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Deutsche Boerse AG shares climbed sharply after the company disclosed that British hedge fund TCI increased its holding, prompting a welcome response from the exchange and drawing analyst attention to the timing of its Allfunds takeover review. The move coincides with the company’s dividend payment and follows Q1 results that showed revenue and EBI…
Adeia Inc. (NASDAQ: ADEA) saw its shares decline 6.6% in premarket trading Monday following the sale of 99,342 shares by Chief Legal Officer Kevin Tanji. The transaction, disclosed in a Form 4 filing, showed a weighted average sale price of $31.75 on May 13. Tanji retained 312,913 shares after the sale. The filing did not state a reason and the com…
The Tadawul All Share Index closed lower on Monday, ending the session down 0.11% as losses in the Transport, Agriculture & Food and Hotels & Tourism sectors exerted downward pressure. Market breadth was negative with falling issues outnumbering advancers. AFG International and Thimar Development posted significant declines, while Tabuk Agr…
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:HIVE) saw its stock jump 33.1% in premarket trading as its subsidiary, BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc., closed on roughly 25 acres in the Greater Toronto Area to build a 320 megawatt AI gigafactory. The site acquisition and power allocation underpin a planned development designed to host more than 100,000 …
York Space Systems said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALL.SPACE, a maker of multi-network satellite communications terminals. The announcement sent York shares up 8.1% in premarket trading. ALL.SPACE will become a wholly owned subsidiary on closing, and its Hydra Terminal family will bring multi-orbit connectivity across LEO, MEO,…
Citigroup forecasts the server CPU market will reach roughly $132 billion by 2030, driven chiefly by rapid adoption of agentic CPUs. The bank expects general purpose and AI head node CPUs to expand as well, and projects Intel will hold a 47% share of the market by 2030 with AMD at 34% and Arm and others at 19%. Citigroup raised price targets on Int…
U.S. equity futures opened lower on Monday as a worsening global bond sell-off and firmer oil prices put pressure on markets. By 08:10 ET (12:10 GMT) Dow futures fell 163 points (0.3%), S&P 500 futures eased 11 points (0.2%) and Nasdaq 100 futures were largely unchanged. Individual stocks moved sharply in response to stake filings, merger discussio…
Bitcoin Depot Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and said it will wind down operations and sell assets. The company has taken its entire Bitcoin ATM network offline. CEO Alex Holmes cited escalating regulatory requirements, litigation and enforcement as drivers that rendered the …
LiveRamp jumped in pre-market trading after Publicis Groupe announced a definitive all-cash acquisition at $38.50 per share. The deal values LiveRamp at $2.167 billion on an enterprise basis and $2.546 billion of equity including $379 million in net cash, and follows a strong fiscal 2026 close for LiveRamp.
Ford Motor's energy subsidiary has reached a five-year contract to provide up to 20 gigawatt-hours of battery storage capacity to renewable developer EDF, with deliveries slated to start in 2028. The arrangement permits EDF to buy as much as 4 GWh of DC Block battery energy storage systems per year. Ford shares rose roughly 3.6% in premarket tradin…
Lululemon Athletica halted efforts to resolve a proxy contest with founder Chip Wilson after what the company described as escalating demands in a counterproposal. The company delayed filing its definitive proxy statement while pursuing a settlement but says Wilson sought immediate board appointments and regular meetings with the new CEO, terms it …
Ford Motor's energy division has agreed to supply renewable developer EDF with up to 20 gigawatt-hours of battery energy storage over five years. Under the contract, EDF may purchase as much as 4 GWh of DC block battery energy storage systems from Ford Energy each year, with deliveries slated to begin in 2028. The move follows Ford's strategic shif…
Meta Platforms will begin layoffs of approximately 8,000 employees this week, equal to roughly 10% of its workforce, and has canceled plans to hire for 6,000 open positions. The reductions coincide with a sizable increase in AI-related capital spending, including a 2026 capex guide raised by up to $10 billion to as much as $145 billion. Executives …
Wolfe Research economist Stephanie Roth has grown more cautious on risk assets, citing a widening mismatch between rising bond yields and resilient equity prices. The firm has postponed its view on Federal Reserve rate cuts to the second half of 2027 and lays out three scenarios that could bring yields down - each with limited benefit for risk asse…
Jefferies began coverage of Mobileye Global Inc. at an underperform rating with a $8 price target, signaling roughly 24% downside from the prior close of $10.53. Using a sum-of-the-parts approach and a blended 2027 EV/sales multiple of 1.9 times across product lines, the firm derived an $8 per share valuation based on 816 million shares and an equi…
Goldman Sachs' tariff impact tracker shows a modest weekly pullback in U.S. imports from China but continued year-over-year expansion. Key logistics metrics diverged: vessel volumes fell week-over-week while year-over-year comparisons stayed positive; port forecasts point to a near-term drop followed by a rebound; rail and trucking trends show mixe…
Nvidia will report first-quarter results after the close on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore expects a continued beat-and-raise cadence, boosting near-term revenue and earnings forecasts and raising longer-term targets tied to the company’s AI architectures and datacenter demand. Key areas to watch include guidance, margins amid a Rub…
A high Relative Strength Index reading on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) has triggered a technical warning that, historically, has often been followed by sizable declines. BTIG technical strategist Jonathan Krinsky highlights a pattern since 2023 in which majority of comparable RSI events led to at least 7% peak-to-trough drops. The signal appear…
BofA Securities initiated coverage of ServiceNow with a Buy rating and a $130 price target, arguing the company is well positioned to profit from AI-driven changes in enterprise software rather than be displaced. The firm pointed to ServiceNow's role in governing and auditing workflows, recent security and identity-focused acquisitions, and product…
Barclays' analysis of China's April indicators shows a pronounced deceleration across key demand and production measures. Retail sales grew only 0.2% year-over-year, industrial production eased to 4.1% and fixed-asset investment fell 1.6%, all missing consensus forecasts. Property investment and household borrowing displayed notable declines, while…
Bank of America analysts have raised their 2027 capital expenditure forecast for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to $75 billion, up from a prior estimate of $63 billion and above the street consensus of $65 billion. The revision follows board approval of NT$31 billion in capital appropriations, with a larger share directed to adva…
Bank of America reinstated coverage of Salesforce with an Underperform rating and a $160 price target, arguing that the company faces a structural reset driven by artificial intelligence rather than a short-term cyclical setback. The bank highlights three core structural concerns: constrained net new customer additions, softer upsell dynamics, and …
RBC Capital has established a 12-month fair value for the S&P 500 at 7,900, implying about 7.7% upside from early May levels. The firm cautions that market advances will not be linear and that interim pullbacks of roughly 5%-10% are plausible. A sharper decline of 14%-20% is considered unlikely unless recession risks re-emerge. The forecast is buil…
May 18 - NextEra Energy has reached an agreement to acquire Dominion Energy for $66.8 billion. The deal would form the largest electric utility in the United States and gives NextEra direct access to Dominion’s footprint in the PJM Interconnection region, including Northern Virginia’s dense data-center market. Dominion’s portfolio includes nearly 5…
A wave of overseas acquisition proposals has propelled UK merger and acquisition activity to $192 billion so far in 2026, more than triple the amount recorded at this point in 2025. Foreign takeovers - particularly from U.S. bidders - are the dominant force behind the surge, with several high-value offers for household and listed financial names co…
