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Shares of Craneware Plc tumbled after the company said it now expects full-year revenue of $205 million to $208 million and adjusted EBITDA of $65 million to $67 million for the year ended June 30, falling short of market forecasts. Management attributed the shortfall primarily to timing of eligible activity under the U.S. 340B drug discount progra…
InvestingPro is offering a temporary price reduction that lets subscribers access its full suite of tools - including ProPicks AI, WarrenAI, Vision AI, and Fair Value - for under $7 a month during the promotion. ProPicks AI’s June selections produced significant single-month gains across semiconductor, healthcare, and mid-cap plays in the U.S., and…
Pirelli shares climbed after an Italian newspaper reported that Michal Strnad and Pavel Tykac have approached Sinochem about buying 10-20% of the Chinese conglomerate’s 34.1% stake in the tyre maker. The potential transaction faces obstacles, including price disagreements and recent Italian government restrictions on Sinochem’s boardroom influence.…
British equities climbed on Friday after US nonfarm payrolls for June came in well below expectations, reducing near-term Federal Reserve tightening odds. Thin liquidity ahead of the US Independence Day holiday left European markets exposed to larger moves, while a pause in US-Iran negotiations for a national funeral and shifts in oil and gold pric…
European equity markets extended a record run after US payrolls came in weaker than expected, prompting investors to pare back chances of an imminent Federal Reserve rate increase. Positive signals from the European Central Bank's Sintra forum and progress in U.S.-Iran talks further supported gains, with major regional indices and select stocks adv…
Japan's stock market closed higher on Friday, with the Nikkei 225 advancing 1.53% as Real Estate, Banking and Textile sectors drove the rally. Semiconductor-related and memory-related names posted strong gains, while several large caps, including a major retailer and two industrial companies, ended lower. Market breadth was positive and implied vol…
Goldman Sachs upgraded A.P. Moeller-Maersk from sell to neutral and raised its 12-month price target to 16,000 Danish crowns, citing a less severe deterioration in container shipping supply-demand dynamics heading into 2027. The bank boosted its 2026 and 2027 EBITDA forecasts, flagged slower net fleet growth driven by higher vessel delivery slippag…
UOB Kay Hian singled out five companies across China’s automotive and battery supply chain as top buy candidates, citing margin outlooks and exposure to tightening raw-material markets. The brokerage sees regulatory measures to rein in price competition among automakers as a stabilizing force for component suppliers in the second half of 2026, whil…
Hong Kong's securities regulator is preparing a targeted enforcement campaign to tighten supervision of the bookbuilding process used in initial public offerings. The effort will examine how underwriters allocate shares and engage with institutional investors, with an emphasis on enforcing existing bookbuilding rules rather than creating new regula…
June’s market rotation, prompted by a repricing of yields after the Federal Reserve adopted a higher-for-longer stance, produced a broad pullback among capital-intensive large caps and steered capital into mid-cap stocks with disciplined balance sheets and expanding margins. ProPicks AI’s July rebalance captured that movement: it took profits on tw…
Australian shares finished Friday with solid gains as strength in gold, healthcare and metals & mining stocks lifted the S&P/ASX 200 by 1.37%. A handful of individual names, including PEXA Group and Objective Corp, posted steep declines, while volatility indicators and commodity prices showed mixed moves.
J.P. Morgan added Auto1 Group to its Positive Catalyst Watch ahead of the company’s second-quarter results, maintaining an overweight rating and a December 2027 price target of €37. The bank’s Q2 gross profit forecast is tracking roughly 2% above consensus, underpinned by higher-than-expected unit volumes, while it trimmed parts of its FY27 profit …
Moody's has placed South32's issuer and commercial paper ratings on review for downgrade after the miner agreed to sell a suite of aluminium assets to Alcoa for consideration of up to $5.6 billion. The transaction materially reduces South32's operating footprint and commodity diversification - removing assets that produced around 37% of underlying …
Taiwan's benchmark rose at Friday's close, led by strength in the Plastic, Chemical and Semiconductor sectors. The Taiwan Weighted index gained 1.94% as a trio of stocks each climbed near double-digit percentages, while several other issues posted sharp declines. Oil and gold futures moved higher and currency indicators showed modest shifts.
ElevenLabs is holding preliminary conversations with investors about a secondary tender offer that could put the synthetic-voice specialist's valuation near $22 billion. The move, if completed, would let existing shareholders sell shares rather than bring in fresh capital and follows a February financing that valued the company at $11 billion. Mana…
Shares of companies that supply Apple climbed across Asian markets after a Nikkei Asia report said Apple intends to increase production of its next-generation iPhones, including a higher-than-expected run of foldable units, and to introduce at least five new models spanning the second half of 2026 and the first half of 2027. The move boosted suppli…
Kuaishou Technology shares ticked higher after the company revealed that its Kling AI unit secured roughly RMB 19 billion from a group of investors led by major tech players. The transaction sets a $15 billion pre-money valuation for Kling AI, dilutes Kuaishou’s stake to about 68%, and establishes an independent commercialization path for the subsi…
Samsung Electronics shares climbed 8.8% on Friday, reversing a sharp drop from the previous trading day. The rebound followed a market-wide sell-off that activated circuit breakers on the KOSPI and amplified losses through leveraged single-stock ETFs. Traders and short-covering drove much of the recovery, while investor enthusiasm about Samsung’s a…
Australia's financial crime regulator has confirmed that Sportsbet has completed mandated upgrades to its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing controls. AUSTRAC accepted a remediation undertaking from the Flutter Entertainment-owned bookmaker in 2024 after identifying deficiencies in areas such as risk assessment, customer monitori…
Shares of several Chinese suppliers to Tesla climbed after the automaker reported a record 480,126 vehicle deliveries in the June quarter. The results, driven by robust sales in Europe and modest growth in China, have renewed hopes of a rebound following two years of declining sales. Supplier gains were seen across Mainland and Hong Kong trading, w…
Anthropic has increased efforts to prevent unauthorised access to its Claude AI models from Chinese companies after identifying multiple workaround methods. The company found use of overseas subsidiaries, cloud infrastructure and virtual private networks to reach its services, practices that it says violate its terms of service even if they do not …
Sumitomo Chemical's stock climbed sharply after Dongwoo Fine-Chem, its wholly owned South Korean subsidiary, reached a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with Samsung Electro-Mechanics to manufacture glass core substrates. The planned company - tentatively named GlaSSEM - involves a roughly 480 billion won investment, with Samsung holding…
Sumitomo Metal Mining shares rose 4.3% to ¥7,842 on Friday, driven by a sharp rebound in gold and sustained strength in copper. The metals rally followed a weak U.S. jobs report for June that reduced odds of further Federal Reserve rate hikes, bolstering commodity-linked equities. Recent corporate governance steps and an earlier analyst upgrade hav…
Workers at BHP's South Flank and Mining Area C iron ore sites in Western Australia have approved a new four-year labour agreement by a 58% to 42% margin, unions reported. The deal, which affects 1,814 employees and saw 1,618 cast ballots, guarantees a 16% pay increase over the term, boosts site-based allowances and establishes a payment for delayed…
Shares of Dentsu Soken climbed nearly 15% to 2,717 JPY on Friday after a report said parent Dentsu Group is coordinating with Fujitsu to take the IT firm private. The plan would see Fujitsu and a trading house invest roughly ¥200 billion to purchase the roughly 38.2% of shares held outside the parent, while Dentsu Group retains its roughly 61.8% ho…
