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Aryzta AG reported full-year 2025 results with organic sales up 1.5% and an EBITDA margin of 13.8%, marking a year-on-year decline in profitability amid higher input and personnel costs. The company forecast low to mid-single digit organic sales growth and higher EBITDA for 2026, and confirmed plans to repurchase its remaining hybrid bond when it m…
Rio Tinto has approved the restart of the $473 million Zulti South project, operated by Richards Bay Minerals, in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The project, paused six years ago amid community unrest, is central to extending Richards Bay Minerals' operations to 2050 as Zulti North's ore body declines. China Harbour Engineering Company has …
J. Safra Sarasin has completed the acquisition of a 70% stake in Denmark’s Saxo Bank for about 1.1 billion euro, a deal the Swiss private bank says highlights the growing need for wealth managers to scale technology as artificial intelligence reshapes client services and adviser roles. Executives and industry consultants say AI-driven tooling, hype…
Global equities opened the week with heightened volatility after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran prompted a risk-off reaction. Energy and defense shares in Europe rallied sharply — with major oil companies up between about 3.5% and 7% by 08:52 GMT and defense names climbing across the board — while airlines and consumer-exposed sectors weakened. O…
Deutsche Bank upgraded Aixtron to Buy from Hold and lifted its price objective to EUR31 from EUR20 after the company completed an expectation reset with its fiscal 2025 results. The bank highlighted a strong Q4 order intake, management framing fiscal 2026 as a transition year, and an anticipated continuation of an optoelectronics laser upcycle into…
Big Yellow Group PLC said Chief Executive Officer Jim Gibson will retire on July 20, 2026, following the company’s Annual General Meeting. Shares fell 1.1% on the news. Chief Operating Officer John Hunter, who joined the group in April 2024 and joined the board in July 2025, will succeed Gibson as CEO.
RBC Capital Markets says recent U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and subsequent retaliation have not altered its year-ahead outlook for U.S. equities, but the firm’s lead U.S. equity strategist flagged five implications investors should monitor. The bank believes the market had largely priced in some geopolitical risk already, expects elevated uncertain…
Indonesia's equity benchmark closed lower on Monday, with the IDX Composite sliding 2.37% as losses concentrated in Infrastructure, Financials and Agriculture. Market breadth was negative, with declining issues far outnumbering advancers. Commodity and FX moves included sharp gains in crude and Brent oil and a stronger US dollar against the rupiah.
European equities fell sharply on March 2 as renewed military activity in the Middle East unsettled markets. The STOXX 600 dropped to its lowest level since mid-February, while energy and defence companies rose alongside a surge in oil prices and concerns that the conflict could expand. Travel, banking and insurance stocks were among the hardest hi…
UK equities opened lower and the British pound weakened to about $1.33 as rising geopolitical tensions tied to the Iran-US-Israel situation damped investor sentiment. The FTSE 100 and major European indices fell, while corporate updates from Smith+Nephew, Bunzl, Oxford Nanopore and BYG delivered a mix of beats, in-line results and cautious guidance…
European equities tumbled Monday following weekend military action by the United States and Israel against Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes, while oil prices spiked on disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz. Major continental indices opened markedly lower, corporate results offered mixed signals, and economic data from Germany and the U.K. adde…
On March 2, Amazon Web Services reported power and connectivity problems affecting data center zones in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The company said one UAE zone suffered damage after "objects" struck a data center, producing sparks and fire and prompting a power shutdown. Two UAE zones and one zone in Bahrain were impacted; AWS asked cus…
Bank of America reports that commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and other systematic trend-following strategies remain in extended long positions across global equities, buoyed by strength in Japan and Europe even as U.S. stocks act as a drag. The bank highlights elevated, volatility-sensitive positioning across CTAs, risk parity and volatility-cont…
Orange announced a collaboration with AST SpaceMobile and Satellite Connect Europe - the AST-Vodafone joint venture - to advance direct-to-cell satellite connectivity. Demonstrations covering voice, SMS and data are scheduled for late 2026 in Romania. Satellite Connect Europe, formed last November, intends to build a Europe-based constellation with…
Heavy inflows to prediction markets tied to U.S. attacks on Iran and the reported removal of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have drawn renewed regulatory and ethical questions. Hundreds of millions of dollars were staked across contracts on Polymarket and others, while analytics firms flagged concentrated buying from newly created accounts in the hours and…
Vodafone Group and Amazon Leo have agreed to use Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband to backhaul 4G and 5G mobile sites in remote and underserved regions across Europe and Africa. The deal lets Vodafone avoid laying long fibre or fixed wireless links for new base stations, and is intended to improve resilience for emergency and critical se…
The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal probe into whether Hilton Worldwide, InterContinental Hotels Group and Marriott International shared competitively sensitive information through STR, a hotel data analytics tool owned by CoStar. The investigation will assess if use of the platform reduced uncertainty about…
Kosmos Energy issued 2026 guidance that trims exploration spending well below consensus and sets production and capital expenditure targets, even as fourth-quarter results showed falling revenues, wider losses and weaker cash generation. The company reiterated a debt-reduction target for 2026 while allocating most capex to drilling in Jubilee.
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced on Monday that CEO Paul Chaplin will step down for personal reasons. Chaplin, who joined the company in 1999 and became CEO in 2014, will stay in his role through the end of 2026 or until a successor is appointed; the board has initiated a search for a new chief executive. Chaplin highlighted pride in the company's pro…
Japan's equity market closed lower on Monday as weakness in the Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication sectors pushed the Nikkei 225 down 1.35%. A handful of industrial names posted strong gains, including Toppan Printing, Fujikura and Furukawa Electric, while major financial and airline-related stocks recorded steep declines. Market breadth was…
Block CEO Jack Dorsey said artificial intelligence has already altered how companies are built and run, announcing plans to eliminate over 4,000 roles as the fintech embeds AI across its operations. The move, and Dorsey’s public assertion that most companies are behind the AI curve, has intensified debate about whether AI chiefly augments worker ou…
Jefferies downgraded Centrica to "hold" from "buy", raising its price target to 210p but cutting FY26 and FY27 earnings forecasts materially after results in line with consensus. The broker pointed to £100m of higher net interest costs, constrained visibility on growth beyond 2028 and limited near-term catalysts as reasons for the more cautious sta…
Toyota has filed to raise its tender offer for group company Toyota Industries to 20,600 yen ($132) per share, contingent on securing loan guarantees from its banks, and to extend the offer deadline to March 16. The move follows an earlier bid of 18,800 yen and comes amid a protracted dispute with activist investor Elliott Investment Management. To…
The Taiwan market closed higher on Monday, with the Taiwan Weighted index recording a new all-time high despite a flat percentage change. Gains in Optoelectronic, Information Services and Financials stocks powered advances among individual names, while several large-cap technology and components names posted steep declines. Commodity and currency m…
Defense and heavy-machinery equities across Asia rose on Monday following an escalation in hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, with several aircraft, missile and shipbuilders posting gains as markets priced in a higher likelihood of prolonged geopolitical instability in the Middle East. Comments from U.S. and Iranian officials reinforced the per…
