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Shares of CH Robinson Worldwide plunged after a Dallas County jury returned a $604 million advisory verdict tied to a 2021 trucking accident that killed three people and injured two. The jury found the freight broker shared responsibility for hiring a carrier with a record of federal safety alerts. The ruling - coming after the U.S. Supreme Court a…
Apple shares climbed about 2.4% to $329.39 after Morgan Stanley raised its price target and the company announced several strategic moves, including regulatory registration of its AI platform in China, a Klarna-backed device leasing program and a vehicle tie-up with Ford. The advances came as the broader Nasdaq slipped, underscoring Apple’s relativ…
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is approaching a major lockup expiration that will free 911.5 million shares shortly after its first quarterly report in August, at a time when the stock is trading near its all-time low and below the $135 IPO price. The upcoming unlock, combined with mixed financials and wide analyst targets, raises the probabi…
Friday's trading session produced pronounced swings across market-cap tiers. Memory and semiconductor-related names such as SanDisk and Micron recorded notable declines, while select large- and mid-cap stocks rallied following analyst upgrades and quarterly results that topped expectations. Small-cap performers included a sharp advance in an insura…
Oracle’s credit risk has spiked as its Credit Default Swap spread climbed to a record 198.23 basis points while the shares trade at $116.71, just above the 52-week low of $116.01. Aggressive capital spending to support a large AI infrastructure push tied to a $300 billion OpenAI contract has flipped free cash flow negative and left the company perc…
U.S. equity benchmarks slipped on Friday and were set for weekly declines as investor attention shifted to higher tech capital spending, fresh tariff measures and escalating geopolitical risk. Stronger-than-expected forecasts from Intel failed to buoy sentiment, while oil price moves and rate-hike probabilities ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting …
BlackRock-affiliated Sopaipilla Investor has started marketing $12.3 billion of investment-grade notes to fund a Meta Platforms data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The offering is a single tranche maturing in 2048, with initial price talk about 287.5 basis points over Treasuries. Proceeds will support a project designed to deliver up to 1 gigawat…
ServiceNow's stock has tumbled roughly 53.9% over the past year, slipping from a 52-week high of $210.20 to $96.70. Despite the selloff, revenue growth remains above 20% and analysts point to a large potential recovery, with average price targets implying about 43% upside and consensus ratings clustered at Strong Buy. The market is focused on wheth…
Khalid Malik’s Meridiem Capital Partners has rebuilt its assets to approximately $1.6 billion following the loss of $1.5 billion in funding from Millennium Management more than two years ago. The firm, now supported by Schonfeld Strategic Advisors as its largest backer, is on pace to reach $2 billion by year-end after Schonfeld increased its invest…
All four railroads that reported second-quarter results beat both earnings-per-share and revenue expectations, led by Norfolk Southern's 8.98% EPS surprise. Beyond the quarterly beats, the dominant development is Union Pacific's pursuit of a merger with Norfolk Southern and Canadian National's agreement to ease regulatory hurdles by accepting compe…
Cadillac Mines Corp. and several selling shareholders raised C$385 million in an upsized initial public offering, with the company and selling holders dividing the proceeds after pricing common shares at C$6.90 and flow-through shares at C$9.52. Agnico Eagle Mines agreed to a concurrent private placement for roughly C$60 million, and the common sha…
Amazon has signaled roughly $200 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, placing it essentially level with Alphabet’s newly raised $195B-$205B guidance. With Amazon set to report on July 30, the market will focus on the cadence of spending, AWS growth, and whether free cash flow can recover from its trough as hyperscalers drive a broad supplier w…
Barclays projects that Alphabet’s planned TPU-as-a-service offering could be a material driver of profit and revenue by 2028. The bank expects the initiative to initially support Anthropic, broaden compute availability across AI developers, and enable Google to sell Tensor Processing Units directly, improving capital efficiency and expanding operat…
Microsoft is trading at $381.86 on the 5-hour timeframe and is caught between a fragile support band at $377-$380 and nearby resistance at $383-$385. Technical indicators show negative momentum, with the MACD and moving averages tilting toward sellers, while short-term supports such as the SuperTrend and the lower Bollinger Band offer limited prote…
Alphabet raised its FY26 capital expenditure guidance to $195B–$205B and said it will expand third-party AI compute capacity beginning in Q3, directly routing demand to neocloud providers. CoreWeave and Nebius emerged as the most prominent potential beneficiaries, while smaller speculative names show new contract wins but face balance sheet uncerta…
Tesla's 5-hour chart plunged to $315.10 in a high-volume gap-down, driving the relative strength index (RSI) to an extreme reading near 18.7 and placing price more than two standard deviations below the lower Bollinger Band. Momentum indicators remain firmly bearish, creating a volatile trading environment where both mean-reversion plays and trend-…
Canada’s main stock index ticked up on Friday, supported by advances in technology and consumer discretionary shares, while investors parsed U.S. corporate results, renewed Middle East hostilities and a fresh round of U.S. tariffs affecting dozens of countries. Oil and safe-haven assets reacted to a string of U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, and Fe…
SK hynix shares dropped 7.1% in U.S. morning trade to $157.42 after opening at $164 as a reversal in AI-related stocks following Alphabet’s post-earnings slide erased the prior session’s gains. Additional pressure came from a TrendForce warning that AI-driven NAND Flash demand will normalize, a Seoul High Court ruling involving SK Group Chairman Ch…
The FTSE 100 closed near record levels, helped by stronger-than-expected UK retail sales and a stronger pound, yet six large-cap constituents show double-digit gaps to model fair value. GSK leads the list with the widest implied upside, followed by LSEG, Diageo, BP, RELX and AstraZeneca, each presenting distinct yield, valuation and cash-flow profi…
A coalition of major technology firms, including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and IBM, published an open letter calling on the U.S. government to endorse open-weight AI models. The group argues that making model weights freely available preserves innovation, equips defenders with tools to counter threats, and keeps AI development within the United State…
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. rallied in morning trading as investors reacted to robust Q2 2026 results, a much stronger-than-expected Q3 adjusted EBITDA outlook, an analyst upgrade and a senior management promotion. The combination of a return to positive free cash flow and reiterated shipment guidance reinforced confidence in the company’s near-term oper…
A concentrated technology allocation exposes portfolios to rate sensitivity, U.S.-centric risk and cyclical earnings swings. This piece outlines six ETFs across distinct asset classes - healthcare, international equity, energy, real estate, dividend value and fixed income - chosen to provide return drivers that are meaningfully different from growt…
SS&C Technologies rallied in morning trading after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded analyst forecasts on both revenue and adjusted EPS, posted record adjusted EBITDA, accelerated organic revenue growth, raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance, and executed its largest quarterly share repurchase to date.
Digital Realty Trust rallied strongly in morning trading after reporting second-quarter 2026 results that topped expectations on both core FFO and revenue, accompanied by a narrowed full-year core FFO guidance range above prior consensus. Record bookings, a larger backlog and meaningful renewal rate gains reinforced the report, while a wave of anal…
RingCentral shares jumped sharply after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded analyst estimates on every major metric and issued a strongly raised full-year outlook. Management highlighted accelerating AI monetization, approved a sizeable quarterly dividend increase, expanded strategic partnerships and a continued share buy…
