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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is moving to restore portions of its workforce that departed after voluntary buyouts last year, SEC Chair Paul Atkins told a Senate panel. Atkins said gaps remain in several divisions and pledged to fill them, while rejecting allegations that the agency has curtailed enforcement against crypto-related fir…
European Commission officials have launched an early-stage antitrust inquiry into Google's search advertising auctions after sending inquiries to potentially affected firms. Regulators are investigating allegations that Google may be artificially raising the clearing price in its ad auctions, a conduct that, if proven, could breach EU competition r…
U.S. fixed mortgage rates edged lower this week, with the 30-year rate at 6.09% and the 15-year at 5.44%, according to Freddie Mac. The move marks the first weekly decline in a month and represents a notable improvement compared with rates a year ago, helping to modestly improve housing affordability even as inventory constraints persist.
An options strategy that buys straddles - paired calls and puts - around U.S. corporate earnings has posted outsized returns this reporting season, with analytics firm ORATS reporting an average 45% return over the last four weeks versus a 2% average across the prior 12 quarters. Large-cap stocks including Microsoft and Meta produced notable post-e…
France's main equity gauge, the CAC 40, finished the session up 0.33%, while the broader SBF 120 rose 0.28%. Consumer-facing names and industrials drove much of the upside, with individual large-cap movers including Michelin, Danone and EssilorLuxottica. Market breadth favored decliners, several large caps hit multi-year extremes, and volatility fo…
Belgian stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the BEL 20 index rising 0.56% to reach a new all-time high. Strength in consumer services, healthcare and industrial sectors powered the advance. Anheuser Busch Inbev and UCB were among the session's best performers, while KBC Groep and select materials and real estate names lagged. Commodities and cur…
London equities finished the session in negative territory, led by declines in the Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and Banking sectors. The United Kingdom 100 index closed down 0.60%. Schroders posted the session's largest gain and hit a three-year high, while Rentokil, Prudential and Standard Chartered were among the weakest names. Commodity benc…
U.K. stocks finished lower on Thursday, driven by declines in the Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and Banking sectors. The Investing.com United Kingdom 100 index closed down 0.60% as market breadth favored decliners, while a handful of large-cap names bucked the trend with notable gains.
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 closed lower on Thursday, slipping 0.82% as declines in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors weighed on the market. Market breadth favored decliners, while select utilities and telecom names posted gains. Commodities and currency markets moved with oil and …
The IBEX 35 fell 0.82% at Thursday's close in Madrid, with losses concentrated in Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction, and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors. Redeia, Cellnex and Telefónica were the session's top performers, while ArcelorMittal, Solaria and Amadeus were the biggest decliners. Market breadth was negative as …
Portuguese equities closed lower on Thursday, with the PSI falling 0.49% as losses in Financials, Industrials and Utilities weighed on the market. Market breadth was narrowly negative and several individual stocks recorded new highs even amid the decline. Energy and precious metals futures also moved lower, while major currency pairs were largely u…
Stocks in the Netherlands closed lower on Thursday, with the AEX index falling 2.02% amid sector-wide weakness led by Industrials, Basic Materials and Technology. While select blue chips such as Heineken, NN Group and Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize advanced, heavy losses in names including Adyen, Magnum Ice Cream and DSM Firmenich drove the overall mar…
Italian equities finished lower on Thursday, with the Investing.com Italy 40 ending the session down 0.51% in Milan. Losses were concentrated in the Chemicals, Technology and Industrials sectors. While a handful of large-cap names posted gains, more stocks declined than advanced. Energy and precious metals prices fell, and currency moves were subdu…
German equities closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark DAX down 0.11% at the end of trading. Sector pressure came from Transportation & Logistics, Retail and Technology stocks. The MDAX and TecDAX also fell, led by notable declines among mid-cap and tech-related listings, while several large-cap names recorded gains.
JPMorgan maintained an Underweight rating on Valvoline and left its fiscal 2026 EBITDA estimate unchanged at $535 million. While the brokerage expects some growth from the recent $607 million acquisition of Breeze Auto Care and continued positive same-store sales, it warns that integration costs, lower-margin Breeze operations and added interest ex…
Green Circle Decarbonize Technology Limited announced the sale of 375,000 additional ordinary shares following full exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option, bringing aggregate gross proceeds to $11.5 million at the IPO price of $4.00 per share before deductions. The offering was led by RBW Capital Partners LLC with Revere Securities LLC…
Swedish equities closed lower on Thursday with the OMX Stockholm 30 down 0.69% as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors pulled the market down. NIBE Industrier AB ser. B, Essity AB B and AstraZeneca outperformed, while Evolution AB, SAAB AB ser. B and Boliden AB were among the session’s worst performers. Commodity prices …
Finland's main equity gauge, the OMX Helsinki 25, fell 2.19% at Thursday's close as declines in the Healthcare, Utilities and Telecoms sectors weighed on the market. Market breadth favored losers by a wide margin. Key commodity benchmarks and the dollar showed movement, while major FX crosses were largely unchanged.
Palantir Technologies shares fell 6.18% after investor Michael Burry published a 10,000-word newsletter that critiqued the current artificial intelligence investment cycle and raised concerns touching on data center depreciation and AI company valuations. While Burry updated his thesis on Palantir and the broader AI sector, DA Davidson said its rev…
Alphabet shares rose 1% on Thursday, outpacing a broader technology decline, after the company announced a substantial update to its Gemini 3 Deep Think specialized reasoning system. The upgrade is being rolled out to premium subscribers and, for the first time, exposed via an API to a limited group of researchers and enterprises. Benchmarks cited …
CME Group is preparing to approve new aluminium delivery locations in Taiwan and Hong Kong, according to three people with direct knowledge. The move would expand CME’s Asian warehousing beyond Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, and follows applications from established warehouse operators to list facilities in Kaohsiung and Hong Kong that could …
Ubisoft confirmed its full-year financial targets after third-quarter net bookings of 338 million euros beat the company’s prior guidance. The outperformance was led by Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Nintendo’s Switch 2, while Ubisoft reiterated forecasts for roughly 1.5 billion euros in bookings and an operating loss near 1 billion euros for the year…
PTC Inc. shares fell 3.8% on Thursday following Google's announcement of a major upgrade to its Gemini 3 'Deep Think' AI mode. The upgrade adds capabilities aimed at solving complex science and engineering problems, including converting sketches into 3D-printable models, a functionality that overlaps with PTC's core computer-aided design (CAD) and …
Kraft Heinz's incoming chief executive, Steve Cahillane, has suspended a previously announced plan to separate the company into two businesses and will concentrate on reinvigorating underinvested brands. The move follows weakness in sales, investor skepticism about the split, and concerns that legacy products need fresh marketing and product invest…
Poland's main index closed marginally higher on Thursday, led by advances in the Construction, Basic Materials and Food sectors. The WIG30 rose 0.10% as several large-cap names posted notable moves. Commodity prices, including U.S. crude, Brent and gold futures, moved lower, while EUR/PLN and USD/PLN were effectively unchanged.
