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  • U.S. forces launched military strikes against Iran this morning.
  • The U.S. dollar held near this week's highs versus major currencies.
  • Safe-haven flows increased demand for the dollar after the strikes.
  • Brent and WTI crude prices rose on renewed Middle East supply concerns.
  • Market participants flagged increased geopolitical risk to energy supply stability.
  • Heightened tensions drove risk-off positioning and short-term market uncertainty.

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Dragonfly Energy Strengthens IP Portfolio for Solid-State Battery Manufacturing with U.S. Patent Allowance

Dragonfly Energy Strengthens IP Portfolio for Solid-State Battery Manufacturing with U.S. Patent Allowance

Dragonfly Energy announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed its patent application titled 'Powderized Solid-State Electrolyte and Electroactive Materials,' supporting its solid-state battery manufacturing efforts. This milestone enhances the company's intellectual property portfolio and underpins its strategy for scalable, domestic …

IBM Shares Slide as Sector Guidance Cut and Client AI Concerns Hit Sentiment

IBM Shares Slide as Sector Guidance Cut and Client AI Concerns Hit Sentiment

IBM stock dropped sharply in pre-market trading after a guidance cut from Accenture sparked a broader reassessment of demand across IT services. The fall was compounded by an IBM study showing a large majority of enterprise executives lack clarity about their AI dependencies, a finding analysts say could push buyers to delay major AI projects and t…

Stellantis shares slide after launch of new Compact Van variant

Stellantis shares slide after launch of new Compact Van variant

Stellantis shares fell 5.7% in Milan on Thursday even as the automaker introduced a new member of its Compact Van family, the Smart Compact Van (SMC). The SMC will be available with a battery-electric powertrain offering up to 270 km range, plus three internal combustion engine options and a mild-hybrid variant arriving next year. Orders are due to…

Pfizer CFO Dave Denton to Depart in August; Cecile Guegan Named Interim

Pfizer CFO Dave Denton to Depart in August; Cecile Guegan Named Interim

Pfizer announced that Chief Financial Officer Dave Denton will step down effective August 15 to pursue a professional opportunity outside the pharmaceutical industry in consumer goods. Shares fell 1.7% on the news. Senior Vice President Cecile Guegan will serve as interim CFO starting August 16 while Pfizer conducts an internal and external search …

Lite Strategy Leads $1M Strategic Round for Litecoin Layer 2 Project LitVM

Lite Strategy Leads $1M Strategic Round for Litecoin Layer 2 Project LitVM

Lite Strategy, the Nasdaq-listed company that maintains Litecoin as its principal treasury reserve asset, will announce Thursday that it has closed a $1 million lead strategic investment in ZK Innovations Inc., the developer of LitVM. The transaction gives Lite Strategy governance participation rights and an opportunity to acquire a portion of futu…

FreeCast Shares Rally on New Starlink Business Reseller Agreement

FreeCast Shares Rally on New Starlink Business Reseller Agreement

FreeCast Inc. (NASDAQ:CAST) saw its shares jump 170% on Thursday after announcing a reseller agreement that enables the company to offer Starlink Business enterprise satellite broadband alongside its streaming aggregation, distribution, and Platform-as-a-Service solutions. The pact is intended to let FreeCast provide combined connectivity and digit…

Bank of Spain estimates Q2 expansion of 0.5%-0.6%; raises 2026 inflation outlook

Bank of Spain estimates Q2 expansion of 0.5%-0.6%; raises 2026 inflation outlook

The Bank of Spain said its preliminary view is that the economy grew between 0.5% and 0.6% in the second quarter versus the prior three months. It kept its baseline 2026 growth forecast at 2.3% and the 2027 projection at 1.7%, but raised inflation expectations for 2026 and 2027 and warned that continued conflict in the Middle East poses substantial…

Bank of Spain: Strong housing expansion shows limited systemic risk

Bank of Spain: Strong housing expansion shows limited systemic risk

The Bank of Spain's 2025 annual report finds the country's housing market growing rapidly but not producing the systemic financial stability threats characteristic of past property booms. While prices, sales and mortgage lending increased in 2025, key vulnerability indicators remain contained. The central bank calls for coordinated national and loc…

Bank of England Holds Bank Rate at 3.75% as Energy Price Uncertainty Persists

Bank of England Holds Bank Rate at 3.75% as Energy Price Uncertainty Persists

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep Bank Rate at 3.75%, opting to hold policy steady amid falling yet still elevated global energy prices and mixed domestic signals. The BoE highlighted uncertainty over the economic impact of higher energy costs and warned of the risk that prolonged energy pressure could produce second…

Capgemini Shares Plunge After Accenture Miss and Guidance Trim

Capgemini Shares Plunge After Accenture Miss and Guidance Trim

Capgemini shares tumbled after sector peer Accenture reported fiscal third-quarter revenues below analyst consensus and narrowed the top end of its full-year revenue growth guidance. The combination of the peer miss, recent analyst price-target reductions, deteriorating technical indicators and a broader market pullback drove one of Capgemini's ste…

Treace Announces First Surgical Case with the HyperPlate™ XM Dynamic Compression Locking Implant System

Treace Announces First Surgical Case with the HyperPlate™ XM Dynamic Compression Locking Implant System

Treace Medical Concepts announced the successful first surgical use of its HyperPlate™ XM Dynamic Compression Locking Implant, designed for midfoot and hindfoot fusion procedures. This implant builds on the company's SpeedPlate® platform by integrating FastPitch® locking screws for enhanced stability and quicker procedure times. The device’s design…

Comfort Systems USA: Growth Justifies a Premium, But Trade It With a Plan

Comfort Systems USA: Growth Justifies a Premium, But Trade It With a Plan

Comfort Systems USA (FIX) is trading near record highs after an outsized run driven by data center and AI cooling demand. The company's $12.45B backlog, strong Q1 results and attractive margins support continued revenue growth, but a ~55x earnings multiple and thin dividend mean downside risk if hyperscaler spending slows. This trade idea offers a …

Novocure Shares Slide After Phase 3 TRIDENT Fails to Show Survival Benefit

Novocure Shares Slide After Phase 3 TRIDENT Fails to Show Survival Benefit

Novocure shares fell about 10% after the company reported that its Phase 3 TRIDENT study did not meet its primary endpoint of a statistically significant overall survival benefit for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma when Tumor Treating Fields therapy was started concurrently with chemoradiation compared with starting during maintenance th…

Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 3.75% After 7-2 Vote

Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 3.75% After 7-2 Vote

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to hold the Bank Rate at 3.75% in its June meeting, concluding that it would be premature to raise interest rates given ambiguous signs about the durability of recent inflationary pressures. Two members - external member Megan Greene and Chief Economist Huw Pill - favored a 25 basis-point in…

Accenture Shares Slip After Q3 Results and Multi-Company Acquisition Plan

Accenture Shares Slip After Q3 Results and Multi-Company Acquisition Plan

Accenture reported fiscal third-quarter revenue and profit beats and lifted its full-year adjusted EPS outlook, but the stock fell in premarket trading as investors weighed large cybersecurity-focused acquisitions, persistent analyst downgrades and a risk-off tone across major U.S. equity indexes. Management pointed to resilient demand and slightly…