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A pending appeal decision on July 7 will determine whether Marine Le Pen remains eligible to run for the French presidency or whether her party will turn to Jordan Bardella. The verdict follows a March 2025 conviction that imposed a five-year ban from public office and a four-year jail sentence, and has intensified internal debates within the Natio…
Britain’s intervention threat in Paramount Skydance Corp’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros Discovery looks aimed at extracting concessions on media plurality, children’s TV and British production rather than outright vetoing the $110 billion transaction. With ticking fees that raise the cost of delay and separate competition and public-interest pr…
Jefferies raised its price targets for ASML Holding and STMicroelectronics after upgrading estimates and noting a broad re-rating across European semiconductor peers. The brokerage highlighted hefty gains across the group in Q2 2026, projected higher ASML revenue guidance ranges and set new valuation frameworks for both names. Jefferies kept buy ra…
Multiple wildfires continued to burn in southern France on July 2 as strong winds and dry conditions complicated suppression efforts. Authorities reported three fires that together have burned 1,210 hectares. The largest blaze, in Aude near the Spanish border, consumed about 900 hectares and required the deployment of roughly 800 firefighters. Near…
India's equity benchmarks closed higher on Thursday, driven by strong performances in IT, technology and consumer durables names. The Nifty 50 advanced 0.71% to reach a fresh one-month high, while the BSE Sensex rose 0.75%. Large-cap IT firms registered the session's biggest gains, while select financials and consumer staples lagged. Market-wide vo…
On Holding's stock climbed in pre-open trading after JPMorgan reinstated coverage with an Overweight rating and placed the stock on a Positive Catalyst Watch, while BTIG named it its large-cap top consumer pick for H2 2026. Both broker notes and recent insider purchases by the company's three co-founders contributed to renewed investor interest as …
Harbour Energy looks priced for patience but may reward a discipline-driven long trade. If commodity trends stabilize and execution on cost and capital returns holds, shares can re-rate. This idea lays out a precise entry, stop and target with catalysts and the risks that would change the thesis.
A firebomb attack on three homes of local New Democracy figures in Thessaloniki left a 72-year-old woman dead and several people injured. Authorities say the incidents appear coordinated and an anti-terror unit is leading the investigation. The governing party and its youth wing have called for a rally to honour the victim and denounce violence.
Hungary's environment minister has announced that electric vehicle battery factories that breach environmental rules face closure, marking a policy reversal after a period of heavy investment in the sector. The move comes amid election-driven scrutiny of pollution and a recent suspension of a production licence for a Chinese battery parts maker fol…
The European Union has raised objections to a Chinese law on ethnic unity that came into force this week and contains provisions allowing authorities to hold people abroad legally responsible for actions deemed to undermine ethnic unity or to incite separatism. The EU said the law risks curbing the cultural, linguistic and religious rights of ethni…
Palantir Technologies is rising in pre-market trade after a cluster of high-impact company developments lifted investor interest. The stock is up 3.7% pre-open as traders respond to a sovereign AI collaboration with Nvidia, a U.S. Army selection of Palantir Foundry for its Next Generation Command and Control program, a DA Davidson upgrade, a public…
Ireland's statistical office revised down first-quarter 2026 growth in modified domestic demand to 0.3% quarter-on-quarter, from an earlier 0.6% estimate. Gross domestic product for the same quarter was also adjusted, showing a 7.0% decline instead of the previously reported 12.1% fall. Annual and quarterly revisions reflect the outsized influence …
Fencing, street closures and large-scale logistical preparations around Madison Square Garden have intensified speculation that pop star Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce will host multi-day wedding celebrations at the venue this weekend. City officials and law enforcement are monitoring activities while other major events and extreme heat a…
Airbus Defence and Space has been contracted by the European Space Agency to design and build Aeolus-2, a successor to the 2018 Aeolus wind-observing satellite. The agreement, signed at ESA’s ECSAT facility in Harwell, tasks Airbus with delivering a satellite equipped with an ultraviolet Doppler wind lidar and an additional aerosol detector. Aeolus…
Ingrid A. Estrada, Senior Vice President at Keysight Technologies, Inc., executed a sale of 2,000 shares of the company's common stock on June 30, 2026. The transaction, valued at $681,740, was conducted at a price of $340.87 per share. This sale was carried out under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by Ms. Estrada on March 30, 2026. Following th…
President Donald Trump’s drive to expand biodiesel and renewable diesel output and reward farm constituencies is confronting a supply shortfall: U.S. production is trailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s elevated 2026 Renewable Fuel Standard targets. The gap between mandates and actual output has raised RIN prices, depleted the RIN bank cush…
Verisk, a catastrophe and risk modeling firm, estimates that the economic toll from two powerful earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on June 24 will top $10 billion. The company reported severe damage concentrated in the Caracas metropolitan area and the coastal state of La Guaira, where around 1,400 buildings were destroyed. Verisk als…
AB SKF shares climbed 3.9% to SEK 258.6 following an announcement that the company will form a joint venture with China-based Leaderdrive to produce high-precision transmission components for humanoid robot joints. SKF will take a 60% stake in the China-headquartered entity, which is expected to commence operations by year-end 2026. The partnership…
A large majority of U.S. adults say they will observe the nation’s 250th Independence Day, most commonly by attending or hosting cookouts, displaying flags and watching fireworks. At the same time, many Americans view July 4 primarily as a day for rest or family time, and partisan differences shape both celebration habits and views about the countr…
JetZero is assembling a full-scale demonstrator of a blended-wing commercial jet in a Mojave Desert hangar, aiming at the lucrative 200-plus-seat segment that once sat between narrowbodies and widebodies. The test aircraft - built by Scaled Composites and powered by Pratt & Whitney engines - is slated to fly by the end of next year and has drawn in…
Novartis announced that the European Commission has approved Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) to treat a broad population of patients with 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who carry a bi-allelic mutation in the SMN1 gene. The approval covers children aged two years and older, teenagers and adults. Itvisma is approved as a single fixed dose gene r…
Norwegian fertiliser company Yara said a subsidiary has agreed to acquire Gulf Coast Ammonia’s Texas production facility from GCA Holdings LLC for $1.3 billion. The purchase follows Yara's June decision not to proceed with a planned acquisition of ammonia assets at the Louisiana Clean Energy Complex from Air Products. Under the terms, Air Products …
Infleqtion shares climbed in pre-open trading after Canaccord started coverage with a Buy rating and a $22 price target. The initiation adds to existing Buy endorsements, and is occurring amid company-level positives including a CHIPS Act Letter of Intent and raised 2026 revenue guidance, while overall U.S. markets were softer in pre-market trade.
The Supreme Court's recent decision shielding the Federal Reserve from an unprecedented political firing brought renewed focus to the court's growing reliance on its emergency docket. A 5-4 majority authored by Chief Justice John Roberts upheld protections for a Fed governor while three conservative dissenters criticized the majority for making far…
Astera Labs is trading as a high-growth play on the AI data-center buildout. The stock has run hard into lofty multiples - market cap ~$73.85B and a P/E near 276 - but the company sits squarely in the sweet spot for GPU networking and rack-scale connectivity. This is a high-risk, high-reward swing trade: use tight position sizing, respect the stop,…
