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Booz Allen Hamilton's stock dropped 8% after the U.S. Treasury Department cancelled all contracts with the firm, citing failures in safeguarding sensitive taxpayer information. The move affects 31 contracts worth $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations and follows a data theft by a former employee that exposed roughly 4…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC that the Federal Aviation Administration will need two more days to recover from a weekend winter storm that prompted massive cancellations and delays across U.S. aviation. Airlines have waived cancellation fees as operations and staffing recover, with Duffy targeting Wednesday as the return to normal o…
Bank of America identifies a cluster of compute-oriented semiconductor firms whose valuations, the bank says, remain materially below historical norms even as AI-related investment accelerates. BofA highlights Nvidia, Broadcom, AMD and Credo as preferred compute plays, pointing to strong forecasted sales and earnings growth from 2025-2027 and a com…
Stocks across market-cap segments moved unevenly on Monday. Mega-cap semiconductor names Intel and AMD posted declines, while Cisco and Oracle were among the notable gainers. Activity extended beyond the largest names, with biotech, mining, cloud compute, and SPAC-related listings recording some of the largest percentage changes.
The European Commission has formally designated Meta Platforms' WhatsApp as a very large online platform under the EU Digital Services Act after user figures showed WhatsApp channels averaged 51.7 million monthly active users in the EU for the first half of 2025. The designation triggers heightened obligations to address illegal and harmful content…
Micron Technology's stock dipped after reports that Samsung Electronics is close to obtaining Nvidia certification for its HBM4 high-bandwidth memory. Samsung has supplied initial HBM4 samples, is in the final qualification stage and aims for mass production in February, with shipments to follow. The move could reshape competition among memory supp…
Turkey's BIST 100 index finished higher on Monday, climbing 1.42% to reach a new all-time high. Strength in Technology, Basic Metals and Tourism sectors powered the advance, with Enerya Enerji, Mia Teknoloji and Aselsan among the session's top performers. Market breadth favored advancing issues, while selected names in healthcare and retail posted …
Wolfe Research now sees a delayed recovery for U.S. self-storage REITs, forecasting flat sector earnings in 2026 and only modest growth of about 3% to 4% in 2027. The firm lowered ratings on Public Storage and CubeSmart, upgraded National Storage Affiliates, and removed all Outperform ratings for the sector, citing rich valuations and slower-than-e…
Morocco's stock market closed lower on Monday, with the Moroccan All Shares index sliding 1.39% to a fresh one-month low. Sector declines in Utilities, Banking and Mining drove the market down; several companies registered double-digit directional moves during the session. Commodities and currency markets showed mixed moves, while the US Dollar Ind…
Google has reached a proposed $68 million settlement in a class action that accused its Google Assistant of improperly recording and sharing private conversations after misinterpreting wake words. The agreement, filed in federal court in San Jose, awaits approval by U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman and applies to people who bought Google dev…
BlackRock TCP Capital reported a preliminary fourth-quarter 2025 net asset value (NAV) per share of $7.05 to $7.09, a drop from $8.71 at the end of the prior quarter. The company attributed the roughly 19% decline to issuer-specific developments concentrated in six portfolio companies. Non-accrual debt, leverage and a modest adviser fee waiver were…
Shareholders have filed a proposed class action against Beyond Meat in Los Angeles federal court, alleging the plant-based meat maker hid the necessity for a substantial writedown while publicly stressing cost cuts and margin expansion. The company later recorded a $77.4 million impairment and reported a $112.3 million third-quarter loss, following…
KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded Solventum from Sector Weight to Overweight, citing a valuation gap created by the medical technology group's recent underperformance. The firm set a $97 price target based on 14 times 2027 earnings and noted the stock currently trades at 11.4 times the same metric, placing it in the bottom quintile of peers. Broader…
Lands' End shares climbed 28% after the apparel retailer agreed to create a 50/50 joint venture with WHP Global for which WHP will pay $300 million for its controlling stake. Lands' End will contribute its intellectual property and related assets to the venture, use the proceeds to repay a roughly $234 million term loan and for general corporate pu…
Shares of 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals Inc (SXTP) fell 22.4% after Nasdaq notified the company on January 20, 2026 that staff had determined to delist its common stock and warrants from The Nasdaq Capital Market for failing to meet the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement. The company paid a $20,000 hearing fee and requested an appeal, which temporari…
Battalion Oil Corp's stock jumped 410.9% in premarket trading after the company secured a gas treating agreement with a large-cap midstream provider, ending a production constraint that had limited output since August 2025. The change more than doubled daily gas processing capacity from December levels and has translated into roughly 1,200 net barr…
JPMorgan’s equity research team has published its latest monthly roster of technology stocks it views as compelling. The list spans cloud and enterprise software, semiconductors and digital intelligence, and it includes companies at various stages of growth and capital allocation activity. Analysts cited recent quarterly results, activist interest,…
Arrive AI Inc saw its shares rise 15% in Monday premarket trading after CEO Dan O’Toole unveiled the company’s 'Plai Book,' a strategic playbook the company says will guide its expansion in autonomous last-mile delivery. The plan centers on five operating principles, an aggressive intellectual property posture and a strategic footprint in Fishers, …
Needham & Company upgraded AppLovin to a Buy rating and raised its price target to $700, driven by revised forecasts that project stronger e-commerce revenue in 2026. The firm now expects $1.45 billion in e-commerce revenue for 2026, up from a prior $1.05 billion estimate, and highlights signs of sequential strength into the first quarter and new b…
Roblox Corporation shares declined 2.5% on Monday following reports of a drop in peak concurrent users (CCUs) over the weekend. Analysts from JPMorgan and Wolfe Research flagged lower weekend peaks and a moderation in year-over-year engagement growth, with declines concentrated in several major experiences even as one title expanded its user base.
Century Aluminum will take a 40% stake in Emirates Global Aluminium’s joint venture to construct the first new primary aluminium smelter in the United States in nearly five decades. The partners have increased the planned annual capacity to 750,000 metric tons, with construction slated to begin by year-end and production targeted by the end of the …
OpenAI is charging advertisers premium fees for placing ads inside ChatGPT, with rates reported to be on par with high-value video inventory such as NFL programming and higher than fees charged by competitors like Meta. Early advertisers are being given only high-level metrics - primarily impressions and aggregate click counts - rather than detaile…
Gold Resource Corporation agreed to be purchased by Goldgroup Mining in an all-stock transaction that sends Gold Resource shareholders roughly 1.4476 Goldgroup shares per Gold Resource share (adjusted to 0.3619 after a planned four-for-one consolidation). Gold Resource shares climbed 17.4% in premarket trading; the deal values Gold Resource at $2.2…
Mizuho now projects global handset shipments in calendar 2026 will decline about 4% year on year, with downside risk exceeding 5%, driven by rising memory costs and supply shortages that are expected to hit production especially in the second half of the year. The bank trimmed price targets on Qualcomm and Skyworks Solutions and highlighted sharper…
Nvidia introduced the Earth-2 family of open models and tooling for AI-driven weather prediction at the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting on Monday. The suite is presented as the first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack and is designed to shorten the time and expense of running forecasts, from ingesting observations to…
