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PayPal has experienced a marked decline in its share of digital wallet checkouts as competitors capture more volume and shifts in how consumers shop online reduce the benefit of branded checkouts. Bernstein estimates PayPal’s share has fallen to roughly 40% today from about 90% in 2017 and near 50% in 2023. Faster growth among digital wallets, incr…
Major brokerages this week highlighted a mix of upgrades and reiterated buys across software, semiconductor and industrial suppliers as AI-related sentiment pressures have driven selective selloffs. Citi screened for software names whose terminal multiples have compressed despite positive earnings revisions, flagging a set of firms it says are well…
Bernstein says the China Internet sector has begun 2026 in a muted fashion, but the pace of AI development is proving decisive for relative performance. Analyst Robin Zhu points to Alibaba's Qwen agentic services as a catalyst for its recent outperformance, while Tencent has lagged on chatbot progress even as it extracts AI returns through advertis…
Apple reported stronger-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results driven by a robust iPhone 17 cycle, but Bernstein warns that sharply higher memory prices - including a 237% rise in mobile DRAM and a roughly 70% gain in NAND since Q2 2025 - will lift iPhone costs and erode margins once cost increases fully pass through.
This weekly roundup distills the key analyst actions and rationales affecting four widely followed names: Oracle, Unity Software, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Kraft Heinz. The notes capture upgrades and downgrades, price targets and the central drivers cited by each firm, ranging from balance-sheet concerns and capital-raising plans to produc…
Deutsche Bank strategists warn that Lufthansa’s potential re-entry into Germany’s DAX 40 at the quarterly review on March 4 is no longer assured after a sharp post-strike sell-off reduced the airline’s free-float market-cap buffer. The final list, based on free-float market capitalisation as of Feb. 27 using 20-day VWAPs, will determine whether Luf…
A Barclays proprietary analysis tracking core conventional grocery shoppers finds a clear rotation toward lower-priced formats as 2026 begins. The bank's work highlights Walmart as the primary beneficiary, with accelerating transaction wallet share, while dollar stores and hard discounters also made gains. Specialty grocers moderated and large publ…
The MOEX Russia Index finished the trading session unchanged, with several large-cap issues reporting no price movement. The Russian Volatility Index held steady, while gold, crude and Brent futures all recorded modest gains. The ruble strengthened against both the dollar and the euro, and U.S. dollar futures were marginally lower.
Jefferies analysts argue that a new $550 billion U.S.-Japan investment arrangement presents material commercial and strategic opportunities that institutional investors have not yet fully priced. The deal reduces reciprocal tariffs, prioritises energy, AI infrastructure and critical minerals processing, and carries firm timelines and profit-allocat…
Morgan Stanley says the strong start to the year for energy stocks has closed much of the valuation gap with the broader market, shifting the path for additional upside toward earnings revisions rather than further multiple expansion. The bank flags a soft near-term fundamental backdrop for oil, rising inventories, uneven earnings revisions across …
Market volatility this week was driven in part by position shifts tied to the AI displacement trade, producing sharp declines in several large-cap names across logistics, brokerage and real estate. A subset of semiconductor and software vendors likewise saw material share-price reactions after quarterly reports and guidance updates, while one major…
Morgan Stanley analysts say Tesla's intention to build 100 gigawatts of solar manufacturing capacity reflects a strategic, long-term response to geopolitical risks, supply-chain vulnerability, and rising power needs from next-generation data centers. The bank projects material upside to Tesla Energy's valuation if the program scales, but notes the …
European energy equities have become markedly less responsive to movements in Brent crude over the past two decades, according to a UBS analysis of major oil and gas companies. Using a multi-variate regression across roughly 42,000 observations from 2004 to 2026, the bank finds a long-term decline in the sensitivity of share prices to oil, driven b…
UBS says artificial intelligence has become a central driver of relative stock performance across Europe, with enablers and adopters substantially outperforming names it classifies as vulnerable to disruption. Using an AI-driven scorecard, the bank flags labour- and seat-based service providers, gatekeeper platforms, advertising and content busines…
Bank of America says Germany’s delayed fiscal stimulus is beginning to show up in activity data and has prompted modest upward revisions to growth forecasts for 2026. However, the bank warns that much of the equity market’s recent gains may already price in a stronger recovery than fundamentals support, leaving European stocks vulnerable to a pullb…
As Lunar New Year approaches, Chinese AI developers are rolling out or preparing updated models across consumer, enterprise and robotics use cases. DeepSeek, the startup that disrupted the market last year with R1 and V3, is expected to release V4 soon, while a string of tech firms - from ByteDance and Alibaba to Zhipu and MiniMax - have announced …
The Wall Street Journal reported that Anthropic’s AI model Claude was employed in a U.S. operation to seize former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with access provided via a partnership between Anthropic and Palantir Technologies. The deployment and related details have not been independently verified and raise questions about the interaction …
Lockheed Martin secured three Department of Defense contract modifications totaling about $101 million. Awards cover operation and maintenance of AEGIS test sites, on-site engineering and test support for F-35 electromagnetic environmental effects, and an increase to a large-lot missile procurement contract that raises the program total to $9.6 bil…
US Foods Inc.'s Livermore, California unit, US Foods - San Francisco, has been granted a $298.5 million fixed-price contract with economic-price-adjustment provisions by the U.S. Department of War to supply a full range of food and beverage items to the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard over a five-year period ending February 8, 2031. T…
Paramount Skydance has appointed Rene Augustine, a former Trump administration attorney, as senior vice president of global public policy, according to an internal memo. Augustine will start on February 17 and report to Chief Legal Officer Makan Delrahim. The move occurs amid Paramount's heightened bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, in direct competit…
Bank of America approved $41 million in total compensation for CEO Brian Moynihan for 2025, a rise of more than 17.1% from 2024. The package includes $1.5 million in base salary with the remainder delivered as equity incentives. The decision echoes similar pay increases at other major U.S. banks as the industry prepares for elevated dealmaking acti…
Bank of America increased CEO Brian Moynihan’s total compensation to $41 million for 2025, a 17% rise over the prior year. The board left his $1.5 million base salary unchanged and provided no cash bonus, instead granting $39.5 million in equity awards composed of cash-settled and stock-settled units plus performance-based awards that depend on res…
Lowe's has cut roughly 600 corporate and support jobs - under 1% of its roughly 300,000-strong workforce - concentrating reductions in back-office functions to prioritize frontline activities. The company said affected employees will receive financial help and career transition support. The move comes weeks ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings repo…
Werewolf Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:HOWL) saw its stock fall 5.1% in after-hours trading following disclosure that its board approved a reduction of 64% of the company’s workforce. The company expects the bulk of the layoffs to be completed by February 13, 2026, will record an estimated $4.1 million one-time charge in Q1 2026 tied to employee separa…
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has increased its U.S. market share in recent months even as the tool faces global condemnation and regulatory attention after being used to create non-consensual sexualized images. Data from Apptopia show Grok’s share rose to 17.8% in the most recent month from 14% in December and 1.9% in January 2025. The growth supports …
