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Moroccan stocks ended higher in Casablanca on Wednesday, with the Moroccan All Shares index finishing up 2.62% as gains in Banking, Beverage and Transport sectors lifted the market. Broader commodity and currency moves provided context for the session, with crude and Brent oil rising while gold futures slipped. Market breadth favored advancers, and…
Israel's equity market closed higher on Wednesday, with the TA 35 climbing 1.24% as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Banking sectors drove broader advances. Individual winners included Camtek, Navitas Petroleum and Delek Group, while Elbit Systems, Shapir Engineering and NICE were among the session's laggards. Commodity and currency moves ac…
Norwegian equities finished higher on Wednesday, with the Oslo OBX climbing 0.63% to a new record. Strength in Healthcare Equipment & Services, Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences and Utilities helped lift the market, while select large-cap names including Norsk Hydro and SalMar weighed on the session. Trading breadth favored advancers over decliners. E…
HSBC has identified AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer as its preferred pharmaceutical names, assigning Buy ratings to each and outlining distinct reasons for their inclusion. AbbVie is presented as a Growth/GARP candidate with ongoing drug development successes and what HSBC describes as a manageable patent cliff. Johnson & Johnson earns an upgr…
Greek equities finished lower, with the Athens General Composite down 0.62%. Declines were concentrated in the Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources sectors. Market breadth favored decliners by a wide margin. Notable individual gainers included ADMIE IPTO, OPAP Holding and Aktor, while Evropi, Elvalhalcor and Intracom were among the session's big…
Qualcomm executives describe a shift to agentic AI that treats on-device agents as a system-level layer able to interpret user intent, read on-screen information and perform tasks across applications. The company says processing will remain local on Snapdragon hardware to protect privacy and reduce cloud dependence, and partners are testing impleme…
Turkey's BIST 100 index ended lower as losses in Telecoms, Tourism and Wood, Paper & Printing sectors exerted downward pressure. Market breadth favored decliners, while commodities and currency pairs showed divergent moves - oil strengthened, gold fell, and the lira edged weaker against major currencies.
Google said it is building new search controls to allow websites to opt out of its generative AI features and has proposed a less intrusive device setting to make switching default search engines easier. The moves are presented as responses to measures the UK competition watchdog outlined to address Google’s dominance in search and the impact of AI…
Kraken has paused its planned initial public offering, with the company indicating the IPO will likely be postponed until market conditions recover. Payward, Kraken's parent, previously filed a draft S-1 and completed an $800 million funding round at a $20 billion valuation; Citadel Securities was a $200 million participant.
The U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran has produced wide-ranging disruptions to international commerce. Airspace closures and missile threats have triggered mass flight cancellations and reroutings that cripple major hubs, while pressure on oil export corridors and Gulf shipping is driving fuel and commodity price spikes. The ripple effects extend …
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. is preparing to bring Geely Auto-branded vehicles into Canada after a government agreement earlier this year opened a route for Chinese-built electric vehicles to enter the market under a capped tariff exemption. The company is awaiting Canadian certification, and its parent company chief executive says Geely is consi…
Wall Street brokerages have lowered their view of The Trade Desk after reports of a dispute with advertising giant Publicis and indications of strained ties with other large agency groups. Rosenblatt moved the stock to Neutral and set a $25 price target, while Stifel trimmed its rating to Hold with a $26 target, highlighting client concentration an…
Trading on Wednesday produced notable stock swings across market-cap segments. Mega-cap names including AbbVie and Philip Morris fell, while GE Vernova climbed. A number of large-, mid- and small-cap companies recorded double-digit moves driven by earnings, corporate actions and updated company guidance.
Security researchers disclosed a powerful iPhone exploit, dubbed Darksword, that was embedded on multiple Ukrainian websites and can extract information from devices running iOS 18.4 through 18.6.2. The discovery follows another high-profile iPhone spyware finding earlier in March and highlights an active market for tools that steal data and crypto…
Customer data cited by Mizuho shows Anthropic capturing more than 73% of spending among companies that are buying AI tools for the first time, a rapid gain from a near-even split with OpenAI just 10 weeks earlier. Mizuho's Jordan Klein describes the shift as highly supportive for Amazon, which handles most of Anthropic's inference workloads, and li…
Rothschild has upgraded Block to Neutral following a substantial decline in the stock price, saying earlier concerns around balance sheet use and weaker payments performance have largely been priced in. The firm highlighted a shift in investor perception toward Block as a neobank driven by Cash App, raised earnings forecasts on stronger lending tre…
General Motors reported that a recent uptick in U.S. gasoline prices has not produced a measurable shift in vehicle-buying behaviour, according to the company's finance chief. CFO Paul Jacobson told investors that seasonal weather patterns and reduced availability of trucks - as GM prepares new full-size models - were more significant factors in fi…
Senior Gulf officials, including the UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber, say recent Iranian strikes and an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have prompted calls to dismantle Iran’s ability to attack its neighbors. The disruption to a maritime chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of global oil supplies has led to halted tanker movements, surging oil p…
General Motors reported no clear sales impact from recent increases in U.S. gasoline prices that have been linked to the war in Iran. CFO Paul Jacobson said weather patterns and reduced vehicle inventories - most notably for trucks as the company readies new full-size models - were more influential on first-quarter results. He added that consumers …
Morgan Stanley identifies the expansion of an unsupervised robotaxi fleet as the single most important catalyst for Tesla shares in 2026. After meetings at a TMT conference and a Giga Texas tour, the bank’s analyst said production of the Cybercab remains on track for April and that additional unsupervised miles will accelerate learning for personal…
The Federal Aviation Administration announced it will stop allowing visual separation between helicopters and fixed-wing airliners in key airspace around major airports and require radar-controlled lateral or vertical spacing. The move follows a January 2025 mid-air collision that killed 67 people and two recent incidents, including a near miss nea…
Nvidia has raised the size of its addressable market for AI chips to at least $1 trillion through 2027 and rolled out new hardware and platform initiatives, but its stock has been largely flat since September as investors debate whether continued reinvestment in the AI ecosystem will deliver the expected returns and whether inference workloads will…
UniCredit's CEO Andrea Orcel told a London conference that talks with Commerzbank are the bank's immediate priority. He said potential consolidation among Italy's mid-sized banks remains possible but will be driven by their controlling shareholders, and at present there has been no opening for negotiations. Orcel reiterated UniCredit's pan-European…
Futures tied to Canada’s principal equity benchmark traded lower as investors awaited interest-rate decisions from the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve. Rising U.S. producer prices and renewed oil-supply worries from the Iran conflict kept traders cautious, while moves in commodities, gold and select technology and retail shares reflecte…
Shares of several optical equipment suppliers rallied in pre-market trading after presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference emphasized strong demand tied to AI infrastructure. Executives and analysts at the event highlighted planned capacity builds, sold-out laser inventories, and sizable serviceable addressable market estimates f…
