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Capita plc's Pension Solutions division has secured a contract renewal worth £137 million over a potential 10-year period with an existing UK client. The agreement, effective from Q1 2026, is intended to deepen the client relationship as Capita deploys technology and service innovations to increase capacity and improve customer experience. The full…
AB Dynamics has appointed Andrew Lewis as interim chief financial officer with immediate effect while it continues to seek a permanent successor to Sarah Matthews-DeMers, who moved from CFO to CEO. The company says the recruitment process is on track but that notice periods require a temporary placement. A January trading update showing higher orde…
European stocks traded lower on Thursday as companies released a fresh wave of quarterly results and investors weighed rising geopolitical friction. Major indices in Germany, France and the U.K. were down modestly early in the session. Corporate releases ranged from record profits at Zurich Insurance to sizeable non-cash charges at Renault, and mar…
Alphabet's Google and Southeast Asian technology group Sea Ltd said they have signed a strategic partnership to develop artificial intelligence tools across Sea's e-commerce and gaming operations. The collaboration will jointly explore an agentic AI shopping prototype for Shopee and apply AI solutions to enhance productivity in Garena's game develo…
Safestore Holdings reported a 6.3% year-on-year rise in revenue on a constant currency basis for the first quarter, with like-for-like gains and fresh store capacity across its markets supporting the result. Average income per square foot climbed, occupancy ticked up to 77.8%, and the business added three locations in London and Paris totaling 173,…
Belgian logistics property owner VGP reported a 33% jump in recurring earnings per share for 2025, but several headline metrics came in below analyst forecasts. Gross and net rental income increased, project completions and the development pipeline expanded, and the company unveiled plans to launch a fund with East Capital. At the same time, operat…
BE Semiconductor posted stronger fourth-quarter sales driven by higher shipments tied to 2.5D AI-related computing and photonics applications. Orders climbed sharply, gross margin improved modestly, and management expects revenue to grow further in the first quarter of 2026 with margin guidance roughly steady.
Tokyo shares finished higher on Thursday, led by gains across Real Estate, Banking and Textile sectors. The Nikkei 225 rose 0.71% as a larger number of issues advanced than declined. Yokohama Rubber jumped to an all-time high, Omron reached a 52-week peak, and measures of market volatility eased to a one-month low. Oil, gold and major currency pair…
Nestle reported fourth-quarter organic sales growth above expectations and outlined a sharpened strategic focus on four core businesses - Coffee, Petcare, Nutrition and Food & Snacks. Management said it is in advanced talks to sell its remaining ice cream operations to Froneri, aims to exit mainstream/value vitamins and supplements, and plans to de…
Morgan Stanley identified three Japanese energy and utility stocks that outperformed peers following third-quarter earnings and guidance updates for the year to March 2026. The bank tracked share moves between January 29 and February 16 and is now watching for further shareholder return announcements, new medium-term plans and the outlook for fisca…
Pernod Ricard reported lower sales across the first half of its fiscal year, with a like-for-like decline of 5.9% for the six months to December 31. The company said second-quarter like-for-like sales fell 5%, an improvement on the 7.6% contraction recorded in the first quarter, supported by better trends in India and global travel retail. Operatin…
Shares of Samsung Electronics climbed to an all-time high after a local media report said negotiations for its next-generation HBM4 memory chips are centered around $700 per unit, roughly 20%–30% above its HBM3E model. The pricing news, combined with tight memory supply and strong AI-driven demand, has sharpened profit outlooks for Samsung and SK H…
JPMorgan has been in discussions to provide banking services to the U.S.-led Board of Peace, intended to oversee Gaza reconstruction, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the talks. The bank reportedly explored roles such as facilitating payments for the board. The report arrives as JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon face a $5 billio…
Bernstein's latest sector review predicts that a sharp increase in commercial rocket launches will provide a durable growth engine for major industrial-gas companies. The broker retains Outperform ratings on Air Liquide and Air Products while naming Linde its top conviction, citing the trio's technical capabilities and exposure to high-purity gases…
Rio Tinto reported flat underlying earnings of $10.87 billion for the year ended Dec. 31, matching prior-year levels and slightly exceeding a Bloomberg forecast of $10.81 billion. Improved volumes in copper and aluminium, plus tighter cost control, offset an 11% fall in iron ore EBITDA driven by roughly 6% weaker benchmark prices. Net profit attrib…
Australian equities finished higher on Thursday, with the S&P/ASX 200 rising 0.88% to reach a new three-month high. Sector strength in Energy, Telecoms Services and Resources underpinned the advance, while individual large-cap movers included both strong winners and steep decliners. Volatility and commodity prices showed modest movement and major c…
Airbus reported a 7% increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share to 3.27 euros, ahead of expectations, while revenue lagged estimates. The planemaker now expects 2026 commercial deliveries of 870 aircraft, below external estimates, citing significant shortages of Pratt & Whitney engines built by a unit of Rtx Corp. Airbus also trimmed its narrowb…
Airbus has reduced its near-term narrowbody production target because of substantial engine shortages from Pratt & Whitney, while reporting a 17% rise in adjusted fourth-quarter operating profit. The company now expects a monthly narrowbody production rate of 70-75 jets by the end of next year, stabilising at 75 per month beyond 2027, and has set d…
Bill Gates withdrew from a scheduled keynote at India’s flagship AI summit just hours before he was due to speak, the Gates Foundation said, citing a desire to keep attention on the event’s priorities. The withdrawal, which followed the earlier cancellation by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, deepened an uneasy start to a conference intended to showcase In…
OpenAI and Tata Consultancy Services will collaborate to construct local data centre capacity in India under OpenAI's Stargate initiative. The partners plan an initial 100 megawatt build with the ability to expand to 1 gigawatt. The agreement includes Tata Group wide deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise and TCS plans to use OpenAI's Codex for software …
Microsoft issued a statement denying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using its technology for mass surveillance of civilians while acknowledging it supplies cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools to ICE. The statement followed a media report that said ICE increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud and related tools in t…
Freeport-McMoRan announced it has reached a memorandum of understanding with the Indonesian government to extend operating rights at the Grasberg copper and gold complex for the life of the resource, subject to formal licence amendment and government approval. The accord preserves current governance and operating arrangements, keeps Freeport's 48.7…
Asian equities climbed on Thursday, led by a strong run in technology shares that outweighed lingering questions about U.S. interest rate direction. South Korea’s KOSPI and Australia’s ASX 200 reached record highs, supported by chipmakers and heavyweight miners and banks respectively, while Chinese and Hong Kong markets were closed for the Lunar Ne…
Apollo Global Management has told clients and partners that CEO Marc Rowan did not have a business or personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and the firm stressed that released Epstein documents do not accuse Apollo or its executives of involvement in Epstein’s crimes. The statement follows newly released correspondence showing multiple schedu…
OpenAI is nearing the close of the first phase of a fresh funding round expected to raise in excess of $100 billion. The financing could push the company's valuation beyond $850 billion while leaving its pre-funding valuation near $730 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The capital is intended to support a multitrillion-dollar i…
