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Invesco QQQ Trust dropped nearly 2.0% in morning trading, falling to $726.45 from a prior close of $740.61, after a stronger-than-expected U.S. May jobs report. The report showed 172,000 new nonfarm payrolls and unemployment steady at 4.3%, prompting a rise in the 10-year Treasury yield to 4.54% and pushing up the odds of a rate hike this year to a…
The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) plunged after Broadcom reported AI semiconductor revenue guidance that missed Wall Street expectations. Heavy weightings in domestic chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, combined with offshore selling and pre-IPO cash hoarding, amplified the slide in the KOSPI and pushed EWY to multi-session lows.
The iShares Semiconductor ETF slid 5.3% in morning trading after Broadcom’s post-earnings AI chip forecast came in below analyst expectations. Although Broadcom beat fiscal second-quarter revenue and earnings-per-share estimates, its $16 billion Q3 AI chip sales projection missed the $17.2 billion analyst consensus and management did not raise full…
Booking Holdings shares climbed after Priceline introduced an upgraded AI travel assistant that embeds Anthropic’s Claude into a live, map-driven trip planner. Early internal metrics show users booking through the refreshed Penny assistant save nearly 10 minutes per trip versus traditional support channels. The share move is reinforced by today’s e…
Chipotle Mexican Grill shares jumped after JPMorgan upgraded the stock from Neutral to Overweight and set a December 2026 price target of $35. The bank pointed to management recognition of prior strategic mistakes, initial signs of comparable-store sales improvement, and a valuation that already reflects a slower growth trajectory, arguing the stoc…
President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey will merge the participation banking divisions of three state-owned lenders - Ziraat Bank, VakifBank and Halkbank - into a single entity and pursue a stock market listing for Emlak Katilim Bank. The announcement, made at an Islamic economy event in Istanbul, included no specific timelines or further de…
Berenberg downgraded CrowdStrike from Buy to Hold after the cybersecurity firm reported a strong start to fiscal 2027. While analysts at the bank acknowledge CrowdStrike's leading position in cloud and AI-driven security and raised their price target to $720, they contend that the stock's valuation - roughly 30 times forward enterprise value-to-sal…
JPMorgan upgraded Chipotle Mexican Grill to Overweight from Neutral following meetings with the company's CEO and CFO. The bank says the stock's steep decline creates an attractive entry point even as management shifts priorities from aggressive margin expansion to investments in labor, service, and marketing. JPMorgan projects mid-single-digit rev…
Huntsman Corporation has completed the sale of its Italian automotive components business, Huntsman Gomet, to Trelleborg Group for €42.5 million (about $50 million), a transaction that lifted Huntsman shares in early trading. The divested unit, part of the Polyurethanes division, produced roughly €24 million in revenue in 2025. Proceeds are to be a…
Hillhouse Investment is finalizing terms to acquire a substantial minority stake in LRQA, the UK-based certification and inspection company, from Goldman Sachs Asset Management's alternatives division. People familiar with the matter say the deal could be announced as soon as today, with Goldman retaining majority ownership. LRQA offers services ac…
All In FutureTech Alliance Inc.'s stock dropped about 9% in premarket trading after the company's board authorized a 1-for-6 reverse stock split. The action follows shareholder approval at a Special Meeting and is intended to restore compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement after the company received a noncompliance notice in May.
Goldman Sachs has identified two copper-focused equities as preferred picks as it projects a materially tighter copper market outside the United States through 2026-27. The firm points to reduced mine output, delayed recoveries at key operations, constrained scrap supply in China, and tariff-related shifts in trade flows as drivers of ex-U.S. defic…
Climb Bio Inc. saw its stock fall in premarket trading after the company presented initial translational and Phase 1 safety data for CLYM116, an anti-APRIL monoclonal antibody candidate for IgA nephropathy. The data, shown at the European Renal Association Congress in Glasgow, indicate the drug was generally well tolerated in single doses up to 320…
Futures tied to Canada’s main equity gauge ticked lower on Friday as market participants digested a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report and monitored escalating tensions in the Middle East. The U.S. employment data showed nonfarm payrolls well above forecasts, driving U.S. Treasury yields higher and prompting modest declines across oil, gold an…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc priced an enlarged Series A perpetual preferred offering totaling $280 million, and its common stock fell in premarket trading. The deal increases the previously announced size of the issue and outlines planned uses for net proceeds, dividend mechanics, redemption terms and an expected NYSE listing for the new pre…
Allianz SE is engaged in advanced negotiations to acquire Caravela Seguros, sources with knowledge of the discussions said. Talks involve major shareholders, including London-based Toscafund, which owns 48% and has retained Mediobanca to advise on a potential sale. A separate group of more than 20 investors also intends to sell stakes. The Lisbon-b…
Pinnacle Food Group Limited announced a change in its finance leadership that takes effect June 1, 2026. Wencai Pan was dismissed as chief financial officer and Dr. Yunhao Chen will assume the CFO role. The stock traded down 3.2% in premarket trading on the news. Dr. Chen, an existing independent director since April 2025, will step down from that …
BTIG cut its rating on Lululemon Athletica from Buy to Neutral, pointing to weakening sales trends, lower earnings visibility and uncertainty tied to an upcoming CEO transition. The note follows a mixed first-quarter report, a revised full-year EPS outlook and management guidance showing a year-over-year sales decline in Q2 - the first since the CO…
Corporate insiders and large shareholders filed a series of notable transactions on Thursday, including concentrated purchases by directors at Krispy Kreme, Xometry, Summit Therapeutics, TWFG and LTC Properties, and substantial sales by an Nvidia director, Walton Family Holdings Trust and multiple Silver Lake-affiliated entities linked to Dell Tech…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed on June 5, 2026 that Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron have been certified to supply HBM4 high-bandwidth memory for the company’s new Vera Rubin AI accelerator. The announcement comes as Vera Rubin enters full production following its June 1, 2026 unveiling in Taipei and amid tight global semiconductor suppl…
Nuwellis Inc (NASDAQ:NUWE) shares plunged 65.2% in premarket trading after the company announced a public offering of 20,000,000 common shares with attached warrants priced at $0.30 per share, expected to generate roughly $6 million in gross proceeds. The package includes Series C and Series D warrants with an exercise price of $0.30, exercisable f…
Morgan Stanley published its weekly prescription-tracking figures for select U.S. neurology medicines using IQVIA data for the week ending May 29. The data show modest year-over-year growth in the broader antipsychotic category and for several individual products, while week-over-week comparisons frequently show declines amid a holiday week. Rollin…
BioCardia Inc. (NASDAQ: BCDA) saw its shares surge in premarket trading after the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research provided meeting minutes confirming that the ongoing CardiAMP Heart Failure II Trial may serve as one of the studies to support a Premarket Approval application for the CardiAMP Cell Therapy System. The system targets…
Western Asset Management, a unit of Franklin Resources, has agreed to pay a $100 million civil penalty to resolve Securities and Exchange Commission charges that its former co-chief investment officer engaged in a trade allocation scheme that favored certain portfolios between January 2021 and October 2023. The SEC alleged the firm failed to stop t…
Village Farms International said it has entered into securities purchase agreements to sell 7,500,000 common shares in a registered direct offering that is expected to generate about $15 million in gross proceeds. The announcement prompted an 8.9% decline in the company's shares in premarket trading. The offering, arranged by A.G.P./Alliance Global…
