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The London Metal Exchange has entered into an agreement with the Shanghai Futures Exchange to list a new cash-settled hot-rolled coil (HRC) steel futures contract on the LME, tied to the SHFE's monthly U.S. dollar HRC price. The contract is scheduled to begin trading in October 2026 and aims to provide market participants outside China with a direc…
Aehr Test Systems shares climbed after the company disclosed a follow-on production order for a fully automated FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in system from a major silicon photonics customer. The system, capable of testing nine wafers in parallel and equipped with automated alignment and contactor modules, is due for delivery within six months. The cust…
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited shares climbed 8% after Diana Shipping increased its acquisition offer to $27.34 per Genco share, comprising $24.80 in cash plus one Diana share valued at $2.54. The offer, Diana's fourth since November 2025, is backed by $1.433 billion of committed financing from six international banks with no financing condition.…
Aixtron shares jumped 6.3% to €59.75 following a bullish analyst note from JPMorgan on the evening of June 16. The bank raised its price target to €70 from €54.50 and maintained an Overweight rating, arguing that investors have underappreciated Aixtron’s next growth phase tied to gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) equipment. The upgrad…
Medincell stock tumbled after the company reported fiscal 2026 results that featured a larger net loss, falling headline income and a sharp rise in operating loss driven by stepped-up R&D and commercial investment. The slide was intensified by news that an AbbVie-partnered clinical program has been pushed into 2027, removing an expected near-term c…
Nexentis Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTS) saw a sharp intraday move after MitoCareX Bio, its drug-discovery subsidiary, completed a broad structural analysis of human SLC transport proteins intended to support small-molecule discovery. The session opened with a 30% gain that later narrowed to a 2% decline. MitoCareX says the work expands potential t…
BFF Bank shares jumped sharply after an Italian financial newspaper reported that Banco BPM is considering a joint offer with AMCO to buy parts of BFF. Under the reported structure, Banco BPM would take BFF’s custodian banking and payments operations while AMCO would acquire the public administration factoring business. The proposal is described as…
Bernstein has revised its view on server central processing units, citing a transition from generative chatbots to agentic AI that increases CPU workloads. Analyst David Dai raised the server CPU total addressable market to $223 billion, repositioning his prior $137 billion estimate as a bear case, and lifted price targets on Arm, AMD and Intel on …
A number of airlines have begun reinstating services to parts of the Middle East amid diplomatic efforts to stem the conflict sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. However, a significant portion of carriers are keeping routes suspended for weeks or months, maintaining disruption to global air travel. Below is an alphabetical update of operat…
Figma Inc. shares climbed 5% on Wednesday after Citi initiated coverage with a buy rating and a $36 price target. Analyst Tyler Radke highlighted the company’s ability to translate AI-related demand into revenue growth, citing customer checks and go-to-market signals from hyperscalers and large financial services firms. Radke pointed to new product…
Bank of America’s latest equity client flow trends report shows clients were net sellers of U.S. single stocks last week while continuing to accumulate equity ETFs. Institutional investors led the single-stock selling, private clients extended their selling streak, and hedge funds were substantial net buyers. Sector flows were mixed, with Technolog…
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ:PDYN) shares jumped 8% Wednesday morning after the company said it had been awarded U.S. Army contracts to support research, development and operational validation of its SwarmOS autonomy software and the Gremlin-X Group 2 strike unmanned aerial system. The work will include demonstrations with the Army's 4th Infantry Division …
Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR) rose 1.8% in pre-open trading after Wolfe Research released notes from meetings with Broadcom, Monolithic Power Systems and Tokyo Electron that portrayed accelerating AI infrastructure investment. Wolfe highlighted Broadcom’s XPU financing vehicle as a potential driver that could allow AI chip volumes to triple in fi…
Broadcom shares rose 1.7% in pre-market trading after a Wolfe Research note, based on recent management meetings, projected $250–300 billion in XPU revenue by fiscal 2028 and suggested full funding could push Anthropic and OpenAI XPU volumes to 15 gigawatts. The bounce follows a 4.4% drop in the prior session amid a broad semiconductor slump. Marke…
ClearPoint Neuro stock jumped 50% on Wednesday after UniQure disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indicated the three-year analysis from its Phase I/II study of AMT-130 could serve as the primary basis for a Biologics License Application seeking accelerated approval in Huntington's disease. AMT-130 is delivered using ClearPoint’s na…
uniQure said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed that three-year results from its Phase I/II program for AMT-130 can serve as the primary basis for a Biologics License Application (BLA) seeking accelerated approval in Huntington's disease. The company plans to file the BLA in the third quarter of 2026 and will continue working with the FDA…
Maureen Costello, Google Cloud’s vice president for the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa, says artificial intelligence use in Britain has shifted from experimentation to widescale deployment, with organisations beginning to realise returns. Examples include e-commerce tools that have increased customer spend and public-sector applications that sp…
Wolfe Research published a note after meetings with Broadcom, Monolithic Power Systems and Tokyo Electron. The research note highlights Broadcom's XPV financing tied to Anthropic and OpenAI XPU demand, Monolithic Power's cautious pricing posture and enterprise data growth floor, and Tokyo Electron's view that clean room capacity will cap upside for…
NeoVolta Inc. (NASDAQ: NEOV) rallied after Needham initiated coverage with a Buy rating and an $8.00 price target. The brokerage's view shifts emphasis from residential battery products to the company's majority-owned Georgia joint venture, Pendergrass, which is positioned to scale domestic BESS capacity and benefit from regulatory incentives. Fina…
Goldman Sachs cautioned that household spending may soften despite recent easing in energy market risks and broadly resilient consumption patterns. The bank cut its Brent crude forecast to $80 per barrel for the fourth quarter of 2026 from a prior $90, and outlined three channels that could weigh on real incomes and consumer demand through the rema…
CarMax reported first-quarter results that topped revenue forecasts as higher average used-vehicle prices and stronger wholesale demand boosted sales. Despite the revenue beat, the company saw lower retail gross profit per used vehicle and a year-over-year decline in net profit. Shares rose in premarket trading following the release.
Engie Brasil announced an agreement to acquire a 40% interest in the Jirau hydroelectric plant from its controlling shareholder, Engie Brasil Participacoes - owned by France's Engie. The purchase will be funded through a capital increase via a share offering linked to the asset contribution, and the board has approved the related-party transaction …
Chip-sector equities climbed in premarket trading Wednesday after Intel said its next-generation 18A-P manufacturing process has reached the risk production stage. Intel rose about 4% before the open, while Marvell Technology, Lam Research and Micron Technology also posted gains. Intel said 18A-P yields either a 9% performance gain at the same powe…
IQVIA Holdings shares slipped in pre-market trading after Morgan Stanley lowered the firm’s rating from Overweight to Equalweight and cut its price target to $200 from $225. The bank pointed to a lack of near-term catalysts, structural margin pressure from a shift in sponsor outsourcing models, and doubts about the company’s ability to capture AI-r…
AST SpaceMobile shares climbed sharply in pre-market trading after the company launched its BlueBird 8, 9, and 10 Block 2 satellites from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The satellites, each with roughly 2,400 square feet of array, are designed to deliver peak data speeds near 200 Mbps to standard, unmodified smartphones. The deployment ma…
