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Planet Fitness Inc. (NYSE: PLNT) shares climbed 1.7% on Monday following regulatory filings that disclosed open-market purchases by Chief Executive Officer Colleen Keating and board member Frances Rathke. Keating bought 5,000 Class A shares on May 12, 2026 at $49.54 per share, raising her beneficial ownership to 141,511 shares. Rathke acquired 5,00…
Google is running tests that place for-sale home listings inside mobile search results in multiple U.S. markets. The listings, supplied by HouseCanary’s ComeHome platform, appear in a carousel above paid links and include three pay-to-play user actions that send leads to buyer-side agents. The trials mirror December’s short-lived experiment and hav…
A renewed jump in benchmark Treasury yields has heightened risks for segments of the U.S. equity market. Small-cap companies, consumer discretionary and housing-related stocks, dividend-reliant sectors and certain richly valued technology names face particular vulnerability as higher yields lift borrowing costs, erode future cash-flow valuations an…
Edison International and PG&E saw their shares decline after a wind-driven brush fire in southern Simi Valley rapidly expanded, prompting evacuations and a multi-agency firefighting response. The blaze renewed investor anxiety about potential utility liability tied to wildfires in California, a factor that weighed on market sentiment for regional e…
At Dell Technologies World 2026 in Las Vegas, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell told Bloomberg TV that computing is shifting from a cloud-centric model to what Huang called "personal AI" - systems that run AI locally where information and action occur. Both executives warned that demand for AI infrastructure already out…
ACS has unveiled plans to invest about €1.8 billion in digital infrastructure projects including data centres, chip facilities and AI-related assets. The company will raise part of the money through a capital increase equal to roughly 2% of its share capital executed via an accelerated bookbuilding, and will draw a further €1.1 billion from the ter…
Zscaler shares jumped 10% following B. Riley analyst Erik Suppiger’s upgrade from Neutral to Buy. The firm trimmed its price target to $225 from $275 to reflect recent compression in software valuation multiples, while highlighting healthy demand for secure network access, potential benefits from AI adoption, an expanding product set, and what it v…
Zambia’s state investment company ZCCM-IH has formed a joint venture with Mining Mineral Resources to explore, develop and mine gold in the Kikonge Mining Area in North Western Province. The new entity, Kyalo Goldfields Limited, was incorporated on May 6 and is intended to formalize artisanal and small-scale mining while creating processing capabil…
Stocks across market-cap tiers moved unevenly on Monday, with prominent technology and industrial names posting declines while select media and energy-related companies recorded gains. Mega-cap blue chips such as Tesla (TSLA) and Oracle (ORCL) were lower, while Netflix (NFLX) bucked the trend with a modest increase. Mid- and small-cap issues showed…
Traders will focus on a handful of scheduled releases and a Fed speech on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The Pending Home Sales report, due at 9:00 AM ET, and remarks from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, scheduled for 7:00 AM ET, are the headline items. Additional releases including ADP employment data, the Redbook same-store sales index, the …
Bank of America has placed 10 companies in positions 37 through 28 of its 67-stock data center list. The group includes Japanese conglomerates, Chinese component makers, European electrical infrastructure firms and U.S. power management vendors that provide parts and systems used in data center operations. The roster ranges from electronic componen…
Volvo Group has agreed to a $197 million settlement with the California Air Resources Board over alleged violations of the state's heavy-duty engine rules. The agreement resolves claims that Volvo did not properly disclose auxiliary emission control devices in more than 10,000 model year 2010-2016 heavy-duty engines in California, leading to excess…
Delta Air Lines' CEO Ed Bastian defended the carrier's selection of Amazon's in-flight internet service, highlighting the company's retailing and entertainment capabilities and a lower-cost bandwidth offering compared with Starlink. The remarks follow public criticism from Elon Musk and come after Delta announced a March agreement to equip 500 airc…
Italian utility Enel said on Monday it has agreed to acquire seven operational solar facilities in the United States with a combined capacity near 270 megawatts for about $140 million including debt. The assets, located across Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, average roughly 0.4 terawatt-hours of annual generation and are being acquired…
Roblox Corp shares climbed 10% after third-party data showed concurrent users on the platform increased week-over-week over the past weekend, interrupting a 30-week period of broadly declining concurrent users. Analysts say the uptick was driven by stronger engagement in the top titles and several newer games gaining scale, but caution that one dat…
Morgan Stanley raised its wafer fab equipment (WFE) market forecasts for 2026-2028 and adjusted analyst ratings across key equipment suppliers, pointing to persistent memory imbalances, accelerating NAND investment, and stronger demand for leading-edge logic and packaging technologies as drivers of a lengthening cycle.
Anthropic said it has acquired Stainless, a developer tooling company known for generating SDKs, CLIs and Model Context Protocol servers. The move is aimed at enhancing Claude’s capacity to connect with external data sources and tools while Anthropic shifts emphasis toward AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Swiss watchmaker Swatch and luxury partner Audemars Piguet leaned into Gen Z 'product drop' tactics with the Royal Pop pocket watch launch, triggering long queues, store closures and at least one scuffle. Marketing experts say the episode could boost Swatch’s profile and sales, though some analysts caution it will not resolve deeper structural issu…
Volvo Group said its second-quarter operating result will include a $197 million charge tied to a settlement reached by its North America unit with the California Air Resources Board. The payment package includes civil penalties, a contribution to CARB’s Air Pollution Control Fund, funding for emissions-reduction projects, reimbursement of CARB cos…
FactSet Research Systems saw its shares rise sharply in mid-day trading as the financial data provider posted a modest earnings beat for Q2 of fiscal 2026, raised its full-year revenue and EPS guidance, and announced corporate developments that reinforced investor confidence. The company reported EPS of $4.46 and revenue of $611 million, updated fi…
Bajaj Finance Ltd shares rose modestly, buoyed by a solid fourth-quarter performance reported in late April. Analysts maintained Buy ratings after Q4 figures showed double-digit growth in revenue, net interest income, new loans and assets under management. Management signalled continued funding-cost pressure and reiterated previous guidance on net …
Yields on longer-dated U.S. Treasury notes climbed to their highest levels in more than a year during overnight trading before easing back, driven by inflation concerns after crude oil topped $111 a barrel amid stalled negotiations in the Iran conflict and incidents around the Strait of Hormuz. The 10-year yield peaked at 4.631% and later eased to …
The White House will unveil an expansion of TrumpRx.gov on Monday that adds generic prescription medicines to the government-backed platform offering discounted drugs. The expansion follows the site's January launch tied to the administration's most-favored-nation agreements with drug manufacturers and is framed as a continuation of efforts to lowe…
F5 Networks stock climbed 4.50% in mid-day trading after Evercore ISI upgraded the shares to Outperform and boosted its price target to $475 from $320. The firm cited rising exposure to AI infrastructure demand, about $50 million in AI bookings in H1 FY2026 and a potentially sizable addressable market by 2028. Strong quarterly results, record free …
BYD unveiled an upgraded Denza N9 plug-in hybrid SUV in Guangzhou, introducing more than 100 enhancements and raising the starting price by 5% to 409,800 yuan. The refreshed model adds extended battery range and a fast-charging capability described by the company as an industry benchmark. BYD is positioning Denza to capture premium buyers and expan…
