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Belgian equities closed slightly lower on Friday, with the BEL 20 slipping 0.14% as losses in Healthcare, Beverage and Travel & Leisure weighed on the benchmark. While several large-cap names finished the session higher and some reached multi-period highs, notable declines in biotech and pharmaceutical names contributed to the overall weakness. Mar…
Waymo said it is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to power a new Waymo World Model that produces highly detailed virtual driving scenarios. The system generates both camera and lidar data from simple prompts and builds on Genie 3’s pre-training to reproduce rare events and edge cases for training the Waymo Driver.
Finland's OMX Helsinki 25 finished the trading day up 0.25% as advances in Utilities, Oil & Gas and Consumer Services supported the market. Outokumpu, SSAB AB B and Fortum were the session's top performers, while Valmet, KONE and Nokian Renkaat recorded the largest declines. Market breadth favored advancers, and commodities and FX showed modest mov…
Stocks in Sweden finished Friday on an upward trajectory, with the OMX Stockholm 30 closing 1.00% higher and setting a new all-time high. Strength in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Industrials sectors supported the advance. More individual winners than losers were recorded on the Stockholm exchange, while crude and Brent oil rose and selected curren…
A federal judge in Manhattan refused Compass's request for an injunction that would have compelled Zillow to display additional home listings. The court concluded that Compass did not present direct evidence of an anticompetitive agreement between Zillow and Redfin, nor did it demonstrate a clear showing that Zillow monopolizes online home listings…
A Manhattan state court has scheduled a June 8 trial for Luigi Mangione, 27, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel in December 2024. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state murder, weapons and forgery charges and faces separate federal stalking charges set for trial in October. Prosecu…
Private equity firm TPG has agreed to purchase a controlling stake in Sabre Industries from Blackstone, a transaction that values the Texas-based maker of electricity and communications infrastructure components at about $3.5 billion. Blackstone will continue as a significant minority investor; the deal marks roughly a fourfold return on Blackstone…
Stifel upgraded Snap to a Hold rating from a previously more cautious position, arguing that the stock's steep year-to-date drop has already reflected key headwinds including slowing user growth, muted advertising momentum and ambiguity around a potential AI partnership. The firm retained a $5.50 price target and highlighted both subscription growt…
Poland's WIG30 index closed up 0.51% on Friday, supported by advances in the Oil & Gas, Chemicals and Media sectors. Leading gainers included CCC SA, Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa SA and Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA, while CD PROJEKT SA, Zabka Group SA and BUDIMEX SA finished as the session's principal decliners. Commodity prices and currency moves…
Wolfe Research has singled out Coterra Energy (CTRA) and Chord Energy (CHRD) as notable names in the oil and gas sector heading into 2026, maintaining Outperform ratings on both while trimming price targets after updating commodity forecasts. Coterra’s all-stock merger with Devon Energy and activist involvement from Kimmeridge, and Chord’s oil-heav…
Anebulo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ANEB) saw its shares fall sharply after the company announced plans to voluntarily delist from the Nasdaq Capital Market and deregister its common stock with the SEC. The board said costs of maintaining public reporting status outweigh the benefits, and the company will file paperwork in mid-February 2026 to ma…
Nexa Resources saw its shares climb after reporting that 2025 operational targets were met across metals, delivering 316,000 tonnes of zinc and a consolidated mining C1 cash cost roughly 48% below guidance at negative $0.30 per pound. The smelting business matched metal sales guidance with 567,000 tonnes, aided by a record year at the Cajamarquilla…
Zillow Group's stock climbed after a federal judge refused Compass Inc.'s bid to temporarily block Zillow's rule that requires listings to be posted to a local multiple-listing service within 24 hours of being marketed elsewhere. The ruling permits Zillow to keep enforcing the policy as Compass's antitrust lawsuit, filed in June, moves forward, mar…
Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Kering to €315 from €370, citing a slower-than-expected start to 2026 for the luxury group and renewed doubts over the pace of Gucci's turnaround. The bank trimmed sales forecasts for 2026 and 2027 and said it lowered earnings estimates across the 2026-28 cycle, while keeping an Overweight rating given longer-…
Norwegian equities rose on Friday, driven by gains in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities. The Oslo OBX climbed 3.16% to reach a new all-time high. Kongsberg Gruppen led advance, while Telenor climbed to five-year highs. Oil, Brent and gold futures were all higher and the krone strengthened versus the euro …
NexGen Energy Ltd. shares fell 10.5% after short seller Culper Research disclosed a short position and published a critique alleging the Rook I project's net present value is overstated by 43% to 62% and that the company's 29.7 million-pound peak annual production forecast is "impossible to achieve." The report also contests geological continuity i…
Two major research firms downgraded Crown Holdings, arguing that recent operational improvements and balance sheet repair have been largely priced into the stock, and that earnings growth will likely slow in 2026 as capacity expansion and rising costs weigh on margins in some regions. Both firms see a more balanced risk-reward profile following a s…
The TA 35 finished the session up 0.32% on Friday, driven by advances in Banking, Oil & Gas and Insurance sectors. Tower Semiconductor, Camtek and Nova were the top performers, while Ormat Technologies, ICL Israel Chemicals and Amot Investments registered the largest declines. Broad market breadth favored decliners, and commodities including crude,…
Tian Ruixiang Holdings Ltd (TIRX) saw its stock surge 16.8% after the company disclosed advanced discussions with government authorities and financial regulators in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand to launch a regulated stablecoin. The proposed token would be pegged to a basket of major fiat currencies, incorporate the company's AI tool…
Carbon Revolution PLC saw its shares tumble 65.2% on Friday after receiving notice from Nasdaq’s Listing Qualifications Department that its request for continued listing was denied. Nasdaq cited the company’s failure to meet minimum shareholders’ equity requirements and its failure to file its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the period ended June 30…
Pulse Biosciences saw its stock rise after releasing late-breaking results from a first-in-human feasibility study of the nPulse Cardiac Catheter System presented at the AF Symposium. The data reported 100% procedural success in evaluable patients at six months and 96% at 12 months, with rapid procedures, low complication rates and average treatmen…
A wave of workforce reductions has marked the opening weeks of 2026 across multiple U.S. sectors. Companies including Amazon, Autodesk, Dow, Nike, FedEx and others have announced staff cuts ranging from the hundreds to tens of thousands as they reallocate resources, restructure operations and pursue efficiency gains. Several organizations cited shi…
Turkey's main index, the BIST 100, closed lower on Friday, pressured by losses in the Holdings & Investments, Telecoms and Sports sectors. Market breadth favored decliners, while select mid- and large-cap names posted notable gains. Commodity and currency markets moved higher, with gold and crude oil rising and the lira weakening slightly against t…
Alpha Modus, a retail-technology company that translates in-store shopper behavior into real-time commercial signals, has emphasized the centrality of its patent portfolio as brick-and-mortar retailers adopt more advanced AI-driven analytics. CEO William Alessi said the firm paused rapid rollouts to strengthen IP, now using enforcement and licensin…
The broad rally tied to artificial intelligence is fragmenting as investors confront rising capital expenditure, heavier debt burdens and uncertainty over which companies will actually profit. While hardware suppliers to AI data centres have held up better, software, data and analytics firms have taken a hit. The divergence is also visible within t…
