NEW YORK, July 14, 2026, 17:05 EDT Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG) ended the day at $2.27, gaining 5%. Shares had dropped 17.8% across the last five sessions. (Investing.com) Plug said the more than $80 million in expected near-term liquidity would be about half its unrestricted cash as of June 30. Around 80% of the immediate benefit identified links to a Texas deal, but that’s still pending a buyer inspection period that runs through July 25. Plug Power stock bounced Tuesday after investors took a fresh look at two asset sales that could bring in over $80 million soon. Most of that—around
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2026, 15:10 (EDT) AtaiBeckley Inc. (NASDAQ:ATAI) shares climbed 15.6% to about $5.75 in Tuesday afternoon trading as investors weighed final U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidance for psychedelic-drug trials. The document expects two monitors to remain with a patient throughout a treatment session, making BPL-003’s roughly two-hour clinic model more relevant to operating costs. Duration is now a cost variable. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) The gain was much larger than those of the closest listed developers. Compass Pathways plc (NASDAQ:CMPS) rose 1.9%, Definium Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:DFTX) added 5.2%, and the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEARCA:XBI) was
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2026, 07:05 (EDT) NIO Inc. (NYSE:NIO) traded up around 3.7% to $5.11 in premarket action Tuesday. Shares closed up 3.1% Monday. (Investing.com) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) lifted NIO to Buy, setting a $7 price target and projecting 43% vehicle volume growth in 2026. (Investing.com) To hit that forecast, NIO would need to deliver around 45,850 vehicles per month in the second half. That’s 12.9% more than June, company data shows. (NIO Inc.) NIO Inc. (NYSE:NIO) climbed 3.7% to $5.11 in premarket trading Tuesday, building on Monday’s 3.1% rise after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) upgraded the
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London, July 14, 2026, 11:00 BST Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY) has spent about 71% of its up-to-£1.75 billion 2026 buyback, but the share rally means a fully spent programme would buy about 1.72 billion shares at Tuesday’s price — roughly 22% fewer than last year despite a 3% larger budget. Each pound now buys less of the bank. (SEC) A buyback — when a company buys and cancels its own shares — can raise earnings per share if profit holds. But at higher prices, the same cash removes fewer shares. The trade-off is sharper now. Delayed market data put Lloyds at
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 17:09 EDT Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) shares rose 2.35% to $24.82 on Wednesday after Sanofi SA (NASDAQ:SNY) brought a new patent case over the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine. The gain suggests investors viewed the complaint as a possible charge against past vaccine earnings, rather than an immediate block on sales. (MarketWatch) The historical base is far larger than today’s franchise. Pfizer reported about $95.8 billion in Comirnaty revenue from 2021 through the first quarter of 2026. At Wednesday’s market value of $142.2 billion, an amount equal to 1% of that revenue pool would be roughly $958 million, or
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 17:04 EDT AST SpaceMobile has put forward a $1 billion offering of convertible senior notes maturing in 2034, and could add another $150 million. The coupon and conversion rate are still to be determined. Preliminary cash and restricted cash was $2.723 billion at June 30, down from $3.459 billion at March 31. That’s a drop of around $736 million, or 21%. The stock finished the session down 3.7% at $66.31, before dropping a further 13.5% to $57.35 in after-hours trade. (MarketScreener) AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTS) is aiming to raise $1 billion in convertible debt as its
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FRANKLIN, Tennessee, July 15, 2026, 15:10 CDT Closures by Superior Star and ARC Burger total 107, matching Hardee’s two-year net decline in franchised restaurants. (Fast Company) Franchised outlets made up 86.7% of the chain at fiscal 2026 year-end and 94.7% of its net unit decline over two years. (Fast Company) A court filing on Tuesday showed Hardee’s operator Superior Star closed 30 restaurants in 2025, lifting known closures by it and ARC Burger to 107. That total exactly matches Hardee’s net two-year decline in franchised outlets, exposing how a few large operators can move the chain’s system-wide count. (Fast Company) Superior
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 16:07 (EDT) The Dow finished at 52,685.92, picking up 177.65 points. The S&P 500 added 0.36%, with the Nasdaq Composite up 0.60%. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Alphabet Class A (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) together put about 250.8 points on the Dow. The other 26 names took away roughly 73.1 points. (Google) U.S. producer prices dropped 0.3% in June and rate futures trimmed the implied odds of a quarter-point hike in July to 10.2%, down from 31.0% last week. (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Dow Jones climbed 177.65 points Wednesday. But almost all of that came from
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 15:08 EDT Iovance Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:IOVA) shares surged 18.2% to $4.645 by 3:01 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, adding about $319 million to the cancer-cell therapy maker’s equity value on a 446.5 million-share base. That almost exactly matches the cash position Iovance reported at March 31. (MarketWatch) The scale of the move matters because no new company press release or SEC filing accompanied it as of 3:08 p.m. Iovance’s latest release was a June 19 staff inducement-grant notice, while its most recent filing, submitted July 2, attached an updated corporate presentation. The advance therefore repriced existing information rather
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 2:06 p.m. EDT Alphabet was up about $142 billion in market value by early afternoon, about 22 times what the two best-known EU fines together are worth. Germany’s media regulator said Google’s AI search summaries count as Google’s own content. Search and related brought in 55% of Alphabet’s Q1 revenue, so the impact from any product restrictions outweighs the effect of one-off fines. Europe is pushing to classify Google’s AI search overviews as Alphabet’s own content, a move that could hit a bigger slice of business for Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) than the $1.7 billion antitrust fine
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 14:06 EDT Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG) shares fell 3.5% on Wednesday as investors looked past an $80 million liquidity headline and focused on how much will become spendable cash. The stock traded at $2.19 at 1:50 p.m. EDT after gaining 4.6% on Tuesday. (MarketWatch) The hydrogen equipment maker said preliminary, unaudited unrestricted cash and equivalents were about $162 million on June 30, down $61.2 million, or 27%, from $223.2 million at March 31. If all the announced near-term pieces close, the balance would rise above $242 million, only about 8% above the March level. That expected
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BEIJING, July 15, 2026, 23:07 CST. Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA; HKG:9988) jumped 6.2% in late-morning New York trade after China approved Apple Intelligence for local use and Alibaba said Qwen would get integrated across Apple’s main operating systems in China. Alibaba’s American depositary receipts climbed $6.95, adding about $16.7 billion in equity value, based on its 2.40 billion shares outstanding. The companies didn’t give any launch date or commercial terms. (Reuters) The jump during the day is close to 73% of Alibaba’s projected fiscal 2026 cloud revenue and more than eight times its annual adjusted EBITA from the cloud, which
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Angelini closed its $4.1 billion deal for Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CPRX), valuing the company at about 9 times estimated 2026 EBITDA. NEW YORK, July 15, 2026, 10:06 EDT Catalyst wrapped up the merger before the market opened on Wednesday. Investors in Catalyst will get $31.50 per share in cash. (NASDAQ Trader) Management at Catalyst estimated net cash of $861 million as of June 30, which amounts to 21% of the stated equity price. (SEC) That estimate puts the implied operating value at around $3.24 billion, or about 9.0 times expected 2026 adjusted EBITDA. Angelini Pharma wrapped up its $4.1 billion takeover of
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Nokia is moving to offer AI-RAN subscriptions in its biggest business, but revenue from the plan is only due in 2027. Nokia shares climbed 2.6% after the company launched an AI-native radio platform with NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA). The new system offers a subscription model for software-based capacity upgrades. (Nokia Corporation | Nokia) Mobile Infrastructure pulled in €2.495 billion in Q1 sales, which is 36% ahead of Network Infrastructure. But Nokia said commercial launch for the new AI-RAN products is pushed to 2027. (Nokia Corporation | Nokia) Nokia Oyj on Wednesday said it launched what it’s calling the first commercial AI-native radio
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2026, 19:08 (EDT) Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) dropped 2.2% to $136.08 late Tuesday, wiping out around $39.5 billion in equity value based on its reported base-offering share count. MDA Space Ltd. (NYSE:MDA), Rocket Lab USA Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) and AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTS) all posted price gains, together adding about $2.0 billion on a similar price-move calculation. SpaceX’s equity drop finished at 19.6 times those combined gains. (SEC) The size gap is key here. SpaceX dropped 2.2%, which was enough to outweigh a 4.1% average gain for the other three, smaller stocks. Investors watching percentages could miss
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2026, 18:08 EDT IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) closed 1.0% lower at $38.59 on Tuesday even as NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) gained 4.1%, bitcoin was up 4.0% and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.9%. IREN has fallen 10.3% from its July 8 close. The split suggests investors are looking past its AI-and-crypto exposure and pricing the harder part: funding and delivery. (The Wall Street Journal) IREN had posted no fresh business release since July 8 and no SEC filing since July 9 by Tuesday evening. Trading volume was 35.1 million shares, about 24% below its 65-day average. This was a quiet
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NEW YORK, July 16, 2026, 14:05 EDT Microsoft rose 1.8% to $402.70 while the Nasdaq fell about 1%. (MarketWatch) Its two-session gain reached 4.6%, adding roughly $132 billion in value. (Barron’s) Microsoft’s earnings multiple sits about 19% below two major cloud peers. Microsoft shares climbed 1.8% in Thursday afternoon trading. The advance extended Wednesday’s 2.8% gain. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite fell about 1% during a chip-led selloff. (Investor’s Business Daily) The stock has gained 4.6% since Tuesday’s close. Using Microsoft’s latest market capitalization, that move added about $132 billion. (Barron’s) The divergence is the investor signal. Price action suggests traders are
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New York, July 16, 2026, 14:06 EDT The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ: SMH) dropped 4.2% to $565.69 in early afternoon trade. It went below Wednesday’s $586.09 lower DeMark pivot. This is a short-term support gauge. (GuruFocus) The breach was clear. SMH fell $20.40 under support. That gap was larger than the full $18.51 span between Wednesday’s upper and lower pivots. (GuruFocus) Breadth is the deeper investor signal. A first estimate uses VanEck’s June 30 weights. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) made up about 0.81 percentage point. That was just 19% of SMH’s fall. The two holdings made
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NEW YORK, July 16, 2026, 1:07 p.m. EDT Nebius dropped 12.6% to $174.31 in early U.S. trading. CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) fell 5.2%. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) slipped 2.5%. Nebius kept its capital spending guidance at $20 billion to $25 billion under its partner-funded model. (Nebius) Nebius dropped 12.6% to $174.31 as of 1:07 p.m. EDT, wiping out a 2.8% rise from Wednesday. U.S. markets stayed open. (Nebius) The slip is key since the new model goes after Nebius’s biggest value issue. AI buildouts need a lot of cash. Still, there was no mention of the new 2026 capex forecast in the release. (Nebius) Nebius
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NEW YORK, July 16, 2026, 12:06 p.m. EDT U.S. markets were open. Rocket Lab traded down 11.2% near midday. A full-duration Neutron upper-stage engine test lasted nearly 5.5 minutes. (Space) Iridium Communications (NASDAQ:IRDM) offered a 14.4% preliminary gross deal spread. Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) shares fell 11.2% to $67.63 around midday Thursday. They traded as low as $67.20, below the deal’s $67.50 lower collar. That threshold is not merely technical. At or below it, Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) holders receive 0.4 Rocket Lab shares and $27 cash. Every $1 below the floor removes 40 cents from the stock payout. Inside the
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NEW YORK, July 16, 2026, 12:07 p.m. EDT Oracle fell about 4.8% to $126 in late-morning trade. The shares touched a fresh 52-week low. (Google) Backlog revenue due within 12 months is $76.6 billion. Planned fiscal 2027 net capital outlay is about $70 billion. (Reuters) S&P’s BBB- rating and its estimated 50% OpenAI backlog share keep funding risk central. (The Wall Street Journal) Oracle fell about 4.8% to $126 in late-morning New York trade on Thursday. The shares touched $125.94, a fresh 52-week low. Investors weighed a $638 billion backlog against a mounting cash need. (Google) Only 12% of that backlog,
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