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DeepSeek is closing a 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) funding round that counts Tencent and Contemporary Amperex among its largest investors, with the company’s founder also making a significant personal contribution. Management has told investors the priority will remain AI research rather than near-term commercialization as the startup expands int…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of RELX Plc with a "buy" rating and a 12-month price target of £30, asserting the information and analytics group has strong defenses against AI disruption and a clear path to accelerating revenue and cash flow growth. The broker assigns top-sector AI resilience scores to RELX, highlights the Risk division’s contrib…
Intel shares climbed sharply in pre-market trading after CEO Lip-Bu Tan unveiled the company’s Xeon 6 Plus processor and a roadmap focused on agentic AI and CPU-centric data center infrastructure at Computex 2026 in Taipei. A slate of analyst price-target increases and announcements of rackscale partnerships helped sustain the rally as the stock re…
Goldman Sachs began coverage of Wolters Kluwer with a Neutral rating and a €71 price target, describing the Dutch information services group as attractively valued but lacking near-term drivers for a material re-rating. The bank expects Wolters Kluwer to deliver steady EPS compound growth while flagging AI-related threats to key product pricing and…
Macy’s reported a 1.8% rise in first-quarter sales to $4.68 billion, its first quarterly increase after 15 straight quarters of declines, and raised its fiscal 2026 net sales and adjusted EPS targets. Strong demand at Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury, along with broader interest in premium apparel and accessories, underpinned the results amid a split…
Shake Shack shares fell in pre-market trading after management reduced its Q2 2026 guidance, lowering revenue, same-shack sales growth and restaurant-level profit margin projections. The guidance revision prompted multiple analyst downgrades and price-target cuts, while the fast-casual sector faces ongoing consumer, commodity and competitive pressu…
At a June 3 hearing in Jakarta, Indonesia’s parliamentary financial commission and government ministers reached agreement on a bill to overhaul financial sector laws and expand Bank Indonesia’s mandate to include promoting economic growth. The commission-approved text would strengthen Bank Indonesia, the Financial Services Authority and the Indones…
Sherwin-Williams stock climbed 3.1% in pre-market trading after the company and Nippon Paint Group confirmed they are abandoning their joint, all-cash proposal to buy AkzoNobel. The offer - valued at about €12.5 billion ($14.5 billion) - had been repeatedly rejected by the Dutch paint maker. Investors reacted positively to the termination, which el…
Goldman Sachs cut Stroeer SE & Co.'s rating to sell from neutral and reduced its 12-month price target to €37 from €43, pointing to a softer German consumer backdrop and continued pressure in the company's DaaS & E-Commerce division. The broker trimmed revenue and EBITDA forecasts for the group and flagged deep traffic losses at Statista and slower…
India's main equity benchmarks ended lower on Wednesday, with the Nifty 50 falling 0.38% and the BSE Sensex 30 down 0.41%. Losses in IT, Technology and Real Estate stocks weighed on the market. Tata Consultancy Services dropped sharply to five-year lows, while select banking and auto names posted gains. Volatility, commodities and currency markets …
Barclays told clients that Japan provides the most balanced risk-reward exposure to the current AI investment cycle among major equity markets, citing broad participation across the AI supply chain and supportive structural reforms. The bank cautioned that Korea and Taiwan have become concentrated bets tied to memory and foundry segments respective…
The software sector has staged a notable recovery after a steep selloff, driven by investor hopes that artificial intelligence will bolster demand rather than render traditional software models obsolete. An ETF tracking expanded tech-software names has climbed nearly 42% off its April lows even as the group remains slightly negative for 2026. Marke…
Macquarie projects the 2026 FIFA World Cup, staged across the United States, Canada and Mexico, will drive about $50 billion in global wagers and boost operator EBITDA by 2% to 5% in 2027. The bank identifies Flutter Entertainment, SG&H Capital and Rush Street Interactive as most likely to capture the bulk of the tournament-driven revenue upside, a…
RBC Capital Markets downgraded Rio Tinto to Underperform from Sector Perform while nudging its price target up to 6,400 pence. The move reflects a revised commodity outlook that anticipates further falls in iron ore prices and highlights potential pressures on realised pricing and cash generation if freight costs rise amid an extended conflict.
U.S. technology shares have surged in recent months, driven by expectations for robust AI adoption and heavy semiconductor demand. The sector now represents a record share of the S&P 500's market capitalization, intensifying reliance on a relatively small group of companies and increasing the market’s sensitivity to setbacks among those leaders.
Several closely watched technology companies - including SpaceX and Anthropic, with OpenAI rumored to follow - are preparing for potentially record-setting public listings. The run-up to an initial public offering subjects founders and executives to intense investor scrutiny, strict disclosure rules and the choreographed marketing of their business…
Revolut plans to begin U.S. banking operations next year under a national bank charter application, offering FDIC-insured products including high-yield investment and checking accounts, multi-currency services, and access to cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. The bank will be headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with an additional New York office…
A U.S. jury convicted investor Andrew Left of securities fraud, a ruling that market participants warn could alter how activist short sellers operate. Prosecutors said Left used public appearances and social media to promote trades he then secretly closed to profit from brief price moves. The case, emerging from a probe that began in 2019, has elic…
A recent hack that coerced Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot into resetting credentials and relinquishing control of high-profile Instagram accounts exposed a core security gap in the company’s automation strategy. The incident affected pages including the dormant Obama White House account, Sephora’s retailer account and an account tied to a senior…
Just three trading days into June, model-driven stock selections published for subscribers under $9 a month have produced substantial gains. Marvell Technology shares jumped roughly 58.78% for the month so far, and Penguin Solutions has risen about 26.90%, after both companies' AI-related positioning and guidance reinforced investor interest. Sever…
Retail earnings from the likes of Dollar Tree, Walmart and Gap indicate that U.S. consumers remain active buyers but are reallocating spending toward essentials and value. Prolonged disruption tied to the Iran conflict, which has kept gasoline prices elevated, threatens to weigh on discretionary spending through key seasonal periods that drive most…
Goldman Sachs has started coverage of three major European advertising holding companies, assigning Buy ratings to Publicis and Omnicom and a Sell to WPP. The bank projects a sector recovery to 2-3% growth by late 2026 if macro conditions hold, applies a proprietary AI resilience framework that favors healthcare and data services, and sets explicit…
Wolfe Research laid out the core subscriber and connection definitions investors should use when assessing wireless and broadband providers. The note explains which devices and services count as connections, highlights the differing structures of postpaid and prepaid markets in the U.S., and explains why Average Revenue per Account is gaining atten…
Victoria’s Secret & Co. shares fell in pre-market trading after a sharp rally the previous session. The pullback reflects profit-taking at technical resistance following a nearly 50% one-day jump that lifted the stock to a 52-week high, alongside lingering uncertainty from an activist investor campaign ahead of the company’s June 11 Annual Meeting.
BTIG strategist Jonathan Krinsky warns that the S&P 500 technology sector's ten-week surge - on pace for its largest such advance since 1990 - has pushed several technical indicators into rare, historically overbought territory. Krinsky highlights an RSI of 82, the index trading 28% above its 200-day moving average, and a concentration of gains out…
