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U.S. equity futures ticked higher Monday evening following a day of steep declines on Wall Street as uncertainty over new tariffs and anxieties about AI-related disruption in software pressured markets. Additional volatility stemmed from legal and geopolitical questions, including FedEx's suit seeking tariff refunds after a Supreme Court ruling and…
Asian equity markets weakened in early trade Tuesday following a selloff on Wall Street that dented investor confidence. Concerns over U.S. tariff policy after a Supreme Court ruling, rising geopolitical strains and fresh warnings on AI-driven disruption combined to sap momentum. MSCI's broad Asia-Pacific index outside Japan moved from gains to a 0…
U.S. authorities ran foreign-exchange rate checks in January aimed at supporting the Japanese yen and were prepared to undertake joint intervention with Tokyo if requested, sources cited by the Nikkei told reporters. The New York Federal Reserve conducted the checks on behalf of the U.S. Treasury without a formal request from Japan’s finance minist…
Woodside Energy's shares reached their highest level in 18 months after the company reported record annual production and confirmed a full-year dividend of 112 U.S. cents per share. Net profit after tax fell to $2.72 billion as weaker realised oil and gas prices offset increased output, while underlying net profit was $2.65 billion.
xAI has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to make its Grok artificial intelligence model available for use in classified military systems, a defense official confirmed. The deal means Grok becomes the second AI model cleared for the military’s most sensitive intelligence, weapons development and battlefield applications, join…
A senior Trump administration official told U.S. authorities that Hangzhou-based DeepSeek used Nvidia’s most advanced AI processor, the Blackwell, to train its newest model, which could violate existing U.S. export controls that bar Blackwell shipments to China. The official said DeepSeek may have attempted to remove technical traces of U.S. chips …
United Overseas Bank reported fourth-quarter net profit of S$1.41 billion, missing the S$1.45 billion consensus and declining from S$1.52 billion a year earlier. Weaker trading income and margin pressures offset modest loan growth and a rise in fee income. For the full year the bank posted S$4.68 billion in net profit and proposed a final dividend …
FedEx has sued the U.S. government in the Court of International Trade seeking a full refund of emergency tariff payments that the Supreme Court recently found unlawful. The lawsuit follows the high court's determination that former President Trump exceeded his authority in imposing the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,…
LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover publicly reaffirmed his and the board's support for Chair Casey Wasserman after recent U.S. Justice Department documents included decades-old emails linking Wasserman with Ghislaine Maxwell. Hoover highlighted the committee's commercial progress and said there has been no sponsor concern or operational disruption.
Paramount Skydance has submitted an improved cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to displace a prior agreement between Warner Bros. and Netflix. The updated bid increases certainty around financing and follows a week-long negotiation window reopened by Warner Bros. Discovery's board; if the board favors Paramount's proposal, Netflix will…
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force are accelerating production capacity for the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, backed by more than $5 billion invested in digital engineering and manufacturing infrastructure. Multiple test aircraft are flying and reporting performance that exceeds digital model expectations, the program’s first operational aircraf…
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at up to $98,871,411 by the U.S. Department of War to provide sustaining engineering for F-16 avionics intermediate shop automatic test equipment. The work will be carried out at BAE's San Diego facility, cover…
IonQ shares ticked higher in after-hours trading as the company confirmed it was awarded a place on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. The designation makes IonQ - and its subsidiaries - eligible to bid on future task orders across a wide range of defense-related capabilities, though any re…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a special exemption permitting intraday trading of tokenized shares in WisdomTree's Treasury Money Market Digital Fund. The relief removes the end-of-day pricing constraint that would otherwise apply, and officials say the change could shorten settlement times and make fund access easier for re…
Protara Therapeutics saw its stock decline following the publication of interim results from its Phase 2 ADVANCED-2 study of TARA-002 in patients with high-risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. The data cover evaluable participants in both BCG-Unresponsive and BCG-Naïve cohorts, report favorable safety signals, and set expectations for registrat…
Silo Pharma Inc. authorized a board-approved program to repurchase up to $1 million of its common stock, triggering a 35.1% rise in after-hours trading. The company said purchases may occur on the open market or through negotiated transactions and stressed the plan is subject to regulatory, market and corporate constraints.
Tandem Diabetes Care announced a private placement of $200 million in convertible senior notes due 2032, with an initial purchaser option for an additional $30 million. The unsecured notes will accrue semiannual interest and may be settled in cash, common stock, or a combination at the company's election. Tandem said net proceeds will fund capped c…
Canadian generic drug maker Apotex Inc. is preparing for a potential initial public offering in Toronto during the first half of the year that could raise as much as C$1 billion (about $730 million). Bank advisers have been engaged, but final decisions on timing and deal size have not been made and plans remain subject to change.
Paramount Skydance submitted a higher bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in an effort to derail the studio's agreed sale to Netflix. The revised proposal improves on Paramount's earlier $108.4 billion, $30-per-share offer and is intended to address concerns about financing certainty. Netflix, which has an existing $27.75-per-share cash agreement, is pe…
Global Medical Response has assembled a banking group to manage a U.S. initial public offering that could raise about $1 billion. The Lewisville, Texas-based provider of air and ground emergency medical services has tapped JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to work with KKR’s capital markets desk, and is also engaging Barclays and Goldman Sachs. De…
Whirlpool Corporation's stock fell about 7% after the company disclosed plans for concurrent public offerings of common stock and depositary shares representing interests in newly issued Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. The offerings aim to raise roughly $800 million, with proceeds targeted for partial repayment of the company's revo…
A group of companies including Hims & Hers Health, Bed Bath & Beyond, Myriad Genetics, Keysight Technologies, EverQuote and Kratos Defense posted varied after-hours moves as earnings and guidance diverged from analyst expectations. Stock reactions tracked whether companies topped revenue and EPS estimates or issued forward guidance that missed mark…
U.S. stock indices closed lower on Monday as losses in Financials, Consumer Services and Industrials weighed on markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.66% to a new one-month low, the S&P 500 slipped 1.04%, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.13%. Market breadth was negative on both the NYSE and Nasdaq, while volatility, gold futures and s…
Mexico's benchmark S&P/BMV IPC closed down 1.21% as declines in industrial, consumer goods and consumer staples sectors weighed on the market. While a handful of stocks, including Industrias Peñoles and Grupo Carso, finished higher, larger losses from airline and beverage-related names pushed the overall index lower. Commodities and currency market…
Canadian equities closed modestly lower on Monday, with the S&P/TSX Composite retreating 0.12% as weakness in the information technology, industrials and financials sectors outweighed gains in select mining stocks. Market breadth was tilted toward decliners, volatility ticked higher and commodities and foreign-exchange moves presented mixed signals…
