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Macquarie’s Singapore Alpha Model, a factor-based quantitative framework covering 104 companies across several Singapore indices, has surfaced a set of small- and mid-cap stocks the firm views as attractive based on alpha scores. The model currently tilts toward food-related and capital goods businesses and selects five top SMID-cap names spanning …
Frontier Airlines said Tuesday it will equip its aircraft with SpaceX's Starlink broadband system, with the first Airbus expected to offer the service in early 2027. The announcement places Frontier alongside a number of low-cost and major carriers that have committed to Starlink while some airlines have opted for rival services or declined install…
India's central bank has proposed a change to rules governing institutional ownership of banks that would grant mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds a one-time approval to subsequently increase their shareholding in a bank to up to 10%. The move aims to remove the need for repeated approvals when holdings fluctuate and preserves the …
Barclays analyst Saket Kalia says a sudden shift in enterprise capital spending - highlighted in IBM's Q2 preannouncement - has redirected budgets toward servers, storage and hardware security. Channel checks indicate a surge in firewall purchases by customers trying to beat expected price increases, supporting key network security vendors in the n…
BP said it expects a second-quarter earnings lift driven by higher oil and gas prices, stronger refining margins and resilient trading, while also warning that results will include about $1 billion of impairments largely linked to its lower-carbon energy transition businesses. The company reported lower upstream output, a reduction in net debt vers…
A growing set of governments, municipal authorities and grid operators are pausing or prohibiting new data centre construction amid concerns that the rapid expansion supporting artificial intelligence is straining electricity supplies, water resources and local infrastructure. Measures range from one-year construction freezes and connection bans to…
Biogen Inc. shares rose modestly after the company disclosed Phase 2 CELIA study results for diranersen, an antisense oligonucleotide targeting tau. The data, presented at a major Alzheimer’s conference, showed efficacy across doses at 18 months with the 60 mg dose producing the largest slowing of cognitive decline on multiple endpoints and marked …
Mizuho Securities downgraded Circle Internet Group to Underperform from Neutral and trimmed its price target to $50 from $85, pointing to competitive risk from Open USD (OUSD), a new dollar-pegged stablecoin launched June 30. The bank says OUSD’s pass-through model and likely regulatory alignment could meaningfully weaken Circle’s USDC-based revenu…
Morgan Stanley reiterated an Overweight rating on Broadcom, arguing the company should maintain roughly 80% share of Google's TPU business over time. The bank downplayed scenarios that have MediaTek capturing half of TPU share or fully displacing Broadcom, while highlighting contract-secured HBM supply and packaging execution challenges for MediaTe…
The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index jumped to its highest level in over a month, driven by gains across capesize, panamax and supramax segments. Capesize vessels saw daily earnings increase materially, while iron ore futures rose as geopolitical tensions and a strike at a major Australian port weighed on supply.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. opened modestly higher in pre-market trading after Citi kept a Buy rating and a $110 price target while adding the stock to a 90-day Catalyst Watch tied to the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report due August 19, 2026. The move follows recent analyst optimism, a consensus buy rating and forecasts pointing to a …
Mercedes-Benz Group shares rose after the company reiterated its fiscal 2026 Mercedes-Benz Cars return on sales guidance of 3%-5% in a pre-close call, even as challenges persist in China and pricing remains under pressure globally. Analysts note the company has some protection versus peers but say earnings are still constrained until cost cuts prov…
Warren Buffett said he intends to dispose of his entire holding in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. within roughly eight years by donating shares to four foundations. He converted 8,000 Class A shares into 12 million Class B shares and allocated those shares among three foundations run by his children and one named for his late wife, setting a target of Dec…
Frontier Airlines said on Tuesday it will begin offering in-flight Wi-Fi via SpaceX’s Starlink and plans installations across its fleet in early 2027. The carrier is the first U.S. ultra-low-cost airline to commit to Starlink as the satellite internet provider competes with Amazon’s Kuiper for airline customers. The move follows Frontier’s recent p…
Regulatory disclosures filed for transactions made between July 9 and July 13, 2026, show sizeable insider accumulation at Energizer Holdings and large-scale disposals tied to SharkNinja. Additional material insider purchases were reported at Gloo Holdings, IPERIONX, and Caris Life Sciences, while heavy selling was recorded for Arista Networks, Del…
Piper Sandler upgraded Halliburton and Patterson-UTI Energy to Overweight from Neutral, pointing to strengthening U.S. land activity, higher frac utilization and firmer pricing as catalysts ahead of second-quarter earnings. The firm signaled continued geopolitical-driven oil price swings but sees a more constructive multi-year outlook for selected …
A Bank of America survey of European fund managers shows a dramatic rise in optimism for European equities: a net 91% now expect gains over the next 12 months and the survey-implied expected return has increased to 6.3%. Near-term sentiment has also turned positive, and investors are tilting toward cyclicals and banks while remaining cautious on th…
Germany’s Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK), representing the country’s 14 state media authorities, said AI-generated search summaries and chatbot responses from services such as Google’s AI Overviews and Perplexity are to be treated as content produced by the providers themselves and therefore fall within the scope of German media law…
Germany's Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK) has declared that AI-generated search summaries and chatbot responses produced by Google and Perplexity are subject to German media regulation. The decision follows a Munich court finding that Google can be held responsible for false statements generated by its AI Overview feature, and ZAK sa…
Morgan Stanley opened coverage on three Nordic property and casualty insurers with differentiated ratings, arguing the historical quality premium enjoyed by the region has narrowed and may compress further. The bank initiated Sampo at equal-weight with a €9.80 price target, initiated Gjensidige at underweight with a NKr 260 target, and cut Tryg to …
Saudi Arabia's stock market ended lower on Tuesday, with the Tadawul All Share index falling 0.80% to a three-month low. Gains in several mid-cap names were offset by declines in media and banking stocks. Crude oil, Brent and gold futures all registered notable rises, while the U.S. dollar futures eased.
HSBC downgraded IBM from Hold to Reduce and cut its price target to $191 from $231. The bank said a constructed basket of SAP, Accenture, HP and IonQ - a 'synthetic IBM' - would cost roughly the same as IBM today but offer materially higher estimated 2030 earnings per share. HSBC also highlighted concerns about IBM's quantum order flow and reliance…
Workday stock dropped sharply in pre-market trade following a surprise preliminary earnings update from IBM that fell short of expectations. IBM reported $17.2 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 1% increase year over year, and said clients are reallocating capital expenditures toward hardware - a development that could siphon discretionary IT do…
U.S. equity futures steadied near unchanged on Tuesday as market attention shifted from Middle East tensions to the start of the second-quarter earnings cycle led by major banks. Semiconductor and data-center-related stocks led premarket gains after corporate announcements, while IBM's subdued update weighed on software names. Big banks reported mi…
KeyBanc Capital Markets downgraded Apple to Underweight from Sector Weight and set a $250 price target, citing weakening hardware demand as measured by its proprietary KFLD spending index and growing concerns about fiscal 2027 growth assumptions. The firm highlighted below-trend U.S. spending in June, potential pressure on Services revenue from slo…
