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U.K. equities closed lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark United Kingdom 100 falling 1.48%. Losses were concentrated in Banking, Food & Drug Retailers and General Retailers sectors. Intertek, Spirax-Sarco and WPP were among the session's gainers, while Entain, HSBC and Marks & Spencer were the largest decliners. Commodities and currency moves inclu…
Spain's benchmark IBEX 35 ended Tuesday's session up 1.80% as advances in Building & Construction, Financial Services & Real Estate and Consumer Goods stocks provided broad support. ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA led the index with a near 10% gain and reached an all-time high, while companies including Acerinox and Indra also posted…
Portugal's benchmark PSI index closed slightly lower on Tuesday, down 0.04%, with gains concentrated in cork, industrial and telecom names while restaurant, construction and energy-linked stocks retreated. Oil prices fell sharply, gold ticked higher, and major currency pairs were largely unchanged at the close.
The Amsterdam market closed higher on Tuesday, with the AEX up 0.95% as gains in Basic Materials, Technology and Consumer Goods sectors drove advances. BE Semiconductor Industries reached an all-time high while ArcelorMittal and ASML were among top contributors. Energy commodities fell, with U.S. crude and Brent both down sharply and gold higher. M…
Italian equities ended higher on Tuesday, led by gains in Industrials, Technology and Financials. The Investing.com Italy 40 finished the session up 2.34% in Milan. Prysmian surged to record levels, UniCredit and DiaSorin advanced, while Ferrari, Nexi and Recordati were among the decliners. Commodity moves included weaker crude and Brent oil and st…
Finland's equity benchmark, the OMX Helsinki 25, finished Tuesday's session higher, climbing 0.69% to a fresh record. Strength in Basic Materials, Consumer Services and Utilities supported the advance. SSAB AB B led individual movers with a double-digit-percentage relative gain to new highs, while oil prices fell and gold rose in commodity markets.
Sweden's equity benchmark finished higher Tuesday with the OMX Stockholm 30 up 1.22%, supported by advances in Basic Materials, Industrials and Financials. Epiroc, ABB and Boliden were among the session's strongest performers, while AstraZeneca, Evolution and NIBE underperformed. Market breadth was narrowly positive, and oil prices fell sharply as …
OpenAI and Anthropic are creating joint ventures to acquire engineering and consulting firms that will help corporate clients operationalize AI models. Both initiatives have raised significant capital from institutional investors and are intended to expand deployment capacity rather than focus solely on model development.
Poland's benchmark WIG30 closed higher Tuesday, led by strong gains in Chemicals, Oil & Gas and Basic Materials sectors. The index rose 0.92% as several large-cap names extended advances, while declines outnumbered advances on the Warsaw exchange. Commodity markets moved sharply lower for crude benchmarks, while gold and selected FX pairs registere…
CVS Health's pharmacy benefit manager, Caremark, will move patients from Johnson & Johnson's Stelara to interchangeable biosimilar versions beginning July 1. The change prioritizes Sandoz's Pyzchiva and Biocon Biologics' Yesintek on CVS's most used drug lists, and most affected members are expected to have a $0 copay for their therapy. The announce…
FactSet (NYSE: FDS) shares declined about 4% on Tuesday following Anthropic's release of ten prebuilt AI agent templates tailored to financial services workflows. Anthropic made the agents available across its Claude products and added Microsoft 365 add-ins that allow context to flow between Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. The company also br…
Turkey's main equity gauge, the BIST 100, closed up 0.88% on Tuesday with Information Technology, Telecoms and Wood, Paper & Printing sectors among the session leaders. A larger number of stocks advanced than declined, and several individual companies registered strong moves, including one reaching a 52-week high and another hitting an all-time hig…
The OMX Copenhagen 20 climbed 0.63% at Tuesday's close, reaching a one-month high as stocks in Consumer Goods, Software & Computer Services and Chemicals pushed the index upward. ISS A/S and FLSmidth & Co. were among the best performers, while Demant, Tryg and Coloplast weighed on the session. Crude and Brent oil fell sharply, gold futures rose, an…
James Murdoch is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network from Vox Media through his investment vehicle Lupa Systems. The potential transaction is not finalized. The move would place a well-known magazine brand and a significant podcast business under Murdoch's control amid industry pressure…
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has initiated a formal inquiry into Shein focused on the transfer of European users' data to China. The probe will assess whether Shein’s Dublin-based headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa met its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation for these transfers. The action follows broad…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing regulations to remove a 2024 rule that required public companies to disclose climate-related risks, emissions and spending, according to a notice on the U.S. budget office website. The move follows legal challenges, a pause in enforcement, and a March 2025 decision by the SEC not to defend the rul…
British government bond yields rose across the curve on Tuesday as a widespread selloff in gilts pushed the 30-year yield to levels not seen since May 1998. The 30-year gilt reached 5.768% at 1104 GMT, with 10-year yields moving above 5% and two-year yields also climbing, following a market holiday during which U.S. and German yields were influence…
Morocco's stock market closed lower on Tuesday, with the Moroccan All Shares index down 0.35% as declines in the Utilities, Banking and Mining sectors weighed on the session. Market breadth favored decliners, while select insurers and energy-related names advanced. Commodity markets saw crude oil and Brent fall, while gold futures climbed; currency…
Anthropic has introduced a suite of ten agent templates tailored to financial services workflows, added Microsoft 365 add-ins for cross-application context transfer, and expanded partner connectors and MCP apps to give Claude real-time access to provider data and embedded tools. The updates operate on Claude Opus 4.7 and can run as plugins in Claud…
Two separate joint ventures formed by leading AI developers and private equity investors are in active discussions to acquire firms that provide engineering and consulting services for deploying artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s new deployment vehicle is reported to be in advanced stages on multiple deals, while Anthropic is pursuing a parallel str…
Alphabet’s stock rally, driven by accelerating Google Cloud growth and AI initiatives including custom chips, has narrowed the gap with Nvidia for the title of world’s largest company. Strong first-quarter cloud revenue, solid investor confidence in AI monetization and recent legal and product developments have underpinned Alphabet’s advance, while…
Intel's stock jumped more than 10% in early trading after reports that the company has held preliminary conversations with Apple about manufacturing processors for Apple devices. The discussions are described as early-stage. Apple executives have also visited a Samsung plant under development in Texas. Intel's shares have outperformed the semicondu…
Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character Technologies, the operator of Character.AI, alleging its chatbot characters have posed as licensed medical practitioners, including a character that claimed to be a psychiatrist and said it could prescribe medication. The state is seeking an injunction under its unauthorized practice of medicine la…
Anthropic unveiled 10 new AI agents aimed at accelerating routine financial workflows for banks, insurers and other firms, while expanding the data sources its Claude models can access. The move arrives as the AI lab broadens its financial-services footprint with adoption by several major institutions and a high-profile appearance planned at a New …
Sonos Inc. shares fell 11% following Bose Corp.'s announcement of a new Lifestyle Collection of speakers, erasing earlier gains that followed Sonos' better-than-expected second-quarter revenue. The Bose line includes three components with preorders open and in-store availability set for May 15. Sonos reported revenue of $281.5 million for the quart…
