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Equities tied to Ethereum climbed Monday after the cryptocurrency reached a five-week peak. A rapid crypto rally triggered mass short liquidations that buoyed prices across tokens, and shifting comments on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz fed into energy market moves and currency weakness ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting.
GN Store Nord has agreed to divest its Hearing business to Italy's Amplifon for 17 billion Danish crowns, a transaction that sent GN shares up 36% and pushed Amplifon stock down over 10%. The agreement, structured as a cash-and-share deal, will leave GN with an equity stake in Amplifon and includes specific financial metrics and a timeline for clos…
Meta is considering layoffs that could impact roughly one-fifth of its global workforce as it accelerates spending on AI infrastructure and recruits top researchers for a new superintelligence team. The discussions are not final and include no set timeline; shares rose in premarket trading after the report. Analysts estimate meaningful but partial …
CAB Payments Holdings PLC shares climbed 12.9% following an approach by StoneX Group, which has lodged an all-cash proposal of 95 pence per share with CAB Payments' board. The offer carries a premium to both the undisturbed share price on January 30 and a recent firm proposal from the Helios Consortium. StoneX described the potential deal as comple…
DSW Capital PLC reported a sharp drop in its share price after a trading update said the outbreak of war with Iran has severely disrupted M&A activity in the UK. The company trimmed its full-year forecasts while highlighting growth at its DR Solicitors arm and maintaining a modest cash position ahead of a full trading update in May 2026.
Goldman Sachs updated its European equity targets and rotated sector preferences after raising oil and gas price forecasts and trimming its U.S. growth outlook. The bank lifted commodities forecasts, lowered near-term GDP projections for 2026, delayed the expected timing of Federal Reserve rate cuts, and rebalanced European sector weightings toward…
Indonesia's benchmark IDX Composite fell 1.93% at Monday's close, touching a six-month low as losses in Infrastructure, Financials and Agriculture dragged the market lower. Market breadth favored decliners by a wide margin, while a handful of small-cap names posted double-digit gains and losses. Oil and Brent futures rallied and the rupiah weakened…
British equities opened higher on Monday with the FTSE 100 recovering earlier losses and the pound trading slightly stronger against the dollar. Markets remain attuned to continuing tensions in the Middle East and to a Bank of England policy decision due this week. Corporate results from Standard Life and Marshalls featured significant accounting a…
European shares opened slightly higher on Monday as the conflict involving Iran entered its third week and oil shot above the $100-per-barrel threshold. Benchmark regional indices posted modest gains while Brent and U.S. crude climbed sharply amid continuing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. Policymakers, including the European Central Bank, face…
Rising oil prices and renewed geopolitical tensions have unsettled investor sentiment, prompting fears of a broader market sell-off. JPMorgan strategists, however, argue that technical indicators and positioning do not yet indicate full capitulation and recommend using recent weakness to add equity exposure, with a focus on cyclical sectors, emergi…
UniCredit has launched a move to increase its holding in Commerzbank to a level above the 30% mandatory takeover threshold under German law, while stating it does not intend to obtain control. The bank, which currently holds 26% of Commerzbank in equity and a further 4% via total return swaps, expects the stake to exceed 30% following the offer. Un…
Japanese equities closed modestly lower on Monday, with the Nikkei 225 down 0.10%. Sector-level declines in Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication coincided with a broader number of falling issues versus advancers. Volatility rose and there were notable moves in oil, gold and currency pairs at the close in Tokyo.
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) reported a 2.4% decline in fourth-quarter net income to T$45.21 billion, falling short of Bloomberg estimates. The company recorded a quarterly revenue record of T$2.603 trillion, but weakening margins in its consumer electronics operations offset gains from AI-driven server demand and strong iPhone 17 reception…
Morgan Stanley has singled out a group of companies across the semiconductor supply chain that it considers best positioned to benefit from China’s stated objective of reaching 76% GPU self-sufficiency by 2030. The bank highlights a foundry operator, an equipment vendor and an advanced packaging specialist as central to expanding domestic AI chip m…
Fighting in the Middle East has shut major air cargo hubs and complicated shipping lanes, creating bottlenecks for temperature-controlled medicines bound for the Gulf. Executives at Western drugmakers and logistics firms report rerouting through alternate airports and trucking from Saudi Arabia and Oman, while industry experts warn that supplies of…
Taiwan's benchmark fell at the close Monday, dragged down by losses in the Transport and Biotech & Medical Care sectors. The Taiwan Weighted index ended the session down 0.54%, while a handful of individual stocks posted double-digit moves in both directions. Commodity and currency markets showed modest movement, with crude and Brent oil higher and…
This week featured a mix of upgrades and downgrades across financials, healthcare, electric vehicles, retail pharmacy and software-as-a-service names. Analysts adjusted price targets, revised earnings forecasts and reassessed legal and competitive risks. Highlights include a downgrade of Jefferies amid legal and credit concerns, a material target i…
Australia's equity benchmark closed lower, with the S&P/ASX 200 down 0.39% to a fresh three-month trough. Strength in a few consumer and financial stocks did little to offset steep declines among several miners and materials companies. Broader market indicators showed rising implied volatility, mixed commodity moves and modest FX shifts.
Akeso announced IND clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration for AK150, a trispecific antibody designed to target ILT2, ILT4, and CSF1R concurrently. The clearance allows clinical testing in patients with advanced solid tumors and prompted a roughly 6% rise in the company's Hong Kong-listed shares to HK$117 as of 05:29 GMT.
Xiaomi shares jumped after the company confirmed a March 19 launch for an updated SU7 electric sedan, alongside two new flagship products. The SU7 update, which Xiaomi says improves battery, safety and hardware, is central to its target of at least 550,000 EV sales in 2026, even as February EV sales fell year-on-year.
Ride-hailing app inDrive reported a 31% rise in net revenue to $601.6 million in 2025, driven by improved profitability per ride after a period of rapid growth. The U.S.-headquartered, privately held company is pursuing expansion into online delivery in developing markets through acquisitions, having bought grocery delivery services in Pakistan and…
Shares of Hua Hong Semiconductor climbed after reports that its parent, Hua Hong Group, has developed manufacturing technologies to produce 7-nanometre chips, with contract arm Huali Microelectronics preparing the process at a Shanghai plant. If commercialized, the capability would make Hua Hong the second Chinese firm able to manufacture 7 nm chip…
Zhipu AI introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a foundation large language model tuned for the OpenClaw agent ecosystem, prompting a notable rise in its Hong Kong-listed shares. The model is designed to enhance tool invocation, instruction following and execution of extended task chains, and it offers features intended to ease enterprise integration. The company…
Hua Hong Group’s contract foundry Huali Microelectronics is readying a 7-nanometre chip production process at its Shanghai Fab 6, according to people familiar with the matter. If brought online, this capability would make Hua Hong the second domestic Chinese producer able to make chips at the 7 nm node. The move aligns with Beijing’s ongoing push f…
Warner Bros took center stage at the Academy Awards, collecting 11 Oscars across several films, but celebrations were muted by the pending $110 billion acquisition of its corporate parent by Paramount Skydance. The transaction, won by Paramount CEO David Ellison over Netflix, promises substantial cost savings and a pledged annual production slate, …
