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Amazon.com Inc. has begun marketing one of the largest corporate debt offerings on record, aiming to raise between $37 billion and $42 billion in combined dollar and euro bond markets. The proposal includes a U.S. high-grade sale across as many as 11 tranches and a potential eight-part euro debut, with proceeds earmarked for artificial intelligence…
We upgrade Deutsche Post (DPW) to a buy. A recent pullback appears driven more by macro jitters than structural weakness. The company's global logistics scale, pricing power in express and parcel, and ongoing cost rationalization make a measured long trade attractive. Proposed trade: enter at $35.00, target $42.00, stop loss $31.00, horizon: long t…
Amazon.com is marketing a major bond package valued at roughly $37 billion to $42 billion, selling securities denominated in U.S. dollars and euros across multiple tranches to support spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. The offering, which includes U.S. high-grade bonds in up to 11 tranches according to a regulatory filing, is the l…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Europe is alarmed by a mounting and dangerous escalation in the U.S. and Israeli military action against Iran, noting there is no apparent joint strategy to bring the conflict to a prompt conclusion. He expressed concern about damage to global energy flows, regional stability and the potential collapse of Irani…
Morgan Stanley upgraded CrowdStrike to Overweight and designated the company a Top Pick, raising its price target to $510 from $487. Analysts pointed to AI-driven security capabilities, expanding platform adoption across cloud and identity security, and improving endpoint win rates as drivers that could sustain revenue growth above 20% for several …
BlackBerry's QNX software and IoT licensing provide a clear path to revenue leverage that the market is underappreciating. With a market cap near $2.05B, modest debt levels and positive free cash flow, the stock at $3.48 looks like a tradeable long with defined risk. We lay out an entry at $3.48, a $5.00 target tied to re-rate and licensing wins, a…
ASML is the gatekeeper of advanced lithography and remains a primary beneficiary of AI-driven chip demand. Elevated energy and recession worries raise short-term volatility, but buybacks, solid 2025 earnings growth, and a data-center capex cycle support a mid-term long trade. Plan for a controlled position: entry $1,380.00, stop $1,280.00, target $…
HSBC has increased its 2026 average price forecasts for Brent and WTI crude to $80 and $76 per barrel respectively, following sharp price moves after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and reduced shipments from major OPEC producers. Benchmark prices remain volatile after briefly topping $119 and rising more than a quarter since the conflict began…
British equities advanced on Tuesday as comments from U.S. President Donald Trump that the Middle East conflict could be drawing to a close prompted a relief rally and a drop in oil prices. At 13:21 GMT the FTSE 100 was up 1.5% and the pound strengthened to 1.3461 against the dollar. Major European benchmarks also rose, while a string of UK corpora…
Henkel AG shares gave back earlier gains and were up 0.3% on Thursday as investors awaited the company's fiscal 2025 results. Morgan Stanley warned of a muted organic sales growth outlook for fiscal 2026, citing a range of headwinds across the Adhesives and Consumer Goods divisions, weaker peer guidance, rising gas costs and regional exposure in th…
Bank of America strategist Savita Subramanian says the fourth quarter marked the beginning of a sizeable rotation among asset managers from gold into oil. Positioning moved into Energy ahead of recent geopolitical strikes, driving sharp gains in oil and coinciding with cuts to gold and commodity-exposed Materials. Within equities, managers trimmed …
Vertex Pharmaceuticals saw its stock climb in premarket trading after reporting positive Phase 3 results for povetacicept in IgA nephropathy. The RAINIER trial met its primary interim endpoint with a near 50% placebo-adjusted reduction in proteinuria at 36 weeks and a meaningful share of patients reaching KDIGO proteinuria targets. Safety signals a…
AT&T's stock rally looks sustainable. The Lumen fiber acquisition, reiterated 2026 guidance and a plan to return more than $45B to shareholders create a clear mid-to-long-term growth runway. Valuation is conservative (P/E ~9, EV/EBITDA ~6.8) and free cash flow coverage supports the dividend. Trade idea: go long with a disciplined stop to protect ag…
A poll of economists indicates Argentina's Consumer Price Index probably rose 2.7% in February, down from January's 2.9% and marking the first monthly slowdown since June. Despite the softer monthly reading, year-on-year inflation is expected to rise to 32.7%, keeping pressure on policymakers and President Javier Milei's pledge to eliminate inflati…
Christopher Michael Lyons, a director at Sintx Technologies, purchased 8,292 shares of company common stock in two transactions totaling $24,092. The buys were executed at $2.96 and $2.90 per share on February 25 and March 2, 2026, respectively. The trades were filed on a Form 4 and notarized by Kevin Ontiveros under power of attorney. Separately, …
Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd., a roughly ten-percent owner of Aflac Inc. (AFL), disposed of 18,090 shares of Aflac common stock on March 6, 2026, in multiple transactions totaling $2.1 million. The sales occurred at prices between $109.62 and $111.29 per share. Following the trades, Japan Post Holdings indirectly holds 52,222,400 Aflac shares. The …
<p>Mantle, an Ethereum Layer 2 positioned as a distribution layer for real-world finance, recorded two simultaneous all-time highs on March 10th, 2026: DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL) surpassed $1 billion, reaching $1.006 billion, and the network's stablecoin market capitalization climbed to $980 million. Both figures are reported by DefiLlama. The m…
Deutsche Bank strategists say the Bank of England has experienced the largest shift in rate expectations among major central banks this month as markets respond to fast-moving energy developments in the Middle East. Where the BoE was priced for more than two full rate cuts through the end of 2026 at the end of February, pricing as of Tuesday mornin…
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser told attendees at an RBC conference that the bank’s investment banking fees and markets business are tracking mid-teens percentage growth year-over-year for the first quarter. Fraser reiterated confidence in reaching a 10% to 11% return on tangible common equity by the end of 2026, described the global economy as "just fin…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said reducing the share of nuclear generation in Europe was a strategic error, arguing the shift left the bloc more exposed to volatile and costly fossil fuel imports. The Commission will offer a 200-million-euro guarantee for private investment in advanced nuclear technologies, funded from the EU …
Thinking Machines Lab has entered a multi-year agreement with Nvidia that includes a significant investment and guarantees the startup at least one gigawatt of the chipmaker's next-generation processors. The computing capacity, to be delivered via Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems beginning early next year, will be used primarily to train the company's A…
Novo Nordisk (NVO) has pulled back to the low-$30s on GLP-1 competition and headline volatility. The stock is trading at a modest P/E of 11.4, yields ~3.1%, and shows technical signs of near-term exhaustion. With average liquidity well above today's volumes and a recent pickup in short activity, a disciplined long at $38.90 targeting $52.00 (mid-te…
Eos Energy Enterprises director David Urban purchased 16,250 shares of the company on March 9, 2026, investing $100,100 at a weighted average price of $6.16. The transaction leaves Urban with 62,471 shares. The purchase comes as the stock is down 46% year-to-date but up 57% over the past year, and follows a notable fourth-quarter 2025 earnings and …
Insider filings disclosed Monday show a mix of sizeable insider purchases and large executive sales across a range of U.S.-listed companies. The largest reported buy was Vice President Alan Waxman's $5.53 million acquisition of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares, executed through a trust in two tranches. Other notable buys include Broadridge's C…
Floor & Decor (FND) has been marked down to roughly $60 after a year-long slide from a $95 high. Fundamentals show a profitable, low-debt retailer with meaningful free-cash-flow, but valuation metrics (PE ~31, P/FCF >100) keep the stock expensive on trailing cash generation. Near-term technicals and concentrated investor buying present an actionabl…
