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German equities finished the session higher, with the DAX up 0.48% at the close in Frankfurt. Strength in Software, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Media stocks underpinned the advance. Market breadth was mixed, with slightly more decliners than advancers, while volatility and shifts in commodity prices were notable alongside modest FX moves.
French equities finished the session higher, with the CAC 40 rising 1.15% and the SBF 120 up 1.10%. Gains were concentrated in the Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Industrials sectors, while a handful of large-cap names lagged. Commodity and currency markets moved unevenly, and volatility on the CAC 40 options gauge hit a fresh 52-week high.
Belgian stocks finished higher on Thursday, with the BEL 20 index advancing 0.69% as gains in Healthcare, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors buoyed the market. Argen-X, UCB and KBC Groep were the top performers, while Umicore, Melexis and Anheuser Busch Inbev recorded the steepest falls. Market breadth was narrowly positive and commodity and cur…
FINRA has removed the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule that required an account to hold at least $25,000 if it executed four or more day trades within a rolling five-business-day window. The change replaces the static threshold with a real-time, margin-based risk framework that permits margin accounts with minimum balances as low as $2,000. Industry p…
The OMX Stockholm 30 finished the trading day up 0.03% as gains in the Healthcare, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors helped lift the index. AstraZeneca, Hexagon B and Evolution were the session's top performers, while Ericsson B, Boliden and Tele2 recorded the largest declines. Broader market breadth was slightly positive, and commodity and currency…
The OMX Helsinki 25 slipped 0.89% at the close on Thursday, weighed down by losses in Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Utilities. Nokia recorded the steepest drop among major constituents, while Qt Group, Orion and TietoEVRY were the session's notable risers. Commodity markets saw crude and Brent futures fall, while August gold futures advanced. Currency pa…
Online brokerage shares climbed after FINRA's repeal of the pattern day trader rule took effect, removing the $25,000 minimum equity requirement and the four-trades-in-five-days trigger. The SEC-approved change, announced in Regulatory Notice 26-10, replaces the old designation with a technology-driven intraday margin framework. Robinhood, Webull a…
Liftoff Mobile Inc. raised $437 million in its U.S. initial public offering, selling 19 million shares at $23 apiece. The stock opened at $25.10 on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and climbed 9.1% in debut trading. Filings place the company's market valuation at $4.18 billion based on outstanding shares. Proceeds will be used to repay senior secure…
Shares of Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ: CELH) fell roughly 4% on Thursday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a review of the company and its Alani Nutrition unit. The probe is focused on whether the Alani Nu energy drink - which contains 200 mg of caffeine per 12-ounce can - is being marketed in ways that could mislead parents and younge…
Meta is reported to be building a highly personalized, agentic AI assistant using its Muse Spark model and is testing internal prototypes. The initiative includes work inspired by the OpenClaw open-source project and a separate internal agent codenamed "Hatch," with a planned Instagram shopping integration before the fourth quarter. The moves come …
Denmark's main index closed sharply higher on Thursday, driven by strong gains in select healthcare and shipping names. The OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 2.09% at the close, with Zealand Pharma and both share classes of AP Moeller - Maersk among the session's top performers. Energy and renewable-related names weighed on the downside as commodities and cur…
Blue Owl Capital shares rose sharply in morning trading after the firm participated in a $300 million private credit facility for Perk and as reports surfaced that its data center unit, Stack Infrastructure, is weighing a sale of its Asia operations for more than $30 billion. The move came as markets rotated into financial and value names, helping …
Goldman Sachs provided a set of revenue projections for SpaceX that envision rapid expansion of the company's artificial intelligence business to $322 billion by 2030, up from $3.2 billion in 2025. The bank also projects total SpaceX revenue of $474 billion in 2030 versus $18.7 billion last year, and expects near-term AI revenue to climb sharply in…
Goldman Sachs' internal forecasts, circulated to a potential investor, predict a dramatic expansion in revenue from SpaceX's artificial intelligence division - from $3.2 billion in 2025 to $322 billion by 2030 - and project total company revenue rising to $474 billion in 2030 from $18.7 billion in the prior year. The projections include intermediat…
Snap Inc. has acquired Illumix, a spatial augmented reality firm founded in 2017, and will fold the company's technology and most employees into its operations to advance development of its updated Specs glasses. Financial terms were not disclosed. Illumix is known for bridging digital and physical spaces and for co-developing an AR version of the …
Jefferies downgraded CMS Energy from Buy to Hold and cut its price target to $74 from $88, pointing to growing uncertainty after the sudden retirement of CFO Rejji Hayes, slow progress on data center contracts relative to peers, and an unclear strategic path for the NorthStar unregulated business. The firm says core regulated utility fundamentals r…
Manus has integrated Shopify into its conversational commerce platform, enabling users to instantiate and manage e-commerce storefronts through chat. Manus handles storefront generation - including products, branding and layout - while Shopify manages checkout, payments and fulfillment. The connection uses Shopify APIs to synchronize products, pric…
Moroccan equities closed the trading day lower, with weakness centered in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors. The Moroccan All Shares index ended effectively unchanged, while individual movers included gains for Stokvis Nord Afrique, Alliances and LafargeHolcim Maroc and declines for Fenie Brossette, Managem and Mutandis. Commodity markets s…
Meta Platforms has introduced Creator Assistant, an AI-driven feature integrated into Facebook's creator dashboard that offers personalized recommendations based on a creator's content style, performance metrics, and community. The assistant responds conversationally to questions about content outcomes and adapts to creators' goals over time. Separ…
Franklin Resources shares climbed about 4.5% in morning trading after the firm reported preliminary assets under management of $1.78 trillion at the end of May 2026, up from $1.75 trillion at the end of April. The monthly increase reflected market gains and long-term net inflows of $4 billion, including $1 billion at Western Asset Management. Stron…
Goldman Sachs maintains an overweight view on equities over the next 12 months while warning that returns are likely to moderate after a concentrated rally led by technology and AI-related investment. The firm’s Risk Appetite Indicator has climbed above 1.2 - its highest mark since 2021 - prompting recommendations to buy dips selectively and to use…
Medtronic shares climbed sharply in morning trading after the medical-device maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results that topped analyst forecasts, delivered the company’s strongest annual top-line growth in a decade and outlined organic revenue guidance for FY2027. Exceptional growth in Cardiac Ablation Solutions, a dividend inc…
NORWAY - Norway's equity benchmark finished lower on Thursday, with losses concentrated in the Media, Transport and Diversified Financials sectors. The Oslo OBX index closed down 0.59% as decliners outnumbered advancers and commodity prices swung lower for oil while gold rose. This market wrap highlights top gainers and laggards on the Oslo OBX, s…
Israel's equity market closed lower Thursday, with the TA 35 shedding 0.28% to reach a new one-month low. Losses concentrated in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Technology sectors drove the decline, while a handful of large caps, led by Teva Pharmaceutical, posted gains. Market breadth favored decliners as commodities and currency moves accompanied …
Travere Therapeutics shares climbed in morning trading as a sequence of corporate developments - an exclusive licensing agreement for civorebrutinib, long-term Phase 3 data for FILSPARI, and an analyst price-target increase from Citi - reinforced investor enthusiasm. The stock's advance appears driven mainly by company-specific news rather than bro…
