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Tommaso Dragotto, founder and chairman of Sicily by Car, has been placed under police protection after a company vehicle depot in Palermo was set alight, destroying 11 cars. The blaze is the third arson attack on the business in 80 days. Authorities have arrested eight suspects on charges including extortion and attempted murder, aggravated by alle…
U.S. equity futures rose in early trading as investors weighed hopes for a U.S.-Iran peace arrangement and awaited the potential market impact of SpaceX's IPO. Artificial intelligence-related stocks led gains in the premarket, while shares of Medline fell after law firms opened investigations tied to disclosures about an FDA warning letter. Sailpoi…
Barclays says U.S. non-residential construction has likely reached a trough in square footage after a multi-year decline, with growth concentrated in AI-related data center megaprojects and power infrastructure. The bank raised its construction starts forecast above consensus, but warned of headwinds including interest rates, inflation, public fund…
Adobe's stock fell after quarterly results and guidance revisions prompted several analyst downgrades. Firms flagged a strategic pivot toward freemium growth, downward adjustments to organic ARR expectations and executive turnover - including the announced departure of CFO Dan Durn - as key reasons for reduced enthusiasm among investors.
South Korea’s SK Hynix has decided to pursue a U.S. listing on the Nasdaq, according to sources familiar with the matter. The move, expected as early as August, follows a more than 230% rally in the company’s shares this year and is intended to attract investors focused on AI-linked technology names. The company has confidentially filed for a U.S. …
Jefferies analysts say a presidential decision on refined copper tariffs could come later this month, with potential implementation beginning January 1, 2027 at a 15% rate and rising to 30% on January 1, 2028, or the White House may delay implementation by six to twelve months. The investment bank identified major miners most exposed to U.S. copper…
Rolls-Royce stock rose sharply after a key analyst upgrade and fresh sector data reinforced the company’s relative strength among European engine makers. Berenberg upgraded the stock to Buy and lifted its price target, while flight-hour metrics and May widebody engine resilience provided further support. The move came alongside a broadly risk-on ma…
Sharon AI Holdings saw its shares leap 25% after unveiling a six-year strategic compute collaboration with NVIDIA that will add 72 megawatts of data center capacity in Australia and scale to as many as 40,000 Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs. The agreement uses NVIDIA’s DSX AI factory design and a revenue-sharing, credit-support structure that aligns the…
Safran shares climbed 4.1% to €307.50 after a mix of targeted investments, encouraging quarterly results and a positive sector review from Berenberg. The bank's note - which upgraded Rolls-Royce and reiterated a favorable view on Safran with a €355 price target - helped push aerospace names higher, while Safran's own capital projects and strong Q1 …
Oman India Fertiliser Company (OMIFCO) has set an initial public offering in Muscat to raise as much as 261 million Omani riyals ($678 million) by selling existing shares representing 25% of the company. The offering, priced between 146 and 156 baisas per share and valuing the business at up to $2.71 billion, allocates 60% to institutional investor…
Nvidia has begun direct outreach to Chinese cloud and data-center operators to sell its new Arm-based Vera CPU, telling potential buyers the chip could be available as soon as August and that orders are already being accepted. The move is part of a strategic effort to regain access to the Chinese market after U.S. export controls limited sales of N…
ENN Natural Gas Co. has terminated a planned corporate restructuring that would have included an approximately $11.5 billion offer to acquire ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. The Shanghai-listed company cited uncertainty over obtaining necessary regulatory approvals in mainland China and Hong Kong as the reason for calling off the deal, while indicating it…
British equities edged higher on June 12 after U.S. President Donald Trump said a peace deal with Iran could be signed soon. The blue-chip FTSE 100 and midcap FTSE 250 posted gains, supported by homebuilders and travel names, while energy shares fell as oil prices eased. Separately, official data showed the UK economy contracted in April and a Bank…
Futures tied to Canada’s resource-heavy main index climbed on Friday as signs of a potential U.S.-Iran settlement weighed on oil and provided some support to gold. Investors also turned attention to SpaceX, which is set to begin trading after pricing the U.S. market’s largest-ever initial public offering. U.S. futures rose notably, and markets pars…
MTU Aero Engines shares climbed roughly 3.5% to €317.5 after a sector-wide uplift in European aerospace stocks triggered by a bullish note from Berenberg and a more favourable global risk backdrop. While market commentary pointed to easing geopolitical tensions around Iran and a general risk-on tone, Berenberg's analysis of engine manufacturers and…
Medline stock fell 2.0% in pre-market trading to $36.40 amid newly announced securities fraud investigations and renewed regulatory scrutiny after an FDA warning letter. The company has been coping with a post-earnings pullback driven by weaker profitability, tariff-related import costs and margin pressure, while a large late-May secondary share sa…
Citi has upgraded Advanced Micro Devices to Buy from Neutral and increased its price target to $575 from $460, arguing that the market has not fully priced AMD's emergence as a credible second source in the GPU market. The bank raised near-term earnings estimates, flagged a large Meta deal as central to its thesis, and substantially increased its A…
New Oriental Education & Technology shares rose in pre-market trading after Goldman Sachs raised its rating to Buy and set a $65 12-month target. The bank highlighted an unusually low forward valuation, a large net cash buffer and expected margin expansion, while broader U.S. market strength amplified the move.
SailPoint Technologies stock is trading lower in pre-market hours after its fiscal first quarter 2027 report left investors focused on forward guidance that missed consensus. While the company beat on adjusted earnings per share and topped revenue forecasts, a Q2 EPS midpoint and full-year revenue range that came in under or at the low end of analy…
Wolfe Research opened coverage of SpaceX with an Outperform rating and a $175 price target following the company’s historic IPO priced at $135 a share. The firm valued the offering at $75 billion raised and a $1.77 trillion market capitalization. Wolfe’s thesis emphasizes steep revenue growth and margin expansion driven by Starlink connectivity and…
Goldman Sachs cites three principal factors - energy market uncertainty driven by natural gas dynamics, a firmer interest-rate backdrop, and Europe’s relatively small allocation to artificial intelligence-related technology stocks - as the main reasons European equities have underperformed global markets by roughly 7% since the conflict began.
Citi Research warns that failure by the UK government to reach its NATO-committed defence spending target would materially cut the fair values of several UK defence contractors. The bank models outcomes under three spending paths - 3.5% (Citi base case), 3.0% and the government-proposed 2.68% of GDP - and shows Babcock, BAE Systems and QinetiQ woul…
Officials from France said senior executives from leading AI and technology firms are expected to attend the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains from June 15 to 17. The gathering of G7 heads of state and EU representatives will include a working lunch with business leaders to discuss technology regulation, AI infrastructure and networks, and leaders will …
Air India will defer aircraft deliveries, reduce flights and postpone expansion projects as majority owner Tata Group orders the carrier to focus on cutting a record annual loss of roughly $3 billion. The airline is negotiating with Airbus and Boeing to slow deliveries of as many as 500 previously ordered planes and is reassessing route launches an…
India's major equity benchmarks finished higher on Friday, led by strength in Real Estate, Banking and Consumer Durables. The Nifty 50 rose 1.99% and the BSE Sensex 30 added 2.30% as a broad swath of stocks advanced. Volatility eased with the India VIX falling to a three-month low, while commodities and currencies moved with mixed direction.
