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An attempt to pause hostilities between the United States and Iran has unraveled after a fresh exchange of strikes, leaving U.S. efforts to secure a face-saving exit fraught with risk. The interim memorandum that had opened a negotiating window is now under strain as Iran and the U.S. traded attacks on military sites and strategic shipping routes, …
Several U.S. states are prepared to file suit as soon as next week to block Paramount's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to two people familiar with the matter. The states' concerns over competition were not specified. Advocacy groups and some regulators have warned the deal could lead to higher streaming subsc…
During a public consultation tied to a Section 301 review of Brazilian trade practices, the U.S. coffee industry requested that green whole-bean imports from Brazil remain exempt from tariffs and asked that instant coffee be added to the exemption list. The National Coffee Association argued tariff-free treatment supports competitiveness for ready-…
Columbus Circle Capital Corp III completed an initial public offering of 20,000,000 units at $10.00 apiece, raising $200,000,000. The units were scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on July 9, 2026, under the ticker CCCTU. Each unit contains one Class A ordinary share and one-third of a redeemable warrant; each whole warrant allow…
Mercator Acquisition Corp. completed a $150 million initial public offering by selling 15,000,000 units at $10.00 each. The units consist of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of a redeemable warrant; full warrants carry an $11.50 exercise price. Units will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on July 9, 2026 under the symbol MRCOU, with …
Michael Burry has acquired meaningful positions in sports-betting operators Flutter Entertainment and DraftKings, allocating roughly 60% of the paired stake to Flutter and 40% to DraftKings. He told readers he bought Flutter near $107 per share and DraftKings in the low $26s, and said prediction markets pose the primary threat to those businesses b…
S&P Global Ratings downgraded Cosan S.A.'s issuer credit rating from BB- to B+ and removed the company from CreditWatch with negative implications. The agency pointed to the consequences of Raízen S.A.'s debt restructuring - including a large debt-to-equity conversion and a capital injection that Cosan will not join - as the primary driver of a wea…
S&P Global Ratings lowered Century Communities Inc.'s long-term issuer credit rating to 'BB-' from 'BB' and assigned a negative outlook, citing expectations that the Denver-based homebuilder will operate with adjusted debt to EBITDA well above 3x for the next 12-18 months. The agency also reduced the issue-level rating on the company's senior u…
Mexico's main index closed modestly lower as losses across Industrials, Consumer Goods & Services and Consumer Staples offset gains from select large-cap names. The S&P/BMV IPC fell 0.10% while market breadth favored decliners. Commodities and currency pairs moved unevenly, with gold down sharply and crude oil higher.
Summary: S&P Global Ratings downgraded Harley-Davidson Inc.'s corporate credit rating to BB+ from BBB-, citing expectations that the company’s adjusted EBITDA margin will remain subdued at roughly 5% to 6% in 2026 as it prioritizes market share over near-term unit profitability. The agency also reduced issue-level ratings on unsecured debt, assigne…
Colombian equities closed higher on Wednesday, with the COLCAP index rising 0.81% as gains in industrials, services and agriculture supported the market. Large-cap movers included Grupo Nutresa, Grupo Bolivar and Celsia, while Mineros, Bolsa De Valores De Colombia and Etb recorded the steepest declines. Commodity and currency markets showed mixed m…
Leidos Inc. has been awarded a $27.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Department of War to procure All Up Rounds for the AGM-190A Small Cruise Missile program. The fixed-price incentive modification supports U.S. Special Operations Command and includes specific procurement obligations across fiscal 2025 and 2026. Work is to be performed …
Russian equities ended Wednesday's session with gains, driven by advances in oil and gas, power and manufacturing stocks that pushed the MOEX Russia Index up 1.46%. Major oil producers recorded double-digit point increases in absolute terms, while some mining and aluminum names suffered steep declines. Market breadth was narrowly positive, volatili…
GoPro Inc. saw its stock climb in after-hours trading after CEO Nicholas Woodman agreed to provide $20 million of financing via senior secured notes through entities affiliated with him. The purchase includes warrants for Class B common stock, is subject to closing conditions and follows an independent committee’s selection of this financing struct…
Amazon introduced the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control layer that centralizes access, policy enforcement, telemetry and cost controls for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a stateless container on Amazon ECS, EKS or EC2, uses a PostgreSQL backend for transient state, integrates with OpenID Connect identity provid…
OpenAI on Wednesday released a formal set of national security principles that define how the company will handle government and military collaborations. The principles, developed with national security expert David Kris, apply to current and future partnerships and impose specific contractual limits on uses of OpenAI technology. The move accompani…
Meta Platforms has started construction on its first Canadian data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta. The 1-gigawatt facility, optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, represents an investment of more than CAD $13 billion, will require roughly 3,000 construction workers at peak and is expected to support over 300 permanent jobs. Meta will …
OpenAI has rescinded its recommendation of SWE-Bench Pro as a reliable benchmark for assessing AI coding capabilities after an internal audit identified pervasive design and grading issues across the dataset. The audit, which combined automated investigator agents and independent review by software engineers, found roughly 27-34% of tasks were brok…
SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.5 on July 8, describing it as its most capable model yet for coding and agentic applications. The model was trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs with emphasis on data filtering, deduplication and quality scoring. Grok 4.5 is available now via SpaceXAI’s Grok Build in Cursor and through the SpaceXAI console wit…
MDA Space announced a 20 million-share offering priced at $35.60 per share to help finance its planned acquisition of roughly 70% of Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS). The news triggered a 5% decline in MDA shares in after-hours trading. The deal and financing include an underwriter over-allotment option and are subject to customary listing an…
In after-hours trading, Levi Strauss declined following a mixed reaction to quarterly results and a cautious EPS outlook, while AZZ and Ampco-Pittsburgh gained sharply after delivering stronger-than-expected results and upbeat forward indicators. The moves underscore divergent investor responses across apparel and industrial metals sectors.
Accor has chosen a group of investment banks to organize a potential U.S. initial public offering for Ennismore Lifestyle Group Ltd. Goldman Sachs will lead the deal, with BNP Paribas and JPMorgan arranging the listing and Societe Generale in a supporting role. Ennismore, founded in 2011 and best known for brands such as The Hoxton and Mama Shelter…
Sonos Inc. shares closed down 2% on Wednesday after the company cut multiple senior design and product management executives. The departures include long-serving leaders across design, user experience, hardware product management and sustainability. CEO Tom Conrad characterized the changes as a move to reduce management layers and accelerate produc…
U.S. equity indices finished mixed on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.09% at the close, the S&P 500 fell 0.28%, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.20%. Gains in Oil & Gas, Technology and Telecoms offset declines in Basic Materials, Financials and Consumer Goods. Commodity moves included a sharp rise in crude oil and a fall in gol…
Canada's S&P/TSX Composite closed lower on Wednesday, falling 0.95% as losses in the Materials, Financials and Real Estate sectors weighed on the market. Decliners outpaced advancers by a wide margin, the S&P/TSX 60 VIX ticked higher and commodities showed divergent moves with oil up and gold down. Several individual miners and energy-related names…
