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Ferretti shares rose after the company released preliminary results showing year-on-year increases in net revenue and adjusted EBITDA, a healthier margin and a larger order backlog compared with September 2025. Management said it will concentrate on high-margin segments and distinctive boat design while seeking long-term value creation for stakehol…
Keysight Technologies shares rose sharply in premarket trading after the electronics equipment maker issued second-quarter guidance that exceeded analyst estimates compiled by LSEG. Management also updated its fiscal 2026 outlook, and several brokerages raised price targets following the results. The company's outlook excludes potential impacts fro…
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic warned that the United States could be entering a period of structurally higher unemployment that the Federal Reserve may not be able to counter. He expressed confidence that institutional protections for Fed independence will endure, noted the need for any new chair to build internal relationships, …
Santander Executive Chair Ana Botin will set out plans to extract further cost savings through a unified IT platform and an operating model roll-out across its global businesses, following the bank's recent acquisitions including U.S. lender Webster and Britain’s TSB. The push supports a strategy to concentrate on three developed markets - Spain, B…
U.S. stock futures inched higher on Tuesday following a broad market decline the day before, as investors weighed the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement and growing concerns about artificial intelligence. Financial and software stocks were among the hardest hit in Monday’s selloff. Markets also awaited key corporate resul…
Deutsche Bank moved Rentokil Initial Plc (LON:RTO) from "buy" to "hold," trimming its price target to 465 pence from 505 pence. The bank highlighted underperformance in Rentokil's Pest Control division relative to leading international peers and said it awaits guidance from the incoming CEO on plans to close gaps in growth and margins. The downgrad…
Goldman Sachs strategists identify a market rotation favoring firms with substantial physical capital and low risk of technological obsolescence. Labelled HALO - heavy assets, low obsolescence - these companies, including utilities, grids and long-cycle industrial capacity, have outperformed capital-light peers by 35% since 2025. Goldman points to …
Jefferies analysts caution that emerging regulatory measures on artificial intelligence could create headwinds for the largest technology companies while redistributing potential gains across the wider market. Rising public unease, extensive state legislative activity and limited federal appetite for sweeping preemption are cited as forces likely t…
J.P. Morgan Cazenove has lowered its rating on Johnson Matthey from overweight to neutral and cut its March 2027 price target to 2,000p, after Honeywell agreed to reduce the purchase price for Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies unit by £475 million. The bank revised transaction multiples and company forecasts, trimmed the planned cash return p…
As Nvidia prepares to report quarterly results, investors are searching for confirmation that the company’s profit growth remains strong amid expectations of significant capital spending from major cloud and tech companies. At the same time, hyperscalers developing their own AI chips and potential supply constraints at contract foundries are introd…
Glencore has entered an agreement to acquire almost 2,000 metric tons of cobalt from long-time market participant Rami Weisfisch for roughly $115 million at prevailing prices. The material, acquired by Weisfisch in 2015 and held in Europe and the United States, is expected to move to a planned U.S. strategic stockpile backed by Project Vault fundin…
Strategists at Societe Generale report that equities classified as extremely cheap by conventional measures have become rare in Europe and Japan after a strong run since the end of 2024. The research, led by a team including Andrew Lapthorne, shows a marked decline in the share of stocks with forward P/E ratios below 8x and a concurrent rise in ric…
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has opened early-stage discussions with a group of international investment firms and sovereign investors about selling a roughly $7 billion interest in its crude oil pipeline assets. The proposed structure would include about $1.5 billion of equity and the balance financed through debt, and several of the approached pa…
Gold rose to its strongest level in over three weeks during Tuesday trading, even as the U.S. dollar strengthened by more than 0.2%. The move came amid escalating trade rhetoric from the U.S. and the prospect of fresh diplomatic talks between Iran and the United States, supporting demand for the metal as a safe-haven asset despite currency headwind…
Indian equity benchmarks closed lower on Tuesday, with the Nifty 50 down 1.12% and the BSE Sensex 30 sliding 1.28%. Losses were widespread across Technology, Real Estate and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors. NTPC was among the few gainers, touching 52-week highs, while HCL Technologies recorded 52-week lows.
Samsung Electronics reached a record KRW200,000 after a six-month advance that has pushed the share price close to a 200% gain, driven by a surge in demand for memory used in AI servers. Industry-wide momentum from cloud hyperscaler investment, planned HBM4 shipments in the second half of 2026 and improving DRAM yields are cited as key supportive f…
Yardeni Research warned that large language models lack true comprehension despite advanced outputs, arguing AI is 'artificial but not intelligent.' The firm highlighted labor-market risks, recent softness in tech payrolls since ChatGPT's debut in late 2022, market reactions to AI headlines, and potential implications for equities and gold. Yardeni…
Ashmore Group Plc shares climbed 4% after Jefferies upgraded the emerging-markets asset manager to buy and lifted its price target to 285 pence from 170 pence. The broker cited the firm’s strongest flow momentum in years, highlighted by $2.6 billion of net new money in Ashmore’s fiscal second quarter of 2026 and a marked skew toward new mandates.
Barclays has reduced its rating on Rio Tinto plc from Overweight to Equal Weight and lowered its price target to 6,600p from 6,885p, citing a tighter valuation framework and softer near-term iron ore dynamics. The revised target implies roughly 8% downside to Rio Tinto's Feb. 23 close of 7,162p. Barclays also flagged constrained long-term copper gr…
JPMorgan moved Novo Nordisk to Neutral from Overweight and trimmed its price target to 250 Danish crowns from 350 after late-stage REDEFINE-4 data suggested CagriSema is less competitive than Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. The bank significantly reduced sales and earnings forecasts for Novo across the 2026-2030 period, and shares fell in Copenhagen trading.…
Shares in Finnish asset manager Mandatum dropped sharply after private equity firm Altor sold a significant block of the company’s stock. Altor disposed of 35 million shares at €6.80 apiece, raising about €238 million (around 2.5 billion Swedish crowns). The placement, arranged by Citi and SEB, represented roughly 7% of Mandatum’s share capital and…
European equities edged lower on Tuesday as investors held back from large positions amid renewed trade uncertainty and fresh worries about artificial intelligence upending established business models. The STOXX 600 fell, banks led sector declines, while a handful of corporate earnings beats offered limited support.
Indonesia's stock market closed lower on Tuesday, with the IDX Composite Index down 1.20% as losses in the Infrastructure, Agriculture and Basic Industry sectors pushed the benchmark lower. Market breadth favored decliners, while several individual stocks delivered double-digit percentage moves in both directions. Commodity and currency moves were …
Brooks Macdonald reported first-half 2026 underlying pre-tax profit of 13.6 million, which exceeded consensus by 5% despite a 12% year-on-year decline. Revenue rose 12% to 58 million but missed estimates by 3%, with a notable drop in funds-under-management related yield tied to reduced transactional revenue. The firm signalled full-year performance…
British equities opened lower on Tuesday with the FTSE 100 down modestly and the pound under pressure as investor sentiment remains fragile. Markets are being driven by lingering concerns about AI-driven disruption and geopolitical uncertainty, while four Bank of England rate-setters are due to give evidence to parliament. Corporate updates from St…
