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William Blair cut its rating on PagerDuty Inc from Outperform to Market Perform following a fourth quarter that fell short of expectations and a fiscal 2027 outlook that calls for roughly flat revenue growth at the midpoint. The brokerage highlighted ongoing pressure from the company’s seat-based pricing model, weakening customer metrics and compet…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani circulated a memo to state lawmakers proposing a near-90% reduction in the state's estate tax exemption - from just over $7 million to $750,000 - alongside an increase in the top estate tax rate from 16% to 50%. The proposal is one item among nearly a dozen revenue options offered to help close a $5.4 billion budg…
Ascent Industries (ACNT) is trading near $12.80 after a run of operational misses and heavy selling. The balance sheet is unusually strong for a small specialty-chemicals name - low debt, meaningful cash per share and an enterprise value well below market cap - and technical indicators are deeply oversold. This trade idea targets a mean-reversion b…
We upgrade Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) to Buy on attractive valuation, FCF generation and recent product & strategic wins. Technical oversold conditions and elevated short interest suggest continued volatility; we prefer to pick a precise entry at $7.50 while targeting $12.00 over a 180 trading-day horizon and using a $6.75 stop.
Patrizio Vinciarelli, chairman and CEO of Vicor Corp (VICR), sold 33,120 shares on March 12, 2026, through transactions priced between $163.7417 and $173.22, generating $8,372,992. The trades were made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted November 3, 2025. Following the sales, Vinciarelli retains direct ownership of 9,358,163 shares, with an additional…
Poland's main index closed lower on Friday, with the WIG30 sliding 0.48% to register a one-month low. Losses were concentrated in Construction, Basic Materials and Oil & Gas. Among large-cap movers, Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa, PGE and PZU were the session's top risers, while Budimex, Synektik and Asseco Poland registered the largest declines. Marke…
Nvidia remains the dominant supplier for AI compute. Market chatter around a customer called 'Nebius' suggests a new infrastructure deployment that could tilt near-term demand expectations—if real. Balance strong fundamentals - $4.45T market cap, $96.7B free cash flow, ROE 76% - against a premium multiple and mixed technical momentum. Trade idea: e…
Since strikes began on February 28, a limited number of Greek-owned and Chinese-operated tankers and dry bulk vessels have traversed the Strait of Hormuz, accepting exposure to mines, missiles and drones in exchange for sharply higher earnings. The voyages underscore how surging crude prices and record tanker rates are motivating owners to undertak…
First Financial Bankshares Inc. director Haney Geoff bought 1,500 shares of the bank's common stock on March 12, 2026, paying $29.18 per share for a total of $43,770, a transaction disclosed in a Form 4 filing with the SEC. The purchase occurred while the shares traded near a 52-week low and after the firm received a Neutral initiation from Brean C…
Elon Musk has initiated further departures at xAI after bringing in managers from SpaceX and Tesla to review the company’s coding division. Several co-founders and staff have left or been moved aside amid complaints about product shortcomings, burnout and declining morale, sources say. The restructurings come as xAI is positioned within SpaceX ahea…
Denmark's equity market closed with gains in key sectors on Friday, driven by advances in Consumer Goods, Real Estate and Industrials, even as the benchmark OMX Copenhagen 20 finished the session with a reported 0.00% change. A handful of large-cap names led the session's winners while several other notable stocks declined; commodity and currency m…
San Francisco-based hedge fund Fivespan Partners disclosed a 5.1% stake in BlackLine Inc, signaling activist engagement with the cloud accounting software provider. The filing, made public Thursday evening, followed BlackLine's recent appointment of technology M&A veteran Storm Duncan to its board and Strategic Committee. Fivespan said it paid roug…
Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes, halting a waterway that normally handles about one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments. Traffic has collapsed by roughly 97% since the conflict expanded at the end of February, United Nations data show. The geography of the strait, the tact…
A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, restated President Trump’s comments that Washington is engaged in talks with Havana and that Cuban leaders should reach a deal, which the president believes could be 'very easily made.' Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed negotiations are taking place as the nation faces acute shor…
Israeli forces have entered a new phase of operations directed at Iranian checkpoints staffed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a source familiar with Israel's military approach. The strikes, carried out in coordination with the United States, relied in part on intelligence from informants on the ground to identify multiple che…
GlobalFoundries priced a 20 million-share secondary at $42 by Mubadala with a concurrent $300 million buyback by the company. The deal reduces a headline dilution risk while expanding tradable float. Fundamentals remain intact: market cap ~$23.1B, PE ~26, and a deepening auto/industrial customer base. Technicals show the stock a touch weak below ke…
Barclays has delayed its projection for the Federal Reserve's initial interest-rate reduction from June to September and now anticipates only one 25-basis-point cut in 2026, with a second cut deferred to March 2027. The move follows upward revisions to PCE inflation forecasts and heightened upside risks to headline inflation tied to the Iran confli…
A Form 4 filed with the SEC shows Mid Penn Bancorp director Matthew G. De Soto bought $79,930 of the company’s common stock on March 12, 2026. The purchases came in several transactions at prices between $30.795 and $30.91. Mid Penn also reported a 47% increase in fourth-quarter net income to $19.4 million and disclosed completed and pending acquis…
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth publicly expressed support for David Ellison assuming control of CNN and sharply criticized media reporting on the conflict with Iran, particularly coverage of disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. Hegseth questioned news accounts he said overstated Iran's intentions and faulted ABC and CNN reports while the Pentagon cont…
Morocco's stock market closed lower on Friday, with the Moroccan All Shares index falling 1.76%. Losses were concentrated in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors. Market breadth was negative, with 46 decliners, 10 advancers and 5 unchanged. Key commodity and currency moves accompanied the equity selloff.
Exceptional Minds, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit vocational academy and visual effects studio for adults on the autism spectrum, provides multi-year training and studio experience that has led alumni to work on major films and television shows. The program combines technical VFX and animation instruction with workplace social skills coaching, and p…
Intuitive Surgical reported that an unauthorized actor gained access to information from select internal IT business applications following a targeted phishing incident. The company said it contained the intrusion, secured affected applications, and that its da Vinci, Ion and digital platforms were not impacted. Shares fell as much as 4% midday on …
Rising oil prices linked to the conflict in Iran are prompting African policymakers to pause or reverse recent interest-rate cuts, threaten productivity in sectors such as mining and agriculture, and place pressure on foreign-exchange reserves and currencies across the continent. Several central banks that had been easing are reassessing policy ami…
Norwegian equities closed higher on Friday, with the Oslo OBX climbing 0.57% to a fresh all-time high. Advances were driven by strength in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities, while several shipping and technology-related listings lagged. Oil prices rose, the dollar strengthened, and key currency pairs invo…
Israel's equity benchmark closed higher on Friday, with the TA 35 up 0.76% as gains in the Insurance, Technology and Financials sectors supported the market. Several individual stocks posted notable moves while commodity and currency markets showed mixed performance, with crude and Brent higher and gold lower. Currency pairs USD/ILS and EUR/ILS als…
