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A United Nations special rapporteur on Iran says she has received reports that security forces have removed injured protesters from hospitals and detained them, a practice that violates international protections for medical care. The rapporteur also reported families facing ransom demands of $5,000 to $7,000 to recover the bodies of relatives. Inde…
The dollar has slid sharply in early 2026 as investor confidence in a period of currency stability weakens. A constellation of factors - including explicit U.S. policy signals favoring a weaker dollar, aggressive trade rhetoric, geopolitical operations, and shifting central bank expectations - have driven a notable fall in the currency against peer…
Microsoft hit my prior upside objective and then pulled back into a technical reset. With MSFT now reclaiming near-term trend levels, MACD momentum turning up, and a major earnings catalyst on deck, I’m upgrading to Strong Buy as a trade idea. The setup is straightforward: defined entry, a stop below the recent swing low, and targets that map to th…
Director Fritz Eric Armenat of Taylor Devices, Inc. sold his entire holding of 4,328 common shares for a total of $311,386 in transactions executed on January 22 and 23, 2026, according to a Form 4 filing. The stock has climbed roughly 115% over the last year and trades near its 52-week high, while third-party valuation data flags the shares as tra…
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.
Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Allen Miller sold 171,200 shares on January 23, 2026, generating $5.98 million, after simultaneously exercising options to acquire the same number of shares. The move was made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted in February 2025 and follows a quarter that beat revenue and earnings estimates, prompting mixed …
Halliburton Executive Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer Beckwith Van H. executed option exercises and sold 54,348 shares on January 23, 2026, generating proceeds of $1.9 million. The transactions occurred as the energy services company’s stock traded close to its 52-week high and followed strong fourth-quarter results that prompted…
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…
Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah, said the group is concerned about threats from Washington directed at Iran, especially any threat to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Qassem said Hezbollah is prepared to defend itself and will determine its response in due course, adding that mediators indicated the U.S. and Isr…
First Citizens BancShares trades at roughly 12x earnings and about 1.17x book at a $25B market cap, which reads as “undervalued” for a top-20 U.S. bank. But price action is still heavy: FCNCA is below its 10- and 20-day averages, RSI is subdued, and MACD remains in bearish momentum. This is a tradeable bounce setup, not a blind value hold - with an…
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by multiple guided-missile destroyers, has moved into the Middle East region under U.S. Central Command, U.S. officials said. The deployment expands U.S. military options to protect forces or to take action against Iran amid recent tensions tied to nationwide protests in Iran. Additional fighter…
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…
Jefferies has increased its 12-month price target on Southwest Airlines (LUV) to $45 from $42 while maintaining a Hold rating. The revision follows Southwest's completion of a fleetwide seat reconfiguration and management guidance for meaningful EBIT contributions from assigned seating and Extended Leg Room offerings. Other broker moves, operationa…
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…
Nvidia has taken a $2 billion stake in CoreWeave at $87.20 per share as part of a broadened partnership designed to accelerate the construction of more than 5 gigawatts (GW) of AI-focused data center capacity by 2030. Raymond James projects significant potential revenue for Nvidia from the build-out, while also framing the move as an attempt to rei…
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…
Nearly all economists surveyed expect the Bank of England to keep Bank Rate at 3.75% at its February meeting, and a slim majority now foresee a 25 basis-point cut to 3.50% in March. The poll reflects stronger recent private sector growth, resilient retail sales and sticky inflation, leaving policymakers divided after a narrow decision to cut rates …
Greek equities ended Monday's trading session higher, with the Athens General Composite rising 0.64% to a fresh five-year high. Gains were concentrated in the Banking, Construction and Travel sectors, while market breadth showed more advancers than decliners. Several individual stocks reached new multi-year or all-time highs. Commodity and currency…
As attacks on Ukraine's heating and power systems continue, artists in Kyiv are improvising to keep studios warm enough to work. Painters describe frozen tubes of paint, makeshift heating from camping stoves and boiled kettles, and the tension of having members of their collective serving at the front - one reported missing in action. Despite the c…
Booz Allen Hamilton's stock dropped 8% after the U.S. Treasury Department cancelled all contracts with the firm, citing failures in safeguarding sensitive taxpayer information. The move affects 31 contracts worth $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations and follows a data theft by a former employee that exposed roughly 4…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC that the Federal Aviation Administration will need two more days to recover from a weekend winter storm that prompted massive cancellations and delays across U.S. aviation. Airlines have waived cancellation fees as operations and staffing recover, with Duffy targeting Wednesday as the return to normal o…
