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Through the week ending January 28, global equity funds recorded a third straight week of net inflows totalling $33.39 billion, driven by optimistic earnings expectations. European funds led regional inflows, while U.S. and Asian equities also saw substantial additions. Safe-haven assets including global bond, short-term bond, money market and gold…
Greek equities ended the session lower on Friday, with the Athens General Composite slipping 0.85% as losses in the Telecoms, Household and Basic Resources sectors weighed on the market. A subset of stocks posted gains, while broader market breadth favored decliners. Commodity and currency contracts showed sizeable moves during the day.
Apeira Capital founding partner Natalie Hwang warns that as AI shifts from experimentation to mass-market use, the economics of operating inference at scale - including power efficiency, cost per inference, and system utilization - will eclipse model size as the central competitive factor. Energy availability and deployment feasibility are expected…
Stifel increased its 12-month price target on AO Smith (NYSE: AOS) to $85 from $80 while keeping a Buy rating after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that included an earnings-per-share beat but missed revenue and delivered guidance below expectations. Shares climbed intraday, a move Stifel partly attributed to short covering, and th…
Stifel has increased its price target on Deckers Outdoor to $140 from $117 and kept a Buy rating following a stronger-than-expected fiscal third quarter. The company posted revenue and earnings beats, showed a return to comparable sales growth in its direct-to-consumer channel, and reported healthy liquidity metrics. Multiple analysts adjusted targ…
Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an Overweight rating and a $160.00 price target on Hartford Financial Services (HIG), signaling roughly 20% upside from the stock's current $132.85 level. The firm pointed to a robust quarter marked by broad-based margin outperformance and notable Business Insurance growth that produced a clear headline beat. InvestingP…
Advanced Micro Devices shares dropped Friday amid reports the company’s next-generation MI450-series AI accelerators could be delayed. The decline reached as much as 6% before trimming losses to about 3% after a Wells Fargo analyst disputed the delay claims and pointed to evidence that development on TSMC’s N2 (2nm) process remains on track.
Kaspi is transitioning from a P2P payments story to a merchants-and-mcommerce play inside its Super App. With a $15.5B market cap, a P/E of 7.0, and a 5.7% dividend yield, the stock looks attractively priced for a mid‑term swing as merchant GMV and take rates rise. This trade plan identifies an entry at $79.21, conservative stop at $72.00, and a ta…
Cantor Fitzgerald has left its rating on Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) unchanged at Neutral and maintained a $282 price target after the broker reported fourth-quarter results that slightly exceeded expectations. The target implies roughly 12% upside from a $250.98 share price, while AJG trades at a high P/E of 39.7. Cantor characterized the quarter as…
Cantor Fitzgerald has raised its price target on SanDisk to $800 from $550 while retaining an Overweight rating, citing stronger-than-expected quarterly results and very bullish guidance for the March quarter. The firm and several other analysts have revised earnings and revenue forecasts sharply higher, driven by rapid average selling price gains,…
Cantor Fitzgerald increased its price target on KLA Corporation to $1,850 while retaining an Overweight rating and calling the semiconductor equipment maker a Top Pick. The firm raised its EPS forecasts for 2026 and 2027, highlighted stretched lead times with visibility into 2027, and characterized KLA's wafer fabrication equipment outlook as conse…
Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target on Western Digital Corp. (WDC) to $325 from $300 and maintained an Overweight rating after the company reported a stronger-than-expected quarter. The firm pointed to robust nearline demand, sold-out conditions through 2026, long-term agreements into 2028, and advancing HAMR and UltraSMR product adoption as …
Gold set a fresh record above $5,600 an ounce amid ongoing geopolitical and economic tensions, heavy central bank buying, and growing retail interest. John McCluskey, CEO of Alamos Gold, attributes the rally primarily to structural demand from central banks and sees potential for prices to approach $5,400-$6,000 by the end of the year, even if U.S.…
Equities across market-cap tiers experienced significant intraday moves on Friday. Notable rallies included Tesla and several small- and mid-cap names, while chip-equipment and software firms posted declines. The session featured outsized percentage changes spanning mega-cap giants to micro-cap stocks.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s current term, which began in October and runs through the end of June, is addressing a broad roster of legal disputes with far-reaching consequences for presidential power, administrative independence, civil liberties and commercial liability. The docket includes cases that challenge a president’s ability to remove official…
Turkey's BIST 100 closed modestly higher, rising 0.05% to a record level as strength in Banking, Financials and Holdings & Investments stocks supported the market. Individual winners included Sekerbank TAS, Kiler Holding AS and Akbank TAS, all of which climbed to all-time highs. Market breadth was uneven, with more decliners than advancers. Commodi…
Truist Securities raised its price target on Deckers Outdoor to $132 from $115 while reiterating a Buy rating after the company reported stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results. The upgrade reflects accelerated direct-to-consumer sales and healthy U.S. trends for HOKA and UGG, and comes alongside a cluster of analyst target changes afte…
Truist Securities raised its price objective for Lockheed Martin to $695 from $605 while keeping a Buy rating, following the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 results. The research firm pointed to robust growth in the Missiles and Fire Control segment, record backlog levels and improving cash generation as key drivers for the higher target, even as ove…
HSBC downgraded Pinterest Inc. (PINS) from Buy to Hold and reduced its price target to $24.90 from $34.50, citing concerns that the company’s renewed artificial intelligence investment lacks evidence of cost savings or revenue acceleration. The move follows Pinterest’s announcement of a global restructuring to reallocate staff and office space towa…
Shares of Unity Software, Take-Two Interactive and Roblox fell sharply after Alphabet unveiled Project Genie, an experimental AI tool designed to create interactive virtual worlds. The prototype, powered by the Genie 3 world model and being made available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., lets users generate and remix immersive environmen…
Benchmark reiterated a Hold rating on Landstar System (NASDAQ:LSTR) after the company's fourth-quarter report showed operational resilience in a difficult freight market, with adjusted EPS of $1.24 matching Benchmark's projection and slightly topping the FactSet consensus of $1.22. The quarter included significant insurance-related charges and an i…
Benchmark raised its price target on C.H. Robinson Worldwide to $205 from $160 while keeping a Buy rating, pointing to the company's limited gross-margin compression and operational efficiencies. The logistics firm posted fourth-quarter 2025 adjusted EPS of $1.23, beating several analyst estimates amid soft freight demand. Several other brokerages …
Benchmark has maintained a Buy rating on Schneider National (SNDR) and set a $31.00 price target even after the carrier missed fourth-quarter adjusted earnings expectations. The quarter's shortfall was driven by weaker operating income in Truckload, led by the Dedicated segment, while management pointed to softer volumes beginning in November and s…
Stilwell Value LLC and affiliated entities, together with Joseph Stilwell, acquired 292 shares of Peoples Financial Corp (NASDAQ:PFBX) on January 29, 2026, at $20.73 per share for a total outlay of about $6,053. The filing shows the reporting group controls more than 10% of the company's common stock through multiple affiliated funds. Market metric…
BMO Capital Markets raised its price objective for Adtalem Global Education (ATGE) to $138 from $125 while retaining an Outperform rating after the company reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Growth at the Walden unit, including a timing shift that added $18 million to revenue and adjusted EBITDA, helped offset slower trends at Chamb…
