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South Korea experienced intense selling pressure in June, with foreign investors withdrawing a record $30.5 billion from domestic equities. The outflow, amplified by declines in semiconductor and AI-related names and a central bank interest-rate decision that prompted a sidecar trading curb, made South Korea the largest contributor to regional equi…
Frasers Group shares fell after the company released full-year results for the 52 weeks to April 26, 2026, and declined to give earnings guidance for FY27. Strong top-line growth driven by international acquisitions was offset by higher financing costs, asset impairments and a larger net debt position. The board cited the simultaneous pursuit of mu…
As the market readies for the Q2 earnings-driven reshuffle, a quantitative stock-selection program identified a cloud-based document and fax services company that later delivered results underpinning a more than 75% multi-month rally. The same selection process flagged winners in energy, industrials, semiconductors and healthcare, producing large r…
Indonesia's main index advanced at Thursday's close, led by gains in Infrastructure, Financials and Agriculture sectors. The IDX Composite ended up 0.84%, with a handful of mid- and small-cap stocks posting double-digit percentage moves. Commodities and currency markets saw modest declines in oil and gold, and the rupiah strengthened slightly again…
Shares of Partners Group fell sharply after a July 15 H1 2026 business update. The firm reported a record USD 16 billion in new client commitments and AuM rising to USD 186 billion, but warned that elevated redemptions in mature evergreen funds will reduce net assets under management growth by 1-2% in H2 2026 and across full-year 2027. Performance …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a standout quarter with record revenue, expanding margins, and a raised full-year outlook, yet its stock slid sharply in pre-open trading as investors locked in gains after a heavy pre-earnings rally and a sweeping selloff across the semiconductor sector.
United Airlines shares declined in pre-market trading after the carrier's after-hours Q2 2026 report prompted a sell-the-news reaction. While the company beat on second-quarter adjusted EPS and revenue, its guidance for the third quarter came in noticeably below analyst consensus and was accompanied by signs of profit pressure from higher fuel cost…
TotalEnergies shares fell after the company warned that Q2 2026 results will be hit by a sharp slowdown in its Integrated LNG unit and timing issues in production that compressed margins. The stock dropped 1.8% to trade at €69.35 and reached an intraday low of €68.86, pressured further by a Saudi refinery operating at limited capacity and earlier g…
Experian's stock fell after the company disclosed a contraction in its U.S. Consumer Services revenue for the quarter ended June 30 and Deutsche Bank reduced its price target. While group-level organic revenue growth of 7% stayed inside full-year guidance of 6-8%, the pullback in the consumer segment and a softer macro backdrop pressured the share …
Crest Nicholson shares plunged after the Surrey-based builder reported an adjusted operating loss of £11.9 million for the six months to April 30, 2026, versus a prior-year adjusted operating profit of £11.9 million. Revenue, home completions and margins all fell, and management pushed full-year EBIT guidance to the lower end of the £5 million-£15 …
Delivery Hero shares retreated slightly after jumping to a 52-week high at the open, as Uber Technologies launched a voluntary cash takeover offer valuing the company at €41.50 per share. Management and the supervisory board have backed the proposal and major shareholder Prosus agreed to sell its roughly 16.8% stake, but the spread to the offer pri…
Trustpilot Group's stock fell about 10% after the company reaffirmed its full-year outlook rather than raising it, even as first-half bookings and revenue beat company-compiled consensus and North American demand showed marked strength. Management kept guidance for high-teens revenue growth and a 2-3 percentage point improvement in adjusted core pr…
Publicis Groupe shares climbed after the company reported first-half 2026 results showing a second-quarter organic net revenue increase of 4.8%, prompting management to raise full-year organic growth guidance and increase its free cash flow forecast. Durable growth across major regions, an emphasis on AI investment, and recent acquisitions were cit…
Telenor's stock tumbled after the company's Q2 2026 results were accompanied by a marked downgrade to its full-year outlook. Management now forecasts flat to slightly negative organic adjusted EBITDA growth for 2026 and narrowed free cash flow before M&A to about NOK 10 billion. Weakness in Norway and Finland, rising operating costs, contract-relat…
Diploma PLC shares rose after the company reported 15% organic revenue growth in Q3 FY2026 and upgraded full-year guidance to 14% organic growth, increased its operating margin target to 26.5%, and now anticipates roughly 40% earnings-per-share growth for the year. The update marks the seventh straight upward revision to annual guidance and follows…
Indutrade shares jumped 10.2% after the Swedish industrial group released its January-June 2026 interim report ahead of the Stockholm open. Second-quarter net profit rose 23% to SEK 784 million and EBITA climbed 19% to SEK 1.32 billion, comfortably above the nine-analyst Bloomberg consensus of SEK 1,208 million. The company reported a record order …
Shares of Rotork jumped roughly 66.9% today after ABB recommended an all-cash acquisition offer of 503 pence per share for the British flow-control specialist, implying an enterprise value near $5.5 billion. Adding a potential interim dividend raises the total cash consideration to 506 pence per share and values Rotork at about 4.136 billion. Roto…
Ocado plunged after releasing half-year results that fell short of market expectations. Adjusted earnings declined 12% to 31 million excluding one-off termination fees, and the company confirmed delays to two key fulfilment centres. Coupled with leadership succession plans and a job-cutting cost programme, the announcement drove a steep intraday d…
British shares slipped on Thursday as threats from Iran to strike regional infrastructure and ongoing military exchanges with U.S. forces dominated investor attention, offsetting UK GDP figures that came in above expectations. Markets weighed the prospect of a prolonged Strait of Hormuz standoff while oil and precious metals moved modestly.
European equity markets were largely unchanged as investors weighed easing U.S. inflation readings - which have damped near-term Fed hawkishness - against heightened geopolitical risk following U.S.-Iran military actions that have pushed crude to roughly one-month highs. Major regional indices showed little net movement, while attention turned to u…
Tokyo markets closed lower on Thursday, with the Nikkei 225 dropping 2.63% as declines in Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication segments weighed on the index. Advancers were outnumbered by decliners by more than two to one. Several individual stocks posted double-digit moves in both directions, and key commodity and currency benchmarks showed m…
Morgan Stanley identified three Chinese property developers that it believes offer a stronger risk-reward profile should the market endure a prolonged downturn. The bank assessed candidates across landbank quality, execution, scale, growth potential, profitability, financing capacity and leverage, and singled out Seazen Group, China Resources Land …
Equities experienced notable intraday volatility with gains concentrated in payments and electric vehicle names while several semiconductor and enterprise storage stocks posted steep declines. PayPal and Lucid led the advances among large and small caps respectively, while memory and equipment-related shares such as Micron and Lam Research weighed …
Australia's sharemarket finished the trading day with the S&P/ASX 200 effectively unchanged, as weakness in Metals & Mining, Resources and Materials offset strong gains in several individual stocks. The index closed at the same level it opened, while broader market breadth showed slightly more decliners than advancers. Volatility ticked up and key …
Swedish industrial technology group Indutrade AB reported a 23% rise in second-quarter net profit as robust order intake, improved operating margins and ongoing acquisitions supported revenue and earnings growth. Management cited a strengthened order book as a base for the rest of 2026 even as geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic uncertainty per…
