Valentin Aufrand
Market Strategist
Gap soars after raising its profit targets despite Old Navy
Gap jumped 11% in after-hours trading Thursday, with investors focusing on margin resilience and the U.S. apparel group's higher profit targets, despite sales coming in slightly below expectations and still sharply mixed performance across its brands.
August 28, 2026 at 02:34 am IST
Autodesk disappoints on its outlook despite a better-than-expected quarter
The California-based design, engineering and manufacturing software publisher delivered second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $2.05bn, up 16%, or 14% at constant currency, versus a consensus near $2.01bn. Adjusted earnings per share rose 26% to $3.30, also topping the $3.12 expected.
August 28, 2026 at 02:07 am IST
HP slides despite better-than-expected results, margins raise concerns
HP was down 9% in after-hours trading, despite quarterly results that came in well above expectations and an increase to its full-year outlook. Investors appear to have focused on shrinking margins, against a backdrop still shaped by rising memory-component costs.
August 27, 2026 at 02:28 am IST
Treasuries: Citadel Securities now bets on easing long-term rates
After taking a bearish view on bonds at the start of the summer, Citadel Securities now believes the risk-reward balance tilts in favor of a pullback in long-term US rates over the coming months.
August 26, 2026 at 11:34 pm IST
Bitcoin jumps 23% and is heading for its best week since March 2023
Bitcoin was up about 6% on Friday, around $77,400, after briefly nearing $79,500 late in the morning. Up nearly 23% since Monday, the cryptocurrency is on track for its best week since March 2023, provided it does not give back these gains before the weekend ends, with the crypto market remaining open around the clock. Despite this rebound, it is still about 39% below the record high of more than $126,000 set in October 2025.
August 21, 2026 at 11:52 pm IST
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Futu posts a record quarter, lifted by enthusiasm for AI-linked stocks
Futu Holdings shares rose nearly 2% on Thursday after the company reported quarterly results well above expectations, supported by accelerating trading volumes and the international expansion of the China-Hong Kong online brokerage and wealth management platform, parent of the Futubull and Moomoo apps.
August 21, 2026 at 12:05 am IST
Twist Bioscience benefits from Claude's advances in protein design
Anthropic has just shown that Claude can directly contribute to the design of proteins capable of binding to biological targets, an important step in the development of many drugs.
August 20, 2026 at 12:32 am IST
Costco readies its entry into Medicare with SCAN
Costco, the world's third-largest retailer behind Walmart and Amazon, is preparing to enter the US senior health insurance market through a partnership with SCAN Group, a non-profit insurer specializing in Medicare.
August 19, 2026 at 01:42 am IST
Baidu shares plunge 14%, caught between free-falling advertising and record investment
Baidu shares fell about 14% Tuesday on the Nasdaq after results showed that growth in its artificial intelligence businesses still does not fully offset the decline in its search engine.
August 19, 2026 at 12:08 am IST
CME Group: was the market right to worry about perpetual futures?
Between its early March peak around $329 and its late June low at $218, CME Group gave up nearly 34%. The selloff was largely fueled by the CFTC's approval of Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual futures, which intensified fears that these no-expiry contracts, already highly popular on offshore crypto platforms, would gradually shift liquidity out of CME's ecosystem.
August 15, 2026 at 12:41 am IST
Nu Holdings eases credit concerns and tops $1bn in profit
Nu Holdings rose 8% on Wall Street a day after results marked, for the first time, by clearing the threshold of $1bn in quarterly net profit. Active in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, the Latin American digital banking giant continues to pair rapid business growth with improving profitability.
August 14, 2026 at 11:52 pm IST
Intel raises $20bn, its CEO personally chips in
Intel is taking advantage of the sharp rebound in its stock to strengthen its balance sheet and fund its industrial ambitions. Chief executive Lip-Bu Tan and a family member will invest $12m in the deal.
August 13, 2026 at 11:18 pm IST
Cisco slips 2% despite results supported by AI and networking
Cisco is edging slightly lower in after-hours trading, after initially rising following the release of quarterly results that topped expectations, supported by continued strength in investment in network infrastructure and artificial intelligence.
August 13, 2026 at 02:01 am IST
Marex jumps 17%, lifted by a transformation that is beginning to change scale
Marex jumped about 17% on Wall Street after quarterly results that came in well above expectations, highlighting the rise of a group that is still relatively little known to the general public but increasingly embedded in market infrastructure.
August 13, 2026 at 12:39 am IST
Airbnb jumps 10%, lifted by strong booking momentum
Airbnb jumped 10% in electronic trading after posting quarterly results above expectations, underscoring resilient travel demand despite an environment still shaped by geopolitical tensions and rising travel costs.
August 07, 2026 at 01:57 am IST
Honeywell Aerospace sinks after a severe 2026 warning
Honeywell Aerospace was down nearly 20% on Thursday after sharply cutting its annual targets, a particularly brutal punishment for its first release since its separation from Honeywell Technologies at the end of June.
August 06, 2026 at 11:38 pm IST
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