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In two days, Berkshire Hathaway under CEO Greg Abel committed $16.8 billion to acquire Taylor Morrison and to purchase $10 billion of Alphabet stock in a private placement. The transactions follow investor pressure to reduce Berkshire’s large cash holdings and mark a notable pivot toward greater capital deployment since Abel succeeded Warren Buffet…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said international flight processing at Newark Liberty International Airport does not need to be suspended currently because state and local law enforcement have been cooperating around a migrant detention center that became the scene of protests and confrontations. The announcement follows New Jersey's …
Paul V. Morris, a private wealth adviser whose name appears in Department of Justice files concerning Jeffrey Epstein, has left his role at Merrill Lynch, a Bank of America unit, a company spokesperson confirmed. The spokesperson would not say when Morris departed and did not indicate whether the exit was linked to the references in the Epstein-rel…
Duke Energy has held discussions with large cloud and tech companies about a potential financing arrangement for new nuclear reactors, asking hyperscalers to assume a portion of construction risk as the utility evaluates adding nuclear capacity to meet rising demand driven by energy-intensive data centers. The company, headquartered in North Caroli…
DriveNets secured $410 million in a new funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Atreides Management, bringing the company's total capital raised to $1 billion. New investors AMD and Red Dot Capital joined the round alongside returning backers Pitango and D1 Capital Partners. The company said proceeds will be directed toward meeting growi…
Fulcrum Therapeutics' stock plunged sharply in after-hours trading after the company said it would permanently stop development of pociredir, its only clinical-stage therapy for sickle cell disease, following adverse feedback from the FDA tied to class-wide malignancy concerns. Management has launched a strategic review and plans to cut expenses wh…
Mexico's main equity gauge ended Monday lower, driven by declines in the Industrials, Consumer Goods & Services and Consumer Staples sectors. The S&P/BMV IPC fell 0.66% as more stocks retreated than advanced. Commodity and currency markets saw notable moves, with crude oil rising sharply, gold futures retreating and the Mexican peso little changed …
Microchip Technology's stock jumped 14.5% in after-hours trading to $104.89 after the company issued a targeted release outlining substantial growth expectations for its Data Center Solutions Business Unit and announcing selective price increases across its product portfolio. Management confirmed strong year-over-year acceleration in the data cente…
Colombian stocks finished higher after trading closed on Monday, with the COLCAP benchmark rising 3.57% to a one-month high. Gains were concentrated in the Industrials, Services and Agriculture sectors, while individual names showed diverging results. Promigas led winners, and Grupo Bolivar and Grupo Energia Bogota reached 52-week lows.
Russian stocks finished higher on Monday, with the MOEX Russia Index up 0.19% at the close in Moscow. Strength in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors supported the advance. AFK Sistema, Surgutneftegas preferred shares and Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank were among the session's top performers, while Unipro, PhosAgro and Aeroflot sat near the b…
Super Micro Computer shares climbed in after-hours trading after Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported a record quarter fueled by rising demand for AI and cloud servers. HPE beat earnings and revenue estimates, raised full-year EPS guidance, and pointed to large server bookings and growth in AI-related workloads. The results and guidance lifted HPE s…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise posted a blockbuster fiscal second quarter, smashing analyst forecasts with a large earnings beat and robust revenue growth. The company raised full-year EPS guidance by $1, set Q3 targets above Street expectations, and introduced a new AI-focused ProLiant server. Those factors, together with a sector already energized by…
A Suffolk County judge in Boston refused to dissolve an April injunction that compels GE Vernova to keep servicing the 806-megawatt Vineyard Wind offshore project and denied the turbine supplier’s request to move the dispute to arbitration. The ruling preserves Vineyard Wind’s ability to seek urgent court relief amid a payment dispute tied to a pri…
Alphabet announced an $80 billion equity raise to finance expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure, including a $30 billion underwritten public offering and a $40 billion at-the-market program. Berkshire Hathaway will participate with a $10 billion private placement. The company cited demand for AI compute outstripping current capacity and …
Novartis reported early findings from a 101-patient study of an experimental actinium-225 radioligand therapy showing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) declines in multiple patient cohorts, including those previously treated with Pluvicto. While response rates were notable, analysts and company executives emphasized the importance of managing side ef…
A range of companies across technology and biopharma saw pronounced after-hours stock moves following quarterly results and regulatory developments. Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped after a strong quarter and aggressively raised guidance, Credo Technology slid despite an earnings beat, Fulcrum Therapeutics plunged after halting a sickle cell progr…
Microchip Technology saw its stock climb about 7% in after-hours trading following a forecast that its Data Center Solutions Business Unit will grow roughly 65% to around $500 million in calendar year 2026. The unit produced $302.7 million in revenue in 2025 and posted a 62.9% year-over-year increase in the March 2026 quarter. The company also anno…
Abivax shares climbed 20% after the company reported that its Phase 3 ABTECT maintenance trial for obefazimod met the primary endpoint. Both 25 mg and 50 mg once-daily doses produced markedly higher clinical remission rates at Week 44 versus placebo, and the trial met all key secondary endpoints with no new safety signals reported over the 44-week …
U.S. stock indices closed higher on Monday, led by gains in Technology, Oil & Gas and Basic Materials sectors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a new record, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also finishing higher. A handful of big movers—both winners and losers—drove notable intraday volatility, while commodities and currencies showed mixed mo…
Canadian equities closed modestly lower on Monday, with the S&P/TSX Composite finishing down 0.10%. Broad pressure from the Materials, Financials and REITs sectors dominated the session, even as several individual stocks posted sizable advances. Market breadth favored decliners, and implied volatility on TSX options ticked up.
Brazil's stock market ended Monday with a notable downturn as the Bovespa fell 0.91% to a fresh three-month low. Sector losses were led by Public Utilities, Financials and Electric Power. Market breadth favored decliners, several individual names posted sharp moves and volatility measures eased to a three-month low. Commodities and currency indexes…
Anthropic said on Monday it has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, a move that coincides with renewed investor appetite for AI-driven tech stocks. The filing comes as SpaceX moves toward pricing its IPO and OpenAI is expected to follow with its own confidential filing. Markets reacted with mixed trading, and analysts emphasize…
BP has asked senior independent director Amanda Blanc to head the board's search for a new chair following the abrupt removal of Albert Manifold. Interim chair Ian Tyler said the process will be rigorous and collective, while investors and London market figures expressed doubts about Blanc securing shareholder backing for a second chair appointment…
Fulcrum Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:FULC) said it will stop development of pociredir for sickle cell disease after the FDA expressed concerns about malignancy risks linked to drugs that target the PRC2 complex. The announcement prompted a roughly 30% drop in the stock in after-hours trading. The company has opened a strategic review and is cutting co…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivered a record second quarter driven by heavy demand for servers and networking equipment tied to AI workloads. The company raised its fiscal 2026 revenue and earnings outlook and said the revised targets exceed its prior 2028 projections, citing enterprise adoption of agentic AI and continued infrastructure moderniza…
