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William Blair has upgraded Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLY) from Market Perform to Outperform, highlighting the company’s positioning to capture increasing traffic driven by large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI. The upgrade follows a quarter William Blair called a "stellar quarter," stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 results and recent upw…
ByteDance on Thursday introduced Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI model capable of processing text, images, audio and video together to generate high-quality cinematic footage. The system, aimed at film, e-commerce and advertising production, has gone viral on Chinese social media, elicited public praise including a comment from Elon Musk and drawing …
Flow Traders reported fourth-quarter EBITDA of €49.2 million, beating consensus by 9% as European operations delivered higher-than-expected revenue capture. Net trading income was €123.8 million, while the company signaled higher fixed operating expenses for 2026 than analysts had forecasted, with the midpoint implying double-digit growth in costs …
KBC Groep reported adjusted pre-tax profit for the fourth quarter of 2025 that modestly outpaced analyst estimates and provided forward guidance for 2026 and 2028 that sits above current consensus on several metrics. The quarter delivered stronger than expected net interest income and revenues, small additional operating costs and limited impairmen…
Carl Zeiss Meditec reported first-quarter results that missed consensus on sales and adjusted EBIT. Organic sales declined, key operating segments underperformed versus expectations, and the company has formally withdrawn its fiscal 2026 guidance while it reviews its outlook and strategy ahead of its six-month results in April.
Datwyler reported second-half 2025 sales of CHF538 million, a touch below expectations, while delivering stronger-than-expected profitability with a 12.6% EBIT margin. Full-year 2025 group sales reached CHF1.101 billion with an adjusted EBIT margin of 12.4%, up from 12.0% in 2024. The company proposed a CHF3.20 per share dividend and outlined a qua…
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield reported full-year 2025 results highlighting the lowest EPRA vacancy rate since 2017 and positive revaluations across its portfolio. Adjusted recurring earnings per share for FY25 were €9.58, marginally below consensus, weighed by €1.6 billion of disposals completed in 2025. Tenant sales, footfall and net tangible assets p…
The U.S. dollar slipped modestly on Thursday and was poised for a weekly decline despite a stronger-than-expected January payrolls report. The Dollar Index fell 0.1% to 96.700 at 04:30 ET (09:30 GMT), putting it on track for about a 1% loss on the week. Investors pared back expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts after the jobs data, but the cur…
JPMorgan upgraded LuxExperience (NYSE:LUXE) from Neutral to Overweight and raised its price target to $14 from $9 following management meetings in New York City. The bank substantially increased its adjusted EBITDA projections for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and cited management confirmation that the company remains on track for targeted EBITDA marg…
World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture associated with the Trump family, announced plans to launch World Swap, a foreign exchange and remittance platform that aims to connect users directly to debit cards and bank accounts worldwide and to settle cross-currency transfers at significantly lower fees. Company co-founder Zak Folkman disclosed the r…
Official GDP figures show the UK economy finished 2025 with subdued growth, driven by weakness in construction and a drop in business investment. ING links part of the investment fall to a cyberattack on a major carmaker late in Q3, and expects the Bank of England to cut rates in March and June if labour-market and wage trends remain soft. EUR/GBP …
Morgan Stanley raised its rating on Ermenegildo Zegna Group (ZGN) from Underweight to Equalweight and set a $11.00 price target following stronger-than-expected preliminary fourth-quarter sales, notably in the Zegna brand's direct-to-consumer channel. The company also reported Q4 and full-year 2025 revenue gains and drew a separate upgrade from UBS…
Kioxia reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and issued a fourth-quarter outlook that far exceeded consensus, prompting fresh gains across memory stocks. The company said its full NAND flash production capacity for 2026 is already sold out, while SSD, storage and smart device sales each showed year-over-year growth. Micron executive…
Russia's economy is set to slow further through the first half of the year, with an economic rebound delayed until at best late 2026 and more likely 2027, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said. The ministry has revised its outlook from an earlier projection of recovery in the second half of 2026. Rapid growth in 2023-24 driven by heavy state war …
HSBC has downgraded BP Plc from Hold to Reduce and reduced its price target to GBP4.30 from GBP4.75, flagging roughly 9% downside versus the current share price. The bank says BP's strategic moves - including faster deleveraging and a rebuilt upstream pipeline - are appropriate but will take years to materially alter the company’s outlook. HSBC hig…
BYDFi participated as a sponsor of Solana Accelerate APAC during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exchange used the forum to engage with Solana-native teams and users, present its CEX + DEX dual-engine model and MoonX onchain trading engine, and highlight its operational protections including over 1:1 …
Singapore's government forecasts a S$8.5 billion budget surplus for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2026 - roughly 1% of GDP - down from a larger surplus expected in the current year. Officials signalled continued growth in both revenues and expenditures, a push to accelerate AI adoption across key industries, and a commitment to maintaining def…
Flipster FZE has obtained in-principle approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), allowing the company to advance toward offering regulated virtual asset services with spot trading as its initial product. The milestone dovetails with Flipster's emphasis on compliance, including a partnership with Chainalysis, and follows the …
Sanofi has appointed Belén Garijo, 65, as its new chief executive after electing not to renew Paul Hudson's mandate. The move comes as the group contends with U.S. vaccine challenges and a lingering turnaround since 2019. Garijo brings prior Sanofi experience and recent leadership of Merck KGaA, where her record includes acquisitions, divestitures …
U.S. equity futures pointed higher on Thursday as investors looked past a stronger-than-forecast January nonfarm payrolls report and turned attention to upcoming corporate results and inflation data. The jobs report, which showed a 130,000 increase in payrolls and a decline in the unemployment rate to 4.3%, pushed back market expectations for the f…
Wells Fargo downgraded Inspire Medical Systems (INSP) from Overweight to Equal Weight and reduced its price target to $70 from $145, citing persistent uncertainty around physician reimbursement. The new target sits near the stock's recent trading level, after INSP shares fell sharply over the past year. Separate analyst action from Baird echoed rei…
Rothschild Redburn downgraded Arcellx Inc. (ACLX) from Buy to Neutral and reduced its price target to $82 from $113, pointing to rising competition in larger treatment markets across earlier multiple myeloma lines as the main factor. The firm kept a constructive view of Arcellx's anito-cel in late-line disease based on clinical data and a physician…
Cancom reported 0.9% year-on-year revenue growth in Q4 2025, marking a sequential acceleration after earlier declines in the year. EBITDA reached €38.6 million, an 8.0% margin versus 5.5% a year earlier, and cash flow strengthened in the quarter after a weaker first nine months of 2025. The company refrained from issuing 2026 guidance with prelimin…
AmBev delivered fourth-quarter results that broadly matched expectations on adjusted EBITDA but showed declines in volumes across most operating regions. Adjusted EBITDA came in at R$8.85 billion, 3% above analyst forecasts yet down 7.5% year-over-year. Total volumes fell 3.8% from a year earlier and missed analyst projections by 2.5%, with Brazil …
U.S. officials at APEC meetings in southern China are promoting American artificial intelligence products and maritime surveillance tools to bolster regional influence and counter Beijing. The Trump administration announced a $20 million fund to aid partner economies' adoption of U.S. AI technologies, while highlighting U.S. private-sector solution…
