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Canada's stock market closed modestly higher on Monday, pushed by advances in Healthcare, Information Technology and Energy. The S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.04% to reach a new one-month peak. Several individual stocks recorded double-digit percentage gains while the overall breadth favored decliners. Volatility measures and commodity prices showed div…
Morningstar Inc. plans to introduce an alternate liquidity screening method for its CRSP Market Indexes to permit faster inclusion of very large initial public offerings such as the expected SpaceX listing. The change is intended to address free-float constraints that can delay adding giant IPOs to benchmarks used by major funds, while other index …
Scorpio Tankers Inc. has reached agreements to divest six vessels built in 2014 for a combined $300 million. The package includes three LR2 product tankers sold together for $195 million and three MR product tankers sold for $105 million. The transactions are expected to close within the second quarter of 2026. Several of the ships carried outstand…
BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics (BBOT) shares jumped about 10% in after-hours trading Monday following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Fast Track designation for BBO-11818, a pan-KRAS inhibitor under investigation for advanced KRAS-mutant pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The designation comes after preliminary January 2026 data showing a c…
AXT, Inc. said it will pursue a public offering of common stock, triggering a roughly 9% decline in its shares in after-hours trading. The company said proceeds will primarily support its Beijing subsidiary's capacity expansion for indium phosphide substrates for export, with remaining funds earmarked for product development, working capital and ge…
CEOs from several major low-cost U.S. carriers will meet with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to press for temporary relief from passenger taxes, aiming to blunt the impact of sharply higher jet fuel costs they attribute to the war with Iran. A trade group representing the carriers says suspending the federal excise tax and the per-segment…
Kailera Therapeutics completed an initial public offering that generated $718.8 million in gross proceeds by selling 44,921,875 common shares at $16.00 apiece. The offering included the full exercise of an underwriters' option for 5,859,375 extra shares. Kailera began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker KLRA and is developin…
Theriva Biologics Inc saw its NYSE American-listed shares surge after the company presented new data from its VIRAGE Phase 2b study of VCN-01 combined with chemotherapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer. The poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego detailed tumor response, biomarker results, and subgroup anal…
SBC Medical Group Holdings saw its Nasdaq-listed stock tumble after a selling stockholder priced an underwritten secondary public offering. The offering, which does not involve any new shares from the company and will provide no proceeds to SBC Medical Group, is scheduled to close on or about April 21, 2026, subject to customary conditions. Underwr…
The building products sector is entering earnings season under significant strain as soft demand collides with upward pressure on input costs. Wolfe Research warns that management commentary on price and cost trajectories will likely be more influential than initial first-quarter earnings figures. Equity valuations have deteriorated after a pronoun…
Andrew Baum, who joined Pfizer in 2024 as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, will move into a senior strategic advisor role to CEO Albert Bourla and is expected to depart the company by the end of the year. A BMO Capital Markets note frames the change as part of ongoing operational simplification rather than a major strategic redirection.
JetBlue’s chief executive communicated to staff that the airline is not planning a bankruptcy filing this year, citing sufficient liquidity and access to additional capital. The reassurance comes as the carrier contends with rising fuel costs and market speculation about its financial position, which was intensified by comments from the airline’s f…
Strategy Inc. purchased $2.54 billion of bitcoin in the week ending April 19, funded by the sale of multiple security tranches. The company acquired 34,164 bitcoin at an average cost of $74,395 per coin and now holds 815,061 bitcoin in total, purchased for an aggregate $61.56 billion at an average price of $75,527 per coin. No sales of STRF, STRK, …
An LNG tanker owned by QatarEnergy arrived at the Golden Pass liquefaction complex in Texas to load the plant's first export cargo after the facility began producing liquefied natural gas earlier this year. The arrival marks a milestone for the project, which experienced construction delays and cost overruns since work began in 2019. Initial proces…
Project Vault, the United States' planned critical minerals reserve, is approaching the close of its initial financing tranche and is structured to address not only material stockpiling but also processing, storage and supply-chain constraints facing manufacturers, according to U.S. Export-Import Bank President John Jovanovic.
Stocks showed divergent performance on Monday as headlines and company-specific developments drove pronounced gains and losses across market-cap ranges. Notable declines among mega-cap technology names contrasted with strong rallies in select large-, mid- and small-cap names. Below are the most significant movers organized by market-cap tier.
A concentrated slate of economic reports scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, 2026, includes retail sales, core retail sales and pending home sales. Market participants will also digest several additional data points and a Federal Reserve speech that together could shape near-term market expectations for consumer demand, inventory dynamics and the hous…
Bank of America trimmed its year-end Henry Hub projection by roughly $0.2 to $3.4 per million British thermal units, citing a continuation of mild weather into April that helped rebuild inventories. The bank now expects end-of-summer gas stocks to exceed the five-year average at about 3.83 trillion cubic feet, while warning of regional demand risks…
Bernstein analysts say a nascent fashion cycle favoring dressier footwear styles for 2026 could redistribute demand within the sportswear sector, but they emphasize that the underlying multi-year growth in sports footwear remains intact. The firm identifies Adidas, Puma and Nike as top picks to navigate the change, noting potential share losses for…
U.S. mining equities fell after gold and silver prices plunged, driven by a stronger dollar and a sharp rise in oil following the U.S. seizure of an Iranian cargo vessel. The episode raised doubts about the durability of a ceasefire with Iran and rekindled concerns that energy-driven inflation could prompt tighter policy, weighing on non-yielding m…
California’s attorney general has unsealed evidence in a 3 1/2-year-old antitrust suit alleging Amazon coordinated with merchants and pressured rivals to lift prices so the company would not have to match lower offers. The filing cites multiple examples involving national retailers and consumer goods, and Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking an in…
U.S. equities traded slightly lower on Monday as investors weighed developments in the Middle East and a 5% jump in front-month Brent crude to $95 a barrel. Within the S&P 500, advancers outnumbered decliners by about 3 to 2, but the broader tech rebound that began March 31 stalled, with only Apple among the eight largest tech stocks posting gains.…
Kevin Warsh, President Biden's nominee for Federal Reserve Chair, told the Fed's ethics officer he will sell his holding in the iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index (XIU) if he is confirmed. The commitment appears in an amended financial disclosure dated April 17 and follows guidance from agency ethics officials that his duties would touch matters affecting th…
Amsterdam's AEX finished the trading session down 0.17% after losses in the Healthcare, Real Estate and Industrials sectors outweighed gains among several large-cap names. Energy-linked shares led the winners, while a set of information and investment companies recorded the steepest declines. Broader market breadth favored decliners, and commodity …
Italy's main equity gauge closed lower on Monday, dragged down by losses in Travel & Leisure, Financials and Healthcare. The Investing.com Italy 40 fell 1.45% at the Milan close. Gains in industrial and payments-related names were offset by steeper declines among gambling, banking and building-materials stocks. Energy markets saw a sharp rise in cr…
