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Bank of America analysts have raised their 2027 capital expenditure forecast for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to $75 billion, up from a prior estimate of $63 billion and above the street consensus of $65 billion. The revision follows board approval of NT$31 billion in capital appropriations, with a larger share directed to adva…
Bank of America reinstated coverage of Salesforce with an Underperform rating and a $160 price target, arguing that the company faces a structural reset driven by artificial intelligence rather than a short-term cyclical setback. The bank highlights three core structural concerns: constrained net new customer additions, softer upsell dynamics, and …
Health workers and aid organisations are racing to respond to a newly recognised Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after delayed detection allowed rapid spread. The World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern following reports of cases in neighbouring Uganda. Local hospitals are straine…
Hungary’s central bank governor, Mihaly Varga, said the institution will be a cooperative partner in the government’s effort to adopt the euro, while emphasizing the need to keep inflation under control. He framed euro membership as a political decision for Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s new administration, and noted that meeting Maastricht criteria…
RBC Capital has established a 12-month fair value for the S&P 500 at 7,900, implying about 7.7% upside from early May levels. The firm cautions that market advances will not be linear and that interim pullbacks of roughly 5%-10% are plausible. A sharper decline of 14%-20% is considered unlikely unless recession risks re-emerge. The forecast is buil…
May 18 - NextEra Energy has reached an agreement to acquire Dominion Energy for $66.8 billion. The deal would form the largest electric utility in the United States and gives NextEra direct access to Dominion’s footprint in the PJM Interconnection region, including Northern Virginia’s dense data-center market. Dominion’s portfolio includes nearly 5…
Mandiri Sekuritas expects Bank Indonesia to raise its policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.00% at the May 20 meeting, citing a prolonged weakening of the Rupiah and a drawdown in foreign exchange reserves. The firm places a 60% probability on a direct policy rate increase, while leaving open a 40% chance that the central bank will instead rely on no…
The European Commission intends to renew existing steel safeguard measures before their July 1 expiration and plans to extend the new rules to all EU trading partners, explicitly including Switzerland. A commission spokesperson said the executive aims to adopt a concrete implementing act that will specify quotas by the July 1 deadline and confirmed…
A wave of overseas acquisition proposals has propelled UK merger and acquisition activity to $192 billion so far in 2026, more than triple the amount recorded at this point in 2025. Foreign takeovers - particularly from U.S. bidders - are the dominant force behind the surge, with several high-value offers for household and listed financial names co…
Quantography Labs has begun an early access program for Lock.com, a software wallet that separates offline private key signing from online transaction broadcasting to eliminate reliance on dedicated hardware devices. The platform incorporates post-quantum cryptographic standards and aims to let users operate securely with devices they already own. …
Ingredion plunged on operational disruption at its Argo facility, pressuring Q1 results and guidance. Fundamentals are mixed but not broken: strong cash generation ($449M free cash flow), a reasonable P/E (~9.6), and an eight-quarter streak of growth in Texture & Healthful Solutions. The stock is technically oversold (RSI ~25) and trading near its …
CervoMed reported Q1 2026 financial results and significant clinical progress, including alignment with regulatory agencies on a Phase 3 trial design for neflamapimod in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). New MRI and biomarker data support neflamapimod's potential as a disease-modifying therapy. Ongoing studies in frontotemporal disorders and ALS als…
Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) and Lynk Global have received experimental license approval from the FCC to test the integration of Lynk's satellite direct-to-device network with Anterix's licensed 900 MHz private wireless broadband spectrum. This collaboration aims to develop private, secure, resilient communication solutions for critical infrastructure se…
Inspira Technologies secured a $580,000 purchase order from NYU Langone Hospital for its FDA-cleared ART100 extracorporeal blood circulation systems after a multi-patient clinical evaluation demonstrated the system's operational value. This commercial milestone supports ongoing strategic discussions and promotes Inspira's medical technology busines…
Duos Technologies reported a strategic $200 million partnership with Hydra Host to deploy cutting-edge GPU infrastructure, supporting the company's aim to exceed $50 million in revenue for 2026. Despite a Q1 revenue decline versus the prior year due to legacy business ramp-down, Duos strengthened its balance sheet through a $65 million capital rais…
FG Nexus Inc. announced the declaration of a quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on its 8.00% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series A, payable June 15, 2026. This marks the 33rd consecutive quarterly dividend payment, reflecting the company's ongoing commitment to returning capital to its preferred shareholders while advancing its digital asset…
Armlogi Holding Corp. announced new internal financial reporting and management infrastructure initiatives including standardized cash flow reporting, higher-frequency monitoring, integrated cross-functional forecasting, and workforce allocation analysis. These measures aim to enhance management visibility, budgeting discipline, and coordination ac…
BrainsWay Ltd. has announced a strategic minority-stake investment in Hopemark Health, a mental health clinic management services organization. The initial $1.5 million investment, with potential additional milestone-based funding, aims to enhance access to advanced interventional psychiatry treatments such as Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation…
Streamex Corp. announced the distribution of its second monthly yield payment for GLDY, a gold-backed, yield-bearing tokenized security, reflecting successful deployment of gold reserves into an institutional gold leasing program yielding 3.5% annually. The company emphasizes continued scaling and secondary trading venue rollouts for GLDY.
Shares of Birkenstock have tumbled after the company reported softer quarterly growth and failed to raise its full-year sales outlook, with management citing U.S. tariffs and the conflict in the Middle East. Once positioned as a modern luxury name after its 2023 IPO, the brand now faces a market reassessment that narrows expectations to a steady, l…
A limited-edition pocket-watch collaboration between Swatch and Audemars Piguet ignited intense demand at retail locations worldwide, prompting temporary store closures and crowd controls. Priced at $400 to $420, the Royal Pop models have rapidly appeared on resale platforms at dramatically higher prices, while Swatch reports huge online interest a…
Natan Israeli, Chief Customer Officer at Kaltura Inc., recently sold a portion of his company stock. This activity occurs against the backdrop of mixed financial signals from Kaltura's first quarter of 2026 results, despite revenue surpassing analyst expectations. The transaction was executed through a pre-scheduled trading plan.
Bernstein has launched coverage of Basic-Fit NV at an "outperform" rating, setting a price target of €43, which implies roughly 45% upside from the May 14 closing price of €29.62. Using a discounted cash flow model with a 10.2% WACC and a 2% terminal growth rate, the broker outlines a multi-year growth and margin recovery story driven by club matur…
Hims & Hers Health said it will offer $300 million of convertible senior notes due 2032 to qualified institutional buyers, a move that coincided with a roughly 7% decline in its stock price on Monday. The company plans to deploy proceeds to preserve flexibility for its international expansion - including a proposed acquisition - and to fund technol…
Design Therapeutics (NASDAQ:DSGN) climbed 27% after reporting four-week data from its RESTORE-FA study of DT-216P2 in Friedreich ataxia. The investigational therapy produced dose-dependent improvements on multiple clinical measures, increases in endogenous frataxin mRNA and protein, and was generally well tolerated across dose cohorts through four …
