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JPMorgan upgraded its recommendation on emerging-market currencies to overweight for the second half of the year, favoring higher-yielding units and those with central banks positioned to hike rates as growth and inflation pick up. The bank rotated regional positions toward Latin America and EMEA, turned positive on the Czech koruna and South Afric…
Marvell Technology's stock is climbing in pre-market trading after S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed the company's addition to the S&P 500, capping a sequence of positive catalysts that includes robust fiscal results, bullish guidance, a high-profile endorsement from Nvidia, and strength across the semiconductor sector.
Micron Technology rallied in pre-market trading, rising 4.4% as a renewed AI memory investment cycle and validation from Nvidia-related developments bolstered investor sentiment. Multiple brokerages sharply raised price targets and earnings estimates, while chip peers also climbed amid a modestly positive market backdrop. The move comes ahead of Mi…
Syntec Optics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:OPTX) said Tuesday it received a $4.6 million purchase order for the manufacture of laser blood-test cartridges and optical reader subsystems used in clinical laboratories and hospitals. Shares rose 4.3% in premarket trading. The order supports continued production of disposable point-of-care cartridges that measu…
FIFA has appointed Kraken as the Official Cryptocurrency Exchange Sponsor for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The agreement centers on fan activations and experiences across the tournament's 16 host cities in Mexico, Canada and the United States, and will begin with a multi-country Countdown Concert on June 10 ahead of the opening match.
Saudi Arabia's stock market closed higher on Tuesday, with the Tadawul All Share index gaining 1.30%. Strength in Energy & Utilities, Media & Publishing and Insurance sectors powered the advance, while several petrochemical, industrial and trading companies registered notable declines. Market breadth favored winners and commodity prices were mixed,…
Novanta Inc. announced a $300 million private placement and an agreement to acquire Riverpoint Medical for $1.2 billion plus a $250 million milestone, triggering a 6.3% premarket share decline. The company expects the deal to be immediately accretive to adjusted diluted EPS in 2026 and to roughly double recurring medical consumables revenue, while …
Fevertree Drinks PLC shares rose sharply after the company held its Annual General Meeting and issued a pre-AGM trading update while announcing an extension to its share buyback programme. Positive operational commentary on market share and management's comfort with full-year expectations, combined with the buyback signal, sparked buying that pushe…
Wolfe Research says the impending SpaceX public listing has intensified investor talk of a possible SpaceX-Tesla combination, driven by governance consolidation, AI synergies and expanded capital access. The firm cautions major obstacles remain and that any deal is unlikely before mid-2027, while noting Tesla must demonstrate progress on robotaxi a…
Cartesian Therapeutics saw premarket gains after announcing a strategic licensing agreement with WestGene Biopharma to develop an in vivo CAR-T approach using WestGene’s targeted lipid nanoparticles to deliver Cartesian’s Descartes-08 mRNA payload. The collaboration sets up a Phase 1 dose-escalation study in generalized myasthenia gravis expected t…
Sri Lankan stocks ended a six-session losing streak on Tuesday with the CSE All-Share index rising 0.67% to close at 21,547.17. The advance was the market's first in seven sessions after a 4.4% fall over the prior six trading days, with gains spread across multiple sectors. Agalawatte Plantations and Colombo Fort Investments led individual stock mo…
Qtrex Quantum Ltd (NASDAQ:QTEX) saw its shares rise about 22% in premarket trading after the company said it received an approximately $1 million grant from the Israel Innovation Authority. The award will fund work on a dielectric material intended to enable high-density, low-loss RF signal routing within scalable superconducting quantum computing …
J.M. Smucker reported a quarterly performance that beat analyst expectations and issued a full-year adjusted earnings outlook that surpasses the street consensus. The maker of Folgers credited resilient demand for at-home dining and higher pricing - notably in its U.S. retail coffee segment - for the outperformance, while cautioning that sales for …
Morgan Stanley said that a significant portion of Apple’s active iPhone base will be unable to take advantage of the company’s revamped Siri and Apple Intelligence features because older devices lack the necessary chip architecture and memory. The firm highlighted that more than 850 million iPhones cannot handle basic Apple Intelligence queries and…
Orlando Bravo, founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, told CNBC that fears of an AI-driven collapse in software stocks - dubbed the 'SaaSpocalypse' - are over. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Bravo called AI an "enormous tailwind" for software companies, saying roughly half of new revenue at his firm comes from…
Nebius Group NV shares rose in pre-market trading after the firm announced a £1.7 billion investment to develop AI infrastructure across four UK locations using NVIDIA’s newest systems, a long-term capacity deal with Kao Data, and an expanded London AI and commercial hub. Bank of America also raised its price target on NBIS, contributing to the pos…
Reddit Inc. stock rose in premarket trading following favorable commentary from a Midwest boutique research firm and encouraging ad-spend data. Strength across several digital ad platforms, analyst upgrades to estimates, and Reddit's high-margin economics helped fuel optimism, even as the shares remain below their year-to-date level.
Redwire Corporation said it has entered an equity distribution agreement dated June 9 that permits the company to sell up to $500 million of common stock through at-the-market offerings. The announcement coincided with a roughly 7% decline in the company's share price on Tuesday. The program names 11 financial institutions as agents, allows a varie…
Sirius XM Holding Inc. jumped in pre-market trading after S&P Dow Jones Indices said the company will join the S&P MidCap 400 prior to the open on June 11, replacing Masimo Corp. The inclusion - triggered by Danaher Corp.'s pending acquisition of Masimo - creates a near-term buying imperative for passive funds and ETFs tied to the benchmark. The mo…
U.S. equity futures were higher in early trading as optimism around artificial intelligence stocks steadied and tensions in the Middle East eased. By 05:10 ET (09:10 GMT), Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures were all up. Several notable premarket movers included strength in chipmakers, a large takeover bid for a cancer drug developer, and mixed rea…
Samsung Electronics is assessing a proposal to construct a state-of-the-art semiconductor packaging plant in Gwangju, a city in South Korea's southwest, sources with knowledge of the matter said. The investment could be announced during a June 29 meeting at the presidential office between President Lee Jae Myung and executives from the nation's lar…
Samsung Electronics is reported to be considering construction of a semiconductor advanced packaging facility in Gwangju, South Korea, with an investment plan expected to be disclosed at a June 29 meeting between the president and corporate leaders. The move would reinforce Samsung's push into high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced packaging as d…
Bper Banca shares climbed 4.3% after Kepler Cheuvreux raised its rating to buy and lifted its 12-month price target to €13.80. The broker quantified roughly €0.50 per share in potential value creation and about 10% EPS accretion by 2028 tied to a possible Monte dei Paschi di Siena perimeter acquisition via Unipol, and flagged an August 6 business-p…
FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) rallied 10% after Canaccord analyst George Gianarikas upgraded the stock from Hold to Buy and raised the price target to $30 from $12. The analyst's change reflects growing confidence that the company will land a data center contract before the end of the fiscal year, a development he views as a potential strategic an…
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the company has not seen airlines seek to cancel or delay jet orders despite recent operational and geopolitical pressures. He highlighted improvements in the supply chain but flagged potential shortfalls tied to engine deliveries from Pratt & Whitney and criticized European regulatory hurdles. Airbus remains on trac…
