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Fiserv Inc. shares fell about 7% after CEO Mike Lyons announced he is leaving to assume the CEO role at Truist Financial Corporation. The payments and financial-technology firm appointed Takis Georgakopoulos as CEO effective immediately. Fiserv also reaffirmed its full-year 2026 outlook, maintaining expectations for modest organic revenue growth an…
American Express announced a proposed $700 million cash acquisition of TheFork from Tripadvisor, aiming to broaden its dining services across Europe. TheFork’s reservation and restaurant management platform, active in 11 European countries and listing more than 50,000 restaurants, would combine with Resy and Tock to bring the company’s bookable ven…
Nvidia Corp. is preparing an investment-grade bond offering intended to raise a minimum of $20 billion. The sale spans seven maturities between two and 30 years, with the longest-dated tranche marketed around 0.9 percentage points over Treasuries. Proceeds are slated for general corporate purposes, including repayment and refinancing of existing no…
JPMorgan sees the recent weakness among the Magnificent Seven as a temporary, position-driven correction rather than a sign of a fundamental shift. The bank recommends adding to Mag-7 allocations after March, while cautioning that extreme concentration and record-low market breadth leave room for additional drawdowns. It expects cyclicals and Europ…
American Express has agreed to buy restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in a $700 million all-cash transaction. The deal, expected to close before the end of 2026, expands AmEx’s dining footprint to 75,000 bookable venues, complements prior purchases of Resy and Tock, and follows shareholder pressure on Tripadvisor to divest the ass…
Truist Securities moved Datadog to a Buy rating from Hold and raised its price target to $300 from $190 after on-the-ground research at Datadog’s DASH conference and other industry gatherings. Analyst Miller Jump cited continued enterprise urgency to adopt AI over immediate cost optimization and noted improved stability in relationships with fronti…
Strategy Inc. sold 1,732,553 shares under its at-the-market (ATM) offering last week, generating $209.0 million in net proceeds. The company used the proceeds to acquire 1,587 bitcoin between June 8 and June 14, spending $100.0 million including fees at an average price of $63,024 per bitcoin. Strategy now holds 846,842 bitcoin purchased for a tota…
Futures tied to Canada’s main equity gauge rose Monday, supported by a jump in gold prices after Pakistan said the United States and Iran reached a preliminary agreement to halt hostilities. The Canadian benchmark's futures gained, U.S. futures rose following tech-led rallies overseas, and markets responded to signs that the conflict may de-escalat…
Nuvei has agreed to buy Payoneer in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $2.75 billion, paying $7.40 per share. The acquisition, which carries a roughly 44% premium to Payoneer’s June 8 closing price, is expected to close in mid-2027 pending shareholder and regulatory approvals and is projected to create a combined business with around $3 bi…
Australia’s securities exchange has conceded it made misleading statements about the status of a delayed Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) upgrade and has agreed to pay a A$20.5 million penalty, subject to Federal Court approval. The corporate regulator had sued the exchange over statements made in 2022, citing internal records t…
Jefferies says easing conflict in the Middle East should gradually bring down energy prices and create more favorable marketing conditions for Indian oil marketing companies. The broker notes that marketing losses on petrol and diesel at Spot Brent have narrowed, Singapore refining margins remain elevated, and damaged refining capacity since the co…
Goldman Sachs reduced its rating on DWS Group from neutral to sell and trimmed the 12-month price target to €57 from €65. The bank pointed to a stretched valuation - roughly at the 90th percentile of DWS’s historical forward P/E range - and early signs of weakening across the asset manager’s core growth engines, including passive flows, active equi…
Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day opened to $93.9 million globally over the June 12-14 weekend, comfortably above pre-release forecasts. The film's strong debut - including a $44 million domestic opening from 3,824 theaters and $48.8 million internationally across 73 markets - provides a positive short-term data point for Comcast, which distributes…
Shares of major U.S. carriers and cruise operators jumped Monday after a preliminary agreement between Washington and Tehran to end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deal coincided with crude oil sliding more than 5% to its lowest level since March, easing fuel-cost worries that weigh on travel company margins.
Datadog shares jumped in pre-market trading after Truist Securities upgraded the stock to Buy and raised its price target to $300, citing strong fieldwork showing enterprise urgency around AI. BMO Capital also increased its target, and the company’s robust first-quarter 2026 results and updated guidance reinforced the bullish analyst momentum.
Pattern Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PTRN) shares fell 7% on Monday following the announcement that an affiliate of pre-IPO investor Knox Lane LP plans to sell 8,000,000 shares of Series A common stock in a proposed secondary offering. Pattern will not receive any proceeds from the transaction; underwriters have a 30-day option to buy up to an additional 1,…
Elicio Therapeutics' stock dropped sharply after its Phase 2 AMPLIFY-7P trial of ELI-002 7P in adjuvant pancreatic cancer failed to achieve the primary endpoint of disease-free survival in the intent-to-treat population. The company reported baseline imbalances between arms, post-hoc benefit in the R0 resected subset, immune-response correlations w…
DPC Holdings Limited, trading as Doncasters, filed for an initial public offering in the United States to raise up to $747 million by selling 33,333,333 shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The proposed price range is $28 to $32 per share, which would value the company at more than $3.7 billion at the high end. The aerospace components maker repo…
U.S. equities climbed on Friday following a strong initial public offering for SpaceX’s rocket unit and hopes of a diplomatic truce between the U.S. and Iran, pushing the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow higher. Attention now shifts to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week - the first under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh - where policy guidance and upd…
Fox Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Roku Inc. in a transaction that values Roku at about $22 billion in enterprise value. The deal, structured as a mix of cash and Fox Class A shares, will pay $160.00 per Roku share, including $96.00 in cash and 0.9693 Fox shares per Roku share. The combination joins Fox’s live sports and news portfolio w…
UBS changed its recommendation on Soitec from "neutral" to "sell," while setting a new €85 price target and sharply reducing its fiscal 2027 gross margin forecast to 19.4% from 30%. The bank warns that the market may be overestimating Soitec's ability to match the growth of downstream silicon photonics customers and highlights inventory destocking …
U.S. index futures climbed sharply after Washington and Tehran confirmed a preliminary peace deal that could reopen critical Middle Eastern shipping lanes. The Nasdaq 100 led gains, with Micron, Nebius and several crypto-exposed stocks posting notable premarket moves. Traws Pharma plunged after a negative regulatory review forced a trial postponeme…
Tripadvisor has reached an agreement to sell its European restaurant booking platform TheFork to American Express in an all-cash transaction valued at $700 million. Shares of Tripadvisor jumped about 14% on the news. The company said the sale will allow it to sharpen focus on its Experiences strategy and could support capital returns, balance-sheet…
Retail participants in the SpaceX initial public offering confronted steeper restrictions on so-called flipping than large institutional buyers. Broker platforms set 15- to 30-day hold windows and punishments ranging from temporary suspensions to permanent bans for accounts that sell too soon, while some large asset managers and hedge funds have lo…
Shipping firms in Asia and Europe welcomed a U.S.-Iran framework to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but say confidence will take weeks to rebuild. Industry groups and carriers want clear evidence of safety, including mine clearance and normalized insurance, before vessels return to regular routing. Limited transit was visible on Monday, while global oi…
