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Puck is in advanced negotiations for a strategic recapitalization that would bring RedBird Capital Partners on as the leading investor at a valuation near $250 million. The transaction would involve sales by existing institutional backers and is designed to provide capital for expansion while Puck maintains its journalist-centric model and editoria…
Anthropic PBC has struck a binding commitment to lease $45 billion of cloud computing capacity from Nscale's Monarch campus in West Virginia. The six-year deal covers roughly 460 megawatts of power and will be served by Nvidia Vera Rubin chips coming online beginning late next year, according to the report. The agreement is part of a series of larg…
S&P Global Ratings downgraded its outlook on TTM Technologies to stable from positive while maintaining the company's 'BB' issuer credit rating after TTM announced a $1.1 billion acquisition of Epiq Solutions. The agency expects the purchase will be financed with debt, lifting pro forma leverage into the high-2x area when the transaction closes in …
RBC Capital has published its refreshed Top 30 Global Ideas list for 2026, adding Apotex Health, Canadian National Railway and Lonza while removing Alcon, Boston Scientific and DuPont de Nemours. The quarterly reshuffle reflects shifts in upside potential as assessed by the bank's research co-heads. The list returned 11.1% in Q2/26 versus the MSCI …
Research firm IDC projects Apple will ship over 10 million units of its first foldable iPhone in the initial year after a planned September launch. The passport-style handset is expected to carry a $2,500 price tag and, despite a contracting broader smartphone market, may command a substantial share of the foldable category.
A White House decision to impose a 50% tariff on vehicles, trucks and auto parts from Canada, effective January 1, reverses hopes that ongoing U.S.-Canada trade negotiations would cut levies. The move would raise duties from the current 25% to 50%, threatening higher costs for automakers with production and parts linked across the border, and creat…
Apple has set a product launch for September 9, a post by senior executive Greg Joswiak on X confirmed. The company is widely expected to present its newest iPhone series and could introduce its first foldable handset. The event is slated to be the first major product unveiling under incoming CEO John Ternus, who takes the role on September 1 as Ti…
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a final airworthiness directive requiring repeated inspections on certain Boeing 787 Dreamliner models after a Boeing investigation identified shim gaps that may exceed engineering allowances. The directive covers specific structural areas of 787-8, 787-9 and 787-10 airplanes, carries estimated complia…
Options activity in Meta Platforms Inc. showed a clear bias toward calls, with call contracts reaching 878,663 of a 1.22 million total by midday. The $580 call was the busiest strike, trading 13,077 contracts, as the stock initially reacted to settlement news and traded above that level. Implied and realized volatility have moderated but remain ele…
KNDS NV is resuming investor engagement about a possible initial public offering this year after earlier plans were paused amid a downturn in defense stocks. The company is planning investor update meetings next week and is exploring a relaunch of the IPO process as soon as the second half of September, though the timeline remains subject to feedba…
Morgan Stanley projects Thai oil refiners will sharply boost shareholder distributions, noting a twofold increase has already occurred and forecasting a threefold rise in 2026. The bank links the outlook to stronger cash generation from elevated margins, reduced debt loads and moderated capital spending, while pointing to tight product markets driv…
Qfin Holdings plunged after reporting second-quarter 2026 results that significantly missed revenue expectations and showed a pronounced drop in profitability. The company reported RMB 3.57 billion in net revenue versus consensus RMB 4.02 billion, a 31.6% year-over-year decline, and non-GAAP net profit of RMB 455 million. A one-time tax expense of …
Qifu Technology (NASDAQ:QFIN) fell 17.9% on Wednesday after several Wall Street analysts downgraded the stock and lowered price targets, following second-quarter results that missed estimates and third-quarter guidance that came in below consensus. Analysts pointed to industry liquidity and credit collection pressures, lower-than-expected loan volu…
Kraft Heinz saw unusually heavy options activity, with nearly 92,516 contracts changing hands by late morning and calls outnumbering puts by roughly 19-to-1. Most volume was clustered in four near-term call strikes expiring Aug. 28 and Sept. 4, signaling high-conviction positioning for a short-term recovery above the $25.50–$26 area while the under…
Morgan Stanley updated its Asian equity recommendations, holding an underweight view on National Australia Bank amid valuation and earnings concerns, while keeping overweight calls on COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries based on tanker-cycle timing and industrial earnings momentum.
Canada's decision to mirror U.S. 50% tariffs will materially raise costs for Detroit's Big Three. General Motors faces $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion in gross tariff exposure this year, Ford carries the largest operational vulnerability with negative margins and heavy leverage, and Stellantis is trading near multi-quarter lows. The S&P 500 Automobile…
TWG Global, the holding company controlled by billionaire Mark Walter, said it is engaging with U.S. regulators to resolve questions about related-party investments on the balance sheets of its insurance subsidiaries and asserted there has been "no fraud." A TWG entity called Group 1001 has submitted a formal proposal to the Delaware Department of …
Rumble signed a $13.7 billion GPU services agreement across six years for capacity at its Maysville, Georgia facility, a deal anchored in the newly organized RUM Group and Quake AI cloud unit. The announcement sent the stock sharply higher, but the company still reports negative gross margins and losses while projecting a potential $3 billion-plus …
Israel's benchmark TA 35 closed modestly higher on Wednesday, driven by advances in Biomed, Insurance and Communication sectors. The index rose 0.11% as several large-cap insurers and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange itself posted the strongest gains, while select renewable and energy names finished lower. Commodity benchmarks and currency pairs showed …
Truist lowered its rating on Nike from Buy to Hold and reduced its price target to $42 from $47 following a guidance revision from Dick's Sporting Goods that, according to the firm, complicates the view on Nike's recovery. Truist also downgraded Dick's to Hold and cut its target to $135 from $270, citing deteriorating footwear trends and weaker-tha…
Voya Energy closed a $35 million Series A financing round to commercialize an aluminum-derived fuel and low-temperature electrochemical generator that produces electricity without on-site combustion or air emissions. The Hayward, California company plans technology development in the near term, initial deployments in 2027 and manufacturing scale-up…
Options contracts tied to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) suggest the stock could swing roughly 10% when the company reports quarterly results after the market close on Sept. 2, based on options data compiled by Bloomberg. Historically, the stock has often moved more than the options market implied: in four of the last eight earnings releases …
Stocks across market-cap segments experienced notable intraday moves Wednesday. Large technology names including Dell and Oracle rose, while select companies from small- and mid-cap groups posted steep declines after earnings or revenue results. The list below details the biggest percentage movers from mega-caps down to small caps and highlights pa…
Options pricing compiled by Bloomberg indicates Snowflake Inc. shares may swing about 12% when the company reports earnings on Sept. 2 after the market close. Historical comparisons show mixed accuracy: in four of the last eight earnings periods the stock’s actual move exceeded the options-implied expectation.
Options pricing compiled by Bloomberg indicates Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) could see a 7.3% intraday price move when it reports quarterly results on Sept. 2 after the market close. Over the last eight earnings releases, Broadcom’s actual share-price reaction exceeded the options-implied move in three instances, while other quarters produced small…
