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Baidu's stock plunged after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that fell short of analyst expectations. Total revenue declined year-over-year, net profit tumbled, and the core Online Marketing Services business showed a steep revenue drop as competitors continued to take share. Heavier capital spending on AI compute capacity helped cl…
Global sovereign bond yields hovered near their highest levels in decades as investors reacted to rising government borrowing and persistent inflation concerns. The U.S. long bond earlier reached a near-20-year peak before easing in Asia, while European bunds and long French debt climbed to multi-year highs. Risk aversion pressured equity markets a…
Small consignment deliveries of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence processors have been admitted to mainland China, with ByteDance and Tencent reported to have each received roughly 10,000 units. U.S. approvals allow purchases of up to 100,000 H200 chips per company, but Chinese authorities have instructed firms to keep the hardware outside main…
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI plunged sharply on Wednesday, briefly falling more than 5% and activating a programmatic trading halt known as a sidecar. Heavyweight semiconductor names SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics were among the largest drags as a global selloff in chip stocks spread across the region. Rising U.S. Treasury yields and profit-taki…
Whitehaven Coal shares slipped after the miner posted a mixed full-year performance: robust output and strong underlying earnings contrasted with a 7% fall in revenue as coal prices softened and the Australian dollar strengthened. Management provided FY27 production guidance in line with current volumes and signalled higher capital expenditure, whi…
Samsung Electronics stock plunged 7.0% to ₩249,750 amid a sector-wide rout in semiconductors that pushed South Korea's KOSPI down over 6%. The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar and halted program trading as investors fled technology exposure following steep U.S. memory chip losses and heightened U.S.-Iran tensions that lifted crude oil a…
Breville Group's stock fell after the company reported record FY2026 sales alongside only marginal increases in operating profit and net profit. Gross margin compression, management's caution on ongoing tariff and cost pressures, and the absence of formal full-year guidance contributed to investor nervousness amid a weak broader market.
SK Hynix shares tumbled 8.3% to ₩1,524,000, leading losses on the KOSPI as the index recorded one of its sharpest single-session declines in recent months. A global risk-off mood driven by a spike in U.S. Treasury yields, concerns about inflation and rates, and the lapse of a 60-day U.S.-Iran peace deal weighed on technology stocks. Domestic policy…
CSL shares jumped 5% to A$165.88 on Wednesday, reaching their highest level in over six months after the global biopharmaceutical firm reported FY26 results and unveiled an A$1.1 billion on-market buyback. Management said the multi-year earnings reset has bottomed and provided guidance for roughly 5% growth in underlying net profit after tax for FY…
Geely Automobile stands out among Hong Kong-listed Chinese electric vehicle stocks by pairing the highest reported ROE in the group with a low price multiple and substantial free cash flow. While pure EV plays show faster revenue expansion, Geely's mix of profitability, conservative leverage, and valuation give it the most complete fundamental prof…
OpenAI reported sequential revenue growth of 18% in the second quarter, with sales reaching $6.7 billion for the three months ended June, but operating losses widened to $12.3 billion as the company struggled to keep pace with rival Anthropic, which more than doubled revenue to $11.6 billion and reported a small operating profit.
Iluka Resources recorded a A$24 million net loss for the six months to June 30, reversing a prior-year profit, as softer zircon pricing and reduced volumes pressured revenue and margins. Revenue fell 22% to A$433 million, while underlying group EBITDA dropped 77% to A$53 million and EBITDA margin compressed to 9% from 39% a year earlier. The compan…
Cerebras Systems introduced the CS-4, a server rack built around three of its large wafer-scale chips and a Nexus-based architecture designed to speed inference workloads for AI chatbots. The system, which includes the WSE-3 Turbo chip and updated networking elements, is due in the third quarter and is fabricated on TSMC's 5-nanometer process. Comp…
A U.S. bankruptcy court has postponed until September 9 a hearing to approve Alphabet's proposed $10 million purchase of internal data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, after the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA filed an objection. The disputed data set includes employee communications and operational records that Google intends to use for product…
Breville Group reported a record A$1.81 billion in sales for the year ended June 30, with net profit after tax attributable to members rising 1.7% to A$138.1 million. The company cited robust demand for its coffee and cooking appliances while absorbing tariff headwinds, transition costs from a manufacturing diversification program, and inflationary…
JBS SA has proposed to acquire the remaining publicly held shares of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp by offering 2.086 JBS Class A shares for each Pilgrim’s Pride share, valuing each Pilgrim’s Pride share at $28.49 based on Tuesday's closing prices. The offer follows recent corporate moves by both companies and will need approval from Pilgrim’s Pride independ…
August’s earnings season has produced pronounced stock-specific rallies even as indices showed intermittent weakness. Professional model-driven pick lists uncovered a string of winners, led by Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE:HAE), which surged 15.9% on news of a U.S. supply agreement with CSL Plasma. That rally builds on outsized profitability, recen…
Moody's Ratings upgraded four Vodafone Group hybrid securities to Baa3 from Ba1 following amendments to their terms and conditions announced by the company. The move places the hybrids one notch beneath Vodafone's Baa2 senior unsecured rating, aligns them with other recent hybrids, and preserves partial equity credit while keeping a five-year limit…
Colombian stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the COLCAP index up 0.39% to reach a new one-month high. Strength in Industrials, Services and Agriculture supported the market. Grupo Argos, Cementos Argos Pf and Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana SA Preferred were the session's strongest performers, while Corporacion Financiera Colombiana SA, Banco …
Moscow's benchmark advanced after Tuesday's close, with the MOEX Russia Index up 2.30%. Gains were concentrated in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors. Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank surged 19.70% to a record close, while ALROSA and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel also posted notable increases. The Russian Volatility Index fell 12.47%, and commodity price…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro issued an executive order that immediately tightens the state’s approach to new AI data center construction. The measures remove data centers from expedited permitting, prohibit certain confidentiality agreements with developers and require environmental, transparency and local community approvals. The move target…
U.S. equity benchmarks ended the trading session lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.22%, the S&P 500 falling 0.69% and the Nasdaq Composite sliding 1.33%. Losses were concentrated in Industrials, Technology and Basic Materials, while several individual names recorded large percentage swings. Market breadth was negative on both the …
Brazil's main equity index slipped 0.27% by the close in Sao Paulo on Tuesday, marking a six-month low for the Bovespa. Losses were concentrated in the Real Estate, Consumption and Basic Materials sectors, even as select names including Hapvida and Azzas 2154 posted gains. Decliners marginally outnumbered advancers on the exchange and volatility, a…
TikTok is working on a feature that would let users transfer money to one another within direct messages using TikTok Pay, according to evidence found in the app's code. The digital wallet is live in Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand for in-app shop purchases, and the engineering work suggests the company is exploring broader payments capabilities eve…
OpenAI has temporarily slowed the pace of its most advanced model training programs, pausing some reinforcement learning runs for two weeks while it upgrades security, monitoring, and isolation controls. The decision follows a reassessment of an upcoming model, Astra, which may cross a critical cybersecurity capability threshold in the company's Pr…
