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Australian equity markets closed lower on Tuesday, with the S&P/ASX 200 dropping 0.88% to a three-month low. Weakness in the Gold, Metals & Mining and Resources sectors drove the retreat. Market breadth favored decliners, the ASX 200 VIX rose, and commodity markets moved unevenly with gold lower and crude oil higher.
A drone struck a petrol station in Kyiv early on Tuesday, wounding one person and coinciding with reported strikes on warehouse facilities elsewhere in the city. Officials in neighbouring countries and Russian regions reported additional incidents involving drones and missiles, while Ukrainian leadership said support for protecting energy sites dep…
FTSE Russell, the indexing arm of the London Stock Exchange Group, is receiving growing client inquiries about whether technology sector exposure should be trimmed in sustainable indexes as the AI-driven buildout raises environmental, social and governance concerns. The firm is evaluating technology companies on a case-by-case basis and expects ind…
Chinese semiconductor and electronics shares rose after Beijing released a 2026-2030 plan focused on strengthening electronic-information manufacturing, advancing integrated-circuit capabilities and improving supply-chain resilience. The policy sets revenue and R&D intensity targets and highlights coordinated development across chip design, manufac…
ANZ Group CEO Nuno Matos warned that the speed and unpredictability of artificial intelligence development is producing risks beyond what builders expected, and he did not rule out large-scale job reductions at the Melbourne-based bank as AI is implemented. Rival Westpac presented a contrasting assessment, estimating substantial time savings from A…
The U.S. 10-Year Treasury yield climbed 1.4% to 5.030%, near a 20-year high, as markets priced in a likely quarter-point Federal Reserve rate increase at the close of a two-day policy meeting. Stronger-than-expected inflation readings and a sharp rise in global oil have strengthened expectations for tighter policy, while higher yields are pressurin…
MiniMax shares fell 5.8% to HK$237.8 as a broad sell-off hit Hong Kong technology and AI names. The move coincided with prominent AI executives urging a pause in development, a dynamic that could curb sector investment and hurt pure-play frontier labs. At the same time, rising interest-rate expectations, inflation worries and a sharp oil-price rall…
Z.AI Co Ltd shares fell 5.1% to HK$684.5 on Tuesday, extending losses after the company unveiled a roughly $5 billion financing package that combined a deeply discounted share placement with a sizeable zero-coupon convertible bond offering. Market unease over dilution, paired with broader weakness in Hong Kong-listed Chinese AI stocks, has weighed …
Resona Holdings shares dropped 3.6% on Tuesday, leading declines across major Japanese bank stocks after comments from Bank of America’s CEO on the U.S. bank’s trading and investment banking revenue outlook triggered sector-wide concerns. The move came as markets prepared for back-to-back central bank meetings in Tokyo and Washington, a convergence…
SoftBank Group shares climbed sharply on Tuesday, recovering from a steep drop the previous session as investor optimism resurfaced around the planned U.S. listing of its data center unit, SB Energy. The stock rose 8.1% to 6,314.0 yen and ranked among the top gainers on the Nikkei 225, which advanced 0.1%. Recent disclosures tied to SB Energy’s fil…
An internal Bank of America report and survey indicate hedge fund managers raised more capital than planned at the start of 2026 for the first time in three years. Investors are favoring equity-focused and multi-manager hedge fund platforms, directing capital toward large managers after a robust first-half performance driven in part by artificial i…
Asian banking stocks dropped broadly on Tuesday, with Japanese institutions among the hardest hit, after Bank of America cautioned that third-quarter trading and investment-banking revenue could weaken. The decline followed U.S. financial-sector losses and came as Japan's government bond yields climbed and markets priced in an imminent Bank of Japa…
Cathie Wood, founder of Ark Investment Management, described a recent pledge by AI leaders to temper the pace of model development as a constructive development that could help protect the technology’s trajectory. The appeal to slow advancement, led publicly by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and supported by xAI founder Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Alt…
Latest update: Sep 15, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC. Gift Nifty 50 is consolidating on the 5-hour chart beneath major technical barriers, with immediate danger at 23,254.5 and a cluster of resistance centered near 23,595.4. Momentum indicators have improved from deeply negative readings, but price remains below longer-term moving averages and the structural …
White Cliff Minerals saw its shares jump after Hancock Prospecting agreed to subscribe to about 515.8 million new shares at A$0.017 each, a placement worth A$8.8 million that would give Hancock a 13.5% stake subject to shareholder approval. The capital is earmarked for an enlarged and accelerated drilling program at the Rae Copper Project in Nunavu…
Telix Pharmaceuticals surged after the U.S. FDA approved Pixclara (floretyrosine F 18), the company's PET imaging agent for distinguishing recurrent or progressive glioma from treatment-related changes. The approval establishes Telix as the only holder of an FDA-authorized radiopharmaceutical for this indication. Strong H1 2026 financials and manag…
Qualcomm's partnership with Amazon Web Services - which allows AWS to buy up to $60 billion of Qualcomm data-center chips and includes $4 billion in warrants - has been a key driver of recent gains in algorithmically managed AI-focused strategies. The chipmaker has risen sharply since the September announcement, helping lift returns across multiple…
SB Energy, a data centre developer backed by SoftBank Group, plans to sell up to $500 million of newly issued shares to Japanese investors as part of preparations for a U.S. public listing. The proceeds will be used for general operating expenses tied to the development of data centres, power generation and related infrastructure. The filing offeri…
Canadian equities closed broadly higher Monday, with technology, mining and healthcare names among the leading gainers. A combination of corporate announcements, earnings beats and renewed investor buying in shares that have underperformed year-to-date propelled several of the exchange’s top movers on September 14.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. received a $34,388,301 modification from the U.S. Department of War to raise the ceiling on a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for military helicopter components. The change increases quantities of UH-1Y and AH-1Z Link-16 A-Kits and B-Kits, adds spare parts and funding for systems eng…
The U.S. Department of War has granted Lockheed Martin three separate defense contracts that together exceed $1.3 billion. The awards include a $1.21 billion contract for Precision Strike Missile Increment 2 Early Operational Capability, a $97.64 million contract for Multiple Launch Rocket System recapitalization, and a $13.17 million modification …
Russian equities closed higher on Monday with the MOEX Russia Index rising 3.26% to a one-month high. Strength in Oil & Gas, Power and Mining names drove the advance, while the Russian Volatility Index spiked. Commodity markets showed divergent moves as crude oil climbed and gold futures fell, and the ruble pairs finished unchanged against the doll…
Kestra Medical Technologies reported fiscal first-quarter 2027 results after the market close showing stronger revenue growth and improved gross margins but a larger-than-expected adjusted loss and a sharply wider GAAP net loss. The combination of the earnings miss, growing losses and elevated short interest pressured the stock in after-hours tradi…
The NFL’s season opener between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots averaged more than 25 million viewers across NBC and Peacock, marking the fourth consecutive year the Kickoff Game has surpassed that level. The broadcast also posted NBC’s largest 18-49 audience for the event since 2021. The game coincided with the opening night of the f…
During a Los Angeles conference presentation, President Trump interrupted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with a five-minute phone call placed on speaker, dismissing warnings about artificial intelligence as a "hoax" and saying "the robots are not going to be taking over the world." His comments contrast with appeals from AI companies like Anthropic for re…
