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Brazil's stock market ended the session higher, with the Bovespa index rising 1.12% to a fresh record close. Strength in the Public Utilities, Electric Power and Financials sectors supported the advance, while select industrial and steel-related names registered notable declines. Market breadth showed more decliners than advancers, and volatility g…
Officials from the Bank of Canada met with executives from the country's largest banks and other financial firms to examine cybersecurity risks associated with Anthropic PBC's newest AI model, Mythos. The gathering, confirmed by a spokesperson for Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, mirrors meetings held by U.S. policymakers earlier in th…
Seaport Therapeutics filed for a proposed initial public offering on Nasdaq, positioning itself as a clinical-stage company developing oral treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. The firm highlights its proprietary Glyph platform, a lymphatic-targeting prodrug technology intended to improve oral bioavailability and reduce side effects. Major in…
Investor Michael Burry said he is maintaining a bearish wager against Palantir Technologies, holding long-dated put options entered in fall 2025 and repeatedly rolled. His position remains despite a rally prompted by a Truth Social endorsement from former President Donald Trump that lifted the stock from intraday lows. Burry continues to argue the …
Glass Lewis, the independent proxy advisory firm, recommended that Warner Bros Discovery shareholders approve the company's proposed $110 billion combination with Paramount Skydance. The adviser cited the immediate, certain cash value offered to Warner Bros shareholders as a decisive factor, while flagging concerns over proposed executive payouts a…
Jefferies' foot traffic dataset, drawn from roughly 25 million active cellphone devices, shows month-over-month improvement in March for major industrial and specialty distributors. Grainger, Wesco, Parker Hannifin and Pool Corp posted year-over-year increases in monthly visits, while Fastenal recorded a slight decline despite reporting stronger da…
Goldman Sachs traders report that algorithmic funds, having pared exposure to multiyear lows during a selloff linked to the Iran war, are poised to become major net buyers of U.S. equities. Commodity Trading Advisers sold about $48 billion of S&P 500 futures over the past month, and Goldman models indicate CTAs could flip to net buyers across one-w…
Blackstone Inc. is weighing an initial public offering that could raise about $2 billion for a new acquisition company targeting data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Goldman Sachs is set to lead the deal with Citi and Morgan Stanley among the other banks involved. The firm has privately approached institutional investors and …
Two Democratic senators have pressed the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate a pattern of profitable trading in oil and other markets that coincided with recent White House decisions on Iran, Venezuela and tariffs. The request, citing media reporting on unusually large commodity and equities trades, asks the regulator to explai…
USA Rare Earth's CEO says shareholders should not fear the Commerce Department's proposed $1.58 billion debt-and-equity investment, despite concerns raised by lawmakers over the deal's structure and links to Cantor Fitzgerald. The government stake, negotiation process and the economics of the company's Texas mine have become focal points for congre…
Nike announced that Tony Bignell is stepping down from his position as chief innovation officer after serving for under a year. Andy Caine, the company’s vice president and creative director for sportswear, will take over and report to Phil McCartney, who holds the combined role of chief innovation, design and product officer.
Friday trading produced pronounced single-day moves across market caps. Megacap names such as Avago Technologies and AMD rallied, while Costco and a set of cloud and tech firms posted declines. Movers spanned mega-cap, large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap groups, with several securities showing double-digit percentage changes in either direction.
A cluster of economic events on Monday, April 13, 2026, places the U.S. housing market report squarely in the spotlight. Market participants will focus on existing home sales data at 10:00 AM ET for signs of consumer confidence and housing momentum, while IMF meetings and two short-term Treasury bill auctions add layers of market sensitivity earlie…
U.S. stock indexes look set to finish the week higher after a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, but investors remain cautious given the tentative nature of the agreement. Market attention concentrated on companies tied to AI infrastructure, memory pricing, and cloud security, producing sharp moves in CoreWeave, Intel, Amazon, S…
Investor Michael Burry revealed purchases of JD.com and Alibaba shares, alongside additions to positions in GameStop and Fiserv. US-listed JD shares rose 2.0% on the disclosure. Burry also said he increased his Nvidia put exposure, specifying the January 27 Strike 115 puts bought at 3.30. The disclosures were made in a paid Substack post.
Airline equities often gain ground in the months after crude tops out, and the recent pullback in jet fuel following the U.S.-Iran ceasefire has been welcomed by the industry. Still, analysts caution that brighter margins from lower fuel costs may be offset by weaker travel demand, and some firms are already modeling slower passenger revenue growth…
Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang urged people not to leave California despite the state's high tax rates, saying the climate and other factors make it worthwhile. Speaking at an event at Stanford alongside Congressman Ro Khanna and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Huang reiterated his comfort with potential new taxes and contrasted his …
Canada’s principal equity benchmarks traded higher Friday, with the S&P/TSX Composite and S&P/TSX 60 each gaining 0.5% as a modest rise in crude prices and developments in the Middle East influenced investor sentiment. Markets digested a sharper-than-expected monthly jump in U.S. consumer prices, persistent interruptions to tanker traffic through t…
Federal regulators have approved NextDecade's request to raise the peak construction workforce at its Rio Grande LNG project in Texas and to permit continuous, 24/7 construction activity. The company sought the changes to hasten delivery of new liquefied natural gas supply amid heightened global demand tied to geopolitical tensions and disruptions …
Bank of America’s most recent investor survey indicates a material reduction in short positions on the U.S. dollar after the outbreak of war in Iran, yet respondents are not moving to long dollar exposures. Survey participants characterize the conflict’s effect on the dollar as a one-time level shift rather than a persistent trend for 2026. Dominan…
First-quarter corporate results begin in earnest next week, led by major U.S. banks, as investors look for confirmation that profit momentum remains intact despite the flare-up in the Middle East and a sharp rise in energy prices. Consensus estimates point to continued double-digit earnings growth for the S&P 500, but analysts warn that guidanc…
HawkEye 360 said its revenue rose 74% in 2025 to $117.7 million and the company swung to a net profit of $2.7 million, according to its U.S. initial public offering filing. The Herndon, Virginia firm, which operates a constellation of more than 30 satellites and sells signals intelligence primarily to the U.S. government and allied nations, did not…
A Jefferies analyst report released Friday finds that veterinary clinic foot traffic, which had been declining for 18 months, showed signs of stabilizing in March with flat traffic readings. The report cautions that in-person foot traffic data does not capture the full veterinary market because telehealth providers have been drawing customers with …
More than 8,000 people have been killed across the Middle East since the conflict began on February 28, when strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran prompted a wave of retaliatory attacks. Deaths have been recorded in Iran, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and several Gulf states, even as Tehran and Washington agreed a two-week ceasefire on Wednesday.
U.K. equities finished marginally lower on Friday, with the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 slipping 0.06% at the close. Strength in ConvaTec, Antofagasta and Kingfisher contrasted with declines in B&M European Value Retail, BAE Systems and Sage Group. Commodity prices diverged: gold fell while crude oil rose, and major currency pairs were largely…
