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Ernexa Therapeutics reported completion of manufacturing process development and the start of GMP production for its lead allogeneic cell therapy candidate ERNA-101, and announced plans to submit an Investigational New Drug application in the third quarter of 2026. The update, which included preclinical efficacy data and a completed $10.5 million f…
AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) saw its shares climb 4.9% in premarket trading Wednesday after launching BlueBird satellites 8, 9 and 10 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. The newly deployed satellites are intended to deliver peak data speeds approaching 200 Mbps directly to standard smartphones, and represent a step up in capacity versu…
Bed Bath & Beyond said it will acquire Fathom Holdings in an all-stock transaction to add a technology-driven real estate services business to its Everything Home strategy. Shares fell 8% on the announcement. The deal, which the company says will broaden its Homeownership & Transactions capabilities, is expected to close in the second half of 2026 …
Diplomatic momentum between Tehran and Washington, embodied in a pending memorandum of understanding, appears poised to deliver renewed financial backing from Iran to Hezbollah, according to multiple sources. That support could help the group recover from heavy losses suffered in the 2024 conflict with Israel and reinforce its political standing in…
Brazil’s central bank proxy for GDP, the IBC-Br index, rose 0.5% in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, a smaller increase than the 0.6% expansion economists had forecast. On an unadjusted basis the index rose 1.6% in the 12 months through April and was up 0.9% from the same month a year earlier. The central bank is expected to cut its benchmark …
Ernexa Therapeutics has made significant progress in manufacturing and regulatory activities for its lead oncology candidate ERNA-101, an engineered allogeneic iMSC therapy targeting immunologically cold tumors. The company plans to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application in Q3 2026 with a first-in-human Phase 1 study expected in Q4 20…
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. completed a registered direct offering, raising approximately $55 million by issuing 2 million shares and 3.8 million pre-funded warrants to a single institutional investor. The proceeds will fund the expansion and commercialization of its Edge Data Center business and support general corporate purposes. The offering w…
Ocular Therapeutix announced FDA alignment to submit a New Drug Application for AXPAXLI in wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) in the fourth quarter of 2026, based on strong efficacy and safety data from the SOL-1 trial and interim safety results from SOL-R. The company will streamline its diabetic retinopathy program, prioritizing the H…
Saudi Arabia's benchmark ended lower on Wednesday with the Tadawul All Share down 0.27%. Losses in Media & Publishing, Insurance and Real Estate Development sectors contributed to the retreat. Gulf Insurance Group led winners, while Aljazira Takaful, Saudi Cement and Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical were among the biggest decliners. Market breadth f…
Pattern Group shares rose 2.0% in pre-market trading after pre-IPO investor Knox Lane LP priced an 8 million-share secondary offering at $19.00 per share. The deal - which will not provide proceeds to the company - was underwritten by J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs and includes a 30-day option to sell up to an additional 1.2 million shares. The clea…
Morgan Stanley moved to upgrade Charles River Laboratories to Overweight with a $220 price target while downgrading IQVIA Holdings to Equal-weight and trimming its price target to $200. The firm cited signs of recovery in preclinical research driven by improving biopharma funding and portfolio moves that sharpen Charles River's focus. For IQVIA, Mo…
Retail receipts in the United States climbed 0.9% in May, exceeding economists' expectations, with higher gasoline spending and the tail end of tax refunds buoying outlays. Core retail sales, which strip out volatile categories and best map to consumer spending in GDP, rose 0.7%. Policymakers and markets may take little immediate action from the re…
Revolut Ltd. has received authorization from the United Arab Emirates central bank to operate stored value facilities and offer retail payment services. The London-headquartered digital bank will first develop local technology, operations and staffing before activating services in the UAE, without providing a launch date. Customers in the UAE are e…
U.S. stock futures were mostly flat in early trading as market participants prepared for a pivotal Federal Reserve interest rate announcement and tracked reports about a preliminary Middle East peace agreement. Several individual stocks posted sharp premarket moves, with UniQure surging after favorable FDA feedback on clinical data for a Huntington…
Barclays' May 2026 state gaming revenue tracker indicates flat retail gross gaming revenue in New Jersey and a 1% year-over-year decline in Indiana. Across the states reported so far, retail GGR rose 2% year-over-year, or 1% on a same-store basis. Digital sports betting struggled, with handle roughly unchanged and online gross gaming revenue down 4…
Micron Technology shares moved higher in premarket trade after Deutsche Bank and Citi increased their price targets. Both firms attribute the revisions to an increasingly tight DRAM supply-demand balance that they expect to extend beyond 2026, lifting near-term earnings forecasts and projecting material price gains in 2026.
Mountain Crest Acquisition 6 Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), announced that starting June 22, 2026, holders of the 6,000,000 units from its IPO will have the option to trade the underlying ordinary shares and rights separately on NASDAQ under tickers MCAH and MCAHR, respectively. Units not separated will continue trading under …
Hims & Hers Health Inc. traded slightly higher in pre-market action, keeping near $31.54 after attention around a Leerink Partners note that outlined how a July regulatory review could enable the telehealth company to enter peptide compounding. The company is being valued largely on regulatory optionality ahead of a July 23-24 Pharmacy Compounding …
Sterling traded just above $1.34 and the euro held near $1.16 as the U.S. dollar firmed broadly in advance of the Federal Open Market Committee announcement under new Chair Kevin Warsh. Brent crude remained below $80 a barrel after news of a U.S.-Iran peace deal, a development that has introduced a dovish tilt to energy markets even as markets awai…
The London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange have formalized an agreement to introduce an LME-listed contract that references the Chinese exchange's hot-rolled coil futures. Trading is scheduled to commence in October. The move reflects mutual aims: China to broaden its influence on global commodity pricing and the LME to expand trad…
EXL's 2026 U.S. Enterprise AI Study highlights a large disparity between companies' perceptions of AI progress and actual performance, with only 10% qualifying as AI Leaders. These leaders have integrated AI deeply into key workflows, driving significant revenue growth (27%), cost reduction (26%), and margin improvement (22%). The study emphasizes …
Hexagon AB ser. B rose 4.8% to 84.08 SEK following a series of insider purchases totaling 55,000 shares valued at about 4.4 million SEK. The move came amid a cautiously positive session for European equities and a modest uptick in Sweden's OMXS30 index. Technical pressure on the stock since the Octave Intelligence spin-off in May 2026 has left the …
Eos Energy Enterprises announced a binding Master Supply Agreement with CAPAC Energy, establishing an exclusive partnership for deploying up to 2 GWh of zinc-based Indensity™ long-duration energy storage systems across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through 2031. The agreement marks Eos' strategic entry into the critical DACH energy storage mark…
Critical Metals Corp. has commenced a significant 10,000-meter diamond drilling campaign at its wholly owned Tanbreez Rare Earth Project in Southern Greenland. This drilling program aims to support resource expansion, geological modeling, mine planning, and future development activities, marking a major milestone toward advancing the project to pro…
Vivakor, Inc., through its subsidiary Vivakor Supply & Trading, LLC, has secured a one-year recurring crude oil transaction involving approximately 120,000 barrels monthly from July 2026 to June 2027, expected to generate about $115 million in annualized gross revenue. This deal expands Vivakor's commercial activity and infrastructure utilization i…
