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Piper Sandler's H1 2026 CIO Pulse Survey reports that enterprise AI adoption has advanced beyond planning, with 86% of IT decision-makers now using copilots, agentic AI, or fully autonomous systems. IT budgets are forecast to rise 4.8% in 2026, security remains the top spending priority at 73%, and 94% of respondents plan to increase spending on AI…
Comcast's plan to separate NBCUniversal and Sky into distinct public companies is the latest example of major media firms reorganizing legacy television businesses. Firms across the industry have pursued spin-offs, mergers and cost reductions to sharpen strategic focus as traditional TV viewership declines and streaming changes revenue and producti…
Moroccan equities finished the trading day in Casablanca with the Moroccan All Shares index up 0.17%, led by gains in the Banking, Beverage and Transport sectors. Several individual issues posted double-digit percentage moves in both directions. Broader market breadth favored decliners, while crude and Brent oil advanced and gold futures retreated.…
Options trading in Medline Inc. spiked to 20,588 contracts by 11:01 a.m. New York time on Monday, led almost entirely by put contracts. Call activity was minimal in comparison, while a single July 17, 2026 $35 put dominated volume. Shares moved modestly higher as measured three-month volatility and 90/110 skew both declined.
Options on Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) exchanged hands at a total of 127,440 contracts as of 11:01 a.m. New York time on Monday. Calls comprised the bulk of the flow at 97,280 contracts, while puts totaled 30,160. Several large single-strike and multi-leg trades accounted for much of the day’s activity, led by heavy interest in the July 17, 2026 $25 call…
Amazon shares climbed sharply in morning trading after Adobe Analytics reported record Prime Day consumer spending of $26.4 billion, up 9.3% year-over-year. A reaffirmed Market Outperform rating and $315 price target from Citizens, tied to a planned 20% rise in AWS hourly GPU prices on July 1, plus comments from AWS leadership about multi-year ente…
Rivian stock climbed 7.0% in morning trading to $16.73 as investors positioned for the close of Q2 2026 and an upcoming delivery update expected in early July. Data points tied to VIN assignments and early customer feedback indicate a quicker-than-expected production ramp for the R2 mid-size SUV, with more than 1,100 R2 units potentially assigned b…
Israeli equities ended lower on Monday, with the TA 35 retreating 0.34% to register a new three-month low. Losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Insurance sectors weighed on the market, even as a larger number of stocks advanced than declined. Commodity and currency moves accompanied the session, with crude prices higher and the US dollar index s…
Norway's equity market closed modestly higher, led by gains in the Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities sectors. The Oslo OBX rose 0.26% as Kongsberg Gruppen topped the index, while Norwegian Air Shuttle, SalMar and Frontline were among the session's laggards. Broader market breadth was narrowly negative and…
Greek equities finished Monday's session in positive territory, with the Athens General Composite rising 0.74%. Advances were driven by strength in the Banking, Construction and Travel sectors. Notable winners included Athens Medical, Ellaktor and Piraeus Port Authority, while holdings such as ADMIE IPTO, Fourlis and Ekter posted declines. Market b…
Palantir Technologies shares rose about 4.6% to $118.09 Monday following an announcement of a strategic initiative with Nvidia to deploy open AI models inside classified and air-gapped government environments. The collaboration pairs Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs and Nemotron open models with Palantir's AIP, Ontology, Foundry and Apollo platforms t…
Barclays raised price targets for Samsung and SK Hynix in a client note, attributing the changes to robust high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demand and improving pricing. Analyst Simon Coles moved his valuations to 2027 estimates, highlighting Samsung's reported HBM4 shipments and substantial revenue upgrades at SK Hynix driven by 2027 HBM pricing tailwi…
Trading on Monday produced marked shifts across large, mid and small-cap equities. Semiconductor names including Micron Technology and Intel Corp fell, while Applied Materials rose. The day also featured acquisition-related gains, a planned media spin-off, and sharp swings among small-cap biotech and energy names.
Several carriers have begun to restore selected services to parts of the Middle East amid diplomatic moves to de-escalate the recent conflict following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Nonetheless, many airlines maintain extended suspensions or delayed restarts on key routes, leaving global travel links uneven and operations constrained.
Amazon stock climbed sharply in morning trade after investors reacted to a string of bullish signals tied to the company’s cloud and AI business, strong retail metrics from Prime Day and diminishing regulatory overhang. An analyst reiteration anchored to a concrete AWS pricing change, comments from AWS leadership about sustained demand, and robust …
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump’s removal of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioner, overturning lower-court decisions that had invoked a 1914 law and a 1935 precedent to block the ouster. The ruling reduces a statutory barrier that for more than a century limited presidential authority to remove FTC commi…
US front-month wheat futures fell from recent 52-week highs after signs of progress in US-Iran ceasefire negotiations trimmed a portion of the conflict-driven risk premium. The decline has been uneven across contract months and grades, with Hard Red Winter wheat remaining relatively firm. Market participants cite the partial recovery of Hormuz ship…
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling in the case of Okello Chatrie, who challenged the use of a court-authorized 'geofence' warrant that led to cellphone location data used in his conviction for a 2019 armed robbery. In a 6-3 decision the justices agreed a search took place but returned the case to a lower court for additional consid…
Citi launched coverage of TeraWulf with a Buy/High-Risk rating and a $36 price target, citing rising demand for high-performance computing (HPC) driven by agentic AI workloads and constrained industry supply. The bank projects large annual data center power demand and positions TeraWulf's redevelopment approach and lease-first capital deployment as…
Cerebras Systems stock climbed 5.8% in morning trade to $192.04 as investors bought the dip following a steep post-IPO pullback that pushed the shares to a 52-week low days earlier. Strong Q1 revenue growth and a unanimous analyst Buy consensus, paired with notable institutional accumulation and sector dynamics around AI compute and DRAM shortages,…
Macquarie's review of United Tractors' May 2026 performance highlights divergent trends across the company's divisions. Gold production improved after the Martabe operation resumed following a weak April, while mining equipment sales - notably Komatsu units - remained under pressure amid subdued mining capital expenditure. Non-mining equipment line…
Palantir Technologies shares climbed in morning trading after the company announced a strategic collaboration with Nvidia to deploy Nvidia’s Nemotron open-source AI models into classified and sovereign environments for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure operators. An expanded software commitment with Surf Air Mobility and a marked…
Rocket Lab shares rallied sharply in morning trading after the company revealed a definitive agreement to acquire Iridium Communications in a transaction valued at about $8 billion. The cash-and-stock deal provides Iridium shareholders $27.00 per share in cash plus Rocket Lab stock, with a notional combined consideration of $54.00 per Iridium share…
Comcast shares rallied sharply after the company announced a tax-free spin-off separating NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone publicly traded company. The remaining Comcast will concentrate on broadband, wireless and business connectivity. The move prompted gains across the cable sector and followed a year-to-date decline in Comcast's stock.
Microsoft (MSFT) has bounced sharply on the 4-hour chart after setting a new 52-week low days earlier, but the rally now confronts significant resistance around Fibonacci levels, the Ichimoku Cloud and a major Point of Control. Short-term technical signals favor buyers, yet the broader technical picture remains bearish, creating a high-risk environ…
