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General Motors is signaling a potential retreat from using lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in future electric vehicles, according to comments from the automaker's head of battery technology. GM said it will concentrate on lithium manganese-rich (LMR) chemistry, which the company says stores more energy at similar cost to LFP when produced in…
By mid-afternoon in New York on Wednesday, options trading in Serve Robotics totaled 48,811 contracts, led overwhelmingly by call options. The July 17, 2026 $11 call was the most active single strike, and a notable calendar spread tied the July 17 and July 24 $11 calls together in significant volume.
Ares Management’s chief executive told a financial conference that private credit is an essential source of returns for insurance companies aiming to meet policyholder objectives, and that increased regulatory scrutiny will provide useful transparency into private market structures and performance. Data from AM Best is cited showing a more than two…
ERock, a Houston-based gas generator manufacturer, raised $600 million in its U.S. IPO but saw its stock fall 6.5% on its New York Stock Exchange debut after opening below the offer price. The company reported a sharply expanded contracted sales backlog, driven largely by AI data center projects, and noted a major onsite power agreement tied to Met…
Chinese EV manufacturer BYD is pursuing an existing factory in southern Europe as the location for its second European assembly plant, with Spain cited as a potential option. Executive vice president Stella Li said the company favors taking over an operational facility. BYD intends to begin production at its first European plant in Hungary in the f…
Invesco QQQ Trust fell about 1.2% in afternoon trade to $699.71 after peaking near $711.26, pressured by a hotter May CPI print that pushed year-over-year inflation to 4.2%. The CPI reading renewed expectations for higher-for-longer interest rates, amplifying losses in high-multiple technology names, while semiconductor and AI-linked stocks extende…
Stellantis shares plunged after the automaker disclosed a major safety recall affecting over 1.3 million Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles from 2021-2025, citing an electrical defect that can cause fires even when ignition is off. With at least 72 incidents potentially linked to the issue and no immediate remedy available, owners were urged to p…
Options pricing indicates Jabil Inc. could see an 8.9% price move when it reports earnings on June 17 before the market opens, according to options data compiled by Bloomberg. Historical comparisons show that actual stock movements around prior earnings have sometimes exceeded and other times fallen short of what options implied.
Options market pricing suggests Trip.com Group Ltd. shares could move about 3.6% when the company reports earnings on June 17. The firm has a history of actual post-earnings moves that have both exceeded and come in below options-implied expectations across its most recent eight reports. The precise timing of the June 17 announcement has not been c…
Options market pricing indicates CarMax Inc. (KMX) could see a roughly 12% share-price move when the company reports earnings on June 17 before the market opens, according to options data compiled by Bloomberg. Historical comparisons across the company’s last eight earnings releases show actual moves have surpassed that implied range twice and been…
Fubo's shares climbed 3% after the streaming service reached a distribution agreement with NBCUniversal that restores a slate of Spanish-language networks today and adds English-language channels, regional sports networks and FAST channels over the coming weeks. The arrangement places various NBCUniversal channels across multiple Fubo subscription …
Belgian authorities have authorized Tesla to deploy its Full Self-Driving (FSD) supervised driver assistance software after the transport minister for Flanders signed an approval document. The authorization follows a series of tests carried out in Belgium and, under national rules, regional approvals extend to the entire country. Belgium is the thi…
Trading on Wednesday produced notable moves across market-cap tiers. Several mega-cap technology and industrial names fell, including Tesla and AMD, while a handful of large-, mid- and small-cap stocks rallied sharply on company news ranging from stronger-than-expected results to capital raises and board appointments. The session was marked by stee…
Oppenheimer named Applied Industrial Technologies its top industrial pick, citing the company's positioning to capitalize on improving industrial demand and multiple growth vectors across its Engineered Solutions and Service Center Based Distribution segments. The brokerage highlighted backlog and order trends, expanding datacenter applications, an…
Investors face a dense U.S. data docket on Thursday, June 11, 2026, with the Producer Price Index and Initial Jobless Claims forming the core releases. The PPI and its core counterpart will provide early signals of inflation at the wholesale level, while jobless claims will offer a fresh snapshot of labor market momentum. Additional scheduled items…
Microsoft has instructed staff to limit use of Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 while its legal teams assess changes to the AI startup’s data retention policy. The pause follows Anthropic’s announcement that Claude Fable 5 - a public release of its Mythos model family - will retain prompts and outputs for 30 days, with flagged content stor…
India is assessing the potential to import crude oil from Canada, driven in part by its newer refineries' ability to process heavy crude grades. Diplomatic and industry officials from both countries are meeting regularly to explore energy sourcing options, even as investor concerns about Canada's regulatory and project approval regime could affect …
Parabilis Medicines Inc saw its shares begin trading at $33.35, a 67% premium to the $20.00 IPO price, before settling to $29.50, 47.5% above the offering price. The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company priced an upsized IPO for 33,500,000 shares, granted underwriters a 30-day option for additional shares, and arranged a concurrent private plac…
Black Hills Corporation shares rose sharply in mid-day trading after management issued a formal update confirming that its planned 1.8-gigawatt data center development in Cheyenne, Wyoming, remains on schedule. The company said service is expected to begin in early 2028 and that it is working directly with the prospective large-load customer follow…
Google introduced DiffusionGemma, an experimental open model that uses text diffusion and parallel generation to deliver up to four times faster text production on dedicated GPUs. The 26 billion parameter Mixture of Experts model activates only 3.8 billion parameters at inference, fits within 18GB when quantized, and achieves more than 1,000 tokens…
Ennoconn Corporation has notified Kontron AG that it has exceeded the 30% voting rights threshold. That notification obliges Ennoconn to make a mandatory cash offer of €23.5 per Kontron share for the remaining outstanding shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Kontron has suspended its share buyback program and will review the offer under the rele…
Piper Sandler initiated coverage of SharkNinja with an Overweight rating and a $150 price target, highlighting the company’s product innovation, expanding advertising footprint and several emerging growth levers. The firm sees upside for annual sales growth north of 15% and material EPS improvement over the next three years.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC that private conversations with the company’s enterprise clients reveal broad dissatisfaction with frontier AI labs. Clients, he said, feel these labs do not grasp their business needs and instead concentrate on maximizing token consumption. Karp highlighted rising model costs and argued implementation will determin…
The S&P 500 energy sector climbed 2.3% after crude oil futures strengthened following a U.S. presidential comment regarding Iran and a larger-than-expected drop in U.S. crude inventories. Major integrated producers, independents, refiners and an oilfield services firm all posted gains, led by a notable jump in Devon Energy tied to its post-merger p…
ERock Inc. opened trading on the NYSE at $20.10 after pricing its initial public offering at $21.50 per share, sending the stock down 6.5% on its first day. The company sold 27,906,977 shares of Class A common stock and granted underwriters a 30-day option on 4,186,046 additional shares. The offering is expected to close on June 11, 2026, subject t…
