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Enphase Energy stock jumped in premarket trading after Barclays raised its rating and the company began production shipments of a new three-phase commercial microinverter. Barclays flagged the company's solid-state transformer opportunity as a potential multi-billion dollar U.S. addressable market late in the decade, while Enphase said the IQ9S-3P …
Integra LifeSciences shares rose 1.9% in pre-market trading after Argus upgraded the medical technology firm from Hold to Buy and set a $25 price target. The upgrade highlighted renewed confidence in management's ability to engineer a sustained earnings turnaround and steadier revenue growth, noting that prior production constraints have been resol…
Prem AI, a Switzerland-based company that enables enterprises to run artificial intelligence models on their own private infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A round and is targeting a valuation of at least $500 million. The company said it expects to complete the financing in the third quarter and counts hedge funds and law firms am…
Shares of HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. rose sharply in premarket trading after the company disclosed a roughly $220 million, three-year GPU cloud contract through its BUZZ High Performance Computing unit and announced municipal approval to acquire a 32 MW data center in Boden, Sweden. The GPU deployment uses 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in G…
Cruiser Capital Advisors has urged Ashland Inc.'s board to actively pursue a sale of the specialty chemicals company, arguing in a letter that a transaction represents the best risk-adjusted route to boost shareholder value. The firm, aligning in outcome with a recent campaign from another activist investor, highlighted the cost burden of remaining…
Futures tied to Canada’s resource-heavy main exchange rose modestly on Thursday, supported by gains in gold, after an unexpected interim agreement between the United States and Iran dampened the risk of a prolonged oil supply shock. The move came even as the Federal Reserve signalled a more hawkish path for policy, leaving investors weighing lower …
JPMorgan strategists estimate that quarter-end portfolio rebalancing could produce as much as $165 billion in equity sales before the end of June. The bank’s note apportions the potential selling across major institutional pools, with U.S. defined benefit pensions, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, and the …
Energy Fuels shares climbed sharply in pre-market trading after the U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital announced a $725 million conditional loan commitment to support construction of a rare earth separation and metallization plant in the United States. The financing, to be paired with private capital, is intended to speed domestic…
CervoMed Inc. shares jumped 20% after the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice of allowance for a patent covering use of neflamapimod to treat dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) in patients without substantial Alzheimer’s disease-like tau pathology. The patent is expected to provide protection into 2042, with the possibility of ex…
Ivan Cepeda, a 63-year-old leftist senator whose formative years included periods of exile and the political killing of his father, is campaigning to succeed President Gustavo Petro by advancing and broadening recent economic and social reforms. Polls showed Cepeda finishing second in the first round and trailing right-wing rival Abelardo De La Esp…
Centrus Energy surged 8.2% in pre-market trading following a Letter of Intent with advanced nuclear developer Oklo that would have Centrus supply domestically produced high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) sufficient for up to five Aurora powerhouses for multiple years, with deliveries beginning in 2029. The LOI links Centrus’s Pike County Americ…
U.S. markets face the largest options expiration on record on Thursday, June 18, with about $8.3 trillion in options exposure set to expire in a single session - roughly 18% more than the previous high of about $7.1 trillion in December 2025. The event - pushed one day earlier because markets are closed Friday for Juneteenth - coincides with quarte…
Moderna shares climbed after an FDA advisory committee convened to assess whether the benefits of the company’s mRNA influenza vaccine exceed its risks for older adults. The FDA review comes after regulators reversed an earlier rejection of the application. Moderna is seeking full approval for ages 50-64 and accelerated approval for those 65 and ol…
UniCredit appointed Riccardo Orcel - a former senior banker at Russian state-backed VTB Group and brother of the bank's CEO Andrea Orcel - as an independent adviser after he presented a proposal that led to a non-binding agreement to sell parts of UniCredit's Russia business to a private investor based in the United Arab Emirates. Orcel has since l…
U.S. equity futures rose on Thursday as markets reacted to news of an interim Middle East peace agreement that appeared to reduce some of the market's anxieties tied to the Federal Reserve's hawkish posture. At 0750 ET (11:50 GMT) futures contracts showed modest gains, with technology names among the strongest premarket performers. Several individu…
Energy Fuels shares jumped after the U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital announced a $725 million conditional loan commitment to support construction of a domestic rare earth separation and metallization facility, a move intended to extend the company's operations beyond uranium processing and address U.S. supply chain gaps for cri…
Spero Therapeutics saw its shares rise 16% following U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Utebzi, an oral carbapenem antibiotic developed by GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with Spero. The drug is indicated for adult patients with complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis, who have limited or no alternative oral treatme…
JPMorgan's quantitative strategy team warns that higher volatility combined with elevated investor exposure in semiconductor equities increases the likelihood of recurrent, disruptive selloffs. The bank highlights concentration and valuation distortions within indices, estimates substantial rebalancing flows at June close that could amplify swings,…
The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting an inquiry into how Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei established a global investment portfolio that involved transactions connected to U.S. banks. The probe, which forms part of a wider review into alleged money laundering and corruption, is scrutinizing deals tied to firms overseen by Khamenei and…
Novocure shares fell sharply in pre-market trading after the company disclosed that its Phase 3 TRIDENT trial did not achieve a statistically significant improvement in overall survival for newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients. The closely watched study showed nearly identical median survival between the trial arms, a development that removes a po…
Kroger shares declined in pre-market trade after the grocer posted first-quarter fiscal 2026 results that met adjusted earnings expectations but showed slowing comparable-store sales. While adjusted EPS and eCommerce growth beat some expectations, identical store sales excluding fuel decelerated sharply year-over-year, and investors remain concerne…
Shares of Butterfly Network (BFLY) jumped 17% Thursday morning after Midjourney unveiled the Midjourney Scanner and a new healthcare division, Midjourney Medical, which license Butterfly's semiconductor-based Ultrasound-on-Chip technology. The announcement detailed a high-throughput, full-body ultrasonic computational tomography platform that aims …
Cognizant shares fell sharply in New York premarket trade following an industry-wide reassessment after Accenture trimmed its outlook. A consequential downgrade from Berenberg - moving its rating on Cognizant from Buy to Hold and cutting the price target from $81 to $59 - heightened pressure on the stock as investors weighed the implications of a f…
IBM stock dropped sharply in pre-market trading after a guidance cut from Accenture sparked a broader reassessment of demand across IT services. The fall was compounded by an IBM study showing a large majority of enterprise executives lack clarity about their AI dependencies, a finding analysts say could push buyers to delay major AI projects and t…
Gokul Laroia, Morgan Stanley Asia CEO and co-head of global equities, told the Lujiazui Forum that China's hundreds of AI companies could contribute an additional $3 trillion to $4 trillion in market capitalization if they secure sufficient funding. His remarks came as Beijing accelerates state-led efforts to channel capital into technology, includ…
