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L’Oréal shares rose 1.5% to €392.5 after Citi upgraded the stock to Buy and lifted its price target to €435, citing improved long-term growth expectations tied to the Kering Beauty acquisition and strengthening organic sales trends. The move countered recent negative notes from Deutsche Bank and Jefferies as investors await the July 29 earnings rep…
H.B. Fuller fell sharply in pre-market trading after formally confirming the purchase of Advanced Medical Solutions and reporting fiscal second-quarter results that met revenue and EPS expectations but left full-year adjusted EPS midpoint slightly below analyst forecasts. The deal, priced at £715 million (about $942 million including debt), is expe…
Bio-Techne shares jumped sharply in pre-market trading after Merck KGaA announced a binding agreement to acquire the Minneapolis-based life sciences company for $73 per share in cash, implying an enterprise value near $11.3 billion. The board-approved offer carries a 36% premium to the one-month volume-weighted average price and compresses the stoc…
ITV Plc shares climbed after Sky, the Comcast-owned pay-TV operator, agreed terms to purchase ITV’s Media & Entertainment unit, including its free-to-air channels and ITVX streaming service, for £1.6 billion. The transaction includes a swap in which ITV Studios will acquire Love Productions from Sky, valued between £80 million and £120 million, plu…
Investors and fund managers are preparing for elevated trading volumes tied to FTSE Russell's June reconstitution, which includes the fast-entry adoption of SpaceX into the Russell 1000, reclassifications for megacaps, and dozens of small-cap promotions to larger indexes. Market participants expect substantial portfolio rebalancing, with nearly $15…
Indian shares finished modestly higher on Thursday with the Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex both advancing 0.14%, driven by strength in auto, real estate and banking names. Market breadth was negative on both exchanges, while volatility, commodity and currency indicators moved lower in late trade. Notable movers included Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki …
Volkswagen AG shares climbed after the company confirmed it will sell a 51% stake in its large engine business, renamed Everllence, to Bain Capital for about c7.4 billion including the stake value and expected post-deal debt. Volkswagen will remain a 49% shareholder. Analysts said the transaction strengthens the group's finances as it pursues a br…
Germany’s Merck KGaA agreed to buy Bio-Techne for about $11.3 billion, adding research and bioprocessing capabilities to its life sciences division. That transaction is the latest in a string of large deals over the past decade by U.S.-based pharmaceutical and biotech companies targeting assets across oncology, immunology, rare diseases, obesity, d…
Barclays retains a positive outlook on global equities and expects the economic expansion to continue, forecasting 3.1% global growth in 2026. The firm highlights the U.S. profit cycle as the primary driver of global macro developments and notes earnings gains spreading beyond mega-cap tech into hiring, capital spending and consumer demand. At the …
Schaeffler shares climbed after Citi identified the stock as attractively valued at roughly €8, arguing the core business alone is worth about €8.30 and that further upside could come from non-automotive opportunities in humanoids, space and defense. The bank said recent weakness in the share price does not reflect a deteriorating fundamental outlo…
International Business Machines saw a sharp pre-market rally after revealing a 0.7 nanometer transistor architecture built on a three-dimensional 'nanostack' that stacks and staggers transistors to reach roughly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip. The announcement, presented at VLSI 2026 and unveiled at IBM Research's Yorktown Heigh…
Volkswagen stock climbed after the automaker confirmed a deal to sell a 51% stake in its engine business Everllence to Bain Capital. The agreement is expected to provide Volkswagen with €7.4 billion in proceeds, with the transaction closing and final revaluation to be completed by year-end. Bain beat rival private equity bidders CVC and EQT in a cl…
JuNeng Technology Limited has filed a prospectus for an initial public offering of 6,250,000 ordinary shares, each with a par value of $0.0001. The company plans to price the shares between $4.00 and $5.00 and has reserved the ticker symbol NENG for a Nasdaq Capital Market listing, subject to Nasdaq granting approval. The firm is organized as an ex…
Volkswagen shares rose after the automaker agreed to sell a 51% stake in engine maker Everllence to Bain Capital in a transaction projected to yield €7.4 billion in proceeds. The deal follows a competitive sale process and values Everllence at over €9 billion on Reuters calculations using late-May book value. Management said the group will decide l…
Berenberg has started coverage of Ithaca Energy plc with a 'buy' recommendation and a 270 pence price target. The broker cites strong production growth following the merger with Eni’s UK business, an outlook for sustained output into the 2030s, a solid dividend track record and potential upside from UK fiscal policy changes, while flagging balance-…
International Business Machines reported a sub-1 nanometer chip milestone, describing a 0.7 nm transistor node implemented in a three-dimensional "nanostack" that stacks and staggers transistors. The company said the chip contains nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized die, about double the density of its 2 nm chip introduced in 2021,…
Dollar Tree shares tumbled in pre-market trade after activist investor Mantle Ridge LP, a director-level holder and the retailer's largest and most influential shareholder, filed notice to sell 1,115,228 shares worth about $133.1 million. The filing followed a recent strong run for the stock supported by a robust fiscal Q1 2026 earnings beat and an…
IBM revealed a transistor architecture measuring 0.7 nanometers that it says is the first technology capable of producing chips smaller than one nanometer. The design, called 'nanostack', stacks transistors vertically to increase density and claims nearly double the transistor packing of IBM’s prior 2-nanometer design, offering higher performance o…
Several leading Chinese automakers have accelerated business activity in Canada following a January decision by Prime Minister Mark Carney to permit limited electric-vehicle imports from China. Companies including Chery, BYD, Lotus and state-owned Changan have initiated dealer meetings, regulatory filings and dealership scouting despite narrow tari…
Median list prices for prescription medicines approved by U.S. regulators fell in 2025 to $216,000, down from over $370,000 in 2024, according to a new analysis. Analysts attribute the decline chiefly to a shift in the mix of drug types approved - notably fewer costly cell and gene therapies and a larger share of small-molecule approvals - rather t…
Rheinmetall shares fell after Germany's Defense Ministry canceled the F126 six-frigate program and declined to appoint Rheinmetall's recently acquired Naval Vessels Lürssen unit as lead contractor. The government instead awarded a separate order to TKMS for eight Meko A-200 frigates. The contract decision, coupled with disappointing quarterly resul…
EU competition enforcers concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act after a seven-month inquiry. The Commission says the move would apply the DMA’s obligations to the two largest global cloud providers. Amazon warned the assessment overlooks the variety of cloud offerings…
Intel shares jumped sharply in pre-market trading, lifted by a series of analyst actions, a high-profile options disclosure and a broader chip rally following record results at a leading memory maker. The move appears driven by company-specific catalysts rather than broad market strength, placing Intel near the top of its recent trading range and c…
ProPicks AI identified Micron Technology as a high-conviction idea at the start of June, predicting outsized earnings momentum tied to AI-driven demand for memory chips. That call has paid off for members after Micron reported record revenue and strong guidance, while a broader set of AI-picked names across semiconductors, healthcare suppliers and …
U.S. equity futures climbed in early trading led by technology and semiconductor stocks after strong company updates tied to artificial intelligence demand. Micron and Qualcomm posted outsized premarket moves following earnings and strategic announcements, while Hertz slid after reducing its second-quarter outlook and unveiling two capital-raising …
