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Paramount Skydance Corp has signaled readiness to divest its film distribution joint venture with Universal Pictures to resolve European Union antitrust worries tied to its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. The offer follows a meeting with EU competition officials and will be submitted next Tuesday, extending the Commissio…
U.S. crude oil inventories, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, fell by over 15 million barrels in the week ending June 19 to 743.3 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration reported, marking the lowest combined level since October 1984. Excluding the SPR, crude stocks also reached a recent low, while regional inventories and Ea…
Morocco's stock market ended Wednesday's session lower, with the Moroccan All Shares dropping 1.21% as losses in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors weighed on the market. Market breadth favored decliners, while a handful of companies, including Auto Hall and Lesieur Cristal, finished higher. Energy and precious metals prices fell, and local …
U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee that a proposed Postal Service regulation, pushed by President Donald Trump, would require states to provide names and barcode information for mailed ballots in federal elections. Steiner said the rule is designed to ensure mailings and returns match state records, and that USPS would wi…
A recent critique published in Nature questions key results tied to Microsoft’s quantum computing approach, focusing on a February 2025 paper that described software detecting a tiny conductive gap relevant to Majorana-based qubit designs. Microsoft defends its work and says its tools are in active use, while outside researchers say data and reprod…
Romania's Social Democratic Party has announced it will support its leader, Sorin Grindeanu, for the prime ministership as parties continue negotiations to form a government after the collapse of a pro-European coalition. The political rupture, triggered when the Social Democrats left the coalition and aligned with the far right to remove Liberal P…
Upstart Holdings announced a renewed forward-flow agreement with Neuberger Specialty Finance that makes available up to $600 million to purchase consumer loans originated on Upstart’s platform. The news drove a 5.4% rise in Upstart’s stock, and both firms emphasized the strength of their ongoing partnership and Upstart’s approach to credit and borr…
A federal judge in Connecticut has removed Pfizer as a defendant from a large antitrust suit brought by most U.S. states, finding that prosecutors did not present sufficient evidence that Pfizer conspired with rivals via its former Greenstone unit to rig bids or allocate customers for a set of generic drugs between 2010 and 2014.
Stifel has initiated coverage of BlackBerry with a Buy rating and a $12 price target, arguing the market underestimates the company's role as an infrastructure provider for physical AI. The firm emphasizes BlackBerry's QNX operating system, a safety-certified platform used alongside computing partners such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm and AMD, and points to…
Banco Santander Chile announced a conference call and webcast scheduled for August 5, 2026, to discuss its second quarter financial results. The bank's senior officers including the CFO, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chief Economist will participate, followed by a Q&A session. The management commentary report will be published on July 31 before marke…
Intapp is a specialty SaaS vendor to law firms, private equity and investment banks. The business is generating free cash flow ($136.3M most recently), trades at an EV/Sales multiple of 2.75 and has a $1.76B market cap. We lay out a long trade that targets analyst-range upside while respecting recent volatility and short-interest pressure.
Israel's main index closed marginally higher on Wednesday, driven by advances in Biomed, Insurance and Real Estate sectors. The TA 35 rose 0.16% at the close. Individual winners included Enlight Renewable Energy, Menora Miv Hld and Mega Or, while Camtek, Tower Semiconductor and Nova posted the largest declines. Commodities and currency moves were n…
Norway's equity market closed lower on Wednesday, with the Oslo OBX falling 1.01% to a three-month low. Sector losses in Media, Transport and Diversified Financials were primary contributors. Select large-cap names including Orkla, Yara and SalMar posted gains, while Kongsberg, Var Energi and Nel were among the heaviest decliners. Oil and gold pric…
Quest Diagnostics shares rose after the New York State Department of Health’s Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program approved the company’s Haystack MRD circulating tumor DNA test for detecting residual or recurring disease in patients with solid tumor cancers. The clearance in New York is the final state-level authorization required to offer the t…
SpaceX's public-market debut dominated trading activity on moomoo's U.S. platform, with SPCX accounting for participation from more than half of active traders and generating roughly 7.7 times the orders of the runner-up. Engagement extended to the platform's AI tools, with over a quarter of users querying the assistant about the IPO on the same da…
Greece's stock market closed marginally lower on Wednesday, with the Athens General Composite falling 0.07%. Sector losses in Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources weighed on the market, even as several individual stocks posted strong gains. Market breadth favored decliners, and key commodities posted sizeable drops while the US dollar strengthen…
U.S. crude inventories declined by 6.1 million barrels in the week ending June 19 to 412.1 million barrels, outpacing analyst expectations. Stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery hub fell by 1.1 million barrels. Refinery crude runs and utilization rates decreased, even as gasoline and distillate inventories increased.
Options volume in McCormick & Co. rose sharply to 5,945 contracts by 10:21 a.m. New York time on Wednesday, led overwhelmingly by call options. Two call strikes - a January 15, 2027 $60 and a September 18, 2026 $55 - together represented the majority of contracts. The underlying stock traded higher, up 1.89% to $48.28.
Quantum X Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: QXL) saw its stock rise 2.9% on Wednesday after the company revealed a laboratory demonstration of a fully all-optical Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (HRG). The experiment replaced conventional electrostatic actuation and measurement with purely optical excitation and readout, a development the company says reduces s…
Brian R. Balbirnie, serving as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director for ACCESS Newswire Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCS), has executed a divestment of company equity. The transaction occurred on June 23, 2026, involving the sale of 1,750 shares of common stock. This sale reduces his direct holdings, though he remains a significant ten percent owner of the…
Chemours agreed to a $450 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to resolve enforcement claims tied to PFAS releases at four facilities in West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey. The deal includes monetary penalties, long-term mitiga…
Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC has increased its direct ownership in RENN Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: RCG) through a recent purchase of common stock. The transaction occurred on June 23, 2026, with the firm acquiring 756 shares at a price of $2.75 per share, totaling $2,079. This acquisition reinforces Horizon Kinetics' position as a signific…
Maxim Kruglov, deputy leader of the liberal Yabloko party, was found guilty of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces and handed a seven-year prison term on June 24. Arrested in October, Kruglov was prosecuted over two Telegram posts made in 2022 that referenced U.N. casualty figures and events in Bucha. He pleaded not guilty an…
Avis Budget stock dropped in morning trading after rival Hertz Global Holdings sharply reduced its second-quarter 2026 adjusted corporate EBITDA outlook to $50 million-$80 million and announced sizable capital raises. Hertz said May vehicle sale losses erased April gains, driving net depreciation per unit per month back toward roughly $300 — a key …
Wednesday's trading session produced notable divergences across market-cap tiers. Homebuilder and fintech names posted sizable gains, while several large-cap technology and storage companies retreated. Below are the largest movers organized by market-cap categories, with specific company moves and related news noted where available.
