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Private Equity: The Third Financing Route Behind Listed PE Firms
Private equity finances unlisted companies over multi-year horizons and outperformed broad stock markets from 2000 to 20...
OCABSA Financing: Why Convertible Bonds and Warrants Often Destroy Shareholder Value
OCABSA structures—convertible notes paired with long-dated warrants—offer quick cash to listed companies but often trigg...
Recreational Boating Stocks Offer Cyclical Upside—With Clear Downturn Risk
A MarketScreener thematic screen sees recreational boating as a cyclical play tied to household confidence, citing rebou...
Outdoor Sector Equities Ride a Structural Shift Toward Active Lifestyles
The outdoor gear and apparel theme promises exposure to health-conscious consumers and post-pandemic habits, but the pit...
Circular Economy Thematic Investing: What Marketscreener's New List Highlights
Marketscreener has published a thematic list built around companies in recycling and resource efficiency, but the case r...
Fed September Hike Bets Cool as BOJ Wagers Heat Up
US rate expectations eased after in-line CPI and soft payrolls, while Japan's 7.2% wholesale inflation revived BOJ hike ...
European TTF Gas Prices Slip 1% but Hold Above $720
Benchmark European gas futures eased to around $722 per thousand cubic metres, but Middle East uncertainty keeps the mar...
Gold's $300 Weekly Rally: Weak US Jobs Data, Not Geopolitics, Drove the Turn
Gold climbed almost $300 to above $4,340/oz in a week as a shock US payrolls loss cut September Fed rate-hike odds from ...
Oil and Gold Rise as Red Sea Attacks and US CPI Loom
Brent extended its rally to a sixth day and gold climbed, while markets braced for a US inflation report that may decide...
Oracle Rally Lifts Larry Ellison Past Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Seventh-Richest
A 2.6% Oracle gain added $2.9 billion to Ellison's fortune, while a 2.6% Nvidia drop erased almost $4 billion from Huang...
Unitree’s Shanghai IPO Is 5,500 Times Oversubscribed as China’s Retail Investors Chase Humanoid Robots
Retail demand for Unitree’s $900 million listing underlines how Chinese households are piling into AI and robotics stock...
Brent Holds Gains With $92.12 Resistance in Focus, BNP Technical Note Says
A BNP Paribas technical note sees Brent constructive above $87.28, with a break of $92.12 opening the way to $97.80.
CPI 3.4% Keeps Bitcoin at $64,000 as Energy Inflation Looms
The July U.S. CPI landed at 3.4% year on year, exactly on consensus, leaving Bitcoin near $64,000. Energy prices and SEC...
Nifty Closes Range-Bound at 24,583; Crude and Rupee Keep Traders on Edge
A late auction recovery lifted Nifty 13 points to 24,583, but elevated crude and a weaker rupee cap upside. Technical an...
AI Infrastructure and Consumer Names Lead the Midday Movers
AI infrastructure stocks surged on stronger revenue and margin guidance, Wendy's jumped on reports of a Trian take-priva...
Goldman: Japan's $1 Trillion Dollar Reserve Buffer Can Fund More Yen Intervention
Goldman Sachs strategists say Japan's cash reserves and access to a Fed repo facility leave room for repeated yen-buying...
South Korea’s Kospi Enters Bull Market as AI Memory-Chip Trade Rebounds
The Kospi has climbed roughly 23% from its late-July low, pushing it into a technical bull market as Samsung Electronics...
Yen Slides Back Toward 160 as Markets Question Next US-Japan Intervention
The dollar-yen rate has retraced about half of its post-intervention move, putting Washington and Tokyo under pressure t...
Norway's $2.3tn Oil Fund Turns a Q1 Loss Into a $184bn Half-Year Gain
The world's largest sovereign fund reported a 9.4% first-half return, lifted by Asian tech stocks after a €58bn first-qu...
DAX's April 2025 Sell-Off Was Endogenous, Athens Study Finds
A University of West Attica study finds the German DAX was already in a fragile 'critical period' before the U.S. tariff...
Norway’s Oil Fund Posts Record €160 Billion Half-Year Profit on Asian Tech Rebound
The world’s largest sovereign investor earned €160 billion in the first half, reversing a €58 billion first-quarter loss...
AMD Pullback Makes It a Hold, Not a Buy, Morningstar Says; Sandisk and Western Digital Still Fully Priced
Morningstar’s Dave Sekera explains why AMD’s 7% post-earnings drop leaves the stock fairly valued, while Sandisk and Wes...
UK Market Momentum: Rotork, Intertek and a Wave of Investment Trusts Hit 52-Week Highs
A weekly scan of London-listed shares near 52-week milestones shows a strong bid for quality industrials and closed-end ...
India's Retail Traders Lose $9.6 Billion in Options Despite Regulatory Clampdown
Losses eased slightly from a year earlier, but a fifth straight year of heavy derivatives losses tests Sebi’s efforts. T...
A-Shares Rebound in August But Face Critical Test as Earnings Flood Begins
China’s A-share market has bounced back modestly in early August after a sharp July rout, but fund managers at Great Wal...
Brazil Election Jitters Send Warning to Argentina as Rates Rise and FX Splits
A selloff in Brazilian assets on a narrowing Lula-Bolsonaro race flashed a cautionary signal for Argentina, where higher...
Oil Surge Reignites Inflation Fears, Dampens European Stocks
European equities tread water as Brent crude jumps past $89 on Middle East tensions, driving up bond yields and rate-hik...
Kazakhstan Offers Three-Year Tax Holiday to Crypto Investors in Bid to Revitalise Sector
A new government decree exempts individual investors from income tax on digital asset gains for three years, while creat...
CAC 40 and oil prices stabilise as Pakistan hints at US-Iran arrangement
Brent crude slips back below $88 after Islamabad signals talks are making progress, calming a jittery oil market and hel...
Wall Street Edges Higher on Renewed Hormuz Deal Hopes, Eyeing CPI
US stocks posted modest gains Tuesday as diplomatic signals pointed to a possible breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz, ...