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S&P Global Ratings upgraded Sandisk Corp. to BB+ from BB after the company repaid all outstanding debt and moved to a net cash position under the agency's adjusted metrics. The firm also raised Sandisk's revolving credit facility to BBB- with a recovery rating of 1, withdrew term-loan issue-level ratings, and left a positive outlook that could supp…
Shutterstock Inc. will pay $35 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company did not adequately inform consumers about subscription terms and placed obstacles in the way of cancelling paid plans. The FTC's complaint focuses on automatic renewals for on-demand packs and annual paid monthly subscriptions, failures to obtain…
Norwegian equities finished Wednesday with a modest advance as the Oslo OBX rose 0.12%. Gains were concentrated in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities, with Nordic Semiconductor climbing to a three-year high. Despite the index rise, decliners outnumbered advancers on the Oslo exchange. Commodity and currenc…
Ledger has paused plans for a U.S. initial public offering, citing unfavorable market conditions. The company has not submitted any draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may pursue private capital instead. Earlier in the year, reports indicated the firm had engaged U.S. banks and was exploring a potenti…
The Tel Aviv market finished Wednesday with losses, led by declines in the Communication, Insurance and Oil & Gas sectors. The TA 35 index fell 0.84% at the close. A handful of individual stocks posted strong gains, with Tower Semiconductor reaching a five-year high, while several companies including Camtek and Clal Insurance registered notable dec…
Fractile, a London-based chip startup founded in 2022, raised $220 million in a Series B round led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund. The company is developing a logic chip and a server-rack architecture to attach memory in a way it says will boost bandwidth for AI inference without sacrificing speed. Fractile declined to provide technica…
Ford shares jumped 6% after Morgan Stanley highlighted the company’s Ford Energy unit and its licensing arrangement with CATL. The analyst argued the partnership gives Ford a semi-vertical domestic energy storage capability that can satisfy Foreign Entity of Concern rules and unlock a 30% Investment Tax Credit for customers. Morgan Stanley projects…
Skechers raised a settlement proposal in April to $65 per share to try to resolve a lawsuit from hedge funds and other investors contesting 3G Capital's $9.4 billion acquisition. The renewed offer tops a prior $64-per-share proposal and comes as investment firms pursuing appraisal arbitrage seek a higher valuation in Delaware courts. The litigation…
Options market pricing indicates Target Corp. could experience a 7.7% price move when it reports earnings on May 20 before the market opens, according to Bloomberg's options data. Historical comparisons show mixed alignment between implied and actual post-earnings moves over the past eight quarters.
Leerink Partners upgraded Johnson & Johnson to Outperform from Market Perform and raised its 12-month price target to $265 from $252, citing an anticipated pickup in revenue driven by several new and expanding drug franchises. The firm projects a 7.2% revenue CAGR for J&J from 2026 to 2031, above Street consensus, and highlighted four products - Ic…
Options market pricing indicates TJX Cos. could experience a roughly 4% price move when the company reports earnings on May 20 before markets open, based on options data compiled by Bloomberg. Historically, the stock has moved less than the options-implied magnitude in seven of the last eight earnings releases, with the lone exception occurring in …
AEM Holdings Ltd. shares climbed sharply after the company reported first-quarter revenue and profit that outperformed analyst expectations and accompanied an upward revision to guidance. Sales rose 35.8% year-on-year to S$117 million, while profit before tax surged 369% to S$18 million, driven by a favorable mix and stronger contributions from TCS…
LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, plans to announce employee reductions on Wednesday as part of a reorganization that will realign teams and redeploy resources. A source familiar with the matter says reports that the reduction would be 5% are incorrect, while anonymous posts on the Blind app had speculated cuts as high as 10%. LinkedIn issued a brief s…
Options pricing compiled by Bloomberg indicates Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) may experience a 5.8% share-price move when the company reports earnings on May 20 after the market close. Historical comparisons across eight recent reports show the stock has exceeded the options-implied move in three instances, while in other quarters the actual change fell shor…
Airbus SE and Blackstone Inc. are reportedly in discussions to act as lead investors in an approximately €600 million funding round for Quantum Systems, a German drone company backed by Peter Thiel. The financing could put a potential price tag on the firm of as much as €7 billion. Balderton Capital, an existing backer, is also said to be consideri…
Stocks across market-cap tiers moved sharply on Wednesday, with technology and semiconductor names featuring among the leaders. Mega-caps such as Alibaba (BABA) and Micron Technology (MU) posted gains, while a number of other large-, mid- and small-cap companies recorded double-digit percentage changes driven by earnings beats, guidance updates and…
Fervo Energy Co.'s initial public offering received roughly 15 times the orders for the shares available, enabling the Houston-based geothermal company to raise $1.89 billion after pricing 70 million Class A shares at $27 each. The final price topped a recently raised $25 to $26 range and the offering was increased from an initial 55.6 million-shar…
Stifel says AtkinsRealis trades at a premium valuation versus peers and expects potential short-term headwinds from the company's Nuclear backlog and a below-consensus quarterly EBITDA estimate, but the firm remains willing to buy on weakness given a strong Nuclear business outlook and an underleveraged balance sheet.
Charles Schwab intends to deploy artificial intelligence to deliver personalized wealth-management insights to customers who do not meet the company's $1 million minimum for a dedicated relationship. CEO Rick Wurster described AI as a "real accelerant," and Schwab recently rolled out a generative-AI product that blends portfolio performance data, m…
LinkedIn is preparing to reduce its global workforce by about 5% as part of a reorganization that aims to move employees into areas of expanding business, two people familiar with the matter said. The cuts come even as the professional social network, owned by Microsoft, reported accelerating year-over-year revenue growth in the most recent quarter…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stock climbed 4% Wednesday morning after a report that additional activist investors have taken positions in the company. Irenic Capital is named among the newcomers and has engaged with HPE executives. The move comes amid sustained pressure from Elliott Management, which holds a significant stake and retains a righ…
Red Cat Holdings Inc. shares tumbled after the company disclosed an underwritten public offering priced at $9.40 per share, a steep discount to the stock's recent trading level of $11.03. The sale of 23,936,171 shares, with expected gross proceeds of about $225 million before fees, and an underwriter option for additional shares, raised immediate d…
Birkenstock shares fell sharply after the company reported fiscal second-quarter 2026 results that missed expectations on several core metrics. Adjusted EBITDA and net profit declined, gross margins compressed materially and adjusted EPS softened year-over-year. Management reiterated full-year targets but cited currency, tariff and regional geopoli…
Spotify said Wednesday it is widening availability of its managed accounts feature to include the free, ad-supported service in six markets. The change lets parents create supervised, music-only accounts for children under 13 without requiring a Premium Family subscription, while retaining parental controls and limiting certain features by default.
The Pentagon has established framework agreements with Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos and Zone 5 to support a Low-Cost Containerized Munitions (LCCM) program that could lead to procurement of more than 10,000 containerized missiles over a three-year period beginning in 2027. The program will first enter an assessment phase with test missile purchases fr…
