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Barclays reviewed proxy filings for seven leading U.S. energy service companies across three industry cycles - 2013, 2019 and 2024-2025 - and found that short-term pay remains closely linked to upstream spending, free cash flow has displaced EPS as a financial metric, ESG has grown in importance, and board tenure patterns vary widely among firms.
Hungary's MOL has requested a 30-day extension from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to finalize its negotiations to buy a majority stake in Serbia's NIS, Serbia's energy minister said. The request comes ahead of a June 6 deadline tied to an earlier short extension and follows a January binding agreement between MOL and Russia's Gazprom Ne…
The European Commission has introduced two legislative proposals aimed at expanding Europe’s domestic cloud, AI and semiconductor sectors. The Cloud and AI Development Act and Chips Act 2.0 are designed to reduce dependence on non-European providers for critical services, bolster EU-made semiconductors to 20% global market share by 2030, and impose…
Kalshi, a prediction market platform, reported former U.S. Representative George Santos to the Department of Justice after identifying trading activity it deemed suspicious. The company also alerted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The trades centered on Santos publicly stating he would attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union ad…
Shares of several U.S. asset managers fell in premarket trading after Switzerland's Partners Group moved to cap redemptions from an $8.6 billion private-equity vehicle amid elevated withdrawal requests. The action prompted a sharp drop in Partners Group stock in Switzerland and highlighted broader redemption pressures in private markets, with media…
Ulta Beauty shares pulled back in pre-market trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected Q1 FY2026 results but offered guidance and expense details that left little fresh upside for investors. Adjusted EPS and revenue topped estimates, yet raised full-year EPS guidance aligned with prior consensus, while SG&A rose 14.6% largely due to…
The European Commission has tabled two pieces of legislation intended to expand the EU's cloud, artificial intelligence and semiconductor industries while reducing dependence on U.S. technology providers. The measures set a target of increasing the EU's share of global semiconductor production to 20% by 2030 and introduce sovereignty requirements f…
Digi Power X said Wednesday it has committed $35 million to acquire NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin rack-scale systems to expand capacity for its NeoCloudz GPU-as-a-Service offering. The company plans to fund the purchase from cash on hand, deploy the systems through NeoCloudz and proceed with a phased data center buildout that targets service dates in late 20…
Yardeni Research, which holds the highest year-end S&P 500 target on Wall Street at 8,250, says it is adopting a cautious stance on equities in the near term even as the S&P 500 surpassed 7,600 for the first time. The firm flagged a set of near-term risks - an unresolved Middle East conflict, warnings from major oil executives about low inventories…
AlphaSense announced a $350 million funding round that values the company at $7.5 billion, almost double its prior valuation. Led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, the investment will be used to extend the firm's international footprint and scale global customer support as it continues to grow recurring rev…
Circle Internet shares fell about 2% Wednesday morning after a report said Stripe, Visa and Mastercard are preparing to launch a shared stablecoin platform. The report cited three people familiar with the plans and said Coinbase is exploring participation, according to one source. Stripe, Visa and Coinbase declined to comment; Mastercard had not re…
A Morgan Stanley-hosted panel featuring leaders from Mindspace REIT, CapitaLand India Trust and Invest India concluded that India’s data center industry has significant runway for expansion but faces infrastructure constraints. With current capacity at about 1.4GW - roughly 1W per person - India trails China and the United States on a per-capita ba…
Raymond James says lumber equities are trading near multi-cycle lows at about 0.5 price-to-book after 15 quarters of housing weakness, and its supply-demand model anticipates tightening fundamentals driven by reduced European and Canadian shipments. The firm highlights select producers and distributors as potential beneficiaries of a recovery and q…
India's Union Cabinet approved up to Rs100 billion in budgetary support to Oil Marketing Companies to stabilize aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices for scheduled carriers on domestic and international routes. Goldman Sachs estimates the relief could cover between two and five months of fuel support depending on the price metric used, and notes the g…
Morgan Stanley reduced its recommendation on Panasonic Holdings to Equal-Weight from Overweight, saying the company's recent surge tied to AI infrastructure demand has diminished potential upside. The firm simultaneously lifted its price target to 3,900 yen from 3,000 yen and upgraded earnings forecasts while moving to a price-to-earnings valuation…
Morgan Stanley increased its price target on ASML Holding NV to €1,660 from €1,400 and maintained an overweight rating after interpreting comments from the company’s April annual general meeting as evidence of firmer near-term extreme ultraviolet (EUV) shipment capacity. The bank raised its unit shipment forecasts for 2027 and 2028, adjusted its va…
Marvell Technology's stock extended a dramatic run, jumping another 13% in premarket trading after a 32.5% surge the previous session, following strong public praise from Nvidia's CEO and a price-target raise from Stifel that cites the company's positioning in AI infrastructure and data-center connectivity.
The European Parliament will set Qwant as the default search engine on its Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox browsers from June 4, 2026, a step officials describe as intended to curb reliance on non-EU digital tools and to promote European, privacy-focused services. The European Commission will later unveil additional measures targeting chips, clo…
Shares of large alternative asset managers tumbled after Cliffwater's $31 billion non-traded business development company reported 17% redemption requests in its May 2-29 tender window, up from 14% in February. The fund kept its 5% redemption threshold and said it has liquidity to meet those thresholds for about 12 months. Analysts warn the sector'…
DeepSeek is closing a 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) funding round that counts Tencent and Contemporary Amperex among its largest investors, with the company’s founder also making a significant personal contribution. Management has told investors the priority will remain AI research rather than near-term commercialization as the startup expands int…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of RELX Plc with a "buy" rating and a 12-month price target of £30, asserting the information and analytics group has strong defenses against AI disruption and a clear path to accelerating revenue and cash flow growth. The broker assigns top-sector AI resilience scores to RELX, highlights the Risk division’s contrib…
Intel shares climbed sharply in pre-market trading after CEO Lip-Bu Tan unveiled the company’s Xeon 6 Plus processor and a roadmap focused on agentic AI and CPU-centric data center infrastructure at Computex 2026 in Taipei. A slate of analyst price-target increases and announcements of rackscale partnerships helped sustain the rally as the stock re…
Goldman Sachs began coverage of Wolters Kluwer with a Neutral rating and a €71 price target, describing the Dutch information services group as attractively valued but lacking near-term drivers for a material re-rating. The bank expects Wolters Kluwer to deliver steady EPS compound growth while flagging AI-related threats to key product pricing and…
Macy’s reported a 1.8% rise in first-quarter sales to $4.68 billion, its first quarterly increase after 15 straight quarters of declines, and raised its fiscal 2026 net sales and adjusted EPS targets. Strong demand at Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury, along with broader interest in premium apparel and accessories, underpinned the results amid a split…
Shake Shack shares fell in pre-market trading after management reduced its Q2 2026 guidance, lowering revenue, same-shack sales growth and restaurant-level profit margin projections. The guidance revision prompted multiple analyst downgrades and price-target cuts, while the fast-casual sector faces ongoing consumer, commodity and competitive pressu…
