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Creo Medical reported H1 2026 revenue of £3.2 million, a 45% rise year-over-year, while trimming operating costs by 15% and cutting its operating loss by more than 25%. Growth was led by increased use of its Speedboat, SpydrBlade Flex and MicroBlate Fine products and expansion into new markets, notably Latin America. Management kept full-year reven…
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Dotdigital reported £90.9 million in revenue for fiscal 2026, an 8% increase year-over-year. The company said the performance matched market expectations, with acquisitions and AI-enabled product expansion supporting recurring revenue growth and a shift toward higher-margin offerings. Management expects to meet market forecasts for fiscal 2027 desp…
Restore Plc reported a 21% increase in first-half 2026 revenue to £175.40 million, driven equally by organic growth and acquisitions. Adjusted earnings per share rose 24% year-on-year to £0.04. Adjusted pretax profit reached £22.30 million, with statutory pretax profit at £7.40 million. The Information Management division grew revenue by 26%, and t…
Inchcape reported a 9% year-on-year increase in first-half revenue to £4.7 billion, while adjusted operating profit held steady at £248 million and adjusted pretax profit reached £188 million. The company has expanded its share buyback to £250 million and anticipates full-year adjusted EPS growth exceeding 10% for 2026, aligned with its medium-term…
Croda reported 4.6% organic sales growth for the first half of 2026, led by strength in its Consumer Care division. Group sales reached £880.50 million, marginally ahead of the £879.42 million consensus from two analysts. Adjusted operating profit rose 6.7% organically to £155.80 million, lifting the adjusted operating margin to 17.7%, though preta…
Taiwan equities closed lower on Tuesday, with the Taiwan Weighted index down 0.05%. Gains in a handful of mid-cap names were offset by double-digit declines in several stocks, while commodity and currency moves showed modest shifts during the session. Market breadth data reported an atypical 0 to 0 figure for advancing versus declining issues on th…
Albert reported a 4% year-on-year decrease in second-quarter net revenue from continuing operations, with top-line revenue of 35 million Swedish kronor and a net loss of 7.87 million kronor. The company narrowed its EBITDA loss, reported modest positive EBITA, and said the revenue decline reflected lower customer acquisition in late 2025 and the de…
Citigroup has hired three seasoned options traders to its Singapore-based foreign exchange options desk to strengthen regional market-making and risk management capabilities. The appointments coincide with a quarterly rise in markets revenue, including gains in Fixed Income driven by higher FX volumes.
Morgan Stanley published updated ratings for a set of Japanese space-related equities, separating companies by business model, capital requirements and expected time to profitability. QPS Holdings tops the list on an asset-light synthetic aperture radar satellite model with a ¥2,700 price target, while Synspective, SKY Perfect JSAT and ispace recei…
Shandong Zhongji Electrical Equipment Co Ltd, known as Zhongji Innolight, completed a HK$53.4 billion ($6.81 billion) initial public offering in Hong Kong, the city's biggest equity sale since 2019. The company sold 54.5 million H shares at HK$980 apiece, below the top of its marketed range, with trading set to start on July 30. Zhongji manufacture…
Europe's enforcement of Big Tech rules has moved into a costly new phase after regulators used the Digital Markets Act to fine Google €1 billion for favouring its own services. That ruling, together with earlier EU antitrust penalties, has prompted a series of private lawsuits across several countries seeking billions in damages, with plaintiffs an…
LEM reported a 12.4% year-on-year increase in fiscal first-quarter sales to CHF 85.10 million, driven by demand tied to data center cooling, power supply and infrastructure. Operating profit margin widened to 14.6% from 5.5% a year earlier, a gain the company attributed to operational improvements and reduced selling, general and administrative exp…
Apple’s hardware chief John Ternus, set to become CEO in September, said he plans to build on the company’s recent gains in original programming and sports coverage. Executives highlighted Apple TV’s catalogue, exclusive U.S. rights to Formula 1 coverage and bespoke production work on the Brad Pitt film F1 as examples of where the company is concen…
The U.S. Education Department has warned two public school districts - Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland and Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan - that they face potential cuts to federal funding over policies related to transgender students. The department says the districts likely ran afoul of the Family Educational Rights and Priva…
Asian equities fell sharply on July 28, with semiconductor names at the forefront of declines after reports of enormous funding needs tied to AI projects. A drop in oil prices and a modest fall in U.S. Treasury yields did little to soothe investors, who remain focused on the prospect of U.S. interest-rate increases as soon as this week.
Market Technology Acquisition Corp closed an initial public offering of 20,500,000 units at $10.00 each, generating $205.0 million in gross proceeds. Units began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker MTAKU on July 24, 2026. The company intends to deploy net proceeds and concurrent private placement funds toward an initial business co…
Asian equities fell sharply Tuesday, led by substantial declines in South Korea and Japan after renewed investor concern about AI-related spending hit global chipmakers. KOSPI plunged over 9%, triggering trading halts, while the Nikkei dropped as much as 4%. Some Chinese and Hong Kong technology shares showed relative resilience amid domestic optim…
South Korea's KOSPI index fell sharply, dropping 9.2% to 6,134.77 and triggering market circuit breakers, as heavy losses in major semiconductor names weighed on the market amid concerns over AI-related spending and rising competition from Chinese chipmakers. Trading was paused after an 8% decline and later resumed.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission indicated it may impose limits on retail investors' exposure to single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, taking further steps after raising required cash deposits. The announcement came as major domestic chipmakers tied to those ETFs recorded steep declines in Seoul trading.
Oil prices continued to slide in Asian trading after a steep overnight decline, as reports of renewed U.S.-Iran discussions and resumed loadings at a Kazakh export terminal prompted traders to pare back expectations of a broad interruption to Middle East crude flows. Brent and WTI both moved lower, extending a rapid pullback from recent highs above…
South Korean semiconductor equities tumbled on July 28 as investors pared back AI-related positions amid concerns over the financing of AI infrastructure projects and intensifying competition from Chinese suppliers. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell sharply, while the KOSPI benchmark recorded a notable decline.
U.S. equity futures were largely unchanged Monday evening as traders positioned for a crucial week featuring earnings from several large technology firms and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. The mixed regular session reflected easing geopolitical tensions, a decline in oil prices, and renewed scrutiny of AI-related spending following r…
Zhongji Innolight set the offer price for its Hong Kong H-share sale at HK$980 per share on July 28, raising HK$53.41 billion ($6.81 billion) from the placement of 54.5 million shares. The final price sat below the deal’s initial cap of HK$1,010. The listing ranks as Asia’s second-largest equity offering this year and is slated to be Hong Kong’s la…
Taylor Farms informed White House and FDA officials earlier this month that it had grievances with the government inspection process, according to sources. The disclosure comes as U.S. health authorities link an outbreak of cyclosporiasis to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from Taylor Farms de Mexico and as states, notably Michigan, report sharp i…
