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Firefighting teams, assisted by European partners, kept a major wildfire in the Landes area west of Bordeaux under control overnight after a week of operations. The blaze has consumed 42,000 hectares of predominantly pine forest and forced the evacuation of roughly 220,000 people. Authorities warned a fourth heatwave of the summer, with temperature…
Goldman Sachs reaffirmed a constructive stance on select Chinese data center operators while revising some near-term estimates. The bank retained Buy ratings on GDS Holdings and VNET Group and reiterated a preference for Range Intelligent among A-share peers, while lowering price targets and adjusting revenue and adjusted EBITDA forecasts to reflec…
Australian equities closed higher, with the S&P/ASX 200 gaining 1.01% to reach a three-month high. Strength in Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples lifted the market, while individual stocks showed wide divergence. Commodity prices and currency pairs moved modestly alongside equity gains.
Solvay reported adjusted EBITDA of €187 million for the second quarter, slightly under Jefferies' estimate but modestly ahead of consensus. Group sales declined to €1,031 million with organic sales down 7.4% driven by lower volumes and reduced pricing. The company reiterated its full-year 2026 guidance for EBITDA, free cash flow, and capital expend…
Eurozone government bond yields moved higher on Wednesday after crude oil prices surged roughly 3% following regional military actions. The German two-year yield, sensitive to near-term policy expectations, reversed earlier losses to reach 2.767%, while the 10-year Bund rose to 3.12% as selling resumed across sovereign desks. Investors also prepare…
South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI tumbled for a second consecutive session, sliding about 7% to its weakest level since early April after memory chipmaker SK Hynix reported robust results that nevertheless failed to satisfy elevated market expectations around AI-driven demand. Market participants and strategists cited concentrated exposure to AI-linked…
South Korea’s KOSPI tumbled sharply for a second consecutive day, recording one of the largest two-day routs in recent history as thin volumes and heavily leveraged retail positions accelerated selling. Declines in heavyweight chip stocks, including SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, drove the drop even after strong earnings from SK Hynix, while aut…
A rising number of young renters in Chinese cities are sharing bedrooms - and in some cases the same bed - to reduce housing costs as stagnant pay and job insecurity bite. Social media conversation has amplified the trend, which reflects broader strains on household finances and could weigh on consumption and property demand if it spreads.
<p>Bitcoin traded modestly higher on Wednesday, holding near $64,000 as investors stayed cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy decision. The largest cryptocurrency was up about 1% at $64,075.5 by 01:56 ET (05:56 GMT), showing more limited losses than AI-linked semiconductor and technology equities that faced renewed selling pressure. …
Taiwan's main index fell sharply, sliding 4.65% to a new one-month low as losses in the Electronic Parts/Components and Plastic sectors weighed on the market. Several mid-cap and specialty names recorded strong gains, while multiple semiconductor and electronics suppliers posted double-digit drops. Oil prices moved higher and gold slipped, while cu…
Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), has started deploying an agentic AI platform called HELIOS to reduce new wealth account opening times from over 30 business days to 15. The platform has been used by more than 100 relationship managers across Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai in the past five months, an…
Kraken Robotics (KRKNF) designs sonar, subsea batteries and underwater robotic systems that are landing repeat naval and infrastructure contracts. With a $1.64B market cap and accelerating revenue (Q1 revenue jumped to $21M, +175% YoY), the story is now about converting program wins into scale. This is a tactical long: enter near $4.25, protect cap…
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan, killing at least 13 people and causing extensive damage across Kumamoto prefecture. Rescue teams pulled survivors from a partially collapsed Aeon shopping mall and responded to reports of a possible gas explosion. Factories and major manufacturers in the region have suspended operations while tens o…
The U.S. dollar held close to a one-month peak while Asian currencies mostly traded in narrow ranges ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy announcement. The Australian dollar led regional weakness after domestic inflation undershot forecasts, curbing bets on further Reserve Bank of Australia tightening. Geopolitical tensions following fresh missile…
UBS reported a 17% increase in second-quarter net profit and unveiled plans to repurchase $3 billion of its own shares by the middle of next year at the latest, including at least $1 billion in the coming three months. The bank said performance was driven by wealth management and a record quarter in trading, and highlighted continued progress on Cr…
The global push to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping air cargo patterns across Asia. Airlines and logistics firms report rising, multi-year demand for semiconductors, processors and data centre equipment, prompting route and capacity changes around semiconductor manufacturing hubs. At the same time, cross-border e-commerce v…
Electrolux reported a higher-than-expected operating profit for the second quarter, with operating profit excluding non-recurring items rising to 1.2 billion Swedish crowns on 2% organic sales growth. The group said conditions deteriorated in North America, a market representing about one-third of sales. In June it completed a 9 billion crown right…
China's market regulator has scheduled a meeting with solar industry representatives for Friday to outline expectations on pricing compliance and the implementation of cost-accounting standards, local media outlet Cailianshe reported on Wednesday. The measure forms part of a renewed drive to curb what authorities call 'involution-style' competition…
United Nations investigators report that several Boeing 727 aircraft tied to a U.S. military contractor’s business network carried Rapid Support Forces fighters, foreign mercenaries and military equipment, including drones and weapons, into Darfur. The draft report, prepared by the Panel of Experts on Sudan and submitted to the U.N. Security Counci…
Decades of near-uniform U.S. backing for Israel are splintering within the Democratic Party as the Gaza war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ties to U.S. Republicans, and shifting public opinion fuel challenges to long-standing military assistance. Lawmakers, primary voters and polls indicate growing willingness among Democrats to debate, restr…
Fiverr International Ltd. reported its second quarter 2026 financial results, highlighting a strategic transition from a transaction-focused marketplace to a trusted platform emphasizing higher-value projects. Despite growth in $1,000+ projects and ongoing investments in infrastructure and AI capabilities, the company experienced a 10% year-over-ye…
Global equity markets faced renewed turbulence as a sharp downturn in chip stocks intensified investor anxiety about the sustainability of AI-related demand. Even a blockbuster profit print from SK Hynix failed to reassure markets after the company missed analyst forecasts despite reporting operating profit that surged more than sixfold (557%). The…
Coherent (COHR) is a prime supplier of optical components, lasers and engineered materials to the AI and data-center upgrade cycle. Fundamentals and secular demand remain intact, but the stock has suffered a heavy pullback on broader multiple compression and volatile flows. We keep a Buy stance because the long-term thesis still works; the trade he…
AnaptysBio has cleared a meaningful procedural hurdle in its fight with Tesaro/GSK and has moved the litigation closer to a definitive outcome. With a $1.54B market cap, modest free cash flow and a compact float, the stock is positioned for a sharp re-rate if Anaptys secures reversion or damages tied to Jemperli royalties. This trade idea lays out …
Standard Chartered reported a 9% increase in first-half pretax profit to $4.78 billion, driven by higher wealth and global banking revenue. The bank booked a $446 million impairment linked to geopolitical uncertainty tied to the Middle East conflict, had earlier set aside $190 million in management overlays, and announced a $1 billion share buyback…
