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Canadian equities closed lower on Friday, with the S&P/TSX Composite dropping 1.27% amid sector weakness in Materials, Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary. Bird Construction, Strathcona Resources and Stantec were the session's top performers, while Curaleaf, Wesdome Gold Mines and Taseko Mines recorded the largest declines. Market breadth favored…
Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index ended the session down 0.61% as losses concentrated in the Public Utilities, Basic Materials and Real Estate sectors. Market breadth favored decliners, while select equities saw significant intraday moves. Commodities and currency pairs also registered notable shifts during the trading day.
Micware Co., Ltd. (MWC) closed an upsized initial public offering of 2,850,000 American Depositary Shares (ADSs) at $8.00 per share on May 15, 2026, bringing in gross proceeds of $22.8 million before underwriting fees and expenses. The company's ADSs began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on May 14, 2026. Proceeds are intended to support the Dyn…
OpenAI has rolled out a preview of a personal finance experience for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States, enabling secure account linking to provide context-aware spending and investment insights. The feature uses the new GPT-5.5 Thinking model, integrates with Plaid to connect to more than 12,000 institutions, and stores user-provided det…
GSR V Acquisition Corp. completed its initial public offering on May 15, 2026, raising $230 million through the sale of 23 million units at $10 per unit, including full exercise of the underwriter’s overallotment option. Units began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol GSRVU on May 14, 2026. The company is a Cayman Islands-formed blank check entity s…
Cerebras Systems Inc. completed an initial public offering that sold 34.5 million Class A common shares at $185 apiece, producing roughly $6.38 billion in gross proceeds before fees and expenses. The offering included the full exercise of underwriters' option to purchase an additional 4.5 million shares. Cerebras began trading on the Nasdaq Global …
U.S. approval for Nvidia to supply H200 GPUs to roughly 10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance, opens the door to incremental revenue in calendar year 2027, according to Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management. While the clearance could produce mid-single-digit upside to CY27 revenue under base assumptions and higher in …
Exxon Mobil has publicly rebuked Institutional Shareholder Services for advising investors to oppose the company's proposal to move its legal domicile to Texas. Exxon charged ISS with using a faulty analysis and failing to disclose a conflict tied to ongoing litigation with the Texas Attorney General, and pushed back against ISS commentary on poten…
Amgen Inc. shares fell 2.1% following a safety advisory from Kissei Pharmaceutical related to Tavneos (avacopan), a medicine Amgen acquired through its purchase of Horizon Therapeutics. Kissei reported multiple fatal cases and is advising clinicians in Japan to stop initiating the drug and reassess ongoing treatment as regulators in the U.S. and Eu…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is actively monitoring Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and is providing technical assistance to both governments, the agency's acting director said. CDC officials are working through existing country offices to coordinate with local health authorities as they track a…
Geo Group Inc. shares declined 1% following publication of a California Department of Justice report that found deteriorating conditions across immigrant detention facilities in the state. The 169-page review, covering all seven facilities active in 2025, highlighted a sharp rise in detainee populations, shortfalls in medical care, and multiple dea…
The Federal Aviation Administration has revised its target for the number of air traffic controllers downward to 12,563 from 14,633, citing a need to modernize scheduling and improve workforce efficiency. The move follows a sharp rise in overtime hours and costs, with the FAA planning to deploy updated staffing models and workforce management syste…
Evercore ISI has begun coverage of The J. M. Smucker Company with an Outperform rating and a $117 price target, representing about 17% upside from current levels. The firm cites a mix of earnings growth potential, improving coffee margins, and more than $200 million of productivity and cost-savings opportunities as key supports for its bullish view…
A Reuters analysis of 13F regulatory filings through March 31 finds that institutional investors, collectively, expanded positions in a group of publicly traded private credit funds during the first quarter of the year even as returns from private credit strategies softened and retail-focused vehicles remained available to individual investors. The…
Loop Capital initiated coverage of Vertiv Holdings Co with a Buy rating and a $500 price target, arguing the company is uniquely positioned to capture a surge in spending on AI data center infrastructure. The research note projects a sharp rise in demand for power delivery and cooling solutions as hyperscalers and enterprises scale AI deployments, …
SpaceX has accelerated plans for its initial public offering, setting a potential price date of June 11 and choosing Nasdaq for its listing. Insiders say the company aims to publish its prospectus soon, run a roadshow beginning June 4, and could see a market debut as early as June 12, after a faster-than-expected SEC review helped speed the process…
Options trading in FirstEnergy Corp. rose to 6,583 contracts by 2:20 p.m. New York time on Friday, with call options representing the overwhelming majority of activity. The January 15, 2027 $55 call was the single most traded strike, and significant open interest was noted in two call strikes. FirstEnergy shares fell 1.46% to $43.85 during the same…
Trading in options tied to Uranium Energy Corp. climbed to 33,059 contracts as of 2:20 p.m. New York time on Friday. Call activity outpaced puts, with 21,929 calls and 11,130 puts changing hands. Several individual strikes and multi-leg diagonal spreads accounted for large portions of the volume, while open interest across those strikes varied sign…
Options volume in Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) surged to 12,288 contracts by 2:10 p.m. New York time on Friday, led almost entirely by calls. Two June 18, 2026 call strikes made up the majority of volume while the stock rose 3.65% to $69.51. Open interest figures cited are as of May 14 and may not capture the full picture of positions established…
SpaceX has moved up the timetable for its long-awaited initial public offering, targeting a pricing date as early as June 11 and selecting Nasdaq as the intended listing venue. The company plans to make its prospectus public imminently, launch a roadshow in early June and could begin trading as early as June 12, according to people familiar with th…
Shareholders of Commerce.com Inc (CMRC) signaled notable discontent at the company's annual meeting, withholding a sizable portion of votes from two directors amid backlash over a newly adopted poison pill and the board's handling of an unsolicited acquisition approach from Rezolve Ai Ltd (RZLV). Rezolve contends Commerce.com has lost most of its v…
U.S. Treasury yields climbed sharply on Friday amid a worldwide sell-off in government bonds, driven by fears that surging oil prices tied to the Middle East conflict will boost inflation and force central banks to raise interest rates. The 10-year Treasury rose to its highest level in nearly a year, while the 30-year jumped above 5% for the first …
RBC Capital Markets upgraded Texas Roadhouse to Outperform from Sector Perform and increased its price target to $210, pointing to moderating beef inflation and resilient customer traffic as the principal supports for future margin expansion. The brokerage noted the company trimmed its commodity inflation outlook to 6-7% and highlighted gains in ta…
U.S. indexes paused after a recent rally as investors absorbed macroeconomic and geopolitical developments. Several technology-related names stood out this week: Nvidia extended gains amid high-level attention and an analyst price-target increase; Cerebras debuted and swung from a big open to lower levels; Cisco jumped after strong results and guid…
Nu Holdings Ltd shares fell nearly 5% in afternoon trading after the company reported first-quarter 2026 results that beat on revenue but missed on bottom-line metrics. Management attributed the earnings shortfall to higher credit provisions tied to seasonal factors and portfolio growth, while flagging elevated near-term costs as 2026 is positioned…
