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Options volume in General Dynamics (GD) rose sharply to 2,657 contracts by 11:50 a.m. New York time on Monday, driven almost entirely by call activity. Notable concentrations included a large July 24, 2026 $345 call block and a diagonal spread pairing that involved July 17 and July 24 expirations. The underlying equity traded at $341.50, down 1.43%…
Banks handling SpaceX's initial public offering have received more buy orders than the number of shares on offer, sources familiar with the process told Bloomberg. Institutional books will close on Wednesday at 4 p.m. New York time to allow underwriters to measure demand and advise on pricing ahead of a June 11 price set and trading debut on June 1…
Springview Holdings Ltd suffered a steep mid-day decline, dropping 21.5% to $4.20 after an earlier parabolic rally pushed the shares from about $2.39 to an intraday top above $10.71. There is no identified company-specific news to account for the reversal, suggesting profit-taking and exhausted speculative momentum in a thinly traded micro-cap with…
Options trading in nLIGHT Inc. surged to 8,936 contracts by 11:40 a.m. New York time on Monday, driven almost entirely by put activity. Calls accounted for 472 contracts while puts reached 8,464, led by a December 18, 2026 $40 put that represented 8,259 contracts. Shares traded higher on the session as measures of near-term volatility moved up and …
Options volume in Oscar Health Inc. accelerated to 52,384 contracts by 11:40 a.m. New York time on Monday, driven predominantly by call buying. The session featured heavy trading in several near-term June strikes and a large open-interest position in a January 2027 call, while the company’s shares rose and three-month volatility increased.
TOYO Co Ltd's stock tumbled more than 12% mid-day after unveiling a $357 million plan to build a 1.5 gigawatt heterojunction solar cell facility adjacent to its existing Houston-area module site. While the project targets pilot production within 20 months and about 400 manufacturing jobs, the proposed financing mix - including possible equity issua…
Silver Bow Mining's stock tumbled into a new 52-week low after an intraday slide that pushed the shares well below their May IPO price. The decline extends a post-offering downtrend for the Montana exploration company, driven by a pre-revenue balance sheet, a reported quarterly loss, thin trading volumes and investor concern over a near-term lock-u…
S&P Global Ratings cut Optimum Communications Inc.'s corporate credit rating to 'CCC' from 'CCC+' and assigned a negative outlook, citing rising refinancing pressure, a likely restructuring within a year and the potential for further downgrades if default or a distressed debt exchange becomes probable in the next six months. The U.S. cable operator…
Turkey's equity benchmark, the BIST 100, finished the trading day up 1.22% as gains in leasing & factoring, banking and telecoms stocks propelled the market higher. Market breadth was mixed, with a slightly greater number of declining issues than advancing ones. Key commodity contracts and local FX pairs recorded modest moves.
Poland's WIG30 index closed higher on Monday, supported by gains in Banking, Oil & Gas and Construction sectors. Benefit Systems recorded an all-time high while overall market breadth showed more decliners than advancers. Commodity moves included higher crude and Brent oil prices and a slight drop in gold futures.
Quantinuum shares climbed about 7.5% in morning trading to $60.51, recovering to its IPO price after an early post-listing dip. The move reflects a technical floor at the $60 offering level, investor interest following Microsoft’s new quantum chip announcement, and a tentative $100 million funding commitment from the U.S. Commerce Department under …
Denmark's main benchmark closed lower on Monday, with the OMX Copenhagen 20 losing 1.75% as declines in the Healthcare, Technology and Real Estate sectors outpaced gains elsewhere. Among individual movers, Pandora, Genmab and Carlsberg finished higher, while Zealand Pharma, Novo Nordisk B and FLSmidth posted the largest declines. Market breadth sho…
The Indian government will offer up to 3% of NLC India in an offer for sale, selling a base 2% stake with an option to offload an additional 1% if subscriptions exceed demand. The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management announced the plan on X. The floor price is set at 303 rupees per share, a 9.8% discount to the company’s last close,…
Situational Awareness, an AI-centered hedge fund led by Leopold Aschenbrenner, has expanded to more than $20 billion in assets under management after dramatic performance since its inception. The fund has posted roughly 270% gains after fees year-to-date through May and is up over 1,000% after fees since launching under two years ago with only a fe…
Cipher Mining shares climbed sharply after the company's subsidiary, Stingray Compute LLC, revealed plans to issue $810 million of senior secured notes due 2031 to complete construction of the 70 MW Stingray Facility in West Texas. The facility is fully pre-leased to Amazon under a long-term agreement that includes AWS guarantees and rent escalator…
Lululemon Athletica's shares tumbled roughly 8% after the company trimmed its annual profit outlook, underscoring investor anxiety about the pace of its turnaround and the obstacles awaiting incoming CEO Heidi O'Neill. The decline follows a proxy battle with founder Chip Wilson, several product quality and fit complaints, and a pullback in sales th…
US carriers recorded nearly $6.5 billion in jet fuel spending in April, a 78% increase from the prior year and a 26% jump from March, driven by higher jet fuel prices tied to ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Airlines cut fuel consumption slightly, but the cost pressures have forced an airline shutdown and prompted a downgraded industry profit o…
A report from the Danish National Audit Office says the purchase and lifecycle support of 27 F-35 fighter jets will require 14 billion kroner ($2.2 billion) more than the defense ministry had reported, raising the program's total 30-year price tag to 71.2 billion kroner and prompting criticism of the ministry's oversight and transparency with parli…
Moroccan equities closed higher on Monday in Casablanca, with the Moroccan All Shares index rising 0.59%. Gains in banking, beverage and transport-related names supported the advance, while several miners and technology-related names recorded notable declines. Energy futures climbed and gold futures edged lower amid modest currency moves.
Microsoft (MSFT) is locked in a pronounced downtrend on the 2-hour chart, trading at $413.14 and sitting just above the 200-period moving average at $408.34. Key trend tools including the SuperTrend, Ichimoku Cloud and the 50MA have been breached, confirming the bearish regime. At the same time, momentum and volatility metrics - RSI at 32.06 and AT…
Tesla (TSLA) is trading at $404.22 on the 2-hour chart, positioned between an entrenched bearish trend and a key support band at $390–$395. Buyers printed a bullish engulfing candle at a high-volume support cluster and the 200MA, yet multiple trend indicators remain bearish. Traders face a narrow path: a break below $388 could accelerate selling, w…
Cipher Digital Inc. plans an $810 million high-yield bond offering to finance the completion of its Stingray data center in West Texas, which Amazon will occupy under a 15-year lease. The deal, arranged by a syndicate of global banks, underscores how speculative-debt markets are underwriting large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure projects tied to …
Mizuho argues that concerns about Broadcom losing ground in custom AI chips are exaggerated and recommends buying the recent share-price dip. Analyst Vijay Rakesh highlighted a projection that Google TPU shipments could reach roughly 35 million units by 2028, and said that combined TPU sales and related data center infrastructure deals could create…
The Oslo market closed lower on Monday with the OBX index down 0.57%, weighed by losses across the Media, Transport and Diversified Financials sectors. Yara International was the session's largest faller, while TGS NOPEC, Kongsberg Gruppen and Subsea 7 were among the few index members that advanced. Energy benchmarks moved higher and gold futures s…
Vulcan Materials stock fell about 2.5% to $275.12 after the company finalized two simultaneous transactions: the divestiture of its California ready-mixed concrete operations and the acquisition of Brannan Sand & Gravel's aggregates assets in southern Colorado and Dallas-Fort Worth. Management described the actions as consistent with an aggregates-…
