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Senior Gulf officials, including the UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber, say recent Iranian strikes and an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have prompted calls to dismantle Iran’s ability to attack its neighbors. The disruption to a maritime chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of global oil supplies has led to halted tanker movements, surging oil p…
General Motors reported no clear sales impact from recent increases in U.S. gasoline prices that have been linked to the war in Iran. CFO Paul Jacobson said weather patterns and reduced vehicle inventories - most notably for trucks as the company readies new full-size models - were more influential on first-quarter results. He added that consumers …
Morgan Stanley identifies the expansion of an unsupervised robotaxi fleet as the single most important catalyst for Tesla shares in 2026. After meetings at a TMT conference and a Giga Texas tour, the bank’s analyst said production of the Cybercab remains on track for April and that additional unsupervised miles will accelerate learning for personal…
The Federal Aviation Administration announced it will stop allowing visual separation between helicopters and fixed-wing airliners in key airspace around major airports and require radar-controlled lateral or vertical spacing. The move follows a January 2025 mid-air collision that killed 67 people and two recent incidents, including a near miss nea…
Nvidia has raised the size of its addressable market for AI chips to at least $1 trillion through 2027 and rolled out new hardware and platform initiatives, but its stock has been largely flat since September as investors debate whether continued reinvestment in the AI ecosystem will deliver the expected returns and whether inference workloads will…
UniCredit's CEO Andrea Orcel told a London conference that talks with Commerzbank are the bank's immediate priority. He said potential consolidation among Italy's mid-sized banks remains possible but will be driven by their controlling shareholders, and at present there has been no opening for negotiations. Orcel reiterated UniCredit's pan-European…
Futures tied to Canada’s principal equity benchmark traded lower as investors awaited interest-rate decisions from the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve. Rising U.S. producer prices and renewed oil-supply worries from the Iran conflict kept traders cautious, while moves in commodities, gold and select technology and retail shares reflecte…
Shares of several optical equipment suppliers rallied in pre-market trading after presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference emphasized strong demand tied to AI infrastructure. Executives and analysts at the event highlighted planned capacity builds, sold-out laser inventories, and sizable serviceable addressable market estimates f…
Bank of America reports clients were net sellers of U.S. equities last week after equity ETF outflows of about $1 billion overwhelmed $16 million of single-stock inflows. Hedge funds were the primary sellers for a fourth straight week, private clients shifted to selling, and institutional clients remained the sole net buyers. Small- and micro-cap n…
Insider filings made public on Tuesday show a mix of sizeable buy and sell activity across a range of U.S.-listed companies. Notable purchases include a $3.07 million accumulation in Sonos Inc and a $1.38 million indirect purchase of Reddit Class A stock by a company director. On the sell side, an Ironwood Pharmaceuticals director executed $20.5 mi…
RBC Capital Markets has adjusted its outlook on major UK supermarkets as consumers appear set to shift spending from discretionary items toward food. The bank raised price targets for Tesco and Sainsbury's citing lower WACC assumptions and the chains' defensive qualities, while keeping a negative stance on Ocado due to its ongoing losses and premiu…
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share closed higher, up 0.55%, driven by strength in Media & Publishing, Energy & Utilities and Real Estate Development names. Real estate and industrial stocks posted the largest gains while a major insurer slid to a five-year low. Oil prices rose and gold fell, providing mixed signals for market participants.
UBS strategist Andrew Garthwaite expects global equities to remain in a consolidation phase near term and sets a 2026 MSCI All-Country World index target of 1,100. The bank outlines a broad range of scenarios: a rapid resolution to the Middle East conflict plus stronger AI-driven productivity could lift fair value to 1,280, while a prolonged confli…
U.S. equity futures advanced Wednesday morning as market participants awaited the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest-rate announcement and monitored developments in the Iran war. At 07:50 ET (11:50 GMT), futures for the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were all higher. Several individual stocks moved in premarket trading after company guidance, analyst…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's oral psoriasis pill, Icotyde, for adults and pediatric patients 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kg with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The approval positions J&J to expand into the psoriasis market with a once-daily oral alternative that has shown superior skin cl…
BMW said prices in China are stabilising after heavy discounting in the electric vehicle segment, as the automaker unveiled its new i3 all-electric sedan built on the 'Neue Klasse' platform. The move forms part of BMW's strategy to overhaul its lineup, counter intense local competition and arrest a sales decline in China, the world's largest car ma…
Jefferies shifted its recommendations on Europe’s two largest hearing-aid manufacturers, upgrading Demant to buy from hold and downgrading Sonova to underperform from hold. The broker pointed to a stretched valuation gap in favor of Sonova, updated price targets that imply material upside for Demant and downside for Sonova, and differing near-term …
Shares of major memory suppliers climbed as Bernstein raised price targets on Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, citing stronger-than-anticipated pricing momentum heading into the second quarter of 2026. The research house's checks point to resilient hyperscaler demand, ongoing supply constraints and consumer purchasing pulled forward ahead of further p…
CF Industries Holdings fell about 3% Wednesday morning after Mizuho lowered its rating to Underperform from Neutral. The firm set a $100 price target, noting that much of the recent rally in fertilizer stocks may have been driven by temporary factors tied to the Middle East conflict and could reverse when that dynamic fades.
Chinese equities tied to the open-source OpenClaw agent framework jumped after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called the development a "ChatGPT moment for AI agents." Morgan Stanley named MiniMax Group, Zhipu (Knowledge Atlas Tech) and Baidu as leading plays in the AI agent platform and foundation model layer that underpin agent reasoning and task executi…
President Trump criticized the United States' sole responsibility for safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz and suggested allied nations should assume the role, posting his remarks on Truth Social. S&P 500 futures were up 0.3% while crude oil prices were slightly lower; both markets responded to the post. The European Union said it would not rush to pr…
The European Commission has proposed a new EU-wide corporate form, 'EU Inc', allowing businesses to register online within 48 hours under a single set of EU rules. Aimed primarily at innovative startups, the measure intends to reduce legal fragmentation across the 27-member bloc, retain talent and capital, and help scale companies inside the single…
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. saw its stock drop roughly 10% after four board members resigned in protest of an Audit Committee decision to terminate independent legal counsel handling an investigation into an anonymous complaint. The company says the complaint does not allege fraud or financial statement misstatement and the Audit Committee has ordered …
J.P. Morgan downgraded Beiersdorf from Overweight to Neutral and reduced its price target following the company's conservative 2026 guidance. The bank said organic sales are expected to be flat to low single-digit percent and operating margins slightly below last year, while visibility on a Nivea rebound and near-term catalysts remains limited.
Rocket Lab Corporation announced an equity distribution agreement that allows the company to offer and sell up to $1 billion of its common stock through a syndicate of financial institutions. The disclosure, filed with the SEC on March 17, 2026, coincided with a 3.5% decline in the company's shares Wednesday morning. The arrangement also includes f…
