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Netherlands stocks closed lower on Monday, with the AEX index down 0.14% as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Technology sectors pushed the market lower. Magnum Ice Cream Nv led gains, reaching an all-time high, while Relx PLC dropped to a 52-week low. Commodity and currency moves included modest declines in crude and Brent oil, a sharp …
Italian equities closed higher on Monday, with gains concentrated in Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Utilities pushing the Italy 40 up 0.19% in Milan. Lottomatica led winners, while DiaSorin, Leonardo and STMicroelectronics posted the steepest declines. Market breadth favored decliners. In commodities, U.S. crude and Brent fell modestly while gold f…
Swedish equities ended higher on Monday, with the OMX Stockholm 30 up 0.35% as Basic Materials, Telecoms and Technology sectors provided the bulk of the upside. Epiroc AB Class A, Boliden AB and Sandvik AB were the session's strongest performers, while EQT AB, SAAB AB series B and Lifco publ AB weighed on the market. Market breadth was negative wit…
The OMX Helsinki 25 finished the trading day higher, supported by advances in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Healthcare sectors. Neste led gains and reached a 52-week high, while a greater number of stocks declined than advanced. Commodity and currency markets showed mixed moves, with Brent and U.S. crude lower, gold futures higher, and the e…
AAR Corp. (AIR) has quietly become a market darling in the aviation services complex, riding strong sentiment around defense spending and the expanding aircraft MRO cycle. The problem is the stock is priced like execution risk has been removed, even as free cash flow is currently negative and the chart is pressing into fresh highs with a hot RSI. T…
Cosmos Health CEO Grigorios Siokas acquired 90,325 common shares on January 23, 2026, in a debt-for-equity exchange valued at roughly $45,000. The transaction leaves Siokas with direct ownership of 8,182,120 shares as the company manages a sizable debt load, a Nasdaq minimum-bid non-compliance notice and a mix of operational progress in its Greek b…
Zoom Communications shares climbed about 10% after Baird analyst William Power underscored the potential value of Zoom’s $51 million 2023 investment in AI firm Anthropic. With media reports suggesting a markedly higher current valuation for Anthropic, Baird estimates Zoom’s stake could be worth between $2 billion and $4 billion depending on dilutio…
At a speech in Brussels, NATO chief Mark Rutte dismissed proposals from some European leaders to form a defence force separate from NATO, arguing that such a move would be costly, duplicative and strategically damaging. He urged European states to assume greater security responsibility within the transatlantic alliance and warned that Russian Presi…
Morgan Stanley cut Varonis Systems to Equal-weight from Overweight, pointing to intensifying competition - notably from Microsoft - and challenges tied to the company’s legacy on-premise business as reasons the stock lacks clear near-term catalysts for a sustained re-rating. The bank lowered its price target and moved its valuation lens to 2027 fre…
Bandwidth is a cloud communications software provider where the market is still pricing in “perpetual messiness” despite improving cash generation and a technical backdrop that’s stabilizing. With the stock around $14.41 and trading at roughly 0.58x sales and ~6.6x free cash flow, a mid-term long looks attractive if price can hold recent lows and r…
Poland's benchmark index WIG30 climbed 1.72% to a fresh all-time high at the close in Warsaw, driven by strength in Basic Materials, Energy and Food stocks. KGHM Polska Miedz SA led the index with an 8.38% gain and new record share price, while several names on the WSE registered declines. Commodity and currency markets showed modest moves alongsid…
A United Nations special rapporteur on Iran says she has received reports that security forces have removed injured protesters from hospitals and detained them, a practice that violates international protections for medical care. The rapporteur also reported families facing ransom demands of $5,000 to $7,000 to recover the bodies of relatives. Inde…
The dollar has slid sharply in early 2026 as investor confidence in a period of currency stability weakens. A constellation of factors - including explicit U.S. policy signals favoring a weaker dollar, aggressive trade rhetoric, geopolitical operations, and shifting central bank expectations - have driven a notable fall in the currency against peer…
Microsoft hit my prior upside objective and then pulled back into a technical reset. With MSFT now reclaiming near-term trend levels, MACD momentum turning up, and a major earnings catalyst on deck, I’m upgrading to Strong Buy as a trade idea. The setup is straightforward: defined entry, a stop below the recent swing low, and targets that map to th…
Director Fritz Eric Armenat of Taylor Devices, Inc. sold his entire holding of 4,328 common shares for a total of $311,386 in transactions executed on January 22 and 23, 2026, according to a Form 4 filing. The stock has climbed roughly 115% over the last year and trades near its 52-week high, while third-party valuation data flags the shares as tra…
Bridgewater Associates' co-chief investment officers said in a client note that large corporations' spending on artificial intelligence will continue to expand rapidly, reshaping corporate capital plans and supporting equity markets. The firm highlighted how investment across the AI supply chain - from data centers to chips and power - has lifted m…
Danish equities finished higher on Monday, with the OMX Copenhagen 20 climbing 0.14% to reach a six-month high. Gains in Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Industrials supported the advance, led by a strong move in Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Several large-cap names lagged, and commodity prices and currency moves were mixed in European trading.
Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Allen Miller sold 171,200 shares on January 23, 2026, generating $5.98 million, after simultaneously exercising options to acquire the same number of shares. The move was made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted in February 2025 and follows a quarter that beat revenue and earnings estimates, prompting mixed …
Halliburton Executive Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer Beckwith Van H. executed option exercises and sold 54,348 shares on January 23, 2026, generating proceeds of $1.9 million. The transactions occurred as the energy services company’s stock traded close to its 52-week high and followed strong fourth-quarter results that prompted…
Morgan Stanley expects Apple to report fiscal first-quarter revenue above company guidance, driven primarily by demand for the iPhone 17. The firm projects March-quarter revenue will also top Street estimates, but cautions that higher operating expenses and memory-related gross margin pressures may constrain earnings improvement and could keep shar…
PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Emergency/Load Management Alert and an Energy Emergency Alert 1 (EEA1) on Monday, setting the alert for the full day on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. The operator forecasts a winter record peak of 147,200 megawatts (MW) for that day and has asked generation dispatchers to report estimated return times fo…
Microsoft announced the Maia 200, a new AI inference accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process and equipped with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, 216GB of HBM3e, and 272MB of on-chip SRAM. The company says the chip delivers over 10 petaFLOPS in 4-bit precision and over 5 petaFLOPS in 8-bit within a 750W power envelope, and will be used to run OpenAI's GP…
Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah, said the group is concerned about threats from Washington directed at Iran, especially any threat to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Qassem said Hezbollah is prepared to defend itself and will determine its response in due course, adding that mediators indicated the U.S. and Isr…
First Citizens BancShares trades at roughly 12x earnings and about 1.17x book at a $25B market cap, which reads as “undervalued” for a top-20 U.S. bank. But price action is still heavy: FCNCA is below its 10- and 20-day averages, RSI is subdued, and MACD remains in bearish momentum. This is a tradeable bounce setup, not a blind value hold - with an…
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by multiple guided-missile destroyers, has moved into the Middle East region under U.S. Central Command, U.S. officials said. The deployment expands U.S. military options to protect forces or to take action against Iran amid recent tensions tied to nationwide protests in Iran. Additional fighter…
