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U.K. equities closed slightly higher on Monday, buoyed by gains in mining, industrial metals and electrical stocks. The broad market benchmark finished up 0.06% as a number of major miners and packaging names recorded double-digit point gains, while several large-cap consumer and data names declined.
U.K. equities closed marginally higher on Monday, with strength concentrated in mining and related materials names. The Investing.com United Kingdom 100 ended the session up 0.06% as a handful of miners moved to new record levels and other large-cap stocks posted notable declines. Broader market breadth favored advancers, while commodities and curr…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 finished higher on Monday, gaining 0.78% as Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors provided upward momentum. Bankinter, Caixabank and Unicaja Banco were among the top performers while Amadeus IT, Industria de Diseno Textil and Acerinox ended the session lower. Ma…
French equities closed lower on Monday with the CAC 40 down 0.15% and the SBF 120 off 0.17%. Losses in the Consumer Services, Healthcare and Industrials sectors weighed on the market, though several large-cap names posted gains. Market breadth favored decliners and volatility, as measured by the CAC 40 VIX, reached a new 52-week high.
Nike has opened an investigation into a potential cybersecurity incident after a ransomware group called World Leaks said it published 1.4 terabytes of data tied to the company. Attempts to obtain the files were unsuccessful and the claim could not be independently verified. Nike said it takes consumer privacy seriously and is actively assessing th…
Belgian shares ended the trading day higher, with the BEL 20 rising 0.31% as advances in Utilities, Basic Materials and Industrials outnumbered declines. Umicore and Elia both logged gains and reached 52-week highs, while a subset of mid-caps underperformed. Commodities and currency moves accompanied the equity session, with gold rising sharply and…
German equities finished higher on Monday, with the DAX up 0.20% at the close. Gains were concentrated in Consumer & Cyclical, Utilities and Software names. Bayer hit a 52-week high, several midcap and tech stocks posted strong percentage gains, while defense and aerospace names lagged. Volatility on DAX options ticked higher and commodity and curr…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 closed the session higher in Madrid, supported by advances in Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors. Bankinter, Caixabank and Unicaja were the session's top performers, while Amadeus, Industria de Diseno Textil SA and Acerinox posted the largest declines. Market…
Portugal's main equity gauge, the PSI, closed higher on Monday, supported by advances in the Financials, Utilities and Basic Materials sectors. EDP Energias de Portugal, Banco Comercial Portugues and The Navigator Company were among the session's top performers, while Teixeira Duarte and Mota Engil were notable decliners. Commodity and currency mov…
Netherlands stocks closed lower on Monday, with the AEX index down 0.14% as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Technology sectors pushed the market lower. Magnum Ice Cream Nv led gains, reaching an all-time high, while Relx PLC dropped to a 52-week low. Commodity and currency moves included modest declines in crude and Brent oil, a sharp …
Italian equities closed higher on Monday, with gains concentrated in Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Utilities pushing the Italy 40 up 0.19% in Milan. Lottomatica led winners, while DiaSorin, Leonardo and STMicroelectronics posted the steepest declines. Market breadth favored decliners. In commodities, U.S. crude and Brent fell modestly while gold f…
Swedish equities ended higher on Monday, with the OMX Stockholm 30 up 0.35% as Basic Materials, Telecoms and Technology sectors provided the bulk of the upside. Epiroc AB Class A, Boliden AB and Sandvik AB were the session's strongest performers, while EQT AB, SAAB AB series B and Lifco publ AB weighed on the market. Market breadth was negative wit…
The OMX Helsinki 25 finished the trading day higher, supported by advances in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Healthcare sectors. Neste led gains and reached a 52-week high, while a greater number of stocks declined than advanced. Commodity and currency markets showed mixed moves, with Brent and U.S. crude lower, gold futures higher, and the e…
Zoom Communications shares climbed about 10% after Baird analyst William Power underscored the potential value of Zoom’s $51 million 2023 investment in AI firm Anthropic. With media reports suggesting a markedly higher current valuation for Anthropic, Baird estimates Zoom’s stake could be worth between $2 billion and $4 billion depending on dilutio…
Morgan Stanley cut Varonis Systems to Equal-weight from Overweight, pointing to intensifying competition - notably from Microsoft - and challenges tied to the company’s legacy on-premise business as reasons the stock lacks clear near-term catalysts for a sustained re-rating. The bank lowered its price target and moved its valuation lens to 2027 fre…
Poland's benchmark index WIG30 climbed 1.72% to a fresh all-time high at the close in Warsaw, driven by strength in Basic Materials, Energy and Food stocks. KGHM Polska Miedz SA led the index with an 8.38% gain and new record share price, while several names on the WSE registered declines. Commodity and currency markets showed modest moves alongsid…
Bridgewater Associates' co-chief investment officers said in a client note that large corporations' spending on artificial intelligence will continue to expand rapidly, reshaping corporate capital plans and supporting equity markets. The firm highlighted how investment across the AI supply chain - from data centers to chips and power - has lifted m…
Danish equities finished higher on Monday, with the OMX Copenhagen 20 climbing 0.14% to reach a six-month high. Gains in Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Industrials supported the advance, led by a strong move in Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Several large-cap names lagged, and commodity prices and currency moves were mixed in European trading.
Morgan Stanley expects Apple to report fiscal first-quarter revenue above company guidance, driven primarily by demand for the iPhone 17. The firm projects March-quarter revenue will also top Street estimates, but cautions that higher operating expenses and memory-related gross margin pressures may constrain earnings improvement and could keep shar…
PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Emergency/Load Management Alert and an Energy Emergency Alert 1 (EEA1) on Monday, setting the alert for the full day on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. The operator forecasts a winter record peak of 147,200 megawatts (MW) for that day and has asked generation dispatchers to report estimated return times fo…
Microsoft announced the Maia 200, a new AI inference accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process and equipped with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, 216GB of HBM3e, and 272MB of on-chip SRAM. The company says the chip delivers over 10 petaFLOPS in 4-bit precision and over 5 petaFLOPS in 8-bit within a 750W power envelope, and will be used to run OpenAI's GP…
Bank of America finds that the second week of Q4 earnings remains constructive but trails the strong momentum seen in Q3. While a majority of companies have topped profit expectations, sales beats are fewer and investor responses to positive surprises have turned muted. Industrial firms report limited near-term improvement in demand, and guidance h…
Microsoft unveiled the Maia 200, the second generation of its internally developed AI accelerator, which this week begins operation in a data center in Iowa with a follow-up deployment planned in Arizona. The company is also releasing a set of programming tools, including Triton contributions from OpenAI, to counter Nvidia's software lead with deve…
Norwegian equities closed modestly higher on Monday, with the Oslo OBX rising 0.29% as Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities were the strongest sectors. Gains in insurers, shipping and telecoms contrasted with losses among semiconductor and energy producers. Commodity and currency moves accompanied equity tra…
Israel's equity benchmark, the TA 35, closed higher on Monday, reaching a fresh record as gains in Banking, Oil & Gas and Technology stocks lifted the market. Several individual names posted strong advances — including two that hit all-time highs — while other sizable components slipped. Commodity and currency movements were mixed, with crude and B…
