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Finnish equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the OMX Helsinki 25 finishing the session up 0.29% and registering a new all-time high. Gains were concentrated in the Consumer Services, Telecoms and Financials sectors. Outokumpu Oyj, Nordea Bank Abp and Lumo Kodit Oyj were among the session's top performers, while Neste Oyj, UPM-Kymmene Oyj and Eli…
Gucci's sales dropped 8% year-on-year in the first quarter to 1.35 billion euros, marking the brand's 11th straight quarterly decline. The shortfall was slightly below Visible Alpha analyst expectations and comes as Kering's new CEO prepares a strategic plan to revive the group. Management cited the Iran war and weak consumer confidence as headwind…
Poland's equity market closed higher Tuesday, with the WIG30 index rising 1.33% to a fresh all-time high. Gains were concentrated in Basic Materials, Information Technology and Media sectors while broader market breadth favoured advancing issues. Energy-related names underperformed amid a sharp drop in crude oil, and safe-haven gold posted a notabl…
Tech-sector observers are divided over the timeline for AI's impact on software economics. Bernstein places AI in the 'Sooner' camp, arguing it is already reshaping the sector by moving value toward AI control planes and new pricing models. Other industry leaders caution that AI agents will layer on top of existing data platforms, potentially incre…
Copenhagen's benchmark index, the OMX Copenhagen 20, climbed 1.79% to a one-month high as gains in Consumer Goods, Personal & Household Goods and Technology sectors propelled the market. Demant, Novo Nordisk Class B and Pandora were the top performers, while both classes of AP Moeller - Maersk and Carlsberg B shares lagged. Commodities and currency…
Turkey's main equity gauge, the BIST 100, closed higher on Tuesday, climbing 1.02% to a one-month peak as gains in the Transport, Tourism and Sports sectors supported the market. Market breadth was positive, with significantly more advancing issues than decliners. Several individual names posted double-digit percentage moves, while commodities and …
Large U.S. banks posted sharply higher trading revenues in the first quarter as market turbulence drove client activity, but senior executives emphasized that the gains may be hard to sustain given geopolitical tensions, oil supply concerns and other economic uncertainties. While consumer spending has shown resilience, banks signaled potential pres…
Walt Disney's new CEO Josh D’Amaro notified staff that roughly 1,000 positions will be eliminated as part of an effort to create a more agile and technology-enabled workforce. The reductions will touch the marketing group and several business units including the company’s studio and television operations, ESPN, products and technology and select co…
Boeing (NYSE:BA) shares rose about 1% after the planemaker reported handing over 143 commercial aircraft in the fourth quarter. The company provided a breakdown by model and disclosed 30 deliveries from its Defense, Space & Security division, while noting delivery counts are not final until quarterly financial statements are released.
POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) dropped 6% on Tuesday after short seller Wolfpack Research disclosed a short position and raised concerns that the company could be classified as a Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC). Wolfpack described POET as a stock promotion and criticized what it called the company's seventh business pivot this decade. Th…
Morocco's equity market closed higher, with the Moroccan All Shares index up 2.22% to a one-month peak. Broad gains were driven by moves in banking, beverage and transport names. Sanlam Maroc recorded a new record share price, while several smaller-cap stocks also posted notable advances. Commodity and currency moves included sharp declines in crud…
Boeing delivered 46 jets in March, down from 51 the prior month, as the company carried out wiring repairs on roughly 25 737 MAX aircraft. The maker reported 31 net new orders in March and finished the month with an order backlog of 6,127 jets. Airbus delivered 60 aircraft in March, and Boeing has trailed Airbus in annual deliveries since 2018.
President Trump criticized the United Kingdom for not expanding North Sea oil production, calling Europe "desperate for Energy" and urging more drilling. He singled out Aberdeen and contrasted the UK's stance with Norway, which he said sells North Sea oil to Britain at higher prices. North Sea output has fallen over decades and is expected to keep …
Norway's Oslo OBX index finished the trading day down 0.90%, pressured by losses in the Media, Transport and Diversified Financials sectors. A small group of stocks recorded gains, led by Cmb.Tech NV, Nel ASA and Nordic Semiconductor ASA, while Yara International, Equinor and Var Energi were among the session's heaviest decliners. Market breadth wa…
The TA 35 index closed higher Tuesday, rising 1.55% to reach a new record high as gains in the Insurance, Financials and Banking sectors supported the advance. Harel and Enlight Renewable Energy were among the session's top performers, each reaching all-time highs, while a smaller group of stocks, including Next Vision and Delek Group, declined. Co…
Greek equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the Athens General Composite finishing up 2.64%. Strength in the Banking, Construction and Travel sectors underpinned the advance. Market breadth was positive, with 81 advancers versus 38 decliners and 16 unchanged. Key commodity and FX benchmarks moved notably, including a rise in gold futures and decl…
Bank of America forecasts Apple will top Street expectations for the March quarter, driven by sustained iPhone demand and resilient Services revenue. The bank raised unit forecasts, projects revenue and EPS above consensus, and cited currency tailwinds, while noting potential margin pressure from rising component costs.
Anthropic has named Vas Narasimhan, the chief executive officer of Novartis, to its board of directors, marking the second recent board addition as the AI company explores an initial public offering and expands enterprise-focused initiatives in the healthcare sector. The move follows a February appointment of former Microsoft and General Motors exe…
Shares of Microsoft and Alphabet rose modestly after reports that the companies are advancing long-term memory supply negotiations with SK Hynix. Microsoft is reportedly in the final stages of a deal that could secure memory for up to five years, while Google continues ongoing talks. The moves reflect a shift by hyperscalers toward supply certainty…
Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-driven platform intended to accelerate the early phases of drug discovery by enabling scientists to run complex computational workflows without coding. The service offers a library of biological foundation models, an AI agent to guide model selection and parameterization, and connections …
U.S. equities moved unevenly on Tuesday, with notable rallies in software and clean-energy names and declines across select banks and energy majors. Oracle and Bloom Energy were among the biggest winners, while Wells Fargo and several oil and industrial names pulled back. The session featured activity across market-cap tiers, driven by product anno…
The International Monetary Fund says the war in the Middle East is increasing risks to global financial stability by pushing up energy prices and inflation expectations, tightening funding markets and exposing vulnerabilities across sovereign bonds, banks, non-bank lenders and the private credit sector. The IMF urges authorities to prepare liquidit…
TD Cowen's review of bank earnings showed an acceleration in credit card spending during the first quarter, with sequence-to-sequence trends mildly ahead of expectations and partly influenced by an earlier Easter. Balance growth held steady and showed modest acceleration. Major banks reported mixed results across reserves, loss guidance and auto le…
Shares of publicly traded quantum computing firms rose after Nvidia introduced the NVIDIA Ising family of open-source quantum AI models. The company says the models accelerate decoding for error correction and cut calibration time, and several research institutions and companies have begun deploying the tools. Analyst firm Resonance projects the qu…
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin a 10-year, sole-source indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract valued at up to $1.9 billion to sustain the C-130J Maintenance and Aircrew Training System (MATS) program. The agreement covers training devices, courseware, logistics and engineering support for aircrews and maintainer…
