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Fitch Ratings has affirmed Lenovo Group Limited’s Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings at BBB and maintained a stable outlook. The agency also upheld the company's senior unsecured rating at BBB and affirmed three note issues at the same level. Fitch points to Lenovo’s market-leading PC position, rising services revenue and …
Swedish equities finished higher on Friday, with the OMX Stockholm 30 closing at a new record after advances in Telecoms, Healthcare and Oil & Gas. Ericsson Class B, Boliden and AstraZeneca were the session's top performers, while notable declines came from Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, EQT and Evolution. Commodities and currency markets also move…
Finnish equities closed higher on Friday as the OMX Helsinki 25 advanced 0.93% to a fresh all-time high. Telecoms, consumer services and technology stocks drove the session, with notable gains in Nokia, Outokumpu and TietoEVRY. Decliners included Qt Group, Nokian Renkaat and Nordea, while market breadth favoured advancers over decliners.
The Delaware Supreme Court on Feb. 27 upheld SB 21, a 2025 statute that narrows avenues for shareholders to sue over negotiated corporate deals. The measure, aimed in part at halting a wave of corporate departures from the state, changes the conditions under which courts will consider challenges and tightens rules on director independence and docum…
Fitch Ratings has lowered its long-term rating on Huntsman Corp. and Huntsman International LLC to BB+ from BBB- and placed the company on a negative outlook. The agency also downgraded Huntsman International's unsecured notes to BB+ with a Recovery Rating of RR4 and assigned BBB-/RR2 to the company's new senior secured revolver. Fitch pointed to p…
Wolfe Research upgraded Honeywell to Outperform from Peer Perform and raised its sum-of-the-parts (SOTP) valuation to $293 per share, citing improved execution under new management, a forthcoming aerospace spin-off expected in early July, and increased conviction in margin expansion in 2027-2028. The firm set a year-end 2026 price target of $293, w…
Poland's WIG30 finished the trading day down 0.09% as losses in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Developers sectors weighed on the index. KGHM (WA:KGH), Jastrzebska (WA:JSW) and BUDIMEX (WA:BDXP) were the session's top performers, while Rainbow Tours (WA:RBW), CD PROJEKT (WA:CDR) and MODIVO (WA:MDVP) led decliners. Commodity prices for crude, Brent and g…
Investment firms that hold more than $230 million of debt issued by Tricolor Holdings have initiated litigation in New York claiming JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Fifth Third Bancorp. enabled or ignored fraudulent conduct at the bankrupt used-car lender. The suit points to alarming audit findings from 2022 and 2024 and contends the banks prioritized…
Truck drivers are facing prolonged delays to offload soybeans at the Miritituba river terminal in Brazil’s Amazon basin as a record harvest of about 180 million metric tons strains export logistics. The congestion, compounded by Indigenous protests at a nearby transshipment facility and the government’s revocation of a decree supporting waterway ex…
The OMX Copenhagen 20 closed up 0.10% on Friday as gains in Consumer Goods, Oil & Gas and Technology helped lift the market. AP Moeller - Maersk's A and B shares and Vestas were the session's top performers, while Pandora, Oersted and Danske Bank lagged. Market breadth favored advancers and key commodity and FX benchmarks moved higher or lower acro…
Deutsche Bank told clients that a proposed combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance - following Warner's board finding PSKY's $31-per-share offer to be a superior bid - would produce a powerful global streaming contender. Analyst Bryan Kraft adjusted his price target for Warner Bros. Discovery and characterized the competitive a…
Elauwit Connection Inc. said it will restate its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, after identifying a revenue recognition error tied to the percentage-of-completion input method for certain network design and installation contracts. The company estimates the mistake led to an overstatem…
Target is facing renewed investor pressure over executive leadership, board structure and its approach to rebuilding customer trust after a period of operational and reputational setbacks. Several institutional investors and advocacy groups have raised questions about recent public-facing decisions, the elevation of former CEO Brian Cornell to an e…
Morocco's main equities gauge finished Friday in negative territory, with the Moroccan All Shares index falling 1.25% at the close in Casablanca. Losses were concentrated in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors even as a handful of miners and related companies recorded notable gains. Market breadth favored decliners, and commodity and currency…
Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC) saw its stock fall about 7% on Friday after a short report from Hunterbrook criticized the valuation of software-related loans in the business development company’s portfolio and raised doubts over the sustainability of its dividend. The report cites concentrated exposure to software debt, rising payment-in-kind (PIK) r…
VNET Group Inc. (NASDAQ:VNET) saw its stock decline 6.9% after revealing a private placement of 81.0 million newly issued Class A ordinary shares to institutional investors. The offering is priced at $1.70 per Class A share - $10.20 per American Depositary Share, with each ADS representing six Class A shares - and is projected to generate gross pro…
The United States plans to put forward an American candidate to serve as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, a State Department spokesperson said. The announcement follows Cindy McCain's statement that she will step down from the leadership role in three months because her health has not fully recovered after a mild strok…
California officials have opened a probe of Paramount Global’s winning bid for Warner Bros Discovery and signaled they will scrutinize the takeover aggressively. While Paramount’s political ties to the federal administration are expected to ease the path through Washington, state-level concerns over job losses and the local economic impact could po…
Norwegian equities ended the trading session higher with the Oslo OBX advancing 1.02% to a fresh all-time high. Strength in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities supported the market. Subsea 7 SA was the session's top gainer, while Norwegian Air Shuttle and several large-cap names lagged. Commodity and FX mov…
Israel's benchmark index finished higher on Friday, driven by gains in banking, financial and insurance stocks. The TA-35 ended the session up 0.65% as several large-cap names rallied to new highs while others slipped, and commodities and currency markets showed notable moves during the session. Market breadth was positive, with more advancing than…
Jefferies downgraded Sunrun Inc. from Buy to Hold while maintaining a $22 price target, citing management's conservative 2026 guidance and a renewed emphasis on balance-sheet preservation. The brokerage highlighted softer expected volume growth, muted cash generation and continued tightening in tax equity markets, contrasting Sunrun’s guarded outlo…
Greece's Athens General Composite dropped 1.15% at the close on Friday, driven by declines in the Banking, Telecoms and Household sectors. Broad sell-side pressure left 97 stocks lower versus 24 that rose, while 11 shares finished unchanged. Notable winners included Viohalco and Cenergy, both reaching all-time highs, while Ekter, National Bank of G…
OneMedNet Corporation's stock jumped 90% on Friday after the company announced a new phase of its commercial launch for a Real-World Data Platform powered by Palantir Foundry. The firm said it is converting trial evaluations into paid, multi-year subscriptions following demonstrations at major tradeshows on November 10, 2025, and that these contrac…
Bank of America analyst Justin Post says investor concern about Agentic AI has pressured internet stocks - the group is down about 17% on average this year - yet certain companies retain advantages that make them harder for AI-driven tools to displace. BofA highlights DoorDash, Take-Two Interactive and Chewy as the names best positioned to withstan…
CarMax Inc. (NYSE:KMX) climbed 1.7% after unveiling the first U.S. auto retail app in the ChatGPT app store. The integration allows conversational vehicle searches across a nationwide inventory exceeding 45,000 cars and provides sellers with instant access to CarMax offer valuations and its online offer tool.
