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Once Upon a Farm Seeks Up to $764.4 Million Valuation in U.S. IPO

Once Upon a Farm Seeks Up to $764.4 Million Valuation in U.S. IPO

Once Upon a Farm, the organic children’s food company co-founded by actor Jennifer Garner, filed to go public in the U.S., targeting a valuation of up to $764.4 million and seeking to raise nearly $209 million by offering about 11 million shares at $17 to $19 apiece. The company will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol OFRM and has…

Gold miners rally and merger headlines lift select stocks as futures dip ahead of Fed meeting

Gold miners rally and merger headlines lift select stocks as futures dip ahead of Fed meeting

U.S. stock futures edged slightly lower Monday as traders entered a week that features a Federal Reserve meeting and major tech earnings. Several individual stocks moved notably in premarket trade on merger activity, government investment reports, shifts in commodity prices and corporate announcements, with gold producers and some energy and tech n…

Once Upon a Farm Files to Raise Up to $209 Million in NYSE IPO

Once Upon a Farm Files to Raise Up to $209 Million in NYSE IPO

Once Upon a Farm, PBC has filed for an initial public offering encompassing 10,997,209 shares priced in a $17 to $19 range, with the company offering 7.6 million shares and existing shareholders selling 3.4 million. At the top end of the proposed price range the offering could bring in up to $209 million. The shares are slated to trade on the New Y…

Evercore ISI Raises Cisco to Outperform, Cites Multiple Growth Drivers

Evercore ISI Raises Cisco to Outperform, Cites Multiple Growth Drivers

Evercore ISI upgraded Cisco to Outperform and increased its price target to $100 from $80, arguing the company is positioned for multi-year high single-digit sales growth and low-teens EPS growth. The firm highlighted an accelerating enterprise networking cycle, AI-related revenue potential, product momentum, and recovering traditional markets as t…

JPMorgan Flags Caution for European Building Materials Ahead of Q4 Results

JPMorgan Flags Caution for European Building Materials Ahead of Q4 Results

JPMorgan is approaching the European building materials sector's fourth-quarter earnings season with caution, particularly around Lightside businesses exposed to North America. The bank highlights U.S. headwinds from a government shutdown and accelerated roofing destocking after muted storm activity in 2025, while European trends remain more resili…

EU launches probe into X’s Grok over allegedly unlawful sexualised images

EU launches probe into X’s Grok over allegedly unlawful sexualised images

The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot and whether X complied with its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) after instances of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children were shared on the platform. The probe will assess whether X properly evaluated and mitigated risks posed …

Bank of America Sees Winter Storm Fern Denting U.S. First-Quarter Growth

Bank of America Sees Winter Storm Fern Denting U.S. First-Quarter Growth

Bank of America analysts, drawing parallels to Winter Storm Viola in 2021, estimate that Winter Storm Fern will reduce U.S. first-quarter GDP growth by 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points. Using card-spending data and the earlier storm's pattern as a guide, the bank highlights a marked near-term pullback in consumer activity but says the effect is likely …

US Futures Slip as Gold Hits Record and Big Tech Earnings Loom

US Futures Slip as Gold Hits Record and Big Tech Earnings Loom

U.S. stock index futures eased on Monday as traders prepared for a heavy week of corporate earnings and a Federal Reserve policy meeting. Gold surged past $5,000 an ounce, lifting U.S.-listed gold miners in premarket trade. Investors weighed elevated precious metals prices, a fresh round of tariff threats from the White House and the concentration …

Saudi Aramco sets indicative spreads for four-part dollar bond issue

Saudi Aramco sets indicative spreads for four-part dollar bond issue

Saudi Aramco has released indicative pricing levels for a four-tranche, dollar-denominated bond transaction that sources say is due to begin on Monday. The initial spreads range from around 100 basis points over U.S. Treasuries for the shortest tranche to roughly 165 basis points for the 30-year portion. Major global banks are acting as active and …

Tariffs Keep Pressuring Margins as Companies Prepare for Earnings Season

Tariffs Keep Pressuring Margins as Companies Prepare for Earnings Season

U.S. companies continue to describe tariffs as manageable, but comments during early earnings season suggest profit margins remain under pressure as some costs are passed to consumers. Retailers and manufacturers, from Amazon and Procter & Gamble to Fastenal and Tractor Supply, have reported rising prices in certain categories and cautious consumer…

Drugmakers Lean on AI to Accelerate Trials and Regulatory Workflows

Drugmakers Lean on AI to Accelerate Trials and Regulatory Workflows

Leading pharmaceutical and smaller biotech companies described how artificial intelligence is already shortening labor-intensive drug development tasks such as finding trial participants and preparing regulatory documents. While the technology has yet to produce the next transformative therapeutic molecule, attendees at a major industry conference …