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U.S. equity benchmarks closed mixed on Friday as strength in telecom, financials and healthcare stocks lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while losses in technology, utilities and energy pressured the Nasdaq Composite. Market breadth was mixed across exchanges, with notable single-stock volatility on the Nasdaq.
Canada's main equity index rose on Friday, driven by strength in Real Estate, Clean Technology and Healthcare stocks. The S&P/TSX Composite closed up 0.50%, led by notable gains in Mullen Group, Thomson Reuters and Altus Group, while several names including Celestica and Denison Mines declined sharply. Oil prices slipped and volatility eased as the…
Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index closed lower on Friday, slipping 1.52% as losses in the Electric Power, Public Utilities and Financials sectors weighed on the market. Market breadth favored decliners, volatility measures ticked up modestly, and commodity and currency moves were mixed at the close of trade in Sao Paulo.
Alphabet-owned Waymo is reportedly considering terminating its ride-hailing partnership with Uber amid escalating disputes over vehicle operations and financial arrangements. The reported tensions have had immediate market effects on Uber shares and follow a recent split in one U.S. market where the companies previously worked together.
DigitalOcean shares declined sharply after the company completed a repurchase of approximately $472 million of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2030, a move financed entirely through a registered direct offering of about 12.5 million new common shares priced at $117.54 each. The structure of the transaction, in which note holders received equity …
Lightspeed Commerce stock climbed after the company announced a new integration linking its point-of-sale platform to Meta's Conversions API, enabling brick-and-mortar merchants to sync in-store product catalogs and securely send POS transaction data to Meta for ad attribution. The product news arrived ahead of Q1 FY2027 results and helped the shar…
Surgery Partners shares rose after the company said it had put binding signature pages into escrow for the sale of its interests in Mountain View Hospital and Idaho Falls Community Hospital to Intermountain Health. The combined Idaho Falls assets were valued at about $1.15 billion, with Surgery Partners expected to receive roughly $795 million in c…
Vir Biotechnology shares fell after Chief Financial Officer Jason O’Byrne said he will leave to pursue another opportunity. Brent Sabatini, the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, will serve as Interim Principal Financial Officer while the company searches for a permanent successor. The move arrives with an earnings report…
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to extend a pause on their proposed $111 billion merger until June 1, 2027, or until a federal court issues a ruling on a lawsuit brought by state attorneys general seeking to block the deal. A temporary restraining order from a federal judge in Northern California, which initially put a 14-day hold …
Piper Sandler analyst John Royall began coverage of large-cap independent refiners with a modestly positive stance, ranking Marathon Petroleum and Valero Energy as top picks. Royall points to an unusually tight supply backdrop, significant refinery downtime and strong fundamentals extending into next year, while noting mid-cycle valuation pressures…
A federal appeals court has blocked Texas from enforcing a provision of the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act that required social media platforms to monitor and filter user content tied to self-harm, abuse and other harms. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act pree…
Uber shares fell sharply after reports that Alphabet-owned Waymo is weighing an exit from its partnership with the ride-hailing company. Waymo is reportedly discussing terminating agreements that underlie joint operations in Austin and Atlanta, and has notified Uber that it could operate independently in those markets once contracts permit in Janua…
Scribe Therapeutics jumped roughly 48.6% in afternoon trading on its first day as a public company after pricing an upsized IPO at $15 per share. Strong institutional demand, including a Sanofi private placement and Eli Lilly's move to sustain its stake, combined with the company's epigenetic gene-regulation platform and a lead cardiometabolic cand…
A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia and Microsoft publicly urged policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-source artificial intelligence models, arguing that openness supports scrutiny, safety improvements and competition. The appeal, published on social platform X and signed by roughly two dozen organizations including Meta a…
Piper Sandler opened coverage of the Global Integrated Oils sector with a broadly neutral view, giving Chevron an Overweight rating and Neutral ratings to BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil. The firm models an average Brent price of about $80 per barrel through next year and expects refining margins to remain strong, positioning downstream ope…
Options activity in Walt Disney Co. accelerated through mid-afternoon, with total contracts traded reaching 74,329 by 1:30 p.m. New York time. Call options made up the bulk of the flow, and the July 24, 2026 $96 call was the single most-traded strike. Several multi-leg November positions also registered sizable volume. Disney shares were higher on …
The market on Friday produced a wide range of moves across capitalization bands, with chip-related names and financials among the largest decliners while select healthcare and software-related names posted double-digit gains following earnings or analyst actions. Mega-cap names such as SanDisk and American Express recorded notable drops, while mid-…
Insurers and large institutions are signaling greater allocations to private credit, according to a recent survey, even as high-net-worth investor demand cools and regulators probe the sector’s ties to insurance balance sheets. Fundraisers for private-credit secondaries and declining redemption pressure at major funds point to a reallocation toward…
Market participants will focus on the July 27 durable goods report, due at 7:30 AM ET, as a key barometer of manufacturing demand and near-term industrial momentum. The headline is forecast to show a 1.6% rise after a prior 4.5% decline, while core durable goods are expected to slow from recent gains. Later Treasury auctions and regional manufactur…
Qualcomm informed its customers in a letter that it will impose price increases in the double-digit range on certain products shipped after September 1, attributing the move to escalating supplier costs. The disclosure, reported by Bloomberg and noting the company's attempts to source alternative components, comes amid pressure in the smartphone ec…
Northwest European gasoline refining margins rose by $1.81 to $32.67 per barrel on Friday as crude oil prices retreated from the prior session's $100-per-barrel level. Trade in Eurobob E5 and E10 barges was recorded, and a Danish-flagged tanker announced a routing decision tied to security developments in the southern Red Sea after Houthi forces de…
Beumer Group has launched legal action against the European Commission after the regulator declined to refer Vanderlande’s acquisition of Siemens’ airport logistics business for EU-level antitrust review. The dispute centers on whether national authorities in Portugal and Spain - which had asked the Commission to step in - were the appropriate bodi…
At the Farnborough airshow, recruiters and interactive displays aimed at teens like 17-year-old Hassan Butt highlight a widening gap between aerospace demand and the available workforce. The UK aerospace and defence sector faces an estimated shortfall of about 10,000 specialized engineers annually, with an aging workforce and newer technologies, in…
President Donald Trump said the United States will launch a Section 301 investigation into the European Union's practice of fining American technology companies after Google was hit with another penalty. The announcement, made on Truth Social, lists a series of recent EU fines on U.S. tech firms and indicates the U.S. may pursue retaliatory trade m…
Qualcomm notified customers that it will increase prices by a double-digit percentage for products shipped on or after Sept. 1. The company said it has exhausted its capacity to absorb higher supplier costs and has sought alternative components, while broader semiconductor supply constraints driven in part by AI data center demand continue to limit…
