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UnitedHealth Group shares jumped 5.7% in morning trading after Bank of America raised its rating on the managed care company to Buy and lifted the price target to $450 from $420. The upgrade, which cited improving medical cost trends and supportive near-term data, was joined by a higher price target from Morgan Stanley and came amid strategic moves…
The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s system for issuing forfeiture orders does not violate the constitutional right to a jury trial. The ruling resolves a split among federal appeals courts after AT&T and Verizon challenged substantial fines tied to alleged improper sales of customer locatio…
Hims & Hers Health shares rose 7.8% in morning trading as a Canaccord Genuity Buy rating with a $32 price target was reiterated and the company named Dr. Anant Vinjamoori as Chief Medical Officer for the Hims brand. Investors responded to the combination of renewed analyst conviction, a hire signaling deeper clinical capability, and the broader bac…
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 4 issued a unanimous decision siding with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a dispute over the scope of its disgorgement authority. The ruling affirms lower-court findings that the SEC may seek repayment of illegal profits even where the agency does not prove victims suffered monetary loss, and it follows liti…
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Hikma’s generic version of Amarin’s Vascepa did not infringe Amarin’s patents, rejecting a lower court ruling and potentially reducing the legal exposure of generic drugmakers that use so-called "skinny labels." The decision, supported by the Trump administration, centers on whether a generic manufacture…
Paramount Skydance and the Ultimate Fighting Championship have struck a six-year pact that will make Paramount+ the exclusive home for UFC numbered-event main cards in Canada beginning next year. The arrangement expands on a previous U.S. rights deal and signals Paramount’s continued push to leverage live sports to drive growth in an increasingly m…
Five Below reported stronger-than-expected fiscal Q1 2026 results, yet its stock plunged 12.1% in morning trading after an after-hours selloff extended into the regular session. The company topped consensus on both earnings and revenue, driven by substantial comparable-store sales and higher transaction volume. The market reaction centered on the c…
Pinterest shares rose sharply after the company disclosed a $4 billion agreement naming Amazon Web Services its Preferred Cloud Services Provider through 2031. The pact is intended to accelerate Pinterest’s AI roadmap, improve search and shopping responsiveness, and update the platform’s infrastructure that supports visual discovery for over 600 mi…
Micron Technology shares dropped sharply in morning trading after a broad selloff in the semiconductor sector was sparked by Broadcom’s post-earnings reaction. Despite strong revenue results at Broadcom, management’s decision not to lift its full-year AI semiconductor revenue target prompted a steep decline in that stock and a sector-wide de-riskin…
Bank of America announced a cross-border real-time payments service scheduled for next quarter, allowing corporate, commercial and financial institution customers to send and receive instant funds via Swift or the bank's CashPro platform. The stock rose 2.4% on the news as the offering connects to several real-time rails and emphasizes full-princip…
Rumble's shares jumped sharply after the company announced a $270 million, multi-year contract for dedicated GPU cloud capacity. The agreement, signed June 3, 2026, involves NVIDIA Blackwell B300 systems and may increase in value or duration tied to market performance. The deal strengthens Rumble's push into cloud services and AI compute as the fir…
Ciena shares dropped sharply after the company reported fiscal Q2 2026 results that exceeded Wall Street estimates on both earnings and revenue but failed to deliver the magnitude of upside investors had priced in. A modest raise to full-year revenue guidance, Q3 guidance that offered limited incremental surprise, persistent insider sell activity, …
Early filings and shareholder notices indicate private credit funds aimed at wealthy investors are again experiencing redemption pressure in the second quarter, driven by concerns over software exposure, valuations and limited transparency. Redemption windows at major U.S. non-traded private credit funds have recently closed, and managers reported …
Airbus increased its May aircraft deliveries to 81, a marked rise from 51 a year earlier, after a regulatory impasse with Chinese authorities that had delayed about 20 jets was resolved. The manufacturer declined to comment ahead of a scheduled monthly update. Analysts caution that broader supply-chain issues continue to pose a challenge to meeting…
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL) shares rose in premarket trade after the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency exercised a $22 million option year under an existing IDIQ maritime analytics contract and awarded an additional agreement, in collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit, for high-frequency monitoring of defense priorities.
Senior executives from major Indian automakers and component makers told investors at Morgan Stanley’s India Investment Forum 2026 that the sector remains on a steady expansion trajectory. Management commentary emphasized strong domestic demand, rising export opportunities, accelerating electric vehicle uptake and growing defense-related businesses…
Generalist AI completed a $400 million financing that places the robotics startup at a $2 billion valuation including the new funding. Led by Radical Ventures and joined by a mix of venture firms, corporate backers and tech executives, the round will be used to build more sophisticated AI models to broaden the set of physical tasks robots can perfo…
Barclays maintains a bleak view on European carmakers overall, citing a mix of structural and cyclical pressures. The bank singles out Ferrari as its preferred way to avoid many of those pressures, while warning of a specific downside scenario that could see Ferrari lag. Geopolitical risks tied to the Iran conflict and oil prices are influencing ne…
Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered's global head of digital assets research, reaffirmed a call for bitcoin to reach $100,000 by year-end even after a volatile week that saw the largest crypto token fall sharply and MicroStrategy disclose a partial sale of its holdings. Kendrick pointed to resilient long-term demand, warned of heightened selling …
Schneider Electric SE has launched an offering of €800 million in convertible bonds due 2034, with proceeds earmarked largely to repurchase outstanding paper maturing in 2030 and the remainder for general corporate purposes. The move comes as the company's shares hit record highs amid expansion of its energy and cooling services for data centers.
Upland Software announced a 1-for-10 reverse stock split that will take effect June 17, a corporate action aimed at ensuring compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price standard. The move, approved by shareholders at the annual meeting, reduces outstanding shares from roughly 29.4 million to about 2.9 million and prompted a 5.5% decline in pre-marke…
Rumble Inc. announced a $270 million, multi-year cloud services contract on June 3, 2026, with a third-party customer to buy dedicated GPU cloud capacity running on NVIDIA Blackwell B300 systems. The deal, disclosed in a Form 8-K, is the company’s largest customer commitment to date and includes provisions that could increase value and duration bas…
A series of sizable insider transactions disclosed in early June show concentrated buying by directors and affiliated funds in TXO Partners, CECO Environmental, Comstock Inc. and Robinhood Markets, while large stakeholder entities associated with Silver Lake and American Securities executed multi-hundred-million-dollar disposals in Dell Technologie…
Macquarie has downgraded Broadcom from Outperform to Neutral and trimmed its 12-month price target by 15% to $437, citing risks that Google is lessening dependence on Broadcom for AI ASICs by partnering with MediaTek and accelerating internal chip development. The research house raised near-term profit forecasts but lowered 2028 estimates, and proj…
Ramp, the corporate card and expense-management platform founded in 2019, has closed a $750 million funding round valuing the company at $44 billion, up from $32 billion in November. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and included participation from a number of large institutional investors. The company reports…
