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Greek equities finished Wednesday's session in positive territory as sector gains in Construction, Travel and Banking supported a 0.72% advance in the Athens General Composite. Alumil led winners with a double-digit intraday jump to a five-year high, while select travel and technology names also posted notable gains. Broader market breadth was mixe…
Wells Fargo anticipates loan growth this year, led by its credit card business and auto lending tied to dealer partnerships, while expecting mortgage activity to stabilize after prior declines. The bank is expanding organically following the Federal Reserve’s removal of a $1.95 trillion asset cap and reports steady credit performance across consume…
The European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust approval for Alphabet’s $32 billion takeover of cybersecurity firm Wiz, ruling the transaction raises no competition issues. Announced in March last year, the acquisition is expected to enlarge Google’s footprint in cybersecurity and cloud services where it faces Amazon and Microsoft. Regu…
The European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust approval to Google's $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz, announced in March 2025. The regulator concluded the transaction will not reduce competition in cloud infrastructure or cybersecurity markets and said any data obtained by Google through the deal is not commercially se…
Warner Bros Discovery shares climbed after Paramount Skydance amended its acquisition proposal by adding a ticking fee of $0.25 per share for each quarter the transaction remains unsettled beyond this year, and by agreeing to assume any breakup fee Warner Bros Discovery would owe to Netflix under their existing arrangement.
RBC Capital Markets upgraded Thomson Reuters to outperform after a recent share-price decline, saying the pullback improved the stock’s risk-reward tradeoff even as agentic AI alters delivery models for legal and tax services. The firm highlighted valuation, balance-sheet capacity and projected net asset value growth as central to its thesis, while…
Evogene Ltd. (NASDAQ:EVGN) saw its stock climb 4% on Tuesday after revealing an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to embed AI Agents into its ChemPass AI platform. The initiative will use Google Cloud's Vertex AI to automate and scale parallel molecular discovery workflows with the aim of accelerating design-make-test-analyze cycles for smal…
European Wax Center Inc.'s stock climbed sharply after the company disclosed a definitive agreement for General Atlantic to acquire all remaining Class A shares in an all-cash transaction valued at about $330 million. The offer of $5.80 per share represents notable premiums to recent trading levels and must clear a vote of unaffiliated shareholders…
Iveda Solutions Inc reported the opening of a European hub in Madrid, positioning the company to pursue public safety and infrastructure contracts across the region. Despite the expansion and the firm's compliance certifications, the company's stock dropped 35.7% on Tuesday in a negative market reaction.
Tuesday’s session produced notable volatility across major and smaller-cap stocks. Streaming giant Netflix and enterprise software provider Oracle were among the leaders to the upside, while several technology and industrial names ended lower. The move extended through large-, mid- and small-cap groups, with sector-specific headlines and company gu…
Troy Rohrbaugh, co-CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Commercial & Investment Bank, told attendees at a UBS conference that he is "quite positive" about the investment banking outlook for 2026 and suggested 2024 could "possibly" mark the strongest M&A year in ten years. He also highlighted that base volatility is markedly higher than before the COVID-19…
Turkey's equity benchmark closed lower on Tuesday, with the BIST 100 easing 0.30% as losses concentrated in Sports, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Metal Products & Machinery sectors. A handful of names posted sizable gains and losses, while commodity prices and currency pairs showed mixed moves during the session.
NeoConcept International Group Holdings Ltd (NCI) saw its shares fall sharply after the company priced a public offering of 14.85 million Class A ordinary shares at $0.5454 each. The placement is expected to generate about $8.1 million in gross proceeds before fees and expenses, with net proceeds targeted for business expansion and general working …
Under CEO Marc Murtra, Telefonica has intensified a program of withdrawals from Spanish-speaking Latin America, citing lower profitability relative to capital cost. After a 2024 ownership and management shake-up and a strategic plan presented in November, the company will concentrate on four primary markets - Brazil, Britain, Germany and Spain - wh…
Personalis Inc. saw a notable one-day stock gain after Medicare approved coverage for its NeXT Personal molecular residual disease (MRD) test for surveillance of Stage I to III non-small cell lung cancer. The decision, grounded in clinical data from a collaboration with the TRACERx consortium, follows a separate coverage determination for breast ca…
Retail traders piled into software and large-cap tech names after a recent selloff, sending one iShares tech-software ETF to a record one-month inflow even as the broader software index and related ETFs suffered steep declines amid renewed worries about advancing AI capabilities and their potential to disrupt incumbent software businesses.
Wingstop's stock slipped about 6% in early Tuesday trading after TD Cowen and Raymond James reduced their ratings, flagging a tougher 2026 outlook driven by weakening same-store sales and concentration in financially pressured customer segments. Both brokerages questioned whether new initiatives - including smart kitchens, a loyalty program and Wor…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said financial sponsors, including private equity firms, are likely to increase dealmaking as they face pressure to return capital to investors ahead of fresh fundraising. Solomon also predicted strategic corporate mergers and acquisitions will be meaningfully higher than the five-year average. Goldman benefited from…
Nebius Group NV has agreed to acquire Tavily, a firm that builds search tools tailored for AI agents, in a $275 million transaction reported by Bloomberg. The move brings Tavily's founder and CEO Rotem Weiss and his team into the Netherlands-based cloud operator and aligns with Nebius's push to expand services for AI customers that operate autonomo…
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares rose 2% after Paramount Skydance Corporation enhanced its $30 per share all-cash takeover proposal by adding a quarterly ticking fee, agreeing to cover a $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix, and backstopping a bond exchange to remove a possible $1.5 billion financing cost for Warner Bros. Discovery. The revise…
Phio Pharmaceuticals reported strong efficacy and a favorable safety profile from its Phase 1b study of INTASYL candidate PH-762, driving a 57.8% gain in premarket trading. Final-cohort data showed an 85% pathological response rate, and company plans include FDA engagement and a required non-human primate study ahead of pivotal trials.
MicroStrategy Inc will continue to acquire Bitcoin on a recurring basis and does not intend to sell its existing cryptocurrency holdings, CEO Michael Saylor said in a recent television interview. The comments followed an at-the-market sale of Class A shares whose proceeds were used to add to the company's bitcoin position. Company disclosure throug…
A federal judge in Texas struck down the state's Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, which required public entities to cut ties with financial firms that considered environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors. The ruling, finding the law in violation of First Amendment protections, is expected by legal and sustainable investment experts to…
S&P Global shares slid more than 18% in pre-market trading after the company reported a slight fourth-quarter earnings miss and issued 2026 guidance below Wall Street consensus. Revenue marginally topped expectations, and full-year adjusted EPS rose, but guidance for 2026 and softer growth in Ratings prompted analyst concern about momentum across k…
UniFirst Corp. shares climbed sharply after reports that Cintas Corp. has entered active talks to acquire the uniform-services company, having resubmitted a $275-per-share offer in December. That figure is well above UniFirst's prior close of $199.84 and shares were trading at $235.80 in pre-market activity following the news. The talks follow earl…
