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SpaceX has set a public price of $135 per share for its initial public offering, a disclosure made roughly one week before pricing and trading. The company aims to raise $75 billion in the offering, which would value it at $1.75 trillion and place it among the 10 most valuable U.S.-listed companies. The move departs from standard Wall Street practi…
Several major U.S.-listed technology and retail names moved sharply in after-hours trading following quarterly reports and forward guidance. Broadcom declined despite beating quarterly profit and revenue estimates and delivering higher-than-expected next-quarter revenue guidance. CrowdStrike and Five Below slid after their results, while C3.ai and …
U.S. stock indexes closed lower on Wednesday as losses concentrated in the Telecoms, Technology and Financials sectors pushed markets down. The Dow fell 1.21%, the S&P 500 lost 0.73% and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.89%. A mix of large-cap gains and steep declines among individual names produced wide market breadth deterioration, while volatility…
Toronto stocks declined at Wednesday's close, with the S&P/TSX Composite falling 1.05%. Losses in the IT, Materials and Clean Technology sectors were the primary drags, while selected oil and resource names posted the session's largest gains and several miners and lithium plays registered steep drops. Market volatility ticked higher and commodity p…
Brazil's benchmark equity index closed lower on Wednesday, slipping to a fresh three-month low as losses concentrated in the Real Estate, Consumption and Financials sectors weighed on the market. Breadth was negative, with more than twice as many decliners as advancers, and several companies hit multi-year lows even as a handful of stocks posted no…
Broadcom projected third-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, attributing the outlook to strong demand for its custom AI processors and networking products. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $22.19 billion and an adjusted profit of $2.44 per share, while shares fell more than 2% in extended trading after a recent run-up.
Cuba's central bank announced that, effective June 6, the island will stop accepting Visa and Mastercard card payments after a foreign partner that had handled processing limited operations following a U.S. executive order on May 1 expanding sanctions. The move follows a recent wave of foreign firms pulling back from Cuba and is described by Havana…
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a 12-page lawsuit aiming to prevent Emirates Global Aluminum and Century Aluminum from constructing a $4 billion primary aluminum smelter in Inola, about 30 miles east of Tulsa. The complaint cites potential air and water pollution and objections to the project’s foreign ownership structure; the …
Bank of America said it will bring on roughly 4,000 early-career employees this summer, splitting the hiring evenly between full-time campus recruits and interns. The announcement comes as senior banking executives express concern about artificial intelligence automating complex, data-intensive work traditionally performed by junior staff. BofA rea…
Oklahoma’s attorney general filed suit to halt construction of a proposed $4 billion aluminum smelter backed by Emirates Global Aluminum and Century Aluminum, citing links to the United Arab Emirates and possible damage to the state’s cattle sector. The plant, designed to produce 750,000 metric tons annually, would be the first new U.S. smelter sin…
New York legislators face a last-minute choice this week on a bill that would modify state champerty rules and reduce interest on certain judgments against foreign sovereign borrowers. The measure, called the Champerty Fix Act, has passed the state Senate and now awaits action in the Assembly before lawmakers adjourn, leaving its fate uncertain. Ba…
Grimes County officials approved tax incentives on Wednesday for SpaceX's proposed Terafab semiconductor facility despite strong local opposition. The project is a cornerstone of SpaceX's push into advanced computing and domestic chip production as the company prepares a record-setting IPO. Residents at a heated public hearing raised concerns about…
A federal rules committee approved circulating proposed amendments that would strengthen privacy protections in civil, criminal and bankruptcy court filings by requiring redaction of sensitive personally identifying information and allowing minors to use pseudonyms in public records. The U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and…
Bernstein has trimmed ratings for several large U.S. packaged-food companies, arguing that accelerating use of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, rising regulatory scrutiny, retailer demands to reformulate, and weak consumer sentiment will weigh on demand, margins and profit recovery across the sector for years.
Tyson Foods stock declined after reports that samples taken from two calves on a Texas ranch have been forwarded to a federal laboratory in Iowa to be tested for New World screwworm. The infestation remains unconfirmed; photos of wounds and larvae have circulated but could not be independently verified. Traders said the suspected case weighed on ca…
Baird has named six restaurant stocks as its top picks across multiple segments - from drive-through coffee operators to fast-casual Mediterranean chains and established sit-down concepts. Each selection carries distinct operational risks, including growth execution, competition, input costs and geographic concentration. Baird's list pairs recent c…
Uber has committed nearly $500 million to self-driving startup Nuro through an initial and a larger follow-on investment, alongside milestone-based funding tied to driverless testing, passenger trials and service ramp-up. The backing is part of a three-way plan with Lucid to deploy 35,000 robotaxis using Lucid Gravity SUVs, Nuro’s autonomous techno…
British Labour lawmaker Jess Asato has initiated legal proceedings against Elon Musk's xAI, asserting that the firm's Grok AI produced sexualized deepfake images of her and other women and children. The complaint contends the output was not accidental misuse but a product of design choices. xAI and its Grok platform are under regulatory investigati…
British lawmaker Jess Asato has filed a claim in the High Court in England against Elon Musk’s xAI, saying the Grok AI model was used to create fake sexualised images and a video depicting an assault against her. The case seeks damages, a formal finding that the conduct was illegal and an order forcing xAI to stop unlawful activity. The action arri…
Options volume in ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. climbed to 20,836 contracts by 2:20 p.m. New York time on Wednesday, with call contracts outnumbering puts. The most active positions included far-dated January 21, 2028 options and several near-term calls. Meanwhile the stock fell 7.88% to $3.16 and measures of implied volatility and skew moved markedly…
Tesla said it has enabled its unsupervised robotaxi service across the Austin Metro area, intensifying the company’s strategic shift toward autonomous ride-hailing and broader adoption of its full self-driving (FSD) software. The service has been active in Austin for nearly a year and faces user wait times and a smaller fleet footprint than a major…
A DoubleLine portfolio manager told a Bloomberg credit forum that AI-related debt is almost certain to become a bubble. He urged investors to prioritize firms with robust balance sheets and investments that include strong legal protections, while noting that demand for AI debt remains elevated and many deals are supported by large technology compan…
Amazon shares slid nearly 3% in afternoon trading after European Commission proposals targeting cloud sovereignty and chip investment coincided with stronger-than-expected U.S. private payrolls and renewed scrutiny of the company’s proposed capital expenditure plan for AI infrastructure. The stock hit an intraday low of $247.71 before recovering mo…
Apple shares retreated from earlier highs after analysts cautioned that the upcoming WWDC 2026 is unlikely to provide a material boost for the stock. The pullback was reinforced by supply constraints in memory chips, company guidance pointing to margin compression, and a broadly softer U.S. equity tape that hit mega-cap technology names.
Trading on Wednesday produced notable moves across market-cap segments, with several large technology stocks posting declines and a mix of mid- and small-cap companies posting both sharp gains and steep losses. Semiconductor and AI-related names register both advances and pullbacks, while other sectors from payments to construction show broad volat…
