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London cocoa futures fell 2.8% to 3,821 per tonne on Friday, pulling back from a five-month high of 4,014 reached on Thursday. New York futures dropped 2.5% to $5,113 per tonne. Rabobank said the market was reacting to the shift toward an active El Nif1o event, easing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, and a slow start to West Africas 202…
Spanish equities ended the session in negative territory on Friday, with the IBEX 35 retreating 0.45% as losses in Building & Construction, Consumer Services and Telecoms & IT exerted downward pressure. A handful of names outperformed while steel, airlines and construction contractors recorded the largest declines. Commodity and currency moves acco…
President Donald Trump said Iran launched at least four one-way attack drones at ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, striking one cargo vessel and prompting the downing of three other drones. The incident coincided with a pause in a United Nations-coordinated evacuation of seafarers and was linked to a report that the Singapore-flagged Ever Love…
Robusta coffee prices eased 0.2% to $3,654 per ton on Friday after reaching a three-month high of $3,692 on Thursday. Rabobank warned El Niño could lift robusta prices by creating hotter, drier conditions in Southeast Asia and India. Arabica fell 1.5% to $2.7215 per pound from a near six-week high of $2.8480 per pound, with recent El Niño-linked ra…
Belgian stocks closed higher on Friday, with the BEL 20 index rising 0.13% to a new all-time high. Gains were concentrated in the Consumer Services, Healthcare and Utilities sectors. Aedifica, Montea C.V.A. and Anheuser Busch Inbev were among the session's top performers, while Melexis, Aperam and Umicore weighed the downside. Commodity markets sho…
French equity markets finished lower on Friday, with the CAC 40 falling 0.55% and the SBF 120 down 0.50%. Gains in household and healthcare-related large caps were offset by declines in chipmakers, aerospace and heavy industry names. Commodity and currency moves included a rise in gold and falls in crude and Brent futures.
German equities finished the session lower on Friday, with the DAX slipping 1.25% as Technology, Construction and Industrials weighed on sentiment. The MDAX fell 1.16% and the TecDAX lost 0.89%. Notable winners included SAP SE, Beiersdorf and Adidas, while Porsche Automobil Holding, Zalando and Siemens Energy were among the largest decliners. Marke…
Italian equities closed lower on Friday, with the Investing.com Italy 40 index down 0.89% at the Milan close. Losses were concentrated in Technology, Industrials and Chemicals, while select heavyweight names posted gains. Energy commodities fell sharply, while gold futures advanced. This report summarizes market movers, sector trends, commodity pr…
Amsterdam's benchmark AEX closed 0.65% lower on Friday as losses in Basic Materials, Technology and Oil & Gas weighed on the market. Decliners narrowly outnumbered advancers, while oil prices retreated and gold futures posted gains. Volatility on AEX options was unchanged at 21.09 and the U.S. Dollar Index futures moved lower.
Portugal's PSI index closed down 0.23% on Friday, dragged by losses in the Basic Materials, Utilities and Financials sectors. Market breadth was mixed, with 15 advancing stocks, 11 decliners and 6 unchanged. Sonae reached an all-time high while commodity markets saw notable moves, with Brent and U.S. crude both falling and gold futures rising.
U.K. equity markets finished Friday's session in the red, with the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 closing down 0.26%. Heavy losses in Automobiles & Parts, Chemicals and Fixed Line Telecommunications contributed to the decline, while a handful of large-cap stocks posted notable gains. Commodity markets were mixed, with gold higher and crude oil pr…
Finnish equities closed lower on Friday, with the OMX Helsinki 25 retreating 1.18% to a one-month low. Broad weakness in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors pushed decliners well ahead of advancers. Commodity markets saw crude benchmarks slide while gold rallied, and the US Dollar Index futures eased.
Sweden's main equity gauge closed lower on Friday, slipping 0.86% as losses in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Telecoms sectors outweighed gains. Market breadth favored declines, with 425 stocks falling versus 287 advancing and 73 unchanged. Notable movers included AstraZeneca, Tele2 and Swedbank on the upside, while Sandvik, Atlas Copco and A…
FuelCell Energy shares jumped 25.4% mid-day following Jefferies' upgrade to Buy and a raised $24 price target, driven by a newly announced 380 MW power supply agreement with Fit Energy USA that includes a 30 MW firm deployment supported by an immediate non-refundable deposit. The deal, warrants tied to deposit milestones, and a reassessment of rela…
Morgan Stanley told investors that Apple’s recent 15% to 25% price increases on Mac, iPad and accessories signal an extraordinary effort to protect gross margins in the face of record memory cost inflation. Analyst Erik Woodring said the magnitude of the hikes appears oriented toward margin defense rather than merely passing through higher componen…
U.S. health agencies are dispatching doses of MBP134, an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda for compassionate use and for a randomized trial. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has also readied 2,500 rapid diagnostic tests and is soliciting vaccine candidates based …
India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies has opened an anti-dumping investigation into hot rolled flat steel imports from China, Japan and Russia after requests from three domestic producers. The probe targets alloy and non-alloy hot rolled products up to 25 millimeters thick and follows a sharp rise in Chinese finished-steel exports to India,…
Volkswagen is reportedly weighing the closure of four German factories and a potential workforce reduction of up to 100,000 employees, a move that could eclipse previous large-scale restructurings in the auto industry. The carmaker cited competitive pressure from Chinese rivals, stiff U.S. import tariffs and falling demand in Europe as factors that…
Billionaire investor Leon Black told a House Oversight and Reform Committee panel that he had no knowledge of or participation in the criminal conduct of Jeffrey Epstein. In an opening statement provided to the committee, Black denied abusing women, having relations with underage females, engaging in sex trafficking, paying Epstein for access to wo…
Hemab Therapeutics shares climbed roughly 13.0% in mid-day trading after the company disclosed nine presentations spanning three programs ahead of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2026 Congress in Paris. The update included first-in-human proof-of-mechanism data for HMB-002 in Von Willebrand disease, long-term extension findi…
Nextpower Inc. shares dropped about 4.2% in mid-day trading to $108.38 after Jefferies reduced its price target and investors expressed concern over the company's fast-moving acquisition strategy. The analyst cut comes as Nextpower announced a $378 million purchase of Germany's Zimmermann PV-Steel Group following a $365 million acquisition of Preva…
Omeros Corporation shares fell sharply after the European Medicines Agency’s CHMP issued a negative opinion on a marketing authorization application for Yartemlea (narsoplimab) to treat hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy. The company will seek a formal re-examination and review by an Ad Hoc Expert Group, extend…
Incyte Corporation stock rallied intraday after the European Medicines Agency's committee issued a positive opinion for Opzelura (ruxolitinib) cream for moderate atopic dermatitis in adults. Analyst activity, an anticipated one-time CMS settlement benefit, and the company's planned acquisition of Vega Therapeutics added to the momentum, sending sha…
Billionaire investor Ken Griffin provided the largest private contribution toward the two-year contract of Argentina coach Mauricio Pochettino, a Citadel spokesman confirmed. The move formed part of broader private support for U.S. soccer that included donations of tickets to local residents and funding for community pitches; the U.S. men’s nationa…
Poland's blue-chip WIG30 index closed lower on Friday, down 0.65%, with losses concentrated in Oil & Gas, Energy and Chemicals. Decliners outnumbered risers by a wide margin. Several individual stocks reached new highs even as commodity moves - a drop in crude and Brent and a rise in gold - helped shape the session.
