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eLong Power Shares Collapse After Heavily Dilutive Unit Offering

eLong Power Shares Collapse After Heavily Dilutive Unit Offering

Shares of eLong Power Holding Ltd plunged sharply in premarket trading after the company announced a best-efforts registered offering of 4,615,500 units at $1.30 per unit. Each unit includes one Class A ordinary share and one warrant exercisable at $1.30, a structure that will dilute current equity holders. The offering is expected to raise roughly…

Samsung Enters Emergency Mode as Large Strike Threatens Memory Output

Samsung Enters Emergency Mode as Large Strike Threatens Memory Output

Samsung Electronics has initiated protective measures at its Pyeongtaek memory complex as talks with its union remain deadlocked ahead of a planned strike beginning May 21. Management has begun a controlled warm down of DRAM production lines and removed thousands of wafer storage pods to safeguard equipment and work-in-progress inventory. Analysts …

Babcock & Wilcox Prices Equity Sale Below Market; Shares Drop Sharply

Babcock & Wilcox Prices Equity Sale Below Market; Shares Drop Sharply

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) saw its stock decline about 12.6% in premarket trading after the company priced an underwritten public offering at $18.50 per share. The sale will issue 10,810,811 shares and is expected to produce roughly $200 million in gross proceeds before underwriting fees. Proceeds are planned for prepaying amounts u…

Centrica Shares Drop After British Gas Reaches Settlement with Ofgem

Centrica Shares Drop After British Gas Reaches Settlement with Ofgem

Centrica shares fell sharply after British Gas, its wholly owned subsidiary, agreed a regulatory settlement with Ofgem over the forced installation of prepayment meters in vulnerable customers' homes. The settlement covers activity from February 2018 to February 2023 and includes a £20 million payment into Ofgem’s voluntary redress fund and the wri…

Suspicious Bets Rise as Prediction Markets Expand Rapidly

Suspicious Bets Rise as Prediction Markets Expand Rapidly

Two leading prediction market venues, Kalshi and Polymarket, have reported a steep increase in trades flagged as suspicious this year as trading activity surges. Platforms are tightening controls and updating rules while regulators and lawmakers press for clearer oversight of markets that allow binary betting on political, economic and geopolitical…

Nagarro Shares Slide After Q1 Results as Cash Flow Turns Negative

Nagarro Shares Slide After Q1 Results as Cash Flow Turns Negative

Nagarro SE shares fell sharply after the company reported first-quarter 2026 results that showed only 0.5% year-on-year revenue growth in euros, despite 6.5% growth on a constant-currency basis. While margins and adjusted EBITDA improved modestly, the quarter delivered a negative swing in operating cash flow and a decline in the number of clients c…

Stifel Sees Texas Instruments on Track for Major Re-rating as Industrial Demand and Data Center Sales Accelerate

Stifel Sees Texas Instruments on Track for Major Re-rating as Industrial Demand and Data Center Sales Accelerate

Stifel raised its price target on Texas Instruments to $340 from $290 after meetings with the chipmaker’s investor relations team. The broker highlighted a widening industrial recovery and a rapidly growing Data Center business that together, plus expanded U.S.-based manufacturing capacity, could enable a valuation re-rating toward $1 trillion if m…

Hiscox Shares Rally After Reports That Intact Is Weighing a Bid

Hiscox Shares Rally After Reports That Intact Is Weighing a Bid

Shares of Hiscox Ltd rose sharply after market reports suggested Intact Financial is exploring an offer for the specialist British insurer. Sources at an industry conference said Intact, fresh from integrating recent acquisitions, is evaluating further expansion in the UK commercial insurance market. Neither company has confirmed the reports and no…

Magnum Ice Cream Stock Rises as Private Equity Interest Surfaces

Magnum Ice Cream Stock Rises as Private Equity Interest Surfaces

Magnum Ice Cream Nv (NYSE:MICC) saw its shares climb sharply in U.S. premarket and European trading after reports that private equity firms are exploring bids. Blackstone and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice are reportedly in early-stage evaluations, with other buyout groups also registering interest. Market participants are awaiting the company’s summer s…

Private credit funds mark down loans as investor unease mounts

Private credit funds mark down loans as investor unease mounts

Major private credit managers and business development companies have recorded widespread markdowns across their loan portfolios in the first quarter, driven by market spread widening, borrower-specific issues and investor concerns about disruption. Aggregate fair-value measures declined, leaving roughly $1.2 billion of investments below amortized …