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As part of an $18 billion settlement with multiple U.S. states, Meta has agreed to strengthen its methods for verifying the ages of users on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The deal requires a range of protections for users under 18, including usage limits and improved detection of accounts belonging to children under 13, but it does not …
ONEOK shares climbed after the company announced it will buy Brazos Midstream’s Permian Midland Basin natural gas gathering and processing assets for $4.425 billion in cash, financed through a $9 billion nonvoting minority equity investment from Apollo-managed funds. Management told investors the deal will more than double the company’s combined Mi…
Shares of Howmet Aerospace, GE Vernova and Siemens Energy moved lower in premarket and early trading after Elon Musk posted on X that SpaceX and Tesla are planning 100 gigawatts per year of solar manufacturing capacity, and that SpaceX will take turbine-blade and vane casting in-house to speed up natural gas turbine deployment.
Monday's trading session featured divergent moves across major market-cap groupings. Electric-vehicle giant Tesla posted gains, while Alibaba fell. The day produced sharp winners and losers from mega-cap names down to small-cap equities, reflecting a broadly mixed market tone. Below are the principal movers categorized by market-cap range.
Howmet Aerospace experienced an intense spike in put-option activity alongside a 6.5% slide in its stock price to $247.62. Put contracts accounted for the bulk of action, led by large Sept/Dec diagonal put spreads, while three-month volatility climbed to 34.76%, and skew favored downside protection. Technical indicators show the shares deeply overs…
Canadian Natural Resources topped the Toronto Stock Exchange volume list, trading more than 12.7 million shares as energy stocks dominated market activity. Suncor and Enbridge also saw outsized turnover, while materials, financials and high-yield telecoms registered notable volume. Tariff announcements and targeted analyst upgrades were cited as pr…
Webuy Global's stock rallied sharply after the Singapore-based travel and e-commerce company reported record preliminary unaudited travel bookings of about $4.76 million from the three-day NATAS Fair in August 2026, a 42% rise from the March 2026 event. The mainstream Webuy Travel brand generated roughly $3.74 million of bookings, while the premium…
The Nasdaq 100 has been confined to a tight five-hour trading range between 29,101 and 29,692, sitting close to key moving averages and the VWAP. With falling volatility and low volume, the setup resembles a compressed market ready for a breakout; traders are watching for confirmed closes outside the range to validate directional moves.
Tesla (TSLA) is trading near $362.59 and is pressed up against a cluster of technical resistance at roughly $365.50, where the 50% Fibonacci retracement and the upper Bollinger Band coincide. The 5-hour trend shows bullish structure - price sits above the Ichimoku Cloud and the 50-period SMA - but a soft ADX reading (14.44) suggests the move lacks …
On the 5-hour chart the S&P 500 formed a pronounced bearish engulfing candle at 7,683.75, compressing price against a critical 7,660 support line inside an 85% complete descending triangle. Momentum indicators - including SuperTrend, Ichimoku positioning, MACD and RSI - align with downside bias, while shrinking volume suggests a buildup ahead of a …
NVIDIA is trading inside a narrow 5-hour range between $216 and $225, with a pivotal support cluster at $210 to $215. The long-term trend remains intact while key momentum indicators are softening. A confirmed close below $210 on the 5-hour chart would likely intensify bearish momentum and target the 200-period simple moving average at roughly $210…
Micron (MU) is trading around $943 on the 5-hour timeframe and is caught between a high-volume congestion band and a key resistance at $970.85. Momentum indicators are weakening and volume is falling, meaning bulls need a convincing 5-hour close above the $970.85 neckline - with rising volume - to avoid a likely bull trap. The pattern resembles an …
Microsoft's price reached $508.06 on the 5-hour chart, standing 1.8% below a rejection high of $517.73 and roughly 19.7% above its 200-bar simple moving average. The Money Flow Index is at 87.7, signaling overbought conditions. While trend indicators remain bullish above $494.61, traders face elevated risk of mean reversion and a high-volatility tr…
Intel is trading inside a tight, bearish consolidation between $85.00 and $95.00 on the 5-hour chart. The pattern resembles a bear flag: price remains below several major technical barriers while early signs of buyer interest — a higher low at $85.29 and an attempted MACD bullish crossover — suggest potential, but unconfirmed, fatigue among sellers…
Industry research from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo indicates Nvidia has restarted development of the Rubin CPX product line, with mass production slated to begin in the first quarter of 2027. The refreshed CPX design alters GPU specifications, memory capacity, rack layout and interconnect topology and is intended to operate in a 1:1 pairing with the Vera …
Shein priced its Hong Kong initial public offering at the midpoint of the marketed range, raising HK$13.60 billion ($1.74 billion) by selling 280 million shares at HK$48.56 each. The Hong Kong public portion was subscribed 5.63 times, while the international tranche was subscribed 2.59 times. The Singapore-based, Chinese-founded company plans to us…
Chevron shares climbed in morning trading after U.S. forces struck Iranian missile launchers near the Strait of Hormuz, prompting a jump in crude oil prices. The stock's move was reinforced by a major U.S. agreement with Venezuela that allocates a majority share of production from large fields to the United States and by Chevron's strong recent ear…
Morgan Stanley singled out three Latin American technology companies that it views as leading the region’s tech opportunity set. The bank emphasized recurring revenue strength, margin resilience and the potential upside from artificial intelligence adoption, while noting mixed quarterly earnings and adjustments to price targets to reflect higher in…
A broad upswing in Canadian energy, construction and materials stocks pushed several TSX-listed companies higher, with Methanex Corporation posting the largest intraday gain. Oil and gas names comprised the majority of top movers, while certain chemicals and fertilizer players showed strong one-year returns but face valuation pressures.
Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer said workers, Volkswagen management and political leaders must coordinate to limit the fallout from job and capacity reductions at Volkswagen, the region’s largest private employer. Kretschmer reiterated the need to make manufacturing in Germany more competitive, warned that a decision on the future of the …
Alibaba American depositary receipts slid about 3.0% in morning trade, pressured by a recent fiscal Q1 FY2027 earnings shortfall, a large HK$80 billion share placement to fund AI initiatives, and continuing securities fraud litigation. The stock opened near $116.72 and traded around $115.40 as investors weighed dilution, profitability headwinds fro…
Bloom Energy shares fell in morning trading, hit by a public call from law firm Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer for investors to seek a leadership role in an existing securities class action ahead of the September 28, 2026 deadline. The move revived scrutiny from a July 8 short-seller report about scandium sourcing, while a separate analyst note showing Bl…
Brent rose 5.9% to $91.19 and WTI climbed 3.4% to $86.27 after renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities. With a significant share of Gulf exports offline, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz greatly reduced, and the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve at its lowest level since 1982, analysts say the technical and fundamental setup could push crude back toward …
CrowdStrike shares climbed in morning trading after the company opened its Fal.Con 2026 conference in Las Vegas with a string of partnership and product disclosures that expand the Falcon platform across cloud, data and identity security. The event, attended by more than 10,000 people, coincided with recent record fiscal Q2 2027 results that booste…
Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO after a 15-year tenure, moving into the role of executive chairman while long-time hardware chief John Ternus prepares to assume leadership. The transition lands with Apple valued at $4.67 trillion and shares trading near $320 as investors eye near-term product events, services margins, and the company’s AI roadmap.
