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French equities closed lower on Wednesday, with the CAC 40 and SBF 120 each down 0.51%. Losses were concentrated in the Technology, Healthcare and Industrials sectors. Market breadth favored decliners, the CAC 40 VIX reached a new 52-week high, and a number of individual stocks recorded notable gains and declines.
Belgian stocks finished higher on Wednesday, with the BEL 20 index rising 0.60% at the close in Brussels. Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Telecoms were among the sectors driving the advance. Lotus Bakeries led gains and reached a 52-week high, while several materials and utility names lagged. Commodities and currency markets showed notable mo…
The Investing.com United Kingdom 100 ended the session 0.17% higher on Wednesday, led by advances in the Industrial Transportation, Food & Drug Retailers and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) sectors. Flutter Entertainment, Frasers Group and Entain were among the top gainers, while Vistry Group, Experian and Mondi were the biggest decliners…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 closed modestly lower, with declines led by the Building & Construction, Consumer Goods and Consumer Services sectors. Energy heavyweight Repsol was among the session's gainers, while Acciona and several renewable names underperformed. Commodity prices moved unevenly, with crude oil rising and gold futures falling, as majo…
Portugal's benchmark PSI closed lower on Wednesday, slipping 0.06% to a one-month low as losses in the Utilities, Technology and Financials sectors outweighed gains in select names. Market breadth was narrow, with 15 stocks rising, 12 falling and 3 unchanged. Commodity markets saw crude benchmarks firm while gold futures moved sharply lower.
TensorWave closed a $350 million Series B that sets its post-money valuation at $1.55 billion, led by Advanced Micro Devices and Magnetar Capital. The Las Vegas-based cloud-computing startup uses only AMD hardware and software, rejecting Nvidia products, and intends to deploy the new proceeds to install more AMD chips in data centers. The financing…
Sweden's equity benchmark, the OMX Stockholm 30, ended Wednesday's session down 0.53% as losses in Basic Materials, Industrials and Consumer Goods pressured the market. While gaming and telecom names climbed, heavyweight industrials and materials stocks registered notable declines. Commodity prices and currency moves added volatility to the session…
Finnish equities closed lower on Wednesday, with the OMX Helsinki 25 down 1.52% as losses in Industrials, Basic Materials and Healthcare outweighed gains in select large-cap names. Wartsila and Kemira were among the heaviest decliners, while Neste, Elisa and Kesko posted modest advances. Commodity markets were mixed, with Brent and U.S. crude risin…
Options trading in DraftKings Inc. (DKNG) totaled 97,174 contracts at 11:21 a.m. New York time on Wednesday, driven largely by call activity. Exchange data compiled by Bloomberg shows 79,537 call contracts and 17,637 put contracts traded, with notable concentration in several June and mid-2026 strikes as well as a split block in January 2027 option…
Poland's benchmark WIG30 index ended the session down 1.01% as losses in the Basic Materials, Chemicals and Construction sectors pressured the market. Breadth was tilted to the downside, with more than 300 decliners. Key commodity prices and currency pairs also moved: crude and Brent oil rose while gold futures dropped, and the zloty weakened modes…
Morgan Stanley advised investors to take a selective stance on U.S. midstream infrastructure stocks, citing attractive upside across its coverage but pressing valuation and growth-visibility concerns for specific names. The firm highlighted Targa Resources and Williams Companies as preferred holdings, downgraded TC Energy and Hess Midstream, and up…
Shares of China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE: CYD) fell after a short-seller report questioned the sustainability of the company’s recent earnings and revenue expansion. J Capital Research highlighted divergent growth versus the broader Chinese truck market, flagged accounting and financing characteristics, and raised corporate governance con…
Cerebras Systems stock climbed sharply in morning trade, buoyed by a fresh round of analyst coverage including Craig-Hallum and a cluster of major brokerages that initiated Buy ratings after the company’s post-IPO quiet period ended. The momentum is reinforced by recent partnerships with OpenAI and Amazon and the company’s upcoming first quarterly …
Neura Robotics announced a Series C financing round of up to $1.4 billion with participation from a mix of technology, industrial and financial investors. The funds are earmarked to accelerate global deployment of cognitive robots and humanoids, grow the company's shared intelligence platform - the Neuraverse - and build large-scale training facili…
Turkey's equity gauge, the BIST 100, finished slightly higher at the close on Wednesday as advances in Technology, Leasing & Factoring and Information Technology sectors supported the market. Gains were concentrated in a few names, with Europower Enerji and Grainturk among the top performers, while several energy and holding companies recorded nota…
Danish equities finished the trading day higher, led by gains in Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Industrials. The OMX Copenhagen 20 climbed 1.84% as AP Moeller - Maersk shares and Novo Nordisk B posted the largest advances. Market breadth was mixed, with slightly more decliners than advancers, while oil prices edged up and gold futures fell signific…
North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner said his office will not purchase shares in SpaceX's IPO because the company's multitrillion-dollar valuation makes a direct private allocation unattractive for the state pension, which manages about $200 billion for public employees. The fund has taken stakes in AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, but will rel…
Hubbell stock slid after the company completed its $3.0 billion cash purchase of NSI Industries, as market attention shifted to the sizable debt used to fund the deal. The financing mix - a $900 million unsecured term loan, $1.9 billion of senior notes in multiple tranches and commercial paper - has heightened investor sensitivity given a rising-ra…
Clover Health Investments Corp shares rose sharply in morning trading after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recalculated the company’s 2026 Medicare star rating to 4.5 stars from 3.5 following a federal court ruling. The upgrade, which applies to Contract H5141 and covers more than 97% of Clover’s members, will directly affect payment …
AWS has made its Graviton5 processor generally available for all customers, positioning the 192-core chip to accelerate agentic AI workloads with up to 25% better compute versus the previous generation. New EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, previewed at re:Invent 2025, are now accessible through standard adoption paths and include higher memory, storage …
3M shares rose after CEO Bill Brown told investors the company's turnaround plan is gaining traction, citing a 14% rise in first-quarter EPS, margin expansion, double-digit free cash flow growth and stronger orders and backlog. Management flagged continued organic growth in the current quarter, a validating hyperscaler order for optical fiber inter…
Moroccan equities closed lower on Wednesday, with the Moroccan All Shares index falling 1.96% in Casablanca. Losses were led by the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors. Decliners outnumbered advancers by 47 to 11, with one security unchanged. Top gainers included M2M Group, Med Paper and Colorado, while Managem, SMI and Alliances were the biggest…
Mercedes-Benz has signed a memorandum of understanding with Munich startup Tytan Technologies to develop a mobile system that intercepts small first-person-view (FPV) drones considered threats to airports and other critical infrastructure. The agreement, announced at the ILA aviation conference in Berlin, will see Mercedes supply vehicle platforms …
Bloom Energy shares fell 6.0% in morning trading after construction on a 1.8 GW data center tied to its fuel cell pipeline was paused. The project pause - associated with Crusoe Energy and co-developed with Tallgrass Energy for an undisclosed hyperscaler - threatens a portion of Bloom’s conditional supply tied to an AEP Energy power purchase arrang…
Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) climbed sharply in morning trade, reversing part of a steep one-day selloff across the optical communications and data-center networking group. Investor concern had been sparked by a research note predicting delays to 800VDC power architecture and co-packaged optics rollout timelines. Support from a Raymond James anal…
