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Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ:MNTS) reported a commercial contract to host the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) Occultation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS) instruments on its Vigoride-9 Orbital Service Vehicle, prompting a 19% jump in the company’s shares. The mission, planned for 2027, will measure atmospheric …
Ernexa Therapeutics reported completion of manufacturing process development and the start of GMP production for its lead allogeneic cell therapy candidate ERNA-101, and announced plans to submit an Investigational New Drug application in the third quarter of 2026. The update, which included preclinical efficacy data and a completed $10.5 million f…
AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) saw its shares climb 4.9% in premarket trading Wednesday after launching BlueBird satellites 8, 9 and 10 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. The newly deployed satellites are intended to deliver peak data speeds approaching 200 Mbps directly to standard smartphones, and represent a step up in capacity versu…
Bed Bath & Beyond said it will acquire Fathom Holdings in an all-stock transaction to add a technology-driven real estate services business to its Everything Home strategy. Shares fell 8% on the announcement. The deal, which the company says will broaden its Homeownership & Transactions capabilities, is expected to close in the second half of 2026 …
Saudi Arabia's benchmark ended lower on Wednesday with the Tadawul All Share down 0.27%. Losses in Media & Publishing, Insurance and Real Estate Development sectors contributed to the retreat. Gulf Insurance Group led winners, while Aljazira Takaful, Saudi Cement and Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical were among the biggest decliners. Market breadth f…
Pattern Group shares rose 2.0% in pre-market trading after pre-IPO investor Knox Lane LP priced an 8 million-share secondary offering at $19.00 per share. The deal - which will not provide proceeds to the company - was underwritten by J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs and includes a 30-day option to sell up to an additional 1.2 million shares. The clea…
Morgan Stanley moved to upgrade Charles River Laboratories to Overweight with a $220 price target while downgrading IQVIA Holdings to Equal-weight and trimming its price target to $200. The firm cited signs of recovery in preclinical research driven by improving biopharma funding and portfolio moves that sharpen Charles River's focus. For IQVIA, Mo…
Revolut Ltd. has received authorization from the United Arab Emirates central bank to operate stored value facilities and offer retail payment services. The London-headquartered digital bank will first develop local technology, operations and staffing before activating services in the UAE, without providing a launch date. Customers in the UAE are e…
U.S. stock futures were mostly flat in early trading as market participants prepared for a pivotal Federal Reserve interest rate announcement and tracked reports about a preliminary Middle East peace agreement. Several individual stocks posted sharp premarket moves, with UniQure surging after favorable FDA feedback on clinical data for a Huntington…
Barclays' May 2026 state gaming revenue tracker indicates flat retail gross gaming revenue in New Jersey and a 1% year-over-year decline in Indiana. Across the states reported so far, retail GGR rose 2% year-over-year, or 1% on a same-store basis. Digital sports betting struggled, with handle roughly unchanged and online gross gaming revenue down 4…
Micron Technology shares moved higher in premarket trade after Deutsche Bank and Citi increased their price targets. Both firms attribute the revisions to an increasingly tight DRAM supply-demand balance that they expect to extend beyond 2026, lifting near-term earnings forecasts and projecting material price gains in 2026.
Hims & Hers Health Inc. traded slightly higher in pre-market action, keeping near $31.54 after attention around a Leerink Partners note that outlined how a July regulatory review could enable the telehealth company to enter peptide compounding. The company is being valued largely on regulatory optionality ahead of a July 23-24 Pharmacy Compounding …
The London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange have formalized an agreement to introduce an LME-listed contract that references the Chinese exchange's hot-rolled coil futures. Trading is scheduled to commence in October. The move reflects mutual aims: China to broaden its influence on global commodity pricing and the LME to expand trad…
Hexagon AB ser. B rose 4.8% to 84.08 SEK following a series of insider purchases totaling 55,000 shares valued at about 4.4 million SEK. The move came amid a cautiously positive session for European equities and a modest uptick in Sweden's OMXS30 index. Technical pressure on the stock since the Octave Intelligence spin-off in May 2026 has left the …
Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR) climbed in pre-market trading, supported by an approaching FDA PDUFA target date for its lead cell therapy Deramiocel and a broadly bullish analyst consensus. Elevated short interest and sector-specific investor flows into near-term catalysts are amplifying price moves even as major indexes show mixed performance.
Frontier, a coalition launched in 2022 with participation from major technology companies including Google and Stripe, announced an additional $915 million in funding for carbon removal technologies and added Anthropic as a new participant. The move raises total pledges to $1.8 billion and will steer capital toward ocean alkalinity enhancement, bio…
Shares of Smiths News PLC climbed sharply after the company announced a long-term distribution agreement with News UK & Ireland Ltd that will add an estimated £125 million in annual revenue from July 2027. The deal raises the firm's proportion of revenue under long-term contract to about 96%, a development investors viewed as de-risking given struc…
Snap shares plunged 9.6% after CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled SPECS, a self-contained augmented reality headset priced at $2,195 and presented as the next generation 'computer of the future.' Analysts questioned the device's bulk and price, calling it closer to a developer kit than a mainstream fashion accessory. The launch comes as Snap narrows its wor…
uniQure shares surged 67.5% in pre-market trading after the FDA, following a Type B meeting, agreed that three-year data from the company’s Phase I/II study of AMT-130 may serve as the primary basis for a Biologics License Application seeking accelerated approval for Huntington’s disease. The company plans a Q3 2026 BLA submission and the FDA said …
Leidos Holdings fell in pre-market trading after BofA Securities lowered its rating to Neutral and slashed the price target to $125 from $200, citing mounting pressure in the companys healthcare portfolio. The downgrade follows a recent cut from Jefferies and comes amid news that the Defense Health Agency plans to move away from Leidos as the lead…
T1 Energy advanced in pre-market trade after Bernstein SocGen Group initiated coverage with a Market Perform rating and a $9.00 price target. The research note highlighted the companys plans for a second domestic cell facility and flagged an ongoing patent infringement action tied to the companys TOPCon panel technology. The firm used probability…
UBS said a U.S.-Iran agreement that restores traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could ease energy supply constraints, lower input costs and improve earnings visibility for energy-dependent European firms. The bank highlighted several sectors that could benefit and noted regional market performance versus the U.S. amid the conflict-related disrupt…
OHB SE shares slid about 7.9% to €404 in today’s trading as investors digested a June 15, 2026 announcement of a roughly €500 million rights-based capital increase aimed mainly at institutional buyers and a concurrent plan by KKR to place a large portion of its roughly 29% stake. The moves would lift free float from about 6% to near 26%, creating a…
Citi raised price targets for Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA after revising its wafer fab equipment (WFE) model and rolling forward valuations to a calendar year 2028 earnings base. The bank now sees materially larger bull-case WFE spending through 2028 and points to structural NAND demand growth tied to agentic AI and constrained DRAM sup…
The London Metal Exchange has entered into an agreement with the Shanghai Futures Exchange to list a new cash-settled hot-rolled coil (HRC) steel futures contract on the LME, tied to the SHFE's monthly U.S. dollar HRC price. The contract is scheduled to begin trading in October 2026 and aims to provide market participants outside China with a direc…
