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Umicore SA said on Thursday that Lily Liu will succeed Wannes Peferoen as chief financial officer on August 1, 2026. Peferoen will stay with the company in an advisory capacity through February 28, 2027 to support the handover. At the same time, Umicore is creating a Chief Digital & Transformation Officer role and has appointed Marten Zieris to tha…
Synthomer reported stronger trading in the second quarter of 2026, attributing improved momentum to altered commercial conditions stemming from the Iran war. The company published full-year 2025 results showing sales of 1,739 million and EBITDA of 136.5 million, with margins expanding to 7.8%. Net debt stood at 575 million, equal to 4.7 times EBITD…
European stock markets opened lower on Thursday as oil surged to intra-day highs not seen since the onset of the Iran conflict, and investors prepared for key interest-rate announcements from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. Benchmarks including the Stoxx 600, Germany's Dax and France's CAC 40 led declines, while Brent crude jumpe…
Charles Lieber, a U.S.-trained scientist convicted in 2021 of lying about Chinese funding while at Harvard and sentenced to a short jail term and house arrest, has rebuilt a laboratory in Shenzhen. He is overseeing the state-funded Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies (i-BRAIN), part of the Shenzhen Medical Academ…
IMCD N.V. reported first quarter 2026 EBITA of €129.8 million, beating Visible Alpha consensus by 5% despite a 9% year-on-year decline. Organic revenue slipped 0.8% overall, with Asia Pacific expanding while EMEA and the Americas contracted. Gross and EBITA margins narrowed, but free cash flow rose and leverage remained unchanged from December 2025…
Japan's Nikkei 225 closed lower, down 0.98%, after sector declines in Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication drove broader weakness. Renesas, NTN and TDK were among the session's top gainers, while Fujitsu, Oriental Land and Central Japan Railway recorded the steepest drops. Volatility rose and commodity and currency markets showed gains for oil…
Lancashire Holdings Limited said gross written premiums fell 6.1% to $668.4 million in the first quarter of 2026, a decline the company attributed to the absence of reinstatement premiums from last year’s California wildfires. Reinsurance business volumes were weaker while insurance lines grew. Management confirmed a stronger-than-expected solvency…
Tighter controls on the grey market for high-end chips, along with robust demand for AI compute in China, have driven the price of Nvidia’s B300 servers to about 7 million yuan ($1 million) apiece. The devices, designed for intensive AI inference workloads, are restricted from sale in China and face limited official supply, creating a scarcity prem…
European equity futures tumbled more than 1% as a report that the U.S. was considering further military action against Iran pushed oil sharply higher and damped risk sentiment. Traders are also focused on rate decisions from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England later in the day, after a hawkish tone from the U.S. Federal Reserve pushed…
Australian equities closed lower on Thursday, with the S&P/ASX 200 down 0.24% as losses in Consumer Staples, Gold and Metals & Mining exerted downward pressure. Market breadth favored decliners, the implied volatility gauge rose, and key commodity prices moved higher alongside mixed currency flows in Asian trading.
Remy Cointreau reported 0.2% organic growth in annual sales, marking its first positive yearly result since 2023 and narrowly avoiding a third straight annual decline. The company’s cognac sales missed analysts' forecasts overall, even as fourth-quarter cognac volumes rose 15.5% thanks to strength in China. CEO Franck Marilly, who took the helm in …
Puma reported first-quarter earnings that outperformed analyst expectations, driven by lower operating expenses and an accelerated reduction in inventories. The company's EBIT rose 19.6% to 51.9 million euros. Puma also said its outgoing chief financial officer will step down this week and be replaced by Mark Langer.
Stellantis reported adjusted operating income of €960 million for the first quarter, almost triple the prior year figure and ahead of analyst expectations. The company flagged vehicle sales growth across all regions, led by North America, and recorded a roughly €400 million positive impact tied to a U.S. tariff cost adjustment based on expected ref…
On April 30, Unilever reported first-quarter underlying sales growth of 3.8%, outpacing analyst expectations, driven by stronger demand for its home care portfolio and beauty names such as Dove and Vaseline. The company left its 2026 sales and profit margin outlook intact and highlighted volume-led expansion across its business groups.
Major asset managers have steered large sums into mining and metals funds, pushing mining ETF assets to $87.4 billion by March 31 from $37 billion a year earlier. Fund flows into mining, oil and gas, and agriculture in the first quarter reflect one of the most pronounced rotations into hard assets in recent years, driven by demand tied to AI infras…
Alzchem Group AG reported first-quarter results that topped earnings expectations but missed sales forecasts by a narrow margin, weighed by persistent weakness in Europe’s steel industry. Profitability metrics improved year-over-year, driven by price increases and strength in specialty chemicals, while free cash flow contracted amid higher investme…
The Taiwan stock market closed lower on Thursday, with the Taiwan Weighted index falling 0.24%. Losses in the semiconductor and rubber sectors were cited as drivers of the decline while several individual stocks posted large percentage moves in both directions. Commodity markets moved higher, with crude and Brent oil gaining sharply and June gold f…
Companies across Australia and New Zealand are reporting material financial effects from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Rising jet fuel and freight costs, supply-chain disruption and weaker consumer confidence are squeezing margins, nudging firms to raise prices, cut capacity or revise profit guidance.
Volkswagen reported a 14% drop in first-quarter operating profit to 2.5 billion euros, citing tariff burdens, geopolitical uncertainty and intensifying competition from Chinese automakers. Group revenue declined to 75.7 billion euros, producing a 3.3% operating margin in Q1. Management has signaled further cost containment and plans to reduce rough…
Standard Chartered recorded a 17% rise in quarterly pre-tax profit to $2.45 billion, outpacing the bank's $2.14 billion consensus, driven by strong performances in wealth management and global banking. The lender also booked a $190 million charge tied to expected losses from the Iran conflict, contributing to total credit costs of $290 million for …
Australia’s prudential regulator has warned that the pace of frontier artificial intelligence development is outstripping many banks' information security practices, and that models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos could enable larger, faster cyber attacks by enhancing the discovery of vulnerabilities. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authorit…
Capgemini reported a 7% year-on-year increase in first-quarter revenue at constant exchange rates, in line with its guidance. Revenue totalled 5.9 billion euros and bookings climbed to 6 billion euros. The company said growth would have been 11% excluding currency effects. North America delivered double-digit expansion while France and parts of Eur…
ArcelorMittal reported first-quarter core earnings of $1.68 billion, narrowly above analyst expectations of $1.65 billion. The company attributed the improvement to stronger steel prices and better North American operations, and cited European policy changes - including a levy on high-carbon goods and new trade limits - as drivers of higher EU stee…
DHL reported first-quarter EBIT of 1.48 billion euros, above the consensus of 1.38 billion, and lifted its quarterly operating margin to 7.3% from 6.6% a year earlier. Management credited capacity management, structural cost improvements and yield measures, while noting ongoing trade disruptions and closed airspace. The firm announced its largest c…
Apollo Global Management, Blackstone and KKR are the remaining bidders in a Shell-run auction for a large portion of the company’s 40% stake in LNG Canada. Bids are expected to value the stake at more than $10 billion and could reach as high as $15 billion. Shell is offering exposure in the project’s first and second phases to a single buyer as it …
