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A social movement representing Western Cape communities and a UK-based non-profit have formally objected to Equinix's application to build two data centres in Cape Town, arguing that key information on water use, power demand, backup generation, emissions and other environmental impacts has not been disclosed and that the planning application shoul…
Citigroup analysts Charles Armitage and Rodrigo Campo upgraded Rheinmetall to "buy" with a €1,408 target and raised Saab to "neutral" with a SEK527 target following a widespread pullback in European defence stocks. Citi says the market reaction appears excessive given the sustained security threat from Russia and lays out detailed valuations and sc…
At Sandia National Laboratories' Kirtland Air Force Base facility, liquid-cooled supercomputers run high-precision simulations for nuclear security. With mainstream chipmakers shifting designs toward AI workloads and creating supply constraints, Sandia is evaluating newcomer processors, including Israeli startup NextSilicon, to ensure continued acc…
Waste Management (WM) is a high-quality, defensive industrial with a sizeable moat and steady free cash flow. A shallow pullback has left the stock near short-term support with attractive risk-reward for a mid-term swing: buy at $219.00, stop $210.00, target $240.00 (mid-term 45 trading days). The trade relies on buybacks, dividend momentum, and im…
BingEx Limited, trading on Nasdaq as FLX, announced a strategic investment agreement with Hangzhou Low-Altitude Industry Development Co., Ltd. This partnership aims to accelerate the company's expansion of drone delivery and low-altitude logistics in Hangzhou, enhancing the integration of aerial transport with its existing ground delivery network. …
iQIYI, Inc., a leading Chinese online entertainment provider, reported its unaudited Q1 2026 financial results with total revenues declining 13% year-over-year to RMB6.23 billion (US$902.5 million). The company saw an operating loss of RMB228.4 million and a net loss attributable to iQIYI of RMB294.6 million, a significant retreat from profitabilit…
Government bond yields across the Eurozone advanced on Monday in step with a broad sell-off in global sovereign debt. Germany's 10-year rate reached a 15-year high while French, Italian and Spanish yields also rose. The move comes as oil prices rallied above $110 a barrel and geopolitical incidents in the Gulf raise concerns about energy supply, in…
Inter IKEA, the group that manages sourcing and franchise relationships for the Swedish flat-pack furniture brand across 63 countries, is eliminating 850 positions as it seeks to reduce costs and become more efficient. The move comes as consumer spending weakens, costs and U.S. tariffs pressure margins, and the company pivots from large suburban wa…
VEON Ltd. announced that its subsidiary VEON MidCo B.V. is conducting investor meetings for a potential offering of unsecured US dollar medium term notes in two tranches to extend debt maturity. Concurrently, it launched a tender offer to repurchase outstanding 3.375% Senior Notes due 2027 for up to $750 million, aimed at optimizing capital structu…
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals saw its shares tumble in premarket trading after announcing that its phase 3 trial of fianlimab in metastatic melanoma did not meet the study's primary endpoint of statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival. While a numeric median PFS gain of 5.1 months was recorded for the high-dose fianlimab combi…
Teleperformance SE shares rose sharply after the company unveiled a refinancing package that includes new 5-year and 8-year senior unsecured fixed rate notes and a partial tender offer for about EUR 500 million of higher-cost bonds maturing soon. The move is aimed at pushing out debt maturities and bolstering the balance sheet, and it arrived again…
JPMorgan reduced its 2026 average gold price projection to $5,243 per troy ounce from $5,708, citing a cooling in near-term investor appetite and light positioning. The bank maintained its base-case bullish outlook, still forecasting a rise to $6,000/oz by year-end, and is watching a potential reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as the central cataly…
Indonesia's benchmark IDX Composite Index fell 2.88% at Monday's close, reaching a new 52-week low as selling dominated the session. Infrastructure, financials and agriculture stocks led declines, while a small set of mid- and small-cap names posted strong gains. Commodities and currency moves accompanied the equity weakness.
Prudential has agreed to acquire a 75% controlling interest in Bharti Life Insurance for $389 million, with a potential additional earn-out payment of $78 million contingent on specified conditions. UBS values the whole business at about $623 million including the conditional payment. The insurer intends to leverage its capabilities and secure dist…
A government auction to sell a 67.2% stake in gold producer Uzhuralzoloto, seized from businessman Konstantin Strukov, failed to attract any bidders and was declared invalid, according to a state auction website. The stake had been valued at 140.43 billion roubles as part of a larger asset package priced at 162.02 billion roubles. A court in July o…
U.S. stock futures opened lower as government bond yields climbed across major markets and oil prices held above $100 a barrel amid ongoing conflict involving Iran. The move in fixed income and energy intensified concerns about inflation and higher borrowing costs. Separately, Samsung Electronics shares rose after South Korea's government intervene…
The two-day meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping emphasized 'strategic stability,' reducing near-term geopolitical uncertainty for Chinese markets. However, the summit produced no substantial trade breakthroughs or concrete Chinese action to ease the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, leaving investors concerned about en…
Public blockchain analysis indicates Iran’s leading crypto exchange, Nobitex, has routed at least $2.3 billion through the Tron and BNB Chain networks since 2023. Those two blockchains are associated with Justin Sun and Changpeng Zhao, both of whom have provided backing or support to World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-linked crypto firm. The…
Teleperformance SA shares jumped after the company unveiled a bond refinancing package that includes issuance of new 5-year and 8-year senior unsecured notes, an expected BBB rating from S&P, and a partial tender offer to repurchase selected outstanding bonds using proceeds from the new issue. The operation is intended to extend the company’s debt …
Advanced Medical Solutions Group shares fell sharply after U.S. private equity firm TA Associates Management, L.P. confirmed on May 15 that it will not proceed with a potential offer for the British wound-care company. The decline followed an April 18 disclosure that TA was considering a possible bid.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has named Mary-Anne Williams as its chief AI scientist, a role the bank says is the first of its kind at an Australian lender. Williams joins from the University of New South Wales, where she is deputy director of the AI Institute. The bank did not disclose her start date. Williams will lead a team of AI scientists an…
Estonia's foreign intelligence chief says Russian President Vladimir Putin has limited viable courses of action in Ukraine. With Russian forces struggling to make significant advances and Western sanctions eroding financial and energy revenues, Tallinn's top spy says Moscow is losing more personnel than it is recruiting and that broader mobilisatio…
China has pledged to purchase at least $17 billion a year of U.S. agricultural goods, in addition to existing soybean commitments, for three years following a leaders' summit. The move would bring annual U.S. farm exports to China near $28 billion to $30 billion and necessitate increased imports of wheat, feed grains, meat and non-food agricultural…
Shares of biopharma equipment supplier Sartorius rose after reports that activist investor Elliott Investment Management has accumulated a stake in the company and in Bio-Rad Laboratories. UBS is cited as saying Bio-Rad holds a 28% position in Sartorius. The report says Elliott intends to push Bio-Rad to enhance its stock performance and to extract…
