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Qube Holdings has accepted a A$11.7 billion takeover proposal from a consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management. The announcement pushed Qube shares to an intraday record before they remained below the consortium's A$5.20 per-share offer. The agreement allows Qube to pay dividends up to 40 Australian cents, which would be deducted from the offer …
U.S. equity futures inched upward on Sunday evening in low-volume trading ahead of a Monday holiday, while market participants prepared for a string of economic releases and the Federal Reserve's January meeting minutes that could shape interest-rate expectations. Modest gains in futures followed a second consecutive week of losses on Wall Street, …
Warner Bros Discovery is reviewing whether to resume merger discussions with Paramount Skydance after receiving an amended proposal from the rival studio. Board members are weighing whether Paramount's revised terms could outmatch the company's current arrangement with Netflix, though no response has been decided and the Netflix deal may remain in …
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, CEO Sam Altman said on social media. Steinberger will lead efforts on personal agents at OpenAI, with OpenClaw becoming an open-source foundation the company will support. The move follows viral attention to OpenClaw for its ability to carry out autonomous t…
Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source assistant OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to lead development of next-generation personal agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said OpenClaw will be housed in a foundation as an open-source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The agent has drawn viral interest since its November release, but also scrutin…
Treasury Wine Estates reported a sharp decline in first-half profit and said it will temporarily suspend its fiscal 2026 interim dividend to preserve capital. Management attributes the weaker result to a reset in its two largest markets after 2025 shipments exceeded underlying demand, leaving elevated distributor inventories in China and the United…
The MOEX Russia Index finished the trading session unchanged, with several large-cap names reporting no price movement at the close. Key commodities and currency pairs moved modestly, while the Russian Volatility Index remained steady. Market breadth data published for the session showed an unusual 0 to 0 reading for decliners versus advancers.
Saudi Arabia's stock market closed lower on Sunday, with the Tadawul All Share down 0.21% as losses in the Media & Publishing, Petrochemicals and Insurance sectors weighed on the benchmark. Despite the overall decline, several individual names gained sharply while others led the session's losses. Oil, Brent and gold futures recorded gains, and majo…
Battery-electric heavy trucks are approaching total cost of ownership parity with diesel in multiple use cases, particularly where subsidies apply and charging costs are low, former Scania executive Fredrik Allard said. Improved energy efficiency and lower maintenance for electric powertrains are driving better economics, but limited charging infra…
After decades of rising per-capita alcohol consumption, the United States has experienced a notable decline. While some market forecasts treat the downturn as permanent and have pressured valuations of listed brewers and distillers, Barclays contends the drop is cyclical. The bank highlights long-standing structural constraints on U.S. drinking, li…
PayPal has experienced a marked decline in its share of digital wallet checkouts as competitors capture more volume and shifts in how consumers shop online reduce the benefit of branded checkouts. Bernstein estimates PayPal’s share has fallen to roughly 40% today from about 90% in 2017 and near 50% in 2023. Faster growth among digital wallets, incr…
Major brokerages this week highlighted a mix of upgrades and reiterated buys across software, semiconductor and industrial suppliers as AI-related sentiment pressures have driven selective selloffs. Citi screened for software names whose terminal multiples have compressed despite positive earnings revisions, flagging a set of firms it says are well…
Bernstein says the China Internet sector has begun 2026 in a muted fashion, but the pace of AI development is proving decisive for relative performance. Analyst Robin Zhu points to Alibaba's Qwen agentic services as a catalyst for its recent outperformance, while Tencent has lagged on chatbot progress even as it extracts AI returns through advertis…
Apple reported stronger-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results driven by a robust iPhone 17 cycle, but Bernstein warns that sharply higher memory prices - including a 237% rise in mobile DRAM and a roughly 70% gain in NAND since Q2 2025 - will lift iPhone costs and erode margins once cost increases fully pass through.
This weekly roundup distills the key analyst actions and rationales affecting four widely followed names: Oracle, Unity Software, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Kraft Heinz. The notes capture upgrades and downgrades, price targets and the central drivers cited by each firm, ranging from balance-sheet concerns and capital-raising plans to produc…
Deutsche Bank strategists warn that Lufthansa’s potential re-entry into Germany’s DAX 40 at the quarterly review on March 4 is no longer assured after a sharp post-strike sell-off reduced the airline’s free-float market-cap buffer. The final list, based on free-float market capitalisation as of Feb. 27 using 20-day VWAPs, will determine whether Luf…
A Barclays proprietary analysis tracking core conventional grocery shoppers finds a clear rotation toward lower-priced formats as 2026 begins. The bank's work highlights Walmart as the primary beneficiary, with accelerating transaction wallet share, while dollar stores and hard discounters also made gains. Specialty grocers moderated and large publ…
The MOEX Russia Index finished the trading session unchanged, with several large-cap issues reporting no price movement. The Russian Volatility Index held steady, while gold, crude and Brent futures all recorded modest gains. The ruble strengthened against both the dollar and the euro, and U.S. dollar futures were marginally lower.
Jefferies analysts argue that a new $550 billion U.S.-Japan investment arrangement presents material commercial and strategic opportunities that institutional investors have not yet fully priced. The deal reduces reciprocal tariffs, prioritises energy, AI infrastructure and critical minerals processing, and carries firm timelines and profit-allocat…
Morgan Stanley says the strong start to the year for energy stocks has closed much of the valuation gap with the broader market, shifting the path for additional upside toward earnings revisions rather than further multiple expansion. The bank flags a soft near-term fundamental backdrop for oil, rising inventories, uneven earnings revisions across …
Market volatility this week was driven in part by position shifts tied to the AI displacement trade, producing sharp declines in several large-cap names across logistics, brokerage and real estate. A subset of semiconductor and software vendors likewise saw material share-price reactions after quarterly reports and guidance updates, while one major…
Morgan Stanley analysts say Tesla's intention to build 100 gigawatts of solar manufacturing capacity reflects a strategic, long-term response to geopolitical risks, supply-chain vulnerability, and rising power needs from next-generation data centers. The bank projects material upside to Tesla Energy's valuation if the program scales, but notes the …
European energy equities have become markedly less responsive to movements in Brent crude over the past two decades, according to a UBS analysis of major oil and gas companies. Using a multi-variate regression across roughly 42,000 observations from 2004 to 2026, the bank finds a long-term decline in the sensitivity of share prices to oil, driven b…
UBS says artificial intelligence has become a central driver of relative stock performance across Europe, with enablers and adopters substantially outperforming names it classifies as vulnerable to disruption. Using an AI-driven scorecard, the bank flags labour- and seat-based service providers, gatekeeper platforms, advertising and content busines…
Bank of America says Germany’s delayed fiscal stimulus is beginning to show up in activity data and has prompted modest upward revisions to growth forecasts for 2026. However, the bank warns that much of the equity market’s recent gains may already price in a stronger recovery than fundamentals support, leaving European stocks vulnerable to a pullb…
