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Services PMIs across Spain, Ireland and Singapore beat expectations even as German factory orders and South African output weakened.
European equities rose broadly after last week's selloff, but French stocks underperformed as rising government bond yields reflected fiscal concerns.
Copper's bounce to $6.578 a pound hasn't been enough to flip the metal's broader downtrend, mirroring hesitation in equities.
The S&P 500 is squeezed in a double-top range near 7,728 while copper bounced to $6.578 but remains under bearish control.
Investors punished the rare-earths miner's $672 million deal for Meteoric even as the purchase was meant to secure new supply.
Lynas Rare Earths shares fell 7% to an eight-month low after the company announced a $672 million deal to acquire Meteoric, according to Investing.com.
September's PMI improvement lands alongside a broad rise in government bond yields from the U.S. to Europe, and gold's 1.6% gain shows investors still hedging.
China's official PMI showed factory activity returning to growth in September, even as government bond yields rose globally and gold held onto a 1.6% gain from earlier in the week.
Regional manufacturers say they "can't do any planning" just as a Federal Reserve governor flags fresh inflationary pressure ahead.
The Dallas Fed's manufacturing survey showed uniformly negative sentiment among respondents, coinciding with Fed Governor Lisa Cook's warning of further inflationary pressures ahead.
The Perth-based miner called the approach opportunistic; investors pushed the stock higher instead of lower, a sign they think a sweetened offer could follow.
Northern Star Resources turned down a $27 billion takeover approach from South Africa's Gold Fields, and its shares rose to a one-month high rather than falling on the rejected deal.
The same session that pushed private-equity and regional-bank shares to fresh lows sent lab-equipment and manufacturing names to records, underscoring a split market.
Carlyle Group fell to a 52-week low of $39.15 and First Citizens BancShares to $19.56, while Thermo Fisher Scientific hit a 52-week high of $671.69 and Xometry an all-time high of $107.00.
A blowout September PMI report revived bets that the Federal Reserve has less room to cut rates, sending long-term borrowing costs to their highest level in months.
The 10-year Treasury yield spiked above 5.00% after U.S. Services PMI data surged past expectations, pressuring technology shares as investors reassessed the pace of future Fed rate cuts.
The bank started coverage of Hut 8, Terawulf and Applied Digital with buy ratings, citing data center and leasing growth rather than mining economics.
UBS opened coverage on Hut 8, Terawulf and Applied Digital with buy ratings, betting their shift from bitcoin mining toward AI data center capacity will drive growth.
UBS trimmed its Element Solutions price target on valuation grounds the same day FMC shares fell to a fresh 52-week low.
FMC shares hit a 52-week low of $9.94 while UBS lowered its price target on Element Solutions, citing valuation, pointing to broader pressure on specialty chemicals names.
The jet-engine giant is buying a key parts supplier as it works to unclog its own production bottlenecks.
GE Aerospace agreed to acquire Consolidated Precision Products (CPP) in a deal valued at roughly $11.75 billion, according to wire reports on the announcement.
Traders warn the rally has outrun the easy gains, even as physical demand from US buyers keeps pushing London prices toward all-time highs.
Copper futures in London are again nearing record levels, driven by sustained US buying, but analysts caution the cheapest profits in the trade have already been captured.
Escalating attacks on tankers in the Gulf have pushed the US Navy into a covert de-mining campaign to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
US Navy divers and robots have been running night-time missions to clear explosives from the Strait of Hormuz as the tanker war between the US and Iran intensifies.
A hotter-than-expected payrolls print pressured bitcoin-linked stocks and gold miners, with a September 15 catalyst now in focus.
Gold miners and bitcoin-related stocks fell after a strong August jobs report reduced expectations for near-term Fed easing.
Canada's services PMI hit a six-month low as trade tensions weighed, while the US services gauge fell short of forecasts.
Canada's services PMI dropped to a six-month low on rising trade tensions while the US services sector's growth slowed and missed forecast.
The currency strengthened while an August PMI reading showed the services sector growing at close to its slowest pace in four years.
India's rupee rose sharply even as a closely watched services PMI showed growth staying near a four-year low, pointing to a disconnect between currency flows and underlying economic momentum.
The rare earths miner's stock climbed after a report said it held takeover discussions earlier this year, before those talks ended.
Lynas Rare Earths shares rose after a report that the company had been in takeover talks earlier in the year.
Deere, CNH Industrial, AGCO and Titan Machinery all received rating upgrades from Baird on the same day, citing margin recovery and a turn in the North America crop outlook.
Baird upgraded its ratings on Deere, CNH Industrial, AGCO and Titan Machinery in a single day, pointing to margin recovery potential and improving inventory conditions across the farm-equipment sector.
Record revenue lifted the Australian miner into profitability for the first time, and shares rallied on the news.
Liontown Resources reported its first annual profit on record revenue for fiscal year 2026, driven by lithium gains, sending its shares higher.
H.C. Wainwright reiterated a Buy rating and $90 price target on AI revenue growth, even as analysts flag the strategy shift as high-risk.
H.C. Wainwright reiterated its Buy rating on IREN with a $90 price target, citing growing AI revenue, while independent analysis calls the stock's pivot from bitcoin mining to AI cloud computing a high-risk, high-reward bet.