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Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) investment to expand its Leixlip manufacturing campus near Dublin. The funding will raise capacity for data center processors, including Xeon server chips, support research and development on site, and increase output for foundry customers as part of Intel's effort to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Man…
First Hawaiian Financial Corporation announced an all-stock acquisition of TriCo Bancshares that will give TriCo shareholders 2.095 First Hawaiian shares per TriCo share, implying $63.12 per TriCo share based on First Hawaiian's July 10, 2026 close. The transaction trims First Hawaiian's share price in early trading while lifting TriCo stock. If co…
Asian Paints has implemented an around 12% across-the-board price increase, the company said, pointing to higher raw material costs tied to recent tensions in West Asia. The manufacturer warned that input prices may take time to normalize and characterized the rise as the steepest in India’s paint sector. Peer firms have also lifted prices this yea…
JPMorgan raised American Express to Overweight in its consumer finance preview, even as the firm signaled broad caution across the sector. The bank cautioned that renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities, a cooling labor market and a hawkish rates backdrop - with mortgage rates near 6.5% - could depress consumer and refinance activity. JPMorgan left other con…
Dongfeng Motor Corp. will present electric vehicle models at a Montreal event as it prepares to seek Canadian regulatory certification and possible future sales under a temporary low-tariff quota negotiated by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The move follows the removal of a 100% surtax on up to 49,000 Chinese-made EVs for an initial one-year period, a…
Pulsenmore Ltd. (NASDAQ:PLSM) saw its share price rise about 160% after the company was selected to join Israel’s Healthcare AI Regulatory Sandbox Program, an initiative run by the Israel Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Health. The selection includes funding as part of a project valued at $1 million and will support development and clinica…
Truist Securities upgraded Biogen from Hold to Buy and increased its price target to $235 from $190, highlighting confidence in the company’s Alzheimer’s and immunology pipeline ahead of several pivotal data readouts over the next two years. The firm emphasized forthcoming detailed Phase 2 data for anti-tau candidate diranersen (BIIB080) at AAIC on…
BofA Global Research has initiated coverage of Ionos Group SE with a buy rating and a €37 price objective, implying roughly 29% upside from the stock's most recent close of €28.60. The bank projects Ionos will deliver about 8% revenue compound annual growth between 2025 and 2028 and roughly 17% adjusted EPS compounding over the same period. Valuati…
Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall proposes that The Walt Disney Company exit the direct-to-consumer streaming business and revert to a wholesale content and licensing model. Cahall contends such a move would remove the expensive distribution layer of Disney+, potentially unlock more than $15 billion in annual licensing revenue by fiscal 2028 and ad…
RBC Capital Markets adjusted its S&P 500 sector ratings, promoting Technology to overweight and lifting Consumer Discretionary to market weight while downgrading Communication Services and Utilities. The bank cited stronger earnings and revenue revision trends for Tech and noted valuation metrics are only modestly above long-term averages. RBC kept…
Seagate Technology plunged in pre-market trading as a renewed confrontation between the United States and Iran over the weekend pushed oil prices higher and sparked a global risk-off move that hit technology and semiconductor equities. The stock’s recent elevated valuation after a strong year-to-date rally amplified its sensitivity to the sector-wi…
SanDisk stock declined sharply in pre-market trading as a broad retreat across memory-chip names followed a steep drop in SK Hynix shares in Seoul. Profit-taking after SK Hynix’s Nasdaq debut and a Korean brokerage note forecasting an operating-profit miss pressured sentiment across the sector. Macroeconomic risk from renewed US-Iran strikes in the…
Saia Inc. shares rose 3.7% after BofA Securities upgraded the stock to Buy from Neutral and nudged its price target to $502 from $499. Analyst Ken Hoexter pointed to improving demand readings from BofA's Truck Shipper Survey, opportunities to raise service, productivity and yield at the less-than-truckload carrier, and a valuation discount versus t…
Vodafone shares climbed again after Xavier Niel’s family vehicle, Vega, agreed to buy e& Group’s entire 16.2% stake in the telecoms group. The deal makes Vega the largest shareholder, values the stake at roughly $5.95 billion and includes cash plus an upcoming dividend; analysts describe the move as broadly positive but say uncertainty remains over…
U.S. equities finished the week modestly higher, powered by gains in several large technology names. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted weekly advances while the Dow lagged slightly. Investors now shift focus to a packed macro and corporate calendar, including June CPI, PPI, retail sales and a slate of major bank results that will formally open second-q…
Q32 Bio Inc. (NASDAQ:QTTB) stock climbed 60% after the company released positive 36-week topline results from Part B of its SIGNAL-AA Phase 2a study of bempikibart in patients with severe or very severe alopecia areata. The trial met its primary endpoint, showing a 35.3% mean reduction in SALT score in the prespecified modified intent-to-treat anal…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to Enlivex Therapeutics’ investigational immunotherapy Allocetra for use in patients aged 64 and older with symptomatic, age-related knee osteoarthritis. The designation is intended to provide more frequent, early-stage interaction with the a…
Oregon's Department of Justice has withdrawn a court motion that sought to delay Paramount's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. The state had asked a Multnomah County court to force Paramount to hand over internal records and to impose a 60-day hold on the deal while it reviewed documents related to the transaction. Oregon says it wi…
Fraport stock climbed 2.6% to €71.15 after the company published June 2026 operating traffic figures early in the morning and CEO Stefan Schulte reiterated full-year 2026 guidance. The traffic update showed a small year-over-year decline in Frankfurt passenger volumes but growth across the group’s international airport network. Institutional backin…
Meta said it has disabled an AI-driven image generation feature introduced earlier this week that could draw on photos from public Instagram accounts. The tool, Muse Image, was integrated into Meta’s Meta AI chatbot and allowed users to use photos as input and edit generated images with sketches. The feature was widely criticized for being an autom…
Futures tied to Canada's main equity benchmark were flat Monday morning as a sharp jump in global crude prices helped stabilize the resource-focused S&P/TSX complex, even as broader markets reacted to escalating hostilities in the Middle East and technology sector weakness abroad. Brent crude climbed 4.4% to $79.36 a barrel after weekend missile an…
HSBC has downgraded AstraZeneca to Hold from Buy and reduced its price target to 13,750 pence from 16,500 pence following the Phase 3 Wainua trial's failure to meet its primary endpoint. The bank said the setback weakens the upside case, and cited a more volatile and delayed catalyst path that leaves the stock's re-rating contingent on later readou…
Citi Research has moved UK equities from overweight to underweight, arguing that the market’s defensive and commodity-heavy profile is less attractive as earnings growth and leadership broaden across global markets. The bank maintains selective UK sector preferences but is reallocating toward more cyclical markets, raising its outlook for Japan and…
German defense technology company Helsing said it raised $1.8 billion in a new funding round that values the business at $18 billion. The round included participation from both new and existing investors, among them JPMorgan Chase and venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Iconiq. Helsing said investor demand significantly exceeded a…
Chinese automakers invested nearly $101 billion in overseas electric vehicle and battery projects between 2019 and 2025, significantly more than the just-over $38 billion invested by U.S. companies in the same period, according to data compiled by Atlas Public Policy. American firms led foreign direct investment through 2021, but Chinese investment…
