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Global Payments Slides After Q2 Report and Trimmed Full-Year Guidance

Global Payments Slides After Q2 Report and Trimmed Full-Year Guidance

Global Payments shares fell in pre-market trading after the company posted an in-line Q2 adjusted EPS but reduced its full-year adjusted EPS guidance and trimmed its normalized revenue growth outlook, citing travel-volume weakness linked to the Middle East conflict as the primary headwind. The guidance cut, rather than the quarter itself, drove the…

Elf Beauty Rises After Bernstein Upgrade on Early Hair Care Traction

Elf Beauty Rises After Bernstein Upgrade on Early Hair Care Traction

Bernstein moved Elf Beauty from Market-Perform to Outperform and raised its price target to $113 from $60 after the company's newly introduced hair care line posted stronger-than-expected early sales. The broker also increased earnings forecasts and expanded its valuation multiple, citing the scale of the hair care market and parallels with e.l.f. …

LeMaitre Vascular Plummets After Q2 Miss and Lowered Guidance

LeMaitre Vascular Plummets After Q2 Miss and Lowered Guidance

LeMaitre Vascular shares slid sharply in pre-market trading after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that missed consensus on both revenue and earnings and issued weaker near-term and full-year guidance. Despite improvements in operating margin and operating income, the headline shortfalls and guidance cuts prompted investors to repri…

UK Stocks Slip as Middle East Tensions Temper Early Gains

UK Stocks Slip as Middle East Tensions Temper Early Gains

British equities retreated from earlier advances on Wednesday after a Houthi ballistic-missile strike on a Saudi oil tanker and comments from Iran suggesting the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed while it regarded U.S. actions as violations. The FTSE 100 pared gains to trade lower, while oil and gold climbed on heightened regional risk; economic…

Netlist and Samsung Reach Five-Year Patent Licensing and Supply Agreement, Ending Long-Running Legal Dispute

Netlist and Samsung Reach Five-Year Patent Licensing and Supply Agreement, Ending Long-Running Legal Dispute

Netlist said on Aug 5 that it has signed a five-year license agreement with Samsung Electronics that grants Samsung access to Netlist's memory and storage patents, secures DRAM and NAND supply for Netlist, and resolves years of litigation between the companies. The pact also includes a 10 million-share purchase by Samsung and follows a U.S. trade p…

Amprius Shares Jump After Strong Q2 Revenue and Upgraded 2026 Outlook

Amprius Shares Jump After Strong Q2 Revenue and Upgraded 2026 Outlook

Amprius Technologies saw a significant pre-market share gain after reporting second-quarter 2026 revenue that more than doubled year-over-year and beating Street expectations, while management raised its 2026 revenue guidance and reiterated profitability targets. A GAAP EPS miss reflected a non-cash warrant modification; excluding that item the qua…

Putin appoints Denis Lyamin to lead newly created Unmanned Systems Forces

Putin appoints Denis Lyamin to lead newly created Unmanned Systems Forces

President Vladimir Putin has named Denis Lyamin to head a new branch of the Russian military, the Unmanned Systems Forces, tasked with overseeing drone operations. The appointment comes as part of a wider reorganization announced mid-way through the fifth year of the war in Ukraine and includes changes to command of the Centre group and military lo…