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Snap Shares Slide Again as SPECS Headset Reception Stalls; Hardware Costs a Central Concern

Snap Shares Slide Again as SPECS Headset Reception Stalls; Hardware Costs a Central Concern

Snap shares dropped again in morning trade, extending losses after the company unveiled its standalone SPECS augmented reality headset at the Augmented World Expo. Analysts expressed caution about the product's steep $2,195 price and potential adoption limits, while activist investor Randian Capital continues to press for strategic options for the …

Micron Shares Rebound as Analysts Lift Targets on AI-Driven DRAM Demand

Micron Shares Rebound as Analysts Lift Targets on AI-Driven DRAM Demand

Micron Technology shares rose 2.9% in morning trading after several major analysts sharply raised price targets, citing persistent AI-driven DRAM demand, favorable pricing, and a fully booked high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production schedule for 2026. The bullish analyst commentary and recent order-book dynamics have helped the stock recover from a v…

Six Flags Shares Tick Higher After Director Buys $5.9 Million in Stock

Six Flags Shares Tick Higher After Director Buys $5.9 Million in Stock

Six Flags Entertainment Corp shares rose 2.1% in premarket trading on Wednesday after director Rehan Jaffer bought $5.9 million of common stock in two transactions on June 12 and June 15, 2026. The purchases, executed through funds managed by H Partners Management, raised Jaffer’s indirect holdings to 4.9 million shares, according to a Form 4 filin…

Genco Shares Jump After Diana Shipping Increases Takeover Bid

Genco Shares Jump After Diana Shipping Increases Takeover Bid

Genco Shipping & Trading Co. stock rose 3.7% in pre-market trading after Diana Shipping Inc. boosted its takeover offer to $27.34 per share from a prior all-cash bid of $24.80. The updated proposal combines $24.80 in cash with one Diana share valued at $2.54, based on Diana’s 30-day volume-weighted average price through June 16, 2026, and is suppor…

Goldman Survey Shows Firms Prioritizing AI Even as Overall IT Spend Softens

Goldman Survey Shows Firms Prioritizing AI Even as Overall IT Spend Softens

Goldman Sachs' latest CIO survey finds overall IT spending and IT capital spending indices slipping while AI-specific allocations accelerate. A rising share of enterprises expect generative AI to take more than 10% of IT budgets over three years, with many funding inference costs through reallocated budgets and shifting dollars away from applicatio…

Allbirds rebrands as Smartbird, names former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO amid AI infrastructure pivot

Allbirds rebrands as Smartbird, names former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO amid AI infrastructure pivot

On June 17, Allbirds announced a corporate rebrand to Smartbird and appointed Nadia Carlsten, a former Amazon Web Services executive with experience in AI and quantum computing, as president and CEO. The move formalizes the company's April decision to move away from footwear toward providing cloud computing capacity and AI services. Smartbird said …

CME Group Shares Drop After Surprise CEO Succession Plan Announced

CME Group Shares Drop After Surprise CEO Succession Plan Announced

CME Group disclosed a planned leadership change that saw shares fall in pre-market trading. Chairman and CEO Terry Duffy will step down from the CEO role on March 1, 2027 and assume an Executive Chairman title, while President and CFO Lynne Fitzpatrick will become CEO and join the board. The move, disclosed via an SEC Form 8-K and press release, ca…

Morningstar, Apollo, Franklin Templeton and J.P. Morgan to Offer Retail Investors Access to Private Markets

Morningstar, Apollo, Franklin Templeton and J.P. Morgan to Offer Retail Investors Access to Private Markets

Morningstar's wealth unit has partnered with Apollo Global Management, Franklin Templeton and J.P. Morgan Asset Management to create a set of portfolios aimed at giving individual investors exposure to private markets. The offerings, scheduled to launch later this year, will use a combination of exchange-traded funds and interval funds. Initial mod…

Insider Transactions: Heavy Buying in Biotech and Energy, Large Sales Across Tech and Payments

Insider Transactions: Heavy Buying in Biotech and Energy, Large Sales Across Tech and Payments

A review of Tuesday's disclosures shows concentrated insider buying in Artiva Biotherapeutics, Alpha Metallurgical Resources, American Bitcoin Corp., Skillsoft and Ring Energy. At the same time, significant sell-side activity included planned and opportunistic disposals by executives and funds at Natera, Innodata, Corpay and Netskope. The filings p…

Aehr Test Systems Jumps After Follow-On FOX-XP Production Order

Aehr Test Systems Jumps After Follow-On FOX-XP Production Order

Aehr Test Systems stock climbed sharply in premarket trading after announcing a follow-on production order for a FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in system from a major global networking products company. The system, configured to test nine wafers simultaneously and including a WaferPak Auto Aligner and a full set of FOX WaferPak Contactors, is due to be de…