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Turkey's benchmark BIST 100 ended Thursday's session down 0.60% as losses in the Technology, Wholesale & Retail Trade and Metal Products & Machinery sectors weighed on the market. Several individual names posted notable gains and declines. Commodities and currency pairs showed mixed moves, with gold futures higher while crude oil contracts fell.
Denmark's main equity gauge, the OMX Copenhagen 20, closed modestly higher as advances in Consumer Goods, Oil & Gas and Financials helped lift the market. Vestas, Danske Bank and Genmab were among the top performers, while both classes of AP Moeller - Maersk and Carlsberg shares declined. Crude and Brent oil fell, while gold climbed and key currenc…
Mercor, a data-focused startup that supports AI model development, is in early fundraising discussions at an implied valuation of about $20 billion and has told investors it received at least one term sheet at that level. The talks follow a security breach in late March that led Meta to suspend its engagement, while Mercor reports a jump to a $2 bi…
Apollo Micro Systems has agreed to purchase a 41.33% stake in Premier Explosives for 15.5 billion rupees (about $162.50 million). The move triggers a statutory offer to public shareholders for up to a further 26% at 698 rupees per share, and the deal is subject to regulatory clearances and is expected to close within five months.
MDA Space shares fell sharply after the company unveiled a significant equity offering tied to its planned acquisition of a majority stake in French earth observation firm Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS). An initially announced bought deal was increased in size the following morning, amplifying investor worries about dilution and driving the…
Morocco's equity market ended Thursday in negative territory, with the Moroccan All Shares falling 0.75% as declines in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors pushed the index lower. Market breadth favored decliners, and commodity moves included lower crude and Brent prices alongside a rise in gold futures. Local currency pairs moved modestly an…
TeraWulf Inc. is preparing to raise about $3.5 billion in debt financing to build a data center campus in Kentucky, marking the company's first move into the leveraged loan market. Morgan Stanley is slated to lead the transaction, which will include both leveraged loans and high-yield bonds. The financing follows large bond sales earlier this year …
Rackspace Technology shares tumbled after management slashed fiscal 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance, issued a softer second-quarter revenue outlook, and launched a $250 million at-the-market equity offering. The company cited supply constraints, geopolitical headwinds, and a pullback from lower-margin business as drivers of the reductions…
Paramount Skydance Corp shares tumbled after state attorneys general, led by California's Rob Bonta, indicated they may file suit soon to block the company's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The prospect of coordinated state litigation, combined with recent analyst downgrades, intensified investor concern and pushed the sto…
Options activity ahead of Alcoa Corp.'s July 16 earnings release implies a 4.9% share-price move when the company reports after the market close. Historical reactions to past earnings have varied, with actual stock moves exceeding options-implied expectations in four of the last eight reports listed.
Options market pricing indicates Abbott Laboratories (ABT) shares may move about 4.5% when the company reports quarterly results on July 16 before the market opens. Historical responses around prior earnings have often exceeded implied moves, with five of the past eight reports producing larger swings than options implied.
Options pricing ahead of General Electric Co.'s July 16 premarket earnings release implies a stock move of about 4%. Historical patterns from eight prior reports show the share price moved more than the options-implied amount in five instances, with both large declines and rallies recorded across the sample.
Norwegian equities closed lower on Thursday, with the Oslo OBX index slipping 1.00% as losses in Media, Transport and Diversified Financials weighed on the market. Nordic Semiconductor, SalMar and Norsk Hydro were among the few winners, while Frontline, Hafnia and Hoegh Autoliners led declines. Commodity and FX moves included weaker crude and Brent…
Israel's equity market finished lower on Thursday, with the TA 35 slipping 0.82% as losses concentrated in the Banking, Financials and Real Estate sectors. A larger number of issues fell than rose, while some individual names posted notable gains and losses. Commodity and currency moves included weaker crude benchmarks, firmer gold futures and a so…
Options markets are pricing in a 7% move in Intuitive Surgical Inc. shares when the company reports quarterly results after the close on July 16, according to options data compiled by Bloomberg. Historical post-earnings reactions have sometimes outpaced these implied moves, but not consistently across recent reporting periods.
Options market pricing indicates UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) could swing by 6.1% when it reports earnings on July 16 before markets open, according to options data compiled by Bloomberg. Over the last eight earnings cycles, actual intraday moves have exceeded the options-implied range in four instances and fallen short in the other four, hig…
Options markets are pricing in a 7.3% move for Netflix when it reports earnings after the market close on July 16, based on Bloomberg-compiled options data. Historical comparisons show the stock has both exceeded and fallen short of options-implied moves across recent reports, with the largest two-year swing a 13.5% gain on January 21, 2025, and th…
Greece's Athens General Composite closed higher by 0.19% on Thursday, propelled by gains in the Banking, Construction and Travel sectors. Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries SA, Profile Syst and Athens Water were among the top performers, while Gek Terna, Elvalhalcor and Allwyn AG ranked as the session's laggards. Market breadth was narrowly negati…
Citi's Q2 2026 survey of 100 IT decision makers finds Microsoft remains the primary vendor CIOs are planning to increase AI spending with, followed by Amazon and Google. The poll shows an improved IT spending backdrop versus the prior quarter, with forward budget growth expectations rising and data analytics and AI maintaining the top investment pr…
SK Hynix’s U.S. depositary receipt offering drew demand in excess of seven times available supply and is on track to raise roughly $26.5 billion at a reported $149 per ADR, making it the second-largest share sale on record. The funds are intended for manufacturing capacity, and the offering comes as investors price the company against U.S. peers an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that surging compute and memory expenses are creating a clear financial headwind for the company even as it reports a significant efficiency improvement in its latest model. Altman reaffirmed Microsoft’s role as a major customer, dismissed rumors of a 5% U.S. government equity stake, said the company has made changes…
Stocks across market-cap tiers moved sharply on Thursday as semiconductor companies accounted for many of the largest advances and select biotech and small-cap names also produced outsized percentage changes. Micron and AMD were among the notable winners in the mega-cap cohort, while Gloo Holdings fell after pricing a public offering.
A coalition of newspapers led by the New York Times and the New York Daily News has asked a federal court in Manhattan to sanction OpenAI, arguing the company misled the court about its capacity to locate copyrighted material within its systems and removed or made inaccessible billions of related ChatGPT conversations. The newspapers seek attorneys…
Bernstein identified three U.S. business services companies that it views as top picks for investors, citing durable pricing power, recurring revenue streams and sector-specific advantages. Waste Connections and Ferguson earned Outperform ratings, while Cintas was assigned Market-Perform as regulatory uncertainty clouds an otherwise strong track re…
Marvell Technology shares jumped sharply in morning trading, led by a sector-wide comeback in optical communications and AI chip stocks. The stock climbed to $246.20, recovering from a multi-week decline, as peers rallied and RBC Capital Markets reiterated an Outperform rating with a $360 price target tied to robust data-center revenue growth forec…
