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Advanced Micro Devices shares slid roughly 5% in mid-day trading as investor anxiety tied to a proposed South Korean tax on AI-related profits combined with a stronger-than-expected U.S. CPI print to push money out of high-valuation chip names. The pullback hit other memory and chipmakers worldwide and coincided with positioning changes by several …
Wendy’s stock jumped sharply in mid-day trading after a report said Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management is exploring outside financing, including from Middle Eastern investors, for a possible bid to take the company private. Trian has not formally approached Wendy’s, and there is no certainty that financing talks will become a takeover offer. The …
The WIG30 index ended Tuesday's session down 1.84% as declines in the Construction, Basic Materials and Banking sectors weighed on the market. More issues fell than rose on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with several large-cap names posting notable moves. Oil climbed while gold retreated, and the zloty weakened against both the euro and the dollar.
Swedish buyout firm EQT AB is assembling financing with the Qatar Investment Authority and Porsche Automobil Holding SE to submit a binding offer for Volkswagen AG’s large marine engine business Everllence. The consortium is racing to meet an early-June deadline, competing with private equity suitors Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners for a unit…
Turkey's benchmark BIST 100 closed down 2.34% as losses clustered in the Telecoms, Leasing & Factoring and Banking sectors. While most stocks fell, selected names in logistics, retail and energy posted gains, and Margun Enerji reached an all-time high. Commodity and currency moves also accompanied the session.
Denmark's benchmark OMX Copenhagen 20 finished lower on Tuesday, slipping 0.16% as losses in energy, software and consumer-related names offset gains elsewhere. DSV Panalpina, Genmab and Coloplast were the session's leaders, while Oersted, Vestas and Zealand Pharma registered the largest declines. Commodity and currency moves included sharp gains i…
Raymond James downgraded GitLab from Outperform to Market Perform, citing heightened execution risk from an extensive internal reorganization that management frames as the company's 'second act.' Analysts pointed to simultaneous plans to rearchitect the platform and reduce headcount, worsening customer-addition and retention metrics, removal of a p…
Major U.S. banks that have access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI are uncovering large numbers of software and code vulnerabilities, prompting an industrywide push to accelerate patches and upgrades. The model is identifying chains of smaller weaknesses that, when combined, create high-risk attack vectors. Larger institutions are sharing findings with sma…
Options data show that Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) could see its share price move about 10% when it reports quarterly results on May 19 after the market close. Historical comparisons across the last eight earnings releases indicate a mixed record: four quarters produced price moves larger than options markets implied, while four stayed w…
Morocco's equity benchmark, the Moroccan All Shares, closed down 0.39% on Tuesday, pressured by losses in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors. Market breadth favored decliners, with 34 stocks falling, 17 advancing and 8 unchanged. SMI led gains with a substantial rise that took the stock to an all-time high, while several other names posted n…
Options pricing indicates Bilibili Inc. Class Z shares may move roughly 8% when the company releases quarterly results on May 19 before the market opens. Historical comparisons across the last eight earnings reports show several occasions where the actual stock moves exceeded or fell short of the options market's implied moves.
Options market activity indicates Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE:TOL) could experience a 4.7% share-price swing when it issues its earnings report on May 19 after the market close. Historical comparisons show the stock has frequently moved more than the options market implied in recent earnings cycles, with several instances of outsized actual moves.
Boeing recorded 135 net new orders in April, bringing its four-month adjusted bookings to 284 — the strongest start to a year since 2014. The planemaker delivered 47 jetliners in April, modestly higher than March, but still lags Airbus on year-to-date orders. Certification challenges for premium seats on the 787 and ongoing work on the 777X remain …
Options markets suggest Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) could move about 4.2% when it reports quarterly results, with the company slated to release earnings on May 19 before the market open. Historical comparisons show a mix of outcomes around past reports, with actual stock moves sometimes exceeding and sometimes falling short of the implied option mov…
The U.S. Justice Department has settled a fair lending probe with PayPal that stemmed from an investment program targeting black and minority-owned businesses. Under the agreement, PayPal will launch a new Small Business Initiative that excludes race, national origin, and other protected characteristics from eligibility criteria, and will waive pro…
Norway's main benchmark closed higher on Tuesday, with strength concentrated in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities sectors. The Oslo OBX climbed 0.56% at the close. Individual winners included Hoegh Autoliners, Aker BP and Var Energi, while DnB, Nordic Semiconductor and Storebrand were among the la…
Israel's main index closed modestly lower on Tuesday, with the TA 35 down 0.35% as declines in the Biomed, Technology and Real Estate sectors outpaced gains elsewhere. Market breadth favored decliners, and individual stock moves ranged from double-digit losses to mid-single-digit gains. Commodities and currency markets also moved: international cru…
Citi cut its Salesforce price target to $188 from $200 while keeping a Neutral rating, based on channel checks with three partners that signaled softer deal activity, heightened competition and limited uptake of Salesforce's AI platform. The bank now models weaker Tableau revenue and expects first-quarter results to be around or slightly below guid…
Greece's main stock index finished the session lower on Tuesday, with the Athens General Composite off 1.26% as losses in the Banking, Telecoms and Household sectors led the market downward. Declining issues outpaced advancing ones by a margin of 72 to 41, while 16 stocks were unchanged. Commodity moves were mixed, with oil rising and gold falling,…
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa told delegates at the Financial Times' Future of the Car conference in London that strategic partnerships will be central to the automaker's approach going forward. The company is reorganizing its European operations, boosting investment in North America and deepening ties with Chinese carmaker Leapmotor, while revivin…
Italian energy company Eni has engaged Morgan Stanley to approach investment firms including Apollo, KKR and Stonepeak about a potential financing arrangement secured by its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) units. The conversations are at an early stage with no guarantee of a deal, but one proposal under consideration could raise at least €1 b…
Fervo Energy Co.'s initial public offering has attracted demand exceeding supply by more than ten times ahead of its scheduled pricing on Tuesday. Management plans to give allocation priority to existing relationships, and the company has raised its offering size and price range while targeting a valuation as high as $7.37 billion. Shares are slate…
Lockheed Martin conducted a multi-location demonstration of its Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype during Balikatan 2026, integrating sensors, fires systems and airspace management through a single data platform. The exercise connected nodes in the Philippines with command centers in Hawaii and the continental United States to com…
Mizuho analysts examined PJM Interconnection's May 6 white paper outlining three reform pathways intended to respond to what the grid operator calls a 'credibility trap' - a cycle where government intervention after extreme scarcity price events weakens investment incentives. The bank judges the differential reliability model - Path B - as the most…
Tuesdays trading produced wide swings across market-cap segments. Several mega-cap technology and semiconductor names posted notable declines, led by Qualcomm and SanDisk, while individual companies from large-, mid- and small-cap cohorts registered double-digit gains on earnings beats, raised outlooks or other company-specific headlines. The sessi…
