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A Mubadala-owned unit sold $840 million of GlobalFoundries Inc. shares in a secondary offering that drew demand roughly four times the amount of stock available. The transaction allocated most shares to a limited set of long-only investors, while the company disclosed a simultaneous $300 million share repurchase.
Citi downgraded Generac Holdings from Buy to Neutral/High Risk, arguing that the company’s recent guidance and strategic announcements have largely captured the near-term value drivers investors had been expecting. While Citi raised its price target, the brokerage said the market appears to already price most tailwinds into the stock and that furth…
Walt Disney has appointed Paul Roeder as senior executive vice president and chief communications officer, a role that takes effect on March 19. Roeder, a 25-year Disney employee, will oversee global communications and act as the company’s principal spokesperson, reporting to newly named CEO Josh D’Amaro.
Jefferies' proprietary analysis released Thursday shows a split picture across major staffing firms and broad labor metrics. Robert Half's recruiter postings remain deeply depressed relative to historical averages, while ManpowerGroup posts mixed gains and a higher overall posting level. Broader US labor data in February signaled weakness, with non…
Meta and the World Resources Institute released Canopy Height Maps v2, a global, open-source forest mapping system built on Meta's DINOv3 self-supervised vision model. The updated system raises canopy-height prediction R² from 0.53 to 0.86, replaces the DINOv2 backbone with a DINOv3 model pre-trained on SAT-493M satellite imagery, and expands geogr…
Northern Oil & Gas Inc. shares declined after the company completed pricing for an underwritten public offering of common stock totaling 7,207,208 shares, with a 30-day option for the underwriter to buy an additional 1,081,081 shares. The offering is expected to close on March 13, 2026, and the company said net proceeds will be used for general cor…
Shares of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc. fell sharply after a short seller released a report questioning whether the company’s recently announced $2.4 billion contract with Base Electron will come to fruition. The report points to timing of Base Electron’s formation, shared Santa Monica addresses with an investor, differing characterizations of …
Shares of Ondas Holdings and Centrus Energy climbed after each company announced strategic arrangements with Palantir to bring AI-driven software into their operations. Ondas will pair Palantir’s platform with its aerial and ground systems and World View’s high-altitude balloon technology to build a persistent, multi-domain ISR architecture. Centru…
U.K. equities closed lower on Thursday, led by declines in the Banking, Household Goods & Home Construction and Automobiles & Parts sectors. The Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.19% as more stocks moved down than up. Notable movers included gains for Rentokil Initial, Airtel Africa and SSE, while WPP, Persimmon and HSBC recorded steep losses…
U.K. equities finished lower after the close on Thursday, with the United Kingdom 100 index down 0.19%. Sector weakness in Banking, Household Goods & Home Construction and Automobiles & Parts weighed on the market. A handful of stocks, including Rentokil Initial and SSE, delivered notable gains, while WPP, Persimmon and HSBC recorded some of the la…
Spain's benchmark index closed lower on Thursday, with the IBEX 35 down 1.22% as losses in Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction outpaced gains. Energy and utilities names, including Repsol, Endesa and Iberdrola, finished higher while several banks and industrials led the declines. Market breadth favored de…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 ended the trading day down 1.22% as losses concentrated in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors pushed the market lower. Energy names bucked the trend with Repsol climbing to five-year highs, while several banks and a major steelmaker posted some of the largest decline…
Portugal's PSI index closed higher, up 0.83%, driven by advances in Utilities, Consumer Services and Telecoms. EDP Renovaveis, Jeronimo Martins and Galp Energia were among the top performers, while Teixeira Duarte, Mota Engil and Banco Comercial Portugues underperformed. Commodity markets saw sharp moves in oil and a drop in gold, while major curre…
Italian stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the broad Italy 40 index dropping 0.71% in Milan. Gains in select industrial and energy names were outweighed by declines among lenders and other cyclical sectors. Market breadth tilted toward losers, and commodities moves included sharp gains in crude and Brent oil and a decline in gold futures.
TotalEnergies on its investor site said it has lost 15% of its oil and gas production after fields across the Middle East were shut amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. The company estimates that the outage represents roughly 10% of its upstream cash flow, but said an $8 per barrel price rise tied to the crisis and additional production coming …
Jefferies analysts presented a cautious outlook for pulp and paper markets after noting a sharp rise in hardwood pulp prices in China over the past six months and a range of supply and demand signals that could blunt further gains. At the same time, European recycled containerboard producers have announced sizeable cost-push price increases as ener…
Germany's main equity gauges ended the session in negative territory, with the DAX down 0.29%, the MDAX off 0.58% and the TecDAX falling 0.64%. Weakness concentrated in Technology, Construction and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare. Several individual stocks posted sizable moves in both directions while volatility rose and commodities showed mixed perfo…
French equities ended lower on Thursday, with the benchmark CAC 40 down 0.71% and the broader SBF 120 also off 0.71%. Gains in select industrial and consumer-oriented companies were offset by notable declines among financials, basic materials and select consumer names. Market breadth favored decliners and volatility for the index options reached a …
Belgian shares closed lower on Thursday, with the BEL 20 sliding 0.54% to a fresh one-month low. Broad declines in Industrials, Financials and Healthcare drove the move. Market breadth was narrowly positive, while commodity and currency contracts moved unevenly in overseas trading sessions ahead of the close in Brussels.
Morgan Stanley's European strategists and sector analysts have mapped how the Iran conflict could alter the risk profile for sustainability-focused investors. The bank flags implications for energy markets, government policy on power pricing and carbon, and sector-specific vulnerabilities in tech, defence and utilities, while also updating its inte…
Swedish equities closed higher on Thursday with the OMX Stockholm 30 edging up 0.14%, supported by advances in Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Industrials. Leading individual movers included Evolution AB, SAAB AB ser. B and Alfa Laval, while several large banks posted notable declines. Oil prices climbed sharply and currency pairs involving the krona moved…
Finland's OMX Helsinki 25 closed higher, up 1.44%, with oil, telecommunications and utilities stocks among the top performers. Neste, Nokia and Fortum recorded substantial gains while several industrial and metal names declined. Commodity markets showed large moves, with Brent and U.S. crude jumping and gold falling; currency and dollar-index moves…
Jefferies has downgraded SoftBank Group to Underperform, pointing to mounting risks tied to the company’s concentrated capital commitments to OpenAI and an expanding leverage profile. The broker set a new price target of ¥3,140, down from ¥5,118 adjusted for a stock split, which it says implies roughly 19% downside from current share levels. Jeffer…
TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, is engaging Canadian regulators to advance a rule change that would allow all publicly listed companies to file earnings every six months rather than quarterly. The proposal mirrors similar U.S. discussions and follows a CSA plan to permit smaller companies with under $10 million in revenue to move…
GeneDx Holdings Corp saw its shares fall 7.8% Thursday after Natera announced the commercial launch of Zenith genomics, a whole genome sequencing assay intended to enhance detection of rare genetic conditions. The assay, developed by MyOme in an exclusive partnership with Natera, incorporates whole genome sequencing with long-read sequencing confir…
