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RBC Capital Markets has identified two retail companies it views as best positioned for 2026, recommending investors focus on defensive, high-margin names. The broker highlights balance sheet strength, pricing power and operational agility as key differentiators. It reiterates an outperform rating on Inditex, citing its vertically integrated supply…
Growing U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran has injected fresh uncertainty into a Middle East that has been drawing major technology capital. Global cloud providers and chip partners have committed billions to AI, semiconductor and data-center projects across the Gulf, with major planned investments by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Alphabet…
U.S. stock futures fell and commodity prices rose after renewed hostilities involving Iran, the U.S. and Israel. Market participants focused on potential disruptions to oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and on heightened safe-haven demand for gold. Wall Street analysts offered a range of assessments about the conflict's likely duration, potent…
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Alan Taylor said in Oslo that weakening inflation, higher unemployment and slower wage growth mean the Bank may shortly be operating outside the usual trade-off between growth and inflation, raising the prospect of demand shortfalls. Taylor, who joined three colleagues last month in pressing for a ra…
Analysts at Barclays argue European insurers may provide a defensive stance within financial stocks as the U.S.-Iran conflict intensifies. They point to limited underwriting exposure to war-related losses, concentrated specialty lines primarily at London Market insurers and reinsurers, and historically high levels of reinsurance. A stronger U.S. do…
U.S. stock futures opened lower as a widening conflict in the Middle East prompted traders to abandon risk assets. Energy and defense equities rallied on higher crude and military-related demand, while leisure, airlines and select tech names fell amid operational disruptions and earnings pressures. A number of individual companies recorded notable …
Saudi Arabia's stock market closed slightly higher on Monday, supported by gains in the Energy & Utilities, Petrochemicals and Industrial Investment sectors. The Tadawul All Share rose 0.13% as a handful of names produced notable advances while several others fell to all-time lows. Oil and gold prices climbed sharply during the session, and cur…
Shares of leading U.S. defense contractors rose sharply on Monday following a large-scale joint military operation by Israel and the United States against Iran. The offensive, named "Operation Epic Fury," has reportedly killed senior figures including Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and is expected to continue for days. Analysts say t…
Zoetis Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Neogen Corporation's animal genomics business for $160 million, a move that grants Zoetis access to genetic testing technologies and data tools intended to enhance animal health predictions and individualized care. The deal, which covers a genomics unit operating five laboratories across multiple contin…
Informa PLC shares fell 6.04% on Monday after recent geopolitical developments in the Middle East raised concerns about the company’s reliance on the region for fast-growing live B2B events revenue. Morgan Stanley estimates significant revenue concentration in IMEA for 2025 and outlines potential group-level impacts to revenue and adjusted profits …
Escalating conflict tied to Iran has disrupted maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, leaving at least 150 vessels anchored or stranded, four tankers damaged and one seafarer dead. Insurers have announced cancellations of war risk policies for Iranian and adjacent waters, while spot freight and oil prices have climbed as buyers and shipowne…
JPMorgan has reduced its 2026 non-oil gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection for the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, citing heightened regional risks after a recent escalation in the Middle East. The bank says the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran has raised uncertainty across the region, with oil and sentiment as primary transmis…
Goldman Sachs lowered its rating on Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk to neutral from buy and reduced its 12-month price objective to DKK260 from DKK400 after the REDEFINE-4 results prompted a material downgrade in peak sales expectations for CagriSema and cagrilintide monotherapy. The bank also adjusted group revenue, profit and EPS forecasts downward…
JPMorgan analyst Mislav Matejka argues that the recent escalation tied to Iran should be treated as a buying opportunity for longer-term investors rather than a reason to exit markets. While acknowledging likely short-term risk-off behavior and volatility, Matejka points to positive underlying fundamentals - resilient activity momentum, a consumer …
A series of strikes and retaliatory actions across the Middle East led to precautionary closures at major oil and gas facilities, including a suspension of LNG output in Qatar, a temporary shutdown at Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery and stoppages across Iraqi Kurdistan and Israeli offshore fields. The disruptions sent oil prices sharply higher a…
Shares of uniQure N.V. plunged 45% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to accept the company's proposed route to market for AMT-130, recommending a prospective, randomized, double-blind, sham surgery-controlled trial instead. uniQure says it will keep engaging with the agency and plans to request a Type B meeting in the second quar…
Shares of AES Corporation fell roughly 17% after a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT offered $15.00 in cash per share to acquire the company. The proposal values AES at $10.7 billion of equity and roughly $33.4 billion enterprise value including assumed debt, and was approved unanimously by AES’ board. The deal is subject to …
Futures tied to Canada’s main stock index slid Monday as investors reacted to a broad escalation of strikes between the U.S., Israel and Iran. Concerns about disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and rising oil prices lifted safe-haven assets, while U.S. and Canadian equity futures retreated ahead of a busy U.S. economic calendar.
UK stock markets fell on Monday amid a global risk-off move triggered by heightened conflict in the Middle East. Oil surged almost 8% after retaliatory Iranian attacks disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz following a weekend bombing that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While energy and defence names advanced, domesticall…
The World Health Organization reported that Gandhi Hospital in Tehran was evacuated following nearby explosions that caused collateral damage. The WHO is working to confirm reports that three other medical facilities - Motahari Hospital in Tehran and emergency centres in Sarab and Hamadan provinces - were hit since the start of the U.S.-Israeli air…
Goldman Sachs cautions that a one-month full halt of LNG tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could push Dutch TTF natural gas to roughly 74 EUR/MWh - about 130% above current levels - and send shockwaves through global LNG and oil markets. Longer disruptions would raise European gas above 100 EUR/MWh and strain freight rates, spare producti…
A rapid escalation in the Middle East has driven sharp moves in energy and financial markets. Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliation have effectively halted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices sharply higher, unsettling global bond markets, strengthening the dollar and weighing on equities. The du…
Novo Nordisk will invest 432 million euros ($506.43 million) to enlarge its Athlone, Ireland manufacturing site. The project is intended to boost production of oral products, including oral versions of GLP-1 medicines such as Wegovy and Ozempic, and to strengthen the company’s ability to serve demand outside the United States. Construction is under…
Bank of America expects a broad-based rally in the U.S. dollar following the latest escalation in the Middle East and identifies the New Zealand dollar (NZD) as its preferred short in that scenario. Strategists point to New Zealand's growing reliance on imported fuels and an outsized sensitivity of NZD to risk assets, arguing these structural and e…
Everest Group appears to be at the inflection point of a multi-quarter recovery. With limited public updates from the company lately, the trade here leans on an event-driven thesis: management credibility repairs, cost rationalization and a clearer capital-allocation path can unlock outsized upside from current levels. Trade plan: buy $4.25, stop $…
