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Eneos Holdings is the lone remaining bidder for Chevron's Asian downstream holdings in a transaction valued at over $2 billion, with both companies pursuing an agreement potentially within the current quarter. The assets under consideration encompass refineries and service-station networks in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. Disc…
A comedic line by Jimmy Kimmel on ABC has led to demands from the White House that the network fire the host, drawing scrutiny from federal regulators and placing Walt Disney’s newly installed CEO Josh D'Amaro in a difficult position. The remark, delivered days before the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, prompted accusations of endor…
Oracle said Tuesday it remains enthusiastic about its partnership with OpenAI and is concentrating on providing cloud infrastructure capacity for the AI company. The statement came amid a downward move in shares of AI-related firms after a Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI fell short of key user and revenue targets, prompting investor concern …
A source says the Federal Communications Commission plans to initiate expedited reviews of eight ABC broadcast stations owned by The Walt Disney Company as early as Tuesday. The reviews could culminate in the FCC seeking to revoke the stations' licenses to operate on public airwaves. The action follows a White House call to fire late-night host Jim…
NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, a unified multimodal model that merges vision and audio encoders inside a 30B-A3B hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture. The model accepts text, images, audio, video, documents, charts and graphical interfaces as inputs and produces text outputs, touting a 256K context window, Conv3D and EVS techn…
US wheat futures rose sharply on Thursday, led by a 3.51% gain in the May contract, after European grain trade data showed a substantial increase in EU barley exports alongside a year-on-year decline in EU maize imports. Analysts' cost estimates for crop production provided additional context for market pricing.
U.K. equities ended Tuesday with a small gain as the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 climbed 0.04% at the close in London. Strength in Tobacco, Oil & Gas Producers and Beverage names supported the lift, while housebuilders and mining firms weighed on the market. Volume of decliners outpaced advancers on the London Stock Exchange.
Spanish equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the IBEX 35 up 0.46% in Madrid. Gains were led by Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors. Banco de Sabadell, Bankinter and Caixabank were the session's top performers, while ArcelorMittal, Merlin Properties and ROVI posted the largest declines. Market…
Portugal's benchmark PSI index rose 0.95% at the close in Lisbon on Tuesday, driven by advances in the Financials, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors. Banco Comercial Portugues, Semapa and Galp Energia were among the session's strongest performers, while Ibersol, Teixeira Duarte and Jeronimo Martins were the main laggards. Broader market breadth…
Netherlands' AEX index ended Tuesday trading lower, pulled down by losses in technology, consumer goods and basic materials. The benchmark fell 0.78% as several large-cap semiconductor names posted notable declines while select consumer stocks finished higher. Commodity and currency moves were mixed, with crude and Brent oil higher and gold futures…
The Investing.com Italy 40 index finished higher, gaining 0.72% at the close in Milan as advances in Financials, Utilities and Oil & Gas supported the market. Bper Banca, UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo were the session's strongest performers, while DiaSorin, Fincantieri and Moncler registered the largest declines. Broader market breadth showed more …
Frankfurt equities ended lower on Tuesday as declines in Construction, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Technology sectors pressured major indices. The DAX fell 0.18% at the close, while the MDAX and TecDAX posted larger losses of 0.94% and 1.41% respectively. Market breadth favored losers, and RWE reached a five-year high during the session. C…
French equities fell at Tuesday's close with the CAC 40 down 0.46% and the SBF 120 off 0.43%. Losses were led by the Basic Materials, Technology and Consumer Goods sectors, while energy and major banks provided some support. Market breadth favored declines, and the CAC 40 VIX reached a new 52-week high as commodity and currency moves accompanied eq…
Belgian equities ended lower Tuesday in Brussels, with the BEL 20 declining 0.39% after weakness in Healthcare, Technology and Telecoms. Notable individual movers included gains for Anheuser Busch Inbev, Aperam and Ackermans & Van Haaren, while UCB, Melexis and Argen-X registered the largest declines. Market breadth favored decliners, and commodity…
Amazon Web Services has released a desktop application for Amazon Quick, a workplace AI assistant that connects to calendars, email, productivity suites and local files. The app runs continuously on users' desktops, indexes documents, learns from interactions, and supports new integrations and productivity features aimed at automating workflows and…
Amazon introduced new AI-powered software intended to accelerate large-scale hiring by reducing reliance on in-person interviews, and it unveiled a design philosophy called 'humorphism' aimed at making AI interactions more human-like. The company also launched Connect Decisions for supply chain planning. Executives from Amazon Web Services and repr…
Sweden's equity market closed lower on Tuesday, with the OMX Stockholm 30 finishing down 0.77%. Losses were concentrated in Basic Materials, Industrials and Healthcare sectors. While a handful of large-cap names posted gains, more than twice as many stocks fell as advanced. Commodity and currency moves accompanied the equity declines.
The OMX Helsinki 25 finished lower on Tuesday, falling 0.95% as losses in Industrials, Basic Materials and Healthcare pressured the market. Neste, Fortum and Nokia were among the session's gainers while Valmet, Wartsila and Stora Enso posted the largest declines. Market breadth favored decliners, and commodities and currency markets moved alongside…
IBM shares rose 1.6% on Tuesday after the company unveiled IBM Bob, an AI development platform aimed at enterprise software teams. The platform, now available globally, extends beyond code generation to automate workflows across planning, coding, testing, deployment and modernization while embedding governance and security controls. IBM says more t…
Bank of America identified three semiconductor capital equipment names it views as well positioned to benefit from a projected acceleration in wafer fabrication equipment demand, which the bank expects to expand at roughly a 20% compound annual growth rate. The investment bank published price objectives and valuation rationales for Applied Material…
HSBC has upgraded its view on U.S. equities to overweight from neutral, pointing to solid corporate earnings beats, sizable buyback activity and improving geopolitical conditions. The bank downgraded Europe ex-UK to neutral, citing weaker activity and greater vulnerability to rising energy costs, while raising global Basic Materials and trimming he…
Airbus reported a sharp decline in first-quarter adjusted operating profit, driven by slower deliveries and adverse currency effects. Revenue fell and deliveries were down year-on-year, yet the maker of commercial aircraft left its full-year guidance unchanged and reiterated a production-rate target for the A320 family through 2027.
Blaize Holdings Inc. stock fell sharply after a short seller report alleged the company’s declared $50 million transaction with NeoTensr may be fraudulent. The report highlights NeoTensr corporate records, product imagery concerns and the timing of revenue recognition, while Blaize’s 2025 financial disclosures show concentrated customer revenue and…
FedEx and UPS have committed to returning any tariff reimbursements they receive from the U.S. government back to their customers. The pledges come as the government begins processing refunds tied to tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in February. Thousands of businesses filed claims after a refund system went live last week, and rough…
Poland's benchmark WIG30 closed lower, down 0.78%, with declines concentrated in Basic Materials, Energy and Construction sectors. Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa SA, Bank Millennium SA and Alior Bank SA were the session's top gainers, while KGHM Polska Miedz SA, Dino Polska SA and Enea SA led losses. Market breadth favored decliners by a sizeable margi…
