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Morgan Stanley has identified favored names in paper and packaging as analysts see the industry approaching a cyclical trough. The bank points to companies with improving cost bases, operational efficiencies and strong free cash flow as best positioned to benefit when market conditions turn. UPM and Smurfit Westrock are highlighted for distinct rea…
Morgan Stanley raised its price target on Nokia to €8.50 from €6.50 and upgraded the stock to Overweight, pointing to accelerating spending on cloud and AI data center networks as a key driver. The brokerage sees stronger-than-expected demand for data center connectivity, citing peer results from Ciena, and has increased both its revenue forecasts …
Amazon.com’s drone delivery unit Prime Air has announced it is withdrawing from the Commercial Drone Alliance, stating that the organization’s positions on major safety issues do not align with Prime Air’s core safety tenets. In a letter, Prime Air said its detect-and-avoid system executed collision-avoidance maneuvers on two potential mid-air coll…
Federal Trade Commission filings dated Wednesday indicate Tesla has received clearance to convert its previously announced investment in xAI into an ownership stake in SpaceX. The documents list Tesla as the buyer of shares from Elon Musk and show Musk selling holdings to outside investors, while the size of the stakes involved was not disclosed. T…
PayPay Corp opened trading at $19 on its Nasdaq debut, rising 18.75% above the $16 IPO price and implying a valuation near $14.71 billion. The SoftBank-backed digital payments platform sold 55 million American Depositary Shares and raised about $880 million, with investors showing early appetite for its dominant domestic position and planned expans…
Equity markets on Thursday recorded pronounced moves across market-cap segments. Notable declines included General Electric and Intel among mega-caps, while gains were concentrated in select chemicals, fertilizers and several small-cap technology and consumer names. Corporate partnerships, an announced Indian semiconductor fund and expiring share l…
A heavy docket of U.S. economic releases is scheduled for Friday, March 13, 2026, centering on GDP, the Core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, Durable Goods Orders and the JOLTs Job Openings report. The collection of data will supply market participants with synchronized readings on output, inflation, labor demand and manufacturing act…
A Mubadala-owned unit sold $840 million of GlobalFoundries Inc. shares in a secondary offering that drew demand roughly four times the amount of stock available. The transaction allocated most shares to a limited set of long-only investors, while the company disclosed a simultaneous $300 million share repurchase.
Citi downgraded Generac Holdings from Buy to Neutral/High Risk, arguing that the company’s recent guidance and strategic announcements have largely captured the near-term value drivers investors had been expecting. While Citi raised its price target, the brokerage said the market appears to already price most tailwinds into the stock and that furth…
Walt Disney has appointed Paul Roeder as senior executive vice president and chief communications officer, a role that takes effect on March 19. Roeder, a 25-year Disney employee, will oversee global communications and act as the company’s principal spokesperson, reporting to newly named CEO Josh D’Amaro.
Jefferies' proprietary analysis released Thursday shows a split picture across major staffing firms and broad labor metrics. Robert Half's recruiter postings remain deeply depressed relative to historical averages, while ManpowerGroup posts mixed gains and a higher overall posting level. Broader US labor data in February signaled weakness, with non…
Meta and the World Resources Institute released Canopy Height Maps v2, a global, open-source forest mapping system built on Meta's DINOv3 self-supervised vision model. The updated system raises canopy-height prediction R² from 0.53 to 0.86, replaces the DINOv2 backbone with a DINOv3 model pre-trained on SAT-493M satellite imagery, and expands geogr…
Northern Oil & Gas Inc. shares declined after the company completed pricing for an underwritten public offering of common stock totaling 7,207,208 shares, with a 30-day option for the underwriter to buy an additional 1,081,081 shares. The offering is expected to close on March 13, 2026, and the company said net proceeds will be used for general cor…
Shares of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc. fell sharply after a short seller released a report questioning whether the company’s recently announced $2.4 billion contract with Base Electron will come to fruition. The report points to timing of Base Electron’s formation, shared Santa Monica addresses with an investor, differing characterizations of …
Shares of Ondas Holdings and Centrus Energy climbed after each company announced strategic arrangements with Palantir to bring AI-driven software into their operations. Ondas will pair Palantir’s platform with its aerial and ground systems and World View’s high-altitude balloon technology to build a persistent, multi-domain ISR architecture. Centru…
U.K. equities closed lower on Thursday, led by declines in the Banking, Household Goods & Home Construction and Automobiles & Parts sectors. The Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.19% as more stocks moved down than up. Notable movers included gains for Rentokil Initial, Airtel Africa and SSE, while WPP, Persimmon and HSBC recorded steep losses…
U.K. equities finished lower after the close on Thursday, with the United Kingdom 100 index down 0.19%. Sector weakness in Banking, Household Goods & Home Construction and Automobiles & Parts weighed on the market. A handful of stocks, including Rentokil Initial and SSE, delivered notable gains, while WPP, Persimmon and HSBC recorded some of the la…
Spain's benchmark index closed lower on Thursday, with the IBEX 35 down 1.22% as losses in Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction outpaced gains. Energy and utilities names, including Repsol, Endesa and Iberdrola, finished higher while several banks and industrials led the declines. Market breadth favored de…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 ended the trading day down 1.22% as losses concentrated in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors pushed the market lower. Energy names bucked the trend with Repsol climbing to five-year highs, while several banks and a major steelmaker posted some of the largest decline…
Portugal's PSI index closed higher, up 0.83%, driven by advances in Utilities, Consumer Services and Telecoms. EDP Renovaveis, Jeronimo Martins and Galp Energia were among the top performers, while Teixeira Duarte, Mota Engil and Banco Comercial Portugues underperformed. Commodity markets saw sharp moves in oil and a drop in gold, while major curre…
Italian stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the broad Italy 40 index dropping 0.71% in Milan. Gains in select industrial and energy names were outweighed by declines among lenders and other cyclical sectors. Market breadth tilted toward losers, and commodities moves included sharp gains in crude and Brent oil and a decline in gold futures.
TotalEnergies on its investor site said it has lost 15% of its oil and gas production after fields across the Middle East were shut amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. The company estimates that the outage represents roughly 10% of its upstream cash flow, but said an $8 per barrel price rise tied to the crisis and additional production coming …
Jefferies analysts presented a cautious outlook for pulp and paper markets after noting a sharp rise in hardwood pulp prices in China over the past six months and a range of supply and demand signals that could blunt further gains. At the same time, European recycled containerboard producers have announced sizeable cost-push price increases as ener…
Germany's main equity gauges ended the session in negative territory, with the DAX down 0.29%, the MDAX off 0.58% and the TecDAX falling 0.64%. Weakness concentrated in Technology, Construction and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare. Several individual stocks posted sizable moves in both directions while volatility rose and commodities showed mixed perfo…
French equities ended lower on Thursday, with the benchmark CAC 40 down 0.71% and the broader SBF 120 also off 0.71%. Gains in select industrial and consumer-oriented companies were offset by notable declines among financials, basic materials and select consumer names. Market breadth favored decliners and volatility for the index options reached a …
