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Intel Shares Jump After Trump Announces Apple Foundry Pact, Analyst Upgrade, and 18A-P Risk Production

Intel Shares Jump After Trump Announces Apple Foundry Pact, Analyst Upgrade, and 18A-P Risk Production

Intel stock surged in pre-market trading after a trio of company-specific developments: a Trump-posted announcement that Apple will partner with Intel to design and produce U.S.-made chips using the 18A process, a Bernstein price-target raise, and Intel’s confirmation that its 18A-P node has entered risk production. The move ran counter to a broadl…

Evonik Shares Drop After Broad Restructuring and Polyester Exit

Evonik Shares Drop After Broad Restructuring and Polyester Exit

Evonik Industries shares slipped after the company announced a major restructuring that will eliminate 3,200 jobs globally through 2029 and a full exit from its polyester business in 2027. Management cited worsening geopolitical conditions, slower growth and heightened international competition. The moves follow analyst downgrades and come amid wid…

LSEG Shares Slide After Redburn Flags AI-Related Earnings Risk

LSEG Shares Slide After Redburn Flags AI-Related Earnings Risk

Shares of London Stock Exchange Group Plc dropped more than 4% following a downgrade by Rothschild & Co Redburn, which cut its price target to £104 from £120 and warned that parts of LSEG’s earnings could face pressure from AI-driven changes in data consumption and interface disruption. The broker said roughly 30% of group EBITDA is vulnerable unde…

Kepler ups Airbus to Buy, lifts target to €212 as supply-chain progress and softer oil outlook lift sentiment

Kepler ups Airbus to Buy, lifts target to €212 as supply-chain progress and softer oil outlook lift sentiment

Kepler Cheuvreux upgraded Airbus from Hold to Buy and increased its price target to €212 from €196, attributing the change to a more favourable macro environment and stronger bottom-up prospects for the aerospace group. The stock advanced 3.4% in Paris trading, and the analyst flagged accelerating deliveries, improved supply-chain management and a …

Smith & Wesson Shares Jump After Fiscal Q4 Results Overshoot Estimates

Smith & Wesson Shares Jump After Fiscal Q4 Results Overshoot Estimates

Smith & Wesson Brands stock rose sharply in pre-market trading after the company reported fourth-quarter results that exceeded analyst expectations on both revenue and adjusted earnings. The quarter featured double-digit shipment gains across handguns and long guns, margin expansion, significantly higher net income, a dividend declaration and a net…

Rumble Shares Spike After Northern Data Deal Closes, Company Repositions as AI Infrastructure Player

Rumble Shares Spike After Northern Data Deal Closes, Company Repositions as AI Infrastructure Player

Rumble Inc. shares jumped 16.8% in pre-open trading following the formal close of its acquisition of Northern Data AG, a corporate rebrand to RUM Group Inc., and the launch of a new AI infrastructure division called Quake AI. The deal combines Rumble Cloud’s CPU resources with Northern Data’s roughly 22,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs across nine data ce…

Edenred Shares Jump After Report BC Partners Is Exploring Takeover

Edenred Shares Jump After Report BC Partners Is Exploring Takeover

Edenred saw a sharp intraday gain after a French newsletter reported that BC Partners has been evaluating a take-private of the employee-benefits group. The report said BC Partners has studied the opportunity for three months and is seeking partners, but no formal approach has been made. Analysts highlighted Edenred's recurring revenue, free cash f…

BE Semiconductor Raises Targets, Shares Edge Higher After Investor Day

BE Semiconductor Raises Targets, Shares Edge Higher After Investor Day

BE Semiconductor Industries NV nudged higher after management used its annual Investor Day to lift revenue and operating margin targets, citing robust demand from AI data centers and optical photonics. The company raised its top-line range and increased the lower bound of its margin guidance, while analysts refreshed ratings and the broader Dutch t…

UPM to Temporarily Idle Two Finnish Pulp Mills, Shares Retreat

UPM to Temporarily Idle Two Finnish Pulp Mills, Shares Retreat

UPM-Kymmene announced temporary production curtailments at two Finnish pulp mills, with the Kaukas mill set to stop operations from August 3, 2026 for about six weeks and a potential temporary shutdown of the Pietarsaari mill planned for October. The company said the moves aim to optimize production levels and wood sourcing and to protect profitabi…

Tekmar posts 31% H1 revenue rise as oil and gas work lifts margins

Tekmar posts 31% H1 revenue rise as oil and gas work lifts margins

Tekmar Group reported a 31% year-over-year increase in first-half revenue to 16.20 million, with adjusted EBITDA turning positive at 100,000. Gross margin improved to 30.5% as sales shifted toward oil and gas work and process improvements supported profitability. Management flagged a record order backlog and recent contract awards as the basis fo…