a substantial share-price recovery. The firm kept a $79 price target and raised its fiscal 2028 GAAP EPS estimate, while noting that earlier operational conc…
Bank of America has reiterated a Buy rating on Chevron Corporation with a $210.00 price target, following a field visit that covered Chevron's Gulf Coast refining operations and offshore developments. The trip, which included meetings with senior company executives, reinforced BofA's view that Chevron's centralized refining model and strong perform…
Anthropic has introduced Claude Science, an AI-first workbench meant to aggregate scientific research tools into a unified environment. The platform packages more than 60 curated skills and connectors for life‑science domains, supports macOS and Linux with remote HPC access, produces figures and manuscripts alongside reproducible code, and includes…
Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras approved a mechanism to introduce floor and ceiling Brent price levels into the formulas used to calculate natural gas prices. The change is optional for customers via contract amendments and is projected to reduce the projected August increase for state distributors from 22% to 6%.
OpenAI unveiled GeneBench-Pro, a synthetic benchmark consisting of 129 problems spanning genomics, quantitative biology and translational medicine. The suite asks models to examine datasets, select analytic strategies and deliver final answers. External domain experts reviewed a subset of the problems for realism and answer identifiability. Leading…
C1 Fund, an exchange-listed closed-end vehicle concentrated in late-stage digital asset infrastructure businesses, is executing a multi-faceted strategy to reduce the gap between its market price and net asset value, CEO Dr. Najam Kidwai said in a recent interview. The fund combines investor education, expanded investor relations, pursuit of sell-s…
Blue Origin said it will not reconstruct the launch pad destroyed in May during a hot-fire test. The company plans to move to a horizontal/vertical hybrid launch configuration using infrastructure developed for a larger New Glenn variant called the 9x4, and expects to return to flight before the end of the year while investigations into the cause c…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) orders for 20 variants of ZYN nicotine pouches, enabling Philip Morris International's U.S. unit to market these products as carrying a lower risk of several smoking-related diseases than cigarettes. The decision, the first MRTP designation for nicotine pouches, p…
Pirelli has presented a multi-year investment programme for the United States valued at roughly $1.0 billion to $1.2 billion to expand local manufacturing capacity, with planned production of Cyber Tyres. The plan was shared with the company's newly constituted board and will be submitted for approval at an upcoming meeting. The announcement follow…
Sherwin-Williams shares have climbed roughly 18% off a 52-week low, with Citi lifting its price target to $380 and keeping a Buy rating. The rally follows a Q1 earnings beat but has been shadowed by cautious forward guidance and a mixed set of analyst views. Institutional buying and technical support coexist with index-related selling pressure afte…
The Philadelphia semiconductor index climbed about 94% in the first half of 2026, its second-best six-month performance since the index began in 1994. Strength in demand for data center chips tied to artificial intelligence workloads, plus higher capital spending by large cloud operators, underpinned gains led by memory and data-center-focused supp…
BMW reduced its full-year automotive profit margin outlook to 1-3%, down from 4-6%, citing the economic effects of the Iran conflict and softer demand in China. The guidance cut, labelled "radical" by JPMorgan, accompanies plans to discuss roughly 5% workforce reductions and has driven the stock to levels near its 52-week lows. Investors now look t…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded Airbus' long-term rating to A+ from A and raised short-term and issue-level ratings, citing a strengthened cash position and sustained free operating cash flow. The agency highlighted cumulative free operating cash flow of about €15.6 billion for 2022-2025 and a net cash balance exceeding €10 billion as of December 2…
