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Widespread flight cancellations continue after the conflict involving Iran prompted the closure of key Middle Eastern air hubs. Airlines from Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East have announced suspensions and altered schedules for routes to Tel Aviv, Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi and other regional destinations, with some carriers keeping serv…
Equity markets on Monday showed divergent moves across market-cap segments. Several mega-cap names, including Cisco, Wells Fargo, AT&T, Bank of America, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Tesla and Home Depot, declined. At the same time, a number of large-, mid- and small-cap companies recorded substantial percentage gains, led by specific biotechno…
Barclays upgraded Leonardo from Equal Weight to Overweight and raised its price target to €68 from €53, citing improving earnings momentum and the potential remediation of the company’s aerostructures business. The bank expects larger EBITA and a doubling of free cash flow by 2030, while noting exposures and valuation metrics that inform its view.
Agilent Technologies said it will acquire privately held Biocare Medical for $950 million in cash, a move the company said will reinforce its position in immunohistochemistry and boost revenue growth and profit margins in the first year. Shares rose 1% to $115 on the announcement. The transaction is subject to regulatory clearance and is expected t…
A U.S. judge disclosed that Turkish state-owned Halkbank and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a deferred prosecution agreement in a protracted criminal case alleging the bank helped Iran skirt American economic sanctions. The filing provided no additional details about the terms of the agreement. The prosecution, dating to 2019, includes…
Nasdaq said it will work with Payward, the holding company behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, to develop tokenization infrastructure using Payward’s xStocks platform. The collaboration targets blockchain-based versions of traditional financial assets, with an initial focus on enabling corporate actions, proxy voting and shareholder engagement f…
Duke Energy said it will privately offer $1 billion of convertible bonds maturing in 2029. The company plans to use net proceeds to repay a portion of its outstanding 4.125% convertible bonds due April 15, 2026, and for general corporate purposes. Shares fell about 1.1% early Monday to $131.01 following the announcement. Duke Energy has a market ca…
Shares of major U.S. airlines and cruise lines fell sharply after oil prices jumped roughly 20% in early trading, reaching levels not seen since July 2022. The move followed an expansion of hostilities in the Middle East that prompted some regional producers to curb supplies and stoked fears of continued shipping disruptions through the Strait of H…
Mizuho pins a sector rebound for the second half of 2026, forecasting oil market lows in early 2026 before supply discipline and limited non-OPEC growth push prices back toward mid-cycle levels. The bank prefers oil-weighted exploration and production companies with robust inventories and balance sheet flexibility and is selective on gas-exposed na…
Adeia Inc. stock climbed 5.7% on Monday after the company announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Advanced Micro Devices that provides AMD access to Adeia's semiconductor intellectual property portfolio and resolves all outstanding litigation between the two firms. Adeia did not disclose financial terms. The deal highlights Adeia's portfoli…
Dianthus Therapeutics shares climbed sharply after the company announced an early go decision for its Phase 3 CAPTIVATE study of claseprubart in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). The decision followed achievement of the required number of confirmed responders in Part A, a Data Safety Monitoring Board review, and no related s…
Rothschild Redburn has upgraded GE Vernova from Sell to Buy and more than doubled its price target to $1,100 from $560, citing stronger demand and improving margins in power equipment and services. The firm projects materially higher 2028 EBITDA and a larger global gas turbine market driven in part by expanding AI-related data center capacity, whil…
Wolfe Research downgraded Starbucks to Peer Perform from Outperform, saying the company is in the early stages of a multi-year turnaround and that execution risk remains elevated. The firm highlighted competitive pressure from fast-growing smaller rivals, signs of localized traffic deterioration, and near-term margin pressure tied to the company's …
U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds across four transactions in December and January while Netflix and Paramount Skydance vied to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, according to recent government disclosures. The filings also show Trump purchased between $500,002 and $1 million of Warner Bros debt. The purchases t…
Zoox, the autonomous taxi unit owned by Amazon, will expand its U.S. testing footprint by adding Dallas and Phoenix and will establish a fleet operations command hub in Scottsdale, Arizona. The moves raise the company’s testing presence to 10 markets, introduce new local depots, and are expected to create hundreds of jobs while exposing its systems…
A Susquehanna analyst raised earnings estimates and price targets for several memory-chip companies, pointing to DRAM and NAND selling prices tracking above prior expectations and an improving demand profile tied to AI workloads and caching requirements. Updated forecasts push Micron, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk and SK Hynix targets higher while k…
Commercial air services in several Middle Eastern corridors have been suspended amid heightened hostilities following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, leaving foreign nationals unable to travel and prompting a wave of government-organised repatriation operations. European institutions and individual states have arranged charters, military airlifts…
Shares of Live Nation Entertainment rose 5% on Monday after the company reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve an antitrust lawsuit alleging illegal monopolization of the live music market. The agreement terminates federal litigation that had examined Live Nation's competitive position and business practices in the live…
Microsoft announced it will incorporate Anthropic’s AI into its Copilot lineup with a new feature called Copilot Cowork, modeled on Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. The tool, designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks with limited oversight, is entering testing and will be available to early-access users later this month. Microsoft said it will also ad…
Barclays trimmed its 12-month price target for Oracle to $230 from $310 and signaled that the company’s accelerating AI-related revenue growth could bring near-term margin pressure. Analyst Raimo Lenschow expects a noticeable AI-driven revenue acceleration in Oracle’s fiscal third quarter, but he warns that investments and lease-expense timing tied…
BofA Securities, following discussions with telecom equipment vendors at Mobile World Congress 2026, identified expanding demand in optical networking and mission-critical 5G upgrades but kept a guarded view on short-term sector growth. The broker lifted its price objective on Nokia, citing AI-enabled RAN progress and a backlog skewed to optical an…
BofA Securities upgraded Temenos AG from neutral to buy and lifted its price target to CHF96 from CHF92, arguing that shares trade meaningfully below historical valuations despite recent revenue growth and guidance that outpaces consensus. The bank highlights low AI substitution risk in core banking, projects higher-than-consensus earnings and cash…
Saudi Arabia's main stock index, the Tadawul All Share, finished Monday down 1.60% as losses in Transport, Hotels & Tourism and Media & Publishing weighed on the market. While several individual stocks recorded strong gains, a larger number of declines pushed the exchange lower. Crude oil prices rose sharply, while gold futures and currency pairs s…
Jefferies analysts contend that artificial intelligence is unlikely to disintermediate commercial property and casualty (P&C) brokers outside of the smallest commercial segments. The firm argues that complexity, advisory services, and data limitations shield upper middle market, large, specialty, and reinsurance brokerages, and views AI primarily a…
Founder Group's shares climbed 20% after the company announced an approximately RM16 million (US$4.14 million) Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning contract to build a 25.40MW solar photovoltaic facility in Malaysia under the government-backed Corporate Green Power Programme. The project is expected to produce roughly 53,000 MW…
