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Entergy Corporation priced a follow-on equity placement of about 19.25 million shares at $113 each, raising roughly $2.175 billion via two-year forward sales agreements with major bookrunners. The stock fell about 3.6% in pre-market trading following the announcement. Net proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes, including repayment of…
Blue Owl Capital Inc shares ticked up modestly in premarket trading following a media report that Stack Infrastructure Inc., the data center business owned by Blue Owl, is weighing a sale of its Asia operations. The discussions are described as preliminary and could involve a partial or full disposal of assets across Australia, Japan and Malaysia, …
A batch of Form 4 filings made public on Tuesday shows meaningful insider action across several U.S. listed companies. Notable buys included director purchases at Avantor, Ecolab and First Busey, while outsized disposals were reported by executives at Regency Centers, Micron Technology, Amphenol, FTAI Aviation and a large block sold by Berkshire Ha…
A CMA CGM container vessel was hit while passing through the Strait of Hormuz, wounding crew and damaging the ship, the French carrier said. The incident took place amid a wider U.S.-Iran conflict that has left maritime traffic in the waterway largely suspended and disrupted a sizable share of global oil movements.
Microsoft is evaluating whether to postpone or drop its 2030 objective to match 100% of its hourly electricity use with zero-carbon purchases, according to people familiar with internal discussions. The 100/100/0 commitment, announced in 2021, sought hour-by-hour matching from the same grids the company draws power from - a step beyond the annual r…
EBRO plans to produce between 25,000 and 30,000 vehicles in Barcelona this year, potentially about twice last year’s volume, and expects to be profitable after a 16.3 million euro net loss in the prior year. The company, which resumed activity in 2024 after a long hiatus, owns 60% of a joint venture with Chery that will use a former Nissan plant; C…
Saudi Arabia's stock market closed lower Wednesday, with the Tadawul All Share index falling 0.52% to a one-month low. Losses in Petrochemicals, Industrial Investment and Telecoms & IT sectors drove the decline even as several individual names posted double-digit swings. Oil prices dropped sharply and gold futures rose, while currency moves were mo…
Alaska Air announced a $500 million debt offering to strengthen liquidity after a sharp rise in jet fuel costs tied to recent military strikes and disruptions in oil supply. The carrier will issue five-year notes maturing in 2031 while airlines worldwide implement capacity cuts, baggage fees and fuel surcharges to manage the higher fuel bill. Rival…
Ernexa Therapeutics reported preclinical results indicating its lead cell therapy candidate, ERNA-101, produced complete tumor clearance and 100% survival in syngeneic ovarian cancer models when paired with PD-1 blockade. The company plans to move toward a first-in-human trial and expects to expand indications following a clinical proof-of-concept …
Global Mofy Metaverse saw its shares spike in pre-market trading after announcing that its U.S. arm, Eaglepoint AI Inc., was accepted into the Nvidia Inception Program. The selection connects Eaglepoint AI - which provides data annotation, governance, and AI model training support - with resources and industry pathways that the program offers to AI…
A broad wave of upside results in the Q1'26 earnings season has coincided with significant short-term gains for several stocks identified by an AI-driven selection process. Of note, IQVIA surged after an earnings beat and is up more than 11% in days following a model-backed recommendation. Multiple other model-selected names have produced outsized …
Coinbase shares pared earlier gains after a Bloomberg report said Morgan Stanley is rolling out cryptocurrency trading on its ETrade platform at a fee of 50 basis points per transaction. The offering is in pilot stage, with full access for ETrade's 8.6 million clients expected later this year, and represents a direct pricing challenge to Coinbase a…
Bank of America reports that its clients were sizable net purchasers of U.S. equities last week, producing a record $6.8 billion in equity ETF inflows — the largest weekly total since the firm began tracking flows in 2017. Single-stock inflows of $1.9 billion were recorded, the first such buying since early March, as the S&P 500 rose 0.9% and reach…
Berenberg moved Aixtron SE from Buy to Hold while increasing its price objective to EUR42.00 from EUR31.00, citing widespread market recognition of optoelectronics supply-chain dynamics that have already been priced into the stock following a sharp year-to-date rally. The bank materially raised sales and EBIT estimates for 2026-27, projecting a sig…
A coalition of investors, led by NorthStar Asset Management and including the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO), has urged The Magnum Ice Cream Company to clarify how it will preserve Ben & Jerry’s independent board and to disclose standalone sales and profit figures for the brand. The letter, dated May 1 and sent ah…
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. shares rose 12% following a Memorandum of Understanding with Super Micro Computer, Inc. to investigate combining NANO Nuclear’s microreactor systems with Supermicro’s AI server and data center platforms. The non-binding agreement frames collaboration on on-site nuclear power for data centers, integration of server racks and…
BellRing Brands drew widespread analyst downgrades after reporting second-quarter results that missed expectations and prompted management to reduce full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance by roughly 25%. The stock plunged nearly 40% on the day of the report and continued to fall in premarket trading the next session. Brokerage firms including Morgan St…
Shares of Simulations Plus jumped 28% after the company announced a technical collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate GPU-accelerated computing and AI-assisted workflows into its pharmacology and systems biology simulation products. The partnership will pair Simulations Plus' validated engines for PBPK, PK/PD and QSP with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure,…
Johnson Controls International increased its full-year adjusted profit guidance, citing stronger demand for its data center thermal management and cooling products linked to AI-driven expansion. The company reported second-quarter gains in adjusted earnings and revenue, and issued third-quarter guidance in line with analyst expectations, while its …
Oil prices fell steeply and energy stocks dropped worldwide after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would suspend a U.S. military action called "Project Freedom" aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz while talks with Iranian representatives continue. Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel and U.S. and European oil companies recorded notable losse…
U.S. equity futures strengthened Wednesday amid renewed optimism that the United States and Iran may be approaching an agreement to end hostilities in the Middle East. Gains in major contracts contrasted with weakness in energy names and a mixed set of corporate results and forecasts that drove notable premarket swings across sectors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing authorisation to Glas Inc for a set of fruit-flavoured, age-gated eVapour products. Jefferies interprets this as constructive for British American Tobacco given its leading share of the tracked U.S. eVapour channel and the potential reopening of a legal flavoured market after a 2020 restri…
BofA Global Research has singled out flatexDEGIRO (FTK) and FinecoBank (FBK) as its preferred names in the European platforms sector, citing FTK's multi-country retail-broker footprint and expected double-digit revenue growth and EPS CAGR, and FBK's exposure to net interest income and potential earnings upside versus consensus. Both stocks are view…
Pirelli will start producing its connected Cyber Tyre line in the United States at its Rome, Georgia facility following an Italian government decision to restrict the influence of major shareholder Sinochem. The move came after Italy exercised so-called golden powers to resolve a governance dispute tied to concerns about compliance with U.S. rules …
German authorities say vaccines lost from the closure of BioNTech production sites in Germany can be made up by other manufacturers, and that distribution to the population remains assured. BioNTech's decision to close facilities, described as part of a move away from pandemic-era operations, could affect up to 1,860 jobs. A government spokesperson…
