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Futures tied to Canada’s principal stock index rose on Wednesday as gains in crude oil and gold helped underpin the commodities-heavy TSX. Markets remained sensitive to the fifth day of fighting involving Iran and U.S. and Israeli forces, while investors awaited a series of U.S. economic releases that could influence the Federal Reserve’s rate outl…
Indie Semiconductor shares plunged in premarket trading after the company priced a private offering of $150 million in 4% convertible bonds due 2031. The deal, which sets an initial conversion price above the recent stock close, is intended to fund a repurchase of outstanding convertible notes and to provide working capital and other corporate uses…
Speaking at a conference in Luxembourg, the chair of euro zone finance ministers said Europe's long-standing growth model that depended on an expanding workforce is running out of room. With the bloc facing significant demographic headwinds and a projected annual workforce contraction by 2040, policymakers must turn to higher productivity driven by…
Cryptocurrency-linked equities and funds rose in premarket trading as bitcoin and ether both advanced. Exchange operators, miners, and firms holding tokens posted gains, while spot and strategy ETFs also moved higher ahead of the market open. Key short-term drivers cited in the session were the increases in bitcoin and ether prices and investor ex…
Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD) trades below tangible book and yields roughly 14%. Recent weakness appears tied to sector headlines about SaaS exposure rather than fundamentals. This trade idea targets a mid-term rebound while protecting downside with a tight stop.
Morgan Stanley’s quantitative research team has singled out four European-listed companies - Next Plc, Prudential Plc, Assicurazioni Generali and Endeavour Mining - as the most likely to report earnings above expectations this month. The bank’s Earnings Surprise Composite, which combines measures of Earnings Forecast Landscape, Earnings Quality and…
A Russian drone struck an empty passenger train in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region early on Wednesday, injuring a railway worker, officials said. Separately, an attempted drone attack on a service between Dnipro and Kovel was intercepted by railway staff, while the national rail operator reported a surge in strikes on rail assets since the start of March…
On March 4, the U.S. government will open bidding on more than 1 million acres in Alaska's Cook Inlet, marking the first of six offshore lease sales required under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will read bids via livestream at 10 a.m. Alaska time (1900 GMT). Leases run for 10 years and include a 12.5% ro…
Kraken’s banking unit has secured permission to tap into the Federal Reserve’s core payment systems, enabling the firm to process transactions more quickly for large clients and professional traders. The approval highlights digital-assets firms' increasing integration with traditional finance, while public details about the arrangement remain limit…
South Korea's KOSPI tumbled 12% on March 4 in its largest single-day fall since the global financial crisis, driven by the rapid unwinding of highly leveraged long positions and heavy selling by foreign investors. The drop has coincided with a sharp weakening of the Korean won and follows a broader deterioration in market sentiment after the escala…
Airlines across the globe have cancelled thousands of flights following the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, after the outbreak of war in Iran. The disruption has led carriers to suspend service on routes to and from affected cities for varying periods in March, with airlines publishing staggered timetables…
Bank of America has resumed coverage of Tesla with a Buy rating and a $460 price objective, pointing to Tesla's leadership in consumer autonomy, a camera-only approach to self-driving, and potential revenue from robotaxis, full self-driving subscriptions, the Optimus humanoid robot and the companys energy business.
NATO air and missile defence systems destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Iran that was on a trajectory into Turkish airspace. The Turkish Defence Ministry said the projectile traversed Syrian and Iraqi territory prior to being intercepted over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. No casualties or injuries were reported, and Turkey has warned against…
Officials briefed on the matter told the New York Times that operatives from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to talks with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to explore an off-ramp from the current conflict. The outreach was reportedly passed via an unnamed country's intelligence service. U.S. officials remain doubtful about ne…
Markets across Asia tumbled as a sudden escalation of violence in the Middle East sent energy price and supply risk sharply higher. South Korea's Kospi plunged 12% in its largest single-day drop on record, while Japan's Nikkei and Taiwan's main index each fell roughly 4%. The Korean won reached a 17-year low and several Asian exchanges halted tradi…
Byreal announced the open-source release of Byreal CLI, an interface built specifically for AI agents, and introduced Copy Farmer, an agent-enabled liquidity replication system on Solana. The company positions the tools as foundational to a vision where autonomous agents act as economic actors in DeFi, supporting deterministic execution, constraint…
A Bernstein research note finds Chinese carmakers and Europe’s Stellantis at greatest risk from the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has forced ships to reroute and added 10 to 14 days to voyages. The disruption hits a Middle East market that recorded roughly 3 million new car sales in 2025 and carries implications for v…
European natural-gas benchmarks declined on Wednesday after a report that Iranian operatives had quietly offered discussions to end the conflict involving the U.S. and Israel. The Dutch TTF benchmark slid 8.5% to $49.695 per megawatt-hour in early afternoon trade, stepping back from gains and a three-year peak recorded the previous session. Market …
Hezbollah’s decision to launch rockets and drones into Israel in response to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has intensified domestic divisions in Lebanon, leaving the group politically isolated from a once-close ally and provoking widespread concern among its Shi’ite base. The action, which reportedly surprised some senior Hezbol…
Gold has weakened even as geopolitical risk in the Middle East has risen. Morgan Stanley strategists led by Amy Gower point to a stronger U.S. dollar and investor liquidity requirements as primary drivers of the recent price slide, and say the pullback may be temporary if tensions persist. They also note potential support from oil-linked revenues a…
Nautilus Resources LLC, a holder of roughly 10% of AleAnna, Inc. (ANNA), sold 146,773 Class A shares for about $535,091 across transactions between February 27 and March 3, 2026. The sales coincided with a 37.6% one-week price gain. Separately, AleAnna received a 20-year production concession for the Gradizza natural gas field in the Province of Fe…
UBS lowered its rating on Syensqo from Buy to Neutral and trimmed its price target to €54 from €81 after the company's fourth-quarter 2025 report showed a sharp organic sales drop in Specialty Polymers. The bank reduced 2026-2028 EBITDA and EPS forecasts, citing volume and pricing pressures, and projects a modest sales decline and EBITDA roughly in…
Bybit has launched a two-part MNT Recurring Buy promotion that offers up to 55,000 USDT in incentives for users who automate Mantle (MNT) purchases using Dollar-Cost Averaging. The campaign, running through March 23, 2026, features cashback for the top 100 new DCA users by cumulative MNT investment and a 50,000 USDT prize pool shared among eligible…
UBS upgraded Viscofan from Neutral to Buy and raised its price target to €72 from €58.30 after the company set medium-term targets for 2025-30E. The targets imply accelerating organic sales and EBITDA growth, supported by market expansion, capacity additions and cost savings, prompting UBS to lift its forecasts for sales, margins and dividends.
Citi analyst Scott Chronert says the market response to the Iran conflict can be informed by patterns seen during the 2011 Libya intervention. He flags the Strait of Hormuz as a focal point of risk, warns that an effective closure could push oil prices higher, and stresses that while Citi is keeping its full-year 2026 U.S. equity outlook unchanged,…
