Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Shares of Monte Paschi fell as much as 6.1% in Milan to their lowest level since June after Italian constructions magnate Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone company’s board plans on rejecting Monte Paschi’s twin bids for Banco BPM and Banca Generali at the next shareholder meeting, according to an emailed statement.
- Aberdeen cut its stake in Standard Life by roughly half, as the UK wealth platform and asset manager looks to strengthen its balance sheet and fund growth.
- Argenx ended a late-stage trial of its best-selling medicine Vyvgart for a chronic autoimmune disorder after a monitoring panel said the study was unlikely to succeed.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Tesco shares rise as much as 3.9% as analysts said the company’s first-half results were strong and pointed to a £200m increase in share buyback plans. Tesco narrowed its adjusted operating profit forecast for the full year, raising the lower end of its guidance range.
- Imperial Brands shares rise as much as 4% after the company reaffirmed its adjusted operating profit forecast for the full year.
- Zealand Pharma is cut to hold from accumulate at KBC, with analysts saying they have reduced commercial assumptions for key company assets due to petrelintide trial results, survodutide’s high discontinuation rates and pricing pressure in obesity.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Samsung’s shares erased early gains to drop as much as 0.9%, after investors looked past its record quarterly profit to focus on the sustainability of AI spending in a higher yields environment.
- DBS shares extend their slide to as much as 5.1%, the biggest drop since April 2025.
- TSMC reported a 51% rise in quarterly revenue, a positive signal for investors trying to gauge the sustainability of a global AI infrastructure buildout.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market, a look at the notable movers:
On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Levi Strauss (LEVI) posted the slowest growth in its direct-to-consumer channels since late 2022, in part due to a marketing misstep. Revenue generated from Levi's own stores and website grew 2% in the third quarter, with the company raising its full-year earnings outlook. The company expects direct-to-consumer growth for the current quarter to increase by a mid-single digit after changing its marketing to focus on low-rise jeans.

- Webull (BULL) shares fell as much as 24%, the most since April 2025, after CNBC reported that the US House Select Committee on China is set to release a report on Wednesday that Webull is tied structurally to China’s government, raising national security concerns.

- Wolfspeed (WOLF) today announced it has received a conditional loan commitment letter from the U.S. Department of War through its Office of Strategic Capital, for up to $1.5 billion of long-term financing to support the domestic development and production of silicon carbide materials and wide bandgap power devices, with an additional focus on U.S. national security applications. Wolfspeed would be required to issue to the Defense Department VWAP-based warrants to purchase, in the aggregate, up to 7.5% of Wolfspeed’s fully diluted equity, company says. Stock gains 27% in post-market trading
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
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- Micron Technology (MU) shares are up 3.1% on Wednesday, after D.A. Davidson raised its price target on the memory chipmaker to a Street-high view of $3,000, seeing long-term tailwinds related to AI. Analyst Gil Luria recently met with Micron’s management team, and “concluded that investors are early in their journey of understanding MU’s value and believe that journey will lead them to assigning a far higher multiple”

- Webull (BULL) shares fell as much as 24%, the most since April 2025, after CNBC reported that the US House Select Committee on China is set to release a report on Wednesday that Webull is tied structurally to China’s government, raising national security concerns.

- A measure of SpaceX’s (SPCX) credit risk surged to a fresh high and the company’s bonds weakened in the secondary market on Wednesday, following reports the company is in talks with banks and investors to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia Corp. The price of five-year credit default swaps on the company’s debt rose as much as 0.167 percentage point to around 197.6 basis points a year, according to ICE Data Services, which is the highest intraday level since the swaps started actively trading in June. SpaceX is looking to raise $40 billion in what would be among the biggest-ever debt financings for the AI buildout, with the company’s fundraising discussions in an early stage and could end without a deal being completed, according to people familiar with the matter.
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