Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Entertainment Seaport Research Partners upgraded Fox Corporation ( FOX ) ( FOXA ) to "buy" from a previous investment rating of "neutral." The research firm believes the pullback in the company's shares post-earnings was "overdone," especially following concerns regarding its sports betting exposure and the accelerated stock buyback news. They think Fox's sports bet...
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Entertainment Seaport Research Partners upgraded Fox Corporation ( FOX ) ( FOXA ) to "buy" from a previous investment rating of "neutral." The research firm believes the pullback in the company's shares post-earnings was "overdone," especially following concerns regarding its sports betting exposure and the accelerated stock buyback news. They think Fox's sports betting assets and strong performance in Tubi streaming support a positive outlook for the company. Seaport said it views the upcoming FIFA World Cup programming and midterm election cycle as catalysts for advertising growth at the company. They also expect Fox to slow its linear subscriber losses with DTC services for the "cord-nevers" with "skinny bundles," which would include its news- and sports-focused networks. FOXA has a price target of $64, implying an upside of 15.6%. Both classes of Fox shares are up more than 1% in afternoon trading. More on Fox Fox Corporation (FOXA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript FOXA: The Main Street Sports Group Challenge Presents Opportunity Wall Street Lunch: Fox's FanDuel Call Option Emerges As Hidden Growth Lever 'College Football Playoffs' on ESPN drives cable viewership in January - Nielsen Fox Corporation outlines FOX One subscriber growth targets while highlighting Tubi and sports momentum
The European Union’s trade chief Maros Sefcovic has railed against the bloc’s glacial trade defences, warning that years-long probes and rigid rules will not protect the bloc from China’s increasingly fierce export machine. Speaking in the European Parliament on Tuesday, Sefcovic lashed out at Beijing’s “unsustainable” trade surplus and called for an urgent overhaul of world trading rules to accou...
The European Union’s trade chief Maros Sefcovic has railed against the bloc’s glacial trade defences, warning that years-long probes and rigid rules will not protect the bloc from China’s increasingly fierce export machine. Speaking in the European Parliament on Tuesday, Sefcovic lashed out at Beijing’s “unsustainable” trade surplus and called for an urgent overhaul of world trading rules to account for “overcapacities”, “unfair trade policies” and “state subsidies”. He confirmed, meanwhile,...
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) today is down -34 (-1.10%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) is down -41 (-1.88%). Cocoa prices are sliding today, with May NY cocoa posting a contract low and Mar London cocoa posting a new 2.75-year nearest futures low. Cocoa prices are...
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) today is down -34 (-1.10%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) is down -41 (-1.88%). Cocoa prices are sliding today, with May NY cocoa posting a contract low and Mar London cocoa posting a new 2.75-year nearest futures low. Cocoa prices are...
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cursor logo arranged on a smartphone in New Hyde Park, New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cursor announced updates to its artificial intelligence coding agents on Tuesday as the startup works to fend off increasingly stiff competition from rivals like Anthropic , OpenAI and Micros...
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cursor logo arranged on a smartphone in New Hyde Park, New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cursor announced updates to its artificial intelligence coding agents on Tuesday as the startup works to fend off increasingly stiff competition from rivals like Anthropic , OpenAI and Microsoft . The AI startup has to stay on the cutting edge to win new users and market share, and the company told CNBC that its updated agents push its capabilities to the next level. The startup's valuation has ballooned to $29.3 billion, and it said in November that it had crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue. Cursor was relatively early to the AI coding market, but other players have been quick to launch competing offerings. AI agents are tools that can complete tasks on behalf of a user, and they have exploded in popularity over the last year as model capabilities have improved. Some of the earliest adopters have been software developers, who are using agents from companies like Cursor to generate, edit and review code. Cursor's updated agents can test their own changes and record their work through videos, logs and screenshots, the company said. Users can trigger the agents from the web, Cursor's desktop app, on a mobile device, through the messaging platform Slack or on Microsoft's GitHub. The agents can also run in parallel with full development environments on their own virtual machines, which are cloud-based computers that behave just like a physical one. This means agents won't have to compete for resources locally on a developer's laptop or waste time onboarding, Cursor said. "Instead of having one to three things that you're doing at once that are running at the same time, you can have 10 or 20 of these things running," Alexi Robbins, co-head of engineering for asynchronous agents Cursor, told CNBC in an interview. "You can have really high throughput with this."...
Grail (NASDAQ: GRAL) stock rose by more than 16% by midday. The move follows a couple of days of brutal declines after the release of top-line results from its three-year, 142,000-person trial of its Galleri multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test with England's National Health Service. I discussed the stock's decline on the f irst day of trading after the release, and the market punished it agai...
Grail (NASDAQ: GRAL) stock rose by more than 16% by midday. The move follows a couple of days of brutal declines after the release of top-line results from its three-year, 142,000-person trial of its Galleri multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test with England's National Health Service. I discussed the stock's decline on the f irst day of trading after the release, and the market punished it again on Monday . However, let's focus on why the market may be optimistic about future developments. As a reminder, the primary endpoint of the trial (which it missed) was to achieve a statistical significant reduction in combined Stage III and Stage IV cancers across 12 deadly indications. Continue reading
The German government agreed to abolish a controversial ban on new gas and oil heating systems as Chancellor Friedrich Merz ’ conservatives rush to deliver on a key electoral promise. The heating law signed off by the previous government in 2023 sparked a public outcry as it required newly-installed heating systems to use at least 65% renewable energy. At the moment, almost 80% of Germany’s reside...
The German government agreed to abolish a controversial ban on new gas and oil heating systems as Chancellor Friedrich Merz ’ conservatives rush to deliver on a key electoral promise. The heating law signed off by the previous government in 2023 sparked a public outcry as it required newly-installed heating systems to use at least 65% renewable energy. At the moment, almost 80% of Germany’s residential buildings are estimated to rely on oil or gas heating. The 65% requirement has now been dropped, according to a jointly agreed policy paper from Merz’s center-right CDU/CSU bloc and its Social Democrat coalition partner. Instead, the coalition agreed to introduce a “green gas quota” which is meant to oblige gas suppliers to blend a growing share of renewable gases, such as biomethane or hydrogen, into heating systems. The new heating law will also not contain any provisions that make it mandatory to replace existing heating systems that are in good working order, according to the coalition paper. Ahead of last year’s elections, Merz’s conservatives had vowed to scrap the regulation and ease burdens for households, though they had to find a compromise with the Social Democrats, who were part of the coalition that originally introduced the controversial law. The latter had pushed for the 65% rule to remain, in line with the recommendations of Germany ’s Environment Agency. The uncertainty over heating rules has caused consumers to delay installations, with sales of heating systems dropping 12% last year to a 15-year low, the Federal Association of the German Heating Industry said earlier this month . The association of house owners said ahead of Tuesday’s decision that it supported making suppliers responsible for the provision of more renewable energy in heating, rather than consumers. At the same time, environmental organizations warned the introduction of a “green gas quota” would extend the life of fossil fuel heating systems.
⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offs ⚽ Live scores | Sign up for Football Daily | And mail Scott For the fourth time in the tie, Atleti go into the lead! Johnny Cardoso meets a half-hearted header on the edge of the Brugge D. He takes a touch before whipping a low shot into the bottom left. It wasn’t tight in the corner, and so once again Simon Mignolet may have done better, but i...
⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offs ⚽ Live scores | Sign up for Football Daily | And mail Scott For the fourth time in the tie, Atleti go into the lead! Johnny Cardoso meets a half-hearted header on the edge of the Brugge D. He takes a touch before whipping a low shot into the bottom left. It wasn’t tight in the corner, and so once again Simon Mignolet may have done better, but it was hit pretty sweetly nonetheless. For the completist, here are the team-sheets from Madrid. There were no changes during the first half … and none at the break either. The second half is underway at the Metropolitano. Continue reading...