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Bank of America expects the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to keep the official cash rate at 2.25% at its May 27 meeting, while revising the near-term OCR track upward to reflect upside inflation risks. The bank forecasts a terminal rate around 3.2%, notably below current market hawkishness, and says the RBNZ is likely to discuss pre-emptive tightenin…
Bank of America moved both Rio Tinto and BHP Group from Buy to Neutral, citing lofty valuations, a turn lower in China’s credit impulse, and heightened macro uncertainty related to the Middle East conflict. The bank left price targets intact at A$69 for BHP and 9,300 pence for Rio Tinto, but said the risk-reward no longer supports an outright bulli…
Shares of Compagnie des Alpes rose 3.7% on Friday after the French leisure operator reported first-half EBITDA that matched analyst expectations and flagged a pick-up in short-term bookings at Parc Astérix. Management reiterated its full-year objective of nearly 10% growth in core earnings, while a broker upgrade to buy underscored perceived upside…
ServiceNow is often painted as a legacy workflow vendor vulnerable to agentic AI. We argue the opposite: the Now Platform is the logical control point for enterprise agent orchestration and data governance. At $101.50 the stock offers a tradeable long with defined risk/reward as adoption of Now Assist and integrations (Cloudera, Experian) drive re-…
Julius Baer Gruppe AG's stock dropped sharply after a four-month interim management statement showed materially better profitability but a much weaker-than-expected pace of client inflows. The bank reported adjusted profit before tax of 598 million Swiss francs, beating consensus by roughly 23%, and a cost-to-income ratio of 62%. However, net new m…
Lanxess shares fell about 3% after Goldman Sachs downgraded the company to Sell from Neutral and trimmed its price target from €21 to €13. The move followed first quarter 2026 results and a second quarter adjusted EBITDA guidance that came in roughly 10% below Visible Alpha Consensus and about 37% below Goldman Sachs' projections. Goldman cited a r…
U.S. equity futures rose on May 22 after government bond yields eased, boosting large-cap technology and semiconductor stocks. Markets remain attentive to developments in negotiations aimed at ending the months-long war in the Middle East, with reports of diplomatic meetings and cautious statements from U.S. officials tempering investor uncertainty…
NIO Inc., a leading global smart electric vehicle manufacturer, announced its Annual General Meeting to be held on June 24, 2026, in Shanghai. The company also released its annual report (Form 20-F) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the U.S. SEC. NIO's board supports the proposed resolutions to be voted on at the AGM. Voting i…
Lumentum has shifted from a niche photonics supplier into a core AI-data-center supplier. With Q3 revenue momentum, heavy buying interest from hyperscalers, and a clean product roadmap, LITE is my preferred pure-play on optical interconnects versus peers. This trade targets a mid-term run to $1,150 with a $840 stop—size accordingly given a richly p…
Standard Chartered chief executive Bill Winters issued an apology after staff expressed upset about his comments that artificial intelligence will replace 'lower value' human workers. Winters reiterated the rationale for planned reductions in back-office support roles tied to AI adoption, while providing the full transcript of his remarks and affir…
Keyera's midstream franchise still looks attractive after a pullback. Cheapening valuation and steady fee-based cash flow create a favorable asymmetric trade: enter at $47.50, protect at $42.00, and target $55.00 over a mid-term 45 trading day horizon.
Citi plans to concentrate a sizable portion of its global wealth-management hiring in Asia, the bank’s global head of wealth said, citing the region as the fastest-growing and most productive area of its private banking business. The move supports targets to lift returns for the wealth unit, which posted a near 50% rise in net income to $1.5 billio…
Pakistan’s interior minister met with Iran’s foreign minister as Islamabad relayed the latest U.S. message and pressed to bridge remaining gaps in talks aimed at ending a two-month-old war. Officials on both sides described some progress, but disputes over enriched uranium and the status of the Strait of Hormuz have complicated prospects. Oil price…
European finance ministers warn the bloc is experiencing stagflationary dynamics driven by a surge in energy prices tied to the Iran war. The European Commission forecasts slower growth and rising inflation for the euro zone, and ministers urged governments to limit support to targeted, temporary measures to protect vulnerable households without tr…
Powell Industries (POWL) looks richly valued today at roughly $9.9B market cap and a P/E near 53, but a $1.6B backlog, double-digit order growth and near-net-cash balance sheet reduce execution risk. For disciplined traders I see a mid-term (45 trading days) long setup with a clear entry, stop and target that balances upside from backlog conversion…
Autohome (ATHM) faces revenue pressure from China’s car price wars, but a strong balance sheet, an attractive dividend yield (~10.3%), and a sub-1.0 PB multiple make the stock a tactical long for investors willing to accept execution risk. We lay out a mid-term swing plan with clear entry, target and stop-loss levels and a list of catalysts and ris…
Uber is trading at $73.70 with a $149.9B market cap and a free cash flow run-rate north of $9.1B. The company is uniquely positioned to monetize autonomy, delivery and logistics as an integrated platform. This trade targets the re-rating that comes from meaningful autonomous deployments, margin expansion and AI-driven efficiency gains.
BioNTech SE announced encouraging clinical trial updates from its late-stage oncology pipeline at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting. Data highlights include positive anti-tumor activity of pumitamig in first-line non-small cell lung cancer and gotistobart showing durable activity in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. The company continues to advance ove…
NMI Holdings (NMIH) trades at a low-teens return on equity and single-digit P/E with a strong capital position and rising book value. Even if near-term earnings have peaked, the stock offers asymmetric upside from multiple expansion and continued book-value growth. Enter a disciplined long with a clear stop and target over a multi-month horizon.
Deutsche Bank upgraded DHL Group to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to €56 from €48, saying market worries about AI disruption and Amazon encroachment have been overstated. The bank cited a €1 billion cost-saving program, a well-invested Express network and sustained pricing power as reasons for the upgrade, while DHL’s recent results and…
USPH reported record Q1 revenue and reiterated full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance while absorbing non-cash accounting noise that hurt reported net income. The combination of $66.7M in free cash flow, a low-leverage balance sheet and an enlarged $450M credit facility argues the business is fundamentally intact. The market has largely priced the name…
Workday shares jumped nearly 12% in premarket trading after the company reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted profit above analysts' estimates. Subscription revenue rose 14.3% to $2.35 billion, with 40% of that increase attributed to net new business, yet Workday maintained its annual subscription revenue forecast. Analysts said the results p…
Global financial markets are being driven by geopolitical developments as the Iran war nears the end of its third month without resolution. Central banks from Israel to South Africa prepare for policy meetings, while inflation readings place extra scrutiny on U.S. and Japanese policymakers. At the same time, the growing role of artificial intellige…
Morgan Stanley ($200.44) has re-accelerated after a Buy upgrade and a stronger Q1 print. The bank trades at roughly 18x earnings with $14.8B in free cash flow and a $316B market cap. For traders, a mid-term swing entry around current levels offers a favorable risk/reward into catalysts including underwriting fees, buybacks and potential Fed easing.…
The IDX Composite closed marginally higher, rising 0.03% as advances in the Agriculture, Basic Industry and Property sectors outweighed declines elsewhere. Market breadth was narrowly positive, with 359 stocks up and 353 down. Key commodity benchmarks, including crude and Brent oil, fell sharply, while the rupiah weakened against the US dollar and …
