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The MOEX Russia Index finished the session up 1.32% as positive moves in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors pushed the benchmark higher. Notable winners included TATNEFT, Gazprom and Magnit, while Polyus, AFK Sistema and PhosAgro posted declines. Commodity prices climbed modestly and the Russian volatility gauge fell.
Piper Sandler upgraded Deckers Outdoor Corporation to Neutral from Underweight after a recent decline in the share price improved the balance of risk and reward ahead of the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter results due May 21. The firm raised its price target to $100 and projects an earnings and revenue beat for the quarter driven by direct-to-consu…
XP Inc. shares fell 6.6% in after-hours trading following the announcement of a CFO succession plan that will see Victor Andreu Mansur Farinassi leave at the end of May 2026 and Gustavo Alejo Viviani assume the role on August 3, 2026. CEO Thiago Maffra will act as interim CFO during the transition. The board also declared a $0.20 per share cash div…
U.S. equity markets closed mixed on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.32% while the S&P 500 fell 0.07% and the NASDAQ Composite slipped 0.51%. Strength in Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Financials countered weakness in Technology, Industrials and Consumer Goods. Several individual stocks produced large one-day moves, including triple-…
Brazil's main equity index closed lower, driven by declines across Basic Materials, Industrials and Consumption sectors. The Bovespa ended the session down 0.17%, reaching a one-month low, with more stocks falling than rising. Volatility in Bovespa options advanced and key commodities and currency pairs moved modestly during the session.
Berto Acquisition Corp. II completed an initial public offering that generated $315.1 million through the sale of 31.51 million units at $10 each. The units began trading on NASDAQ on May 15, 2026, and the company concurrently completed a private placement and placed the public offering proceeds in trust while signaling a focus on artificial intell…
Akamai Technologies announced a proposed private offering of $2.6 billion in convertible senior notes, split evenly between notes due in 2030 and 2032. The cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure provider said proceeds will support accelerated capital expenditures for its Cloud Infrastructure Services business, expand its global footprint, and cover…
Fitch Ratings raised Ovintiv Inc. and Ovintiv Canada, ULC’s Long-Term IDRs and senior unsecured ratings to BBB from BBB-, and lifted Short-Term IDRs and commercial paper ratings to F2 from F3. The upgrade reflects faster-than-expected execution of a debt reduction plan following the sale of an Anadarko basin asset and significant pro forma declines…
A federal jury in Oakland, California, ruled unanimously on May 18 that OpenAI is not liable for allegedly departing from its founding mission to benefit humanity, finding Elon Musk's suit was filed too late. The verdict, reached in under two hours, prompted market observers and legal specialists to describe the decision as a major removal of legal…
Volkswagen's head in Brazil says the company is monitoring downward pressure on vehicle resale values as lower-priced Chinese automakers expand with electric and hybrid models. Despite geopolitical tensions linked to the war in Iran, Volkswagen reports supply disruptions are under control and has taken temporary measures such as airfreighting parts…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg Television that he expects Chinese authorities to permit imports of U.S.-made artificial intelligence chips over time. Huang, who traveled to Beijing as part of President Donald Trump's business delegation, said discussions about U.S. chip sales surfaced among officials, though he did not conduct direct negoti…
Clear Street said its chief executive, Ed Tilly, will retire from his executive role in June and transition to the board while founder and Executive Chairman Uri Cohen will become CEO effective June 1. The leadership change coincides with the firm eliminating more than 50 positions after abandoning plans to go public earlier this year, and with a p…
Tesla shares fell after SpaceX announced plans for an initial public offering, prompting analysts to warn that Wall Street capital and executive attention may shift toward the space company. The move has interrupted Tesla's role as the primary publicly traded way for retail investors to gain exposure to Elon Musk-led enterprises and coincides with …
A jury found that Elon Musk filed his lawsuit against OpenAI and its executives too late, dismissing his allegation that CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman violated an agreement to keep OpenAI nonprofit. Musk sought roughly $150 billion in damages and the ouster of Altman and Brockman, but jurors unanimously sided with OpenAI after a three-…
Planet Fitness Inc. (NYSE: PLNT) shares climbed 1.7% on Monday following regulatory filings that disclosed open-market purchases by Chief Executive Officer Colleen Keating and board member Frances Rathke. Keating bought 5,000 Class A shares on May 12, 2026 at $49.54 per share, raising her beneficial ownership to 141,511 shares. Rathke acquired 5,00…
Google is running tests that place for-sale home listings inside mobile search results in multiple U.S. markets. The listings, supplied by HouseCanary’s ComeHome platform, appear in a carousel above paid links and include three pay-to-play user actions that send leads to buyer-side agents. The trials mirror December’s short-lived experiment and hav…
A renewed jump in benchmark Treasury yields has heightened risks for segments of the U.S. equity market. Small-cap companies, consumer discretionary and housing-related stocks, dividend-reliant sectors and certain richly valued technology names face particular vulnerability as higher yields lift borrowing costs, erode future cash-flow valuations an…
Edison International and PG&E saw their shares decline after a wind-driven brush fire in southern Simi Valley rapidly expanded, prompting evacuations and a multi-agency firefighting response. The blaze renewed investor anxiety about potential utility liability tied to wildfires in California, a factor that weighed on market sentiment for regional e…
At Dell Technologies World 2026 in Las Vegas, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell told Bloomberg TV that computing is shifting from a cloud-centric model to what Huang called "personal AI" - systems that run AI locally where information and action occur. Both executives warned that demand for AI infrastructure already out…
ACS has unveiled plans to invest about €1.8 billion in digital infrastructure projects including data centres, chip facilities and AI-related assets. The company will raise part of the money through a capital increase equal to roughly 2% of its share capital executed via an accelerated bookbuilding, and will draw a further €1.1 billion from the ter…
Zscaler shares jumped 10% following B. Riley analyst Erik Suppiger’s upgrade from Neutral to Buy. The firm trimmed its price target to $225 from $275 to reflect recent compression in software valuation multiples, while highlighting healthy demand for secure network access, potential benefits from AI adoption, an expanding product set, and what it v…
Zambia’s state investment company ZCCM-IH has formed a joint venture with Mining Mineral Resources to explore, develop and mine gold in the Kikonge Mining Area in North Western Province. The new entity, Kyalo Goldfields Limited, was incorporated on May 6 and is intended to formalize artisanal and small-scale mining while creating processing capabil…
Stocks across market-cap tiers moved unevenly on Monday, with prominent technology and industrial names posting declines while select media and energy-related companies recorded gains. Mega-cap blue chips such as Tesla (TSLA) and Oracle (ORCL) were lower, while Netflix (NFLX) bucked the trend with a modest increase. Mid- and small-cap issues showed…
Traders will focus on a handful of scheduled releases and a Fed speech on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The Pending Home Sales report, due at 9:00 AM ET, and remarks from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, scheduled for 7:00 AM ET, are the headline items. Additional releases including ADP employment data, the Redbook same-store sales index, the …
Bank of America has placed 10 companies in positions 37 through 28 of its 67-stock data center list. The group includes Japanese conglomerates, Chinese component makers, European electrical infrastructure firms and U.S. power management vendors that provide parts and systems used in data center operations. The roster ranges from electronic componen…
