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Tesco shares dropped about 1% after the UK supermarket group reported 1.8% UK like-for-like sales growth for the 13 weeks ended May 30, below analyst expectations near 2.7%. While online sales and Whoosh same-day delivery posted stronger gains, the company left its full-year adjusted operating profit guidance unchanged at 3.0 billion to 3.3 billion…
Enanta Pharmaceuticals said it will move its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antiviral zelicapavir into a registrational Phase 2b/3 trial for high-risk adults in the fourth quarter of 2026, and will start a pediatric Phase 2b study in the third quarter of 2026. The announcement, which followed an End-of-Phase 2 meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug…
Barclays technology analysts have identified more than a dozen networking and interconnect firms that stand to benefit from a projected surge in AI infrastructure spending. They estimate annual investment from Western hyperscalers and AI labs could top $1 trillion - more than $300 billion above current consensus - with further upside possible from …
QuantumScape Corp shares jumped more than 20% in pre-market trading after the company and Honda announced a multi-year collaborative research agreement focused on solid-state battery development and associated manufacturing techniques. The deal follows Honda's completion of a technology evaluation and benchmarking of QuantumScape's platform.
IREN Ltd shares rose about 5% in premarket trading after Jefferies began coverage with a Buy rating and a $79.00 price target. Jefferies analyst Jonathan Petersen pointed to IREN's roughly 6 GW powered land bank, vertically integrated GPU cloud model and large contracts with Microsoft and NVIDIA as foundational to an expected $3.1 billion in annual…
Wednesday’s SEC disclosures show a mix of insider purchases and large sales across U.S. equities. CEO and directors increased stakes at Star Equity Holdings and Franklin BSP Realty Trust, while executives and major shareholders at Applied Materials, Arista Networks, Airbnb, Ingram Micro and Clearwater Analytics executed substantial dispositions. Sm…
Architect Labs raised $24 million in seed financing to develop an AI platform intended to compress the time and cost of designing custom chips. The Palo Alto company will target chip designers and software firms that might adopt bespoke silicon, while investors include venture funds and prominent AI and chip executives.
J.P. Morgan has identified three favored companies in the UK leisure sector as investors weigh the implications of rising political uncertainty and a potentially changing fiscal backdrop. The bank warns that tougher financial conditions and softer consumer confidence could damp discretionary spending, but singles out select travel and gaming firms …
Eos Energy Enterprises reported its first purchase order under a 2 GWh capacity reservation with Frontier Power USA Parent, LLC, for the Redbird 100 MW / 400 MWh battery energy storage project. The announcement coincided with a roughly 9% rise in the companys shares and marks application of Redbird volume to a firm reservation while Eos continues t…
National Vision’s Q1 prints beat EPS and showed margin expansion, yet the stock plunged after management warned of a temporary Q2 traffic disruption tied to an e-commerce replatform. CEO Alex Wilkes tells an exclusive Q&A that the migration was intentional, the technical platform is working as designed, and early post-migration metrics show recover…
Societe Generale's strategy team, led by Alain Bokobza, increased the bank's equity allocation to 55% from 50% and raised commodities to 20% from 5%, while cutting bonds to 25% from 30%. The bank favors U.S. markets with S&P 500 equal-weight exposure, adds geographic diversification across China, Japan and the U.K., and recommends buying gold on di…
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share index closed marginally higher on Thursday, supported by advances in Transport, Hotels & Tourism and Cement sectors. Market breadth was mixed, with slightly more decliners than advancers, while oil and gold prices slipped. Individual movers included strong gains for LIVA Insurance (8280), Almunajem Foods (4162) and …
Ondas Holdings Inc said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cyberhawk, a drone-based infrastructure inspection and intelligence provider, for roughly $125 million. The deal, largely cash-funded, is intended to broaden Ondas' autonomous infrastructure intelligence capabilities by combining Cyberhawk's drone services, AI-enabled analytics…
Zymeworks Inc. rose in premarket trading after announcing a collaboration with Gandeeva Therapeutics to produce cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structural data for antibody drug discovery. The partnership aims to visualize antibody-antigen interfaces at high resolution, addressing challenges associated with small, flexible antigens.
Qtrex Quantum Ltd said it has manufactured a cryogenic chip carrier for a quantum processor interface using its proprietary Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) process. The announcement, based on a design supplied by a major U.S.-based technology company active in quantum computing, pushed the stock up 20% in premarket trading Thursday. The c…
Waymo has filed a recall for almost 3,900 autonomous vehicles in the United States after a software flaw caused multiple robotaxis to drive into closed freeway construction zones. The recall follows a series of incidents in California and Arizona and is the company’s second recall in slightly more than a month. Waymo temporarily limited freeway dri…
D-Wave Quantum said it will release a gate-model quantum computing simulator in September 2026, built around dual-rail error-aware architecture and accessible through its Leap cloud. The firm will offer bundled development packages and support up to 21 qubits in multiple emulation modes. D-Wave shares rose about 3% in premarket trading on the annou…
BMW supervisory board chairman Nicolas Peter said the Chinese automotive market, while the largest globally, has capacity for automakers beyond domestic manufacturers. He also described the U.S. market as stable and important for BMW, pointed to a production-versus-sales imbalance in Europe despite a regional manufacturing strategy, and forecast th…
Enphase Energy stock jumped in premarket trading after Barclays raised its rating and the company began production shipments of a new three-phase commercial microinverter. Barclays flagged the company's solid-state transformer opportunity as a potential multi-billion dollar U.S. addressable market late in the decade, while Enphase said the IQ9S-3P …
Integra LifeSciences shares rose 1.9% in pre-market trading after Argus upgraded the medical technology firm from Hold to Buy and set a $25 price target. The upgrade highlighted renewed confidence in management's ability to engineer a sustained earnings turnaround and steadier revenue growth, noting that prior production constraints have been resol…
Prem AI, a Switzerland-based company that enables enterprises to run artificial intelligence models on their own private infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A round and is targeting a valuation of at least $500 million. The company said it expects to complete the financing in the third quarter and counts hedge funds and law firms am…
Shares of HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. rose sharply in premarket trading after the company disclosed a roughly $220 million, three-year GPU cloud contract through its BUZZ High Performance Computing unit and announced municipal approval to acquire a 32 MW data center in Boden, Sweden. The GPU deployment uses 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in G…
Cruiser Capital Advisors has urged Ashland Inc.'s board to actively pursue a sale of the specialty chemicals company, arguing in a letter that a transaction represents the best risk-adjusted route to boost shareholder value. The firm, aligning in outcome with a recent campaign from another activist investor, highlighted the cost burden of remaining…
Futures tied to Canada’s resource-heavy main exchange rose modestly on Thursday, supported by gains in gold, after an unexpected interim agreement between the United States and Iran dampened the risk of a prolonged oil supply shock. The move came even as the Federal Reserve signalled a more hawkish path for policy, leaving investors weighing lower …
JPMorgan strategists estimate that quarter-end portfolio rebalancing could produce as much as $165 billion in equity sales before the end of June. The bank’s note apportions the potential selling across major institutional pools, with U.S. defined benefit pensions, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, and the …
