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A broad industry consortium led by major payments firms and a cryptocurrency exchange has established a new stablecoin project called Open Standard and plans to issue a U.S.-dollar pegged token, Open USD, later this year. The group says the design is intended to remove commercial barriers to scale by allowing businesses to mint and redeem without f…
Trading in options tied to Texas Pacific Land Corp. saw a marked rise in activity Tuesday morning, with call contracts accounting for the vast majority of volume. The spike included heavy activity in a specific July 17, 2026 $470 call, while the companys shares moved higher and several short-term volatility metrics shifted.
Sarepta Therapeutics saw its stock climb after the FDA accepted supplemental applications to transition two exon-skipping Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies from accelerated to traditional approval. The company cited confirmatory trial results, real-world evidence and safety data in its submissions; a regulatory decision is targeted for February…
Amazon is establishing a new unit within Amazon Web Services focused on embedding forward-deployed engineers at customer sites to speed adoption of artificial intelligence. The company is allocating an initial $1 billion to the effort and plans to send five to six engineering pods to customer organizations for 45-day engagements. AWS said the unit …
Morocco's equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the Moroccan All Shares up 0.91% as advances in Banking, Beverage and Transport names outweighed declines. Market breadth was modestly positive, and the day featured mixed moves in oil, gold and local FX rates alongside a small gain in the US Dollar Index Futures.
Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing firm preparing to list via a proposed combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: BBCQ), points to the recent installation of a 200-qubit system at Aramco's Dhahran data center as evidence that quantum computing is moving from research toward practical commercial application. The Dhahran syst…
Shell's latest annual LNG report warns that continued disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could cause global liquefied natural gas supply to shrink in 2026. The company expects physical LNG cargo volumes this year to match 2025 levels at 422 million tonnes, with a return to growth projected for 2027 if shipping resumes normal operations over the sum…
Aduro Clean Technologies saw a 4% increase in its share price after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with AstroTurf Corporation to assess the use of Aduro's Hydrochemolytic Technology, together with mechanical pre-treatment, to reclaim polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) from used synthetic turf and convert them into liquid hydrocarbon pr…
Circle Internet Group shares tumbled sharply after a newly formed consortium publicly introduced a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, Open USD, a move perceived as a direct challenge to Circle's USDC franchise. The stock's decline was amplified by Circle's removal from five major Russell Growth Indexes during the annual reconstitution, and follows a ba…
Norway's equity market closed slightly lower Tuesday, with the Oslo OBX down 0.01% as losses clustered in Media, Transport and Diversified Financials. Nordic Semiconductor, Subsea 7 and Nel were the session's leaders, while SalMar, Hafnia and Frontline posted the biggest declines. Broader market breadth showed more fallers than gainers, and commodi…
Israeli equities finished higher on Tuesday as Technology, Biomed and Communication sectors pushed the benchmark TA-35 up 1.30% at the close in Tel Aviv. Market breadth favored advancers, while commodities and currency moves were modest, with crude oil and Brent edging lower and gold rising ahead of the close.
Greek equities closed lower Tuesday, with the Athens General Composite retreating 0.31% as losses in the Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources sectors exerted downward pressure. Piraeus Port Authority recorded the largest gain on the index while Gek Terna and Motor Oil were among the biggest decliners. Market breadth favored declines and key comm…
Netflix shares fell about 2.0% in morning trading to $72.30, diverging from gains in the broader market as investors reacted to fading enthusiasm around media consolidation and lingering concerns about the company’s acquisition track record, leadership changes and potential subscriber impacts from the expanded 2026 FIFA World Cup. With Q2 2026 resu…
AI chip startup Etched has secured $800 million in financing with investors that include Jane Street and a venture firm tied to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The company, founded in 2022, says it is testing products, has $1 billion of signed sales contracts and aims to begin shipping chips to some customers this summer. Etched has describe…
Equity markets on Tuesday displayed notable dispersion, with several large-cap semiconductor and technology-related names posting gains while a handful of companies across market-cap tiers recorded declines. Movements were driven by company announcements, analyst actions and guidance-related reactions.
AeroVironment Inc. saw total options volume reach 24,316 contracts at 10:31 a.m. New York time on Tuesday, with call and put trades nearly evenly split. The companys shares climbed 21.4% to $168.71 while measures of implied volatility and skew eased during the session. Several short-dated contracts led volume, including a July 2 $150 put that acco…
Stellantis announced a leadership reshuffle within its Enlarged Europe Organization that will see Santo Ficili added as CEO of Maserati while he remains CEO of Alfa Romeo. The appointments are effective July 1 and place Ficili and Luca Napolitano under the reporting line of Emanuele Cappellano following the departure of Jean-Philippe Imparato after…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a public comment period to evaluate whether its regulatory approach to exchange-traded funds remains fit for a $16 trillion industry. The review asks about granting greater confidentiality during the filing review process and broadening circumstances under which the agency could suspend a fund'…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions rallied sharply in morning trading after AeroVironment’s outstanding fiscal fourth-quarter results lifted the unmanned systems and defense technology sector. Company-specific contract and joint-venture news, plus an analyst upgrade, amplified investor interest and helped push KTOS substantially higher intraday.
Unicycive Therapeutics stock plunged after the FDA issued a second Complete Response Letter for the company’s resubmitted application for oxylanthanum carbonate (OLC), a phosphate binder for dialysis patients. The CRL, released on the drug’s PDUFA date, cited the same third-party manufacturing deficiencies that blocked approval in 2025 and noted th…
CME Group shares rose sharply in morning trading after the exchange operator confirmed launch dates for two new product suites: Single Stock futures across more than 50 major U.S. names and financially-settled Lean Beef Trim futures and options. The single-stock contracts are scheduled to begin July 27, 2026, and the Lean Beef Trim contracts are sl…
SanDisk shares climbed sharply after Bernstein raised its price target to $3,000 from $1,700, citing a structural change in long-term memory agreements that the analyst says cushions earnings through downturns. The upgrade coincided with other recent target increases and comes amid volatile recent trading and strong NAND contract-price appreciation…
Ouster’s stock rallied sharply after its Rev8 OS digital lidar sensors were certified as meeting the Build America, Buy America Act requirements, making them eligible for purchase with federal infrastructure funds. The certification arrives amid a run of commercial wins and partnerships, a regulatory development that sidelines a Chinese competitor …
Forward Air Corporation shares dropped 6.2% in morning trading to $13.53 as investors continued to fret over the company’s elevated leverage, reliance on a large customer representing roughly 12% of first-quarter 2026 revenue, and an open-ended restructuring effort that has so far not produced a full-enterprise buyer. The company carries about $1.6…
Nebius shares rose 7.0% in morning trading to $279.49 as the AI cloud infrastructure specialist extended a sharp year-to-date advance. Investors pointed to the company’s recent addition to the Nasdaq-100, the mid-June close of its Eigen AI acquisition, an analyst price-target increase, and blockbuster Q1 revenue growth as the combined drivers behin…
