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Options tied to Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) indicate the market is expecting roughly a 6% move in the stock when the company reports earnings on May 14 after the market close. Historical comparisons show the stock has often moved more than options implied in recent quarters, including several double-digit swings.
Healthcare and biotech-focused mutual funds and ETFs experienced net outflows totaling $1.5 billion for the week ending Wednesday, according to Raymond James. The withdrawals amounted to a 1.53% reduction in assets across 130 funds that collectively manage roughly $99.5 billion. Year-to-date net outflows stand at $1.98 billion, and this marked the …
JPMorgan upgraded Freshpet from Neutral to Overweight and nudged its December 2026 price target to $68 from $66, arguing that investor worries about new entrants in the refrigerated pet food category are excessive. The bank highlighted Freshpet's sales momentum, vertically integrated manufacturing, and a network of more than 39,000 company-owned re…
BofA Securities reaffirmed a Buy rating on ASML and lifted its price target as the bank sees the immediate revenue opportunity coming from increased shipments of current Low-NA EUV systems rather than rapid adoption of next-generation High-NA tools. High-NA roll-out is expected to be gradual due to technical limitations and design complexities, wit…
SoftBank Corp has opened discussions with Nvidia and Foxconn about creating AI servers manufactured in Japan. The plan envisages an initial phase of assembling externally sourced parts by the end of the decade and a later stage where SoftBank would handle full production. The effort would target high-performance machines designed to run advanced gr…
Goldman Sachs projects U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose by 75,000 in April, modestly above consensus, driven by encouraging big-data indicators. The bank anticipates a small net decline in government employment and expects the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 4.3% on a rounded basis, with average hourly earnings up 0.3% month-over-month.
Bank of America projects headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) will climb 0.5% month-over-month in April, driven largely by a 4.3% monthly jump in energy prices tied to the Iran war. The bank forecasts headline CPI at 3.7% year-over-year and core CPI at 0.3% month-over-month, or 2.7% year-over-year, noting rent data adjustments stemming from a prior …
Broadcom shares slipped after reports that the company’s proposed financing of the initial phase of chip production for OpenAI has run into a potential $18 billion funding hurdle. Negotiations reportedly hinge on a commitment from Microsoft to purchase a substantial portion of the chips, a step Broadcom says it needs to ensure repayment of its inve…
The U.S. Justice Department, joined by six states, settled a civil antitrust lawsuit against Agri Stats, a data firm that provides weekly meat pricing and sales reports. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the agreement will make Agri Stats' reports available to all buyers and sellers in the supply chain and will lower meat prices for consume…
OpenAI announced three audio-focused models for its developer platform that enable real-time listening, translation and transcription. The models - GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper - are available for testing in OpenAI's developer playground. Selected corporate testers include Zillow, Priceline and Deutsche Telekom. P…
Rave, a Canadian app developer, has filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. federal court in New Jersey claiming Apple removed its shared video-viewing app from the App Store in 2025 to protect Apple’s competing feature SharePlay. Rave seeks reinstatement and "hundreds of millions of dollars" in damages and says similar legal actions have been filed in …
On May 7, the acting head of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division cautioned companies against relying on broad statements about artificial intelligence replacing industries as a defense in merger reviews, saying such claims must be supported by evidence. Omeed Assefi, who supervises the DOJ's merger review work, encouraged early engage…
Hawkeye 360 Inc. saw its shares rise 30% in their New York trading debut after the company completed a $416 million initial public offering. The offering of 16 million shares was priced at $26 each - the top of the marketed range - and shares opened at $33.80. Based on outstanding shares filed by the company, the market value stands at about $3.1 b…
Equities across market-cap segments moved sharply on Thursday, with semiconductor giant Qualcomm and cloud-monitoring firm Datadog posting notable gains while companies including Arm and Insmed recorded steep declines. The session featured sector-specific catalysts such as a security certification for Datadog, earnings beats and guidance revisions,…
A compact set of labor-market and consumer-confidence releases, led by the monthly jobs report and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading, arrives Friday, May 8, 2026. The schedule also includes a string of Federal Reserve speeches, weekly CFTC position reports for key futures markets, rig counts and Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimates. Mar…
Earnings season presses on with a full docket set for Friday. Major corporations including Toyota, Fidelity National Information Services, YPF SA, PPL Corp and Amadeus IT Holding top a wider list of companies scheduled to release quarterly results. Below is a compiled list of the firms set to report along with consensus estimates for earnings per s…
Blue Owl’s largest publicly traded private credit vehicle has reduced its allocation to software companies as executives grow cautious about valuations amid AI sector shifts. The fund’s software weight fell to 16% from 19% in the first quarter as loans were repaid, and managers signaled continued selectivity toward new software deals even as a smal…
Shares of Fermi America LLC fell 4.4% on Thursday after short seller Fuzzy Panda released a report asserting that the company’s air permit for its planned datacenter project may be legally vulnerable. The report contends the permit’s approval by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is being challenged in court and that the dispute could st…
Verizon confirmed a fresh round of workforce reductions involving several hundred employees, representing under 1% of its total staff. The cuts, focused most heavily at the company’s Basking Ridge, New Jersey headquarters and concentrated in smaller business units, follow a November reduction that eliminated 13,000 positions. Verizon continues to l…
HawkEye 360 rallied on its first day of trading in New York, lifting the space analytics company's valuation to $3.15 billion. The Herndon, Virginia-based firm sold 16 million shares at $26 in a U.S. IPO that raised $416 million, and its stock opened substantially higher on debut. The listing comes amid heightened investor interest in defense-relat…
MarineMax is progressing a company sale after its board authorized a second-round process. Donerail, an activist investor and 5% shareholder, has increased a prior $35-per-share cash proposal, and at least one major private equity firm is reviewing company materials. The company operates marinas and dealerships catering to high-net-worth buyers and…
Oculis Holding AG (NASDAQ:OCS) shares climbed 4.2% after the company announced a Special Protocol Assessment from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its PIONEER-1 registrational trial of Privosegtor to treat optic neuritis. The SPA validates the study design and analysis plan as capable of supporting a future New Drug Application, contingent…
Solvay expects its hydrogen peroxide unit in Saudi Arabia to come back online within the next few months, CEO Philippe Kehren said on a press call. The company emphasized that the asset sits on a larger industrial platform, so the timing of any restart will be set by the platform operator. Production at the joint venture with Sadara has been halted…
Blue Owl Capital Corp and Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp reduced their quarterly dividends, citing a tougher earnings backdrop driven by lower base rates and tighter spreads. Both funds saw their shares decline in premarket trading, and management noted that higher borrowing costs weighed on performance even as non-accrual investment rates fell f…
Airlines have continued to alter schedules and routings in response to disruption tied to conflict in the Middle East. Regional carriers in the Gulf report expanded or restored capacity, while a broad array of international airlines have suspended, delayed or reduced flights to airports in Israel, the Gulf and other affected destinations. The follo…
