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Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management views Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference as a potential catalyst to rerate the company's stock if the firm can demonstrate AI features that reposition it from an AI follower to a leader in personalized AI. The event is expected to highlight a redesigned Siri, built over nearly two years, that leverage…
Brazil's main share index closed lower on Friday, with the Bovespa dropping 0.77% to a fresh three-month low. Losses were concentrated in the Basic Materials, Real Estate and Electric Power sectors. Market breadth was negative, with more decliners than advancers, while several individual stocks recorded sizable percentage moves in both directions. …
The S&P/TSX Composite closed lower, falling 2.28% as losses in the Materials, Information Technology and Energy sectors weighed on the Toronto market. A small group of stocks produced gains, while several names recorded steep declines, including TerraVest Industries, which dropped to 52-week lows.
U.S. stock markets ended Friday under pressure, led by declines in technology, basic materials and oil and gas names. The Dow fell 1.35%, the S&P 500 lost 2.64% and the Nasdaq Composite slid 4.18% at the New York close. A number of large-cap technology names were among the heaviest decliners, while consumer staples and insurers provided some relati…
Moody's has downgraded its outlook for Insulet Corporation to negative from stable while keeping the company's Ba2 corporate family rating and Ba2-PD probability of default rating intact. The change follows a second product recall in May 2026 that followed a March 2026 recall. Although estimated recall expenses of about $80 million are manageable, …
Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining completed an initial public offering of 23 million shares priced at $13.50 each, generating approximately $310.5 million in gross proceeds before underwriting fees and expenses. The offering included the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Jun…
Liftoff Mobile Inc. completed its initial public offering, selling 21.85 million shares at $23 per share, including the full exercise of underwriters' option to purchase an additional 2.85 million shares. The transaction generated roughly $502.6 million in gross proceeds. Liftoff said it will use net proceeds to pay down its senior secured term loa…
Hallador Energy Company (NASDAQ:HNRG) saw its stock increase about 5% in after-hours trading on Friday after its subsidiary, Hallador Power Company, was chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office to enter negotiations for up to $27.2 million in federal funding. The potential award would support a roughly $56…
The White House announced plans to speed up the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in intelligence and military operations, while cautioning against its use for unlawful surveillance or censorship. The administration is also seeking voluntary pre-release cybersecurity testing of advanced AI models and has given the Defense Secret…
U.S.-listed semiconductor stocks plunged Friday, erasing over $1 trillion in combined market value as investors pared back positions in high-valuation AI-related names following a weak earnings signal from Broadcom and renewed worries about higher interest rates. The PHLX chip index fell sharply and was on pace for its largest single-day drop since…
Senior White House officials and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman have held ongoing discussions about a potential federal equity stake in OpenAI. The concept, first raised in 2025, would involve OpenAI donating shares to seed a sovereign investment vehicle intended to deliver long-term, diversified returns to the American public. Meetings this wee…
Options volume in Marvell Technology (MRVL) surged to 605,010 contracts on Friday, with calls outnumbering puts. Exchange data compiled by Bloomberg at 3:20 p.m. New York time shows a notable diagonal put spread and multiple large call trades concentrated in early June and late August expirations.
TerraVest Industries Inc saw its stock drop sharply after Quebec’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers alleged that executive chairman Charles Pellerin provided confidential information about the company’s $780 million purchase of Entrans to family members and acquaintances prior to the public announcement. The regulator's inquiry includes search warra…
Options volume for Mondelez International Inc. climbed to 3,842 contracts as of 2:20 p.m. New York time, with calls representing 2,218 contracts and puts 1,624 contracts. Three specific strikes - a March 19, 2027 $60 put, a $62 call expiring today, and a July 17, 2026 $65 call - dominated the session's trading, according to exchange data compiled b…
Options trading in Strategy Inc. intensified sharply during the trading day, reaching 952,761 contracts by 2:50 p.m. New York time. Put volume led the session with 603,285 contracts, while calls totaled 349,476. Several near-term expirations and a notable June 12, 2026 call spread accounted for much of the flow.
A coalition of US states led by California and New York is preparing to sue to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros, with the action expected within weeks. The move signals state-level antitrust enforcement stepping forward as federal regulators pursue a more business-friendly approach. Market reaction included a drop …
Solidion Technology shares jumped roughly 58% in afternoon trading after the company announced a lithium metal anode protection platform backed by more than 30 patents. The disclosure follows an earlier reveal of a graphene-based extreme-temperature battery platform and has coincided with the stock reaching a fresh 52-week intraday high amid broad …
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has entered a cloud services agreement with Google LLC that grants Google access to significant compute resources including approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, along with CPUs, memory, and other components. Under the contract, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029, with…
Compass Pathways stock dropped sharply in afternoon trading as a broad selloff hit high-volatility biotech names and investors positioned for a binary COMP006 26-week Part B durability data readout expected in early Q3 2026. Despite prior gains that pushed the shares near a 52-week high, no new company-specific news was cited for the decline, which…
Investor orders for SpaceX's initial public offering have reportedly reached about $150 billion, or roughly two times the company's $75 billion planned raise, according to sources familiar with the process. The company is still in the early marketing phase and investor interest could change before the offering is priced next week.
Commerzbank reported that 7.85% of its capital was tendered under UniCredit’s €40 billion voluntary takeover proposal, a figure that has prompted disagreement between the two banks about what the tender rate signifies. UniCredit had earlier said acceptances reached 7.6%, a level that, combined with its current holdings, it said would allow it to ho…
Open Lending's stock fell sharply after the company disclosed results from its June 3, 2026 annual meeting, where shareholders approved a reverse stock split between 1-for-5 and 1-for-7 and voted to declassify the board. The board retains discretion over timing and exact ratio of the split, while the company continues to face operating losses and h…
Meta Platforms saw its stock decline sharply after reports indicated the company is exploring a significant equity issuance to help fund expansive artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company is said to be considering selling tens of billions of dollars in new shares, a move that would support CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push to deliver advanced A…
Equity markets closed the week under pressure as rate-sensitive technology and semiconductor stocks slipped amid rising U.S. Treasury yields following a stronger-than-expected May jobs report. Despite the broad weakness, several individual securities produced significant moves: Broadcom fell after an earnings call that underwhelmed AI revenue expec…
Cai Qi, a close ally of President Xi Jinping, has been named head of the Central Party School and appeared publicly in that capacity for the first time at a graduation ceremony on Friday. Analysts say the move centralizes major party organizational, doctrinal, and administrative responsibilities under a single Politburo Standing Committee member, r…
