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Foreign investors bought South African stocks and bonds worth a combined 9.24 billion rand last week, exchange and settlement data showed.
JPMorgan Asset Management reported sales of 1,237,246 Pinewood shares and 465,000 Mitie shares under the Takeover Code.
UBS began coverage of Protagonist Therapeutics, Spyre Therapeutics and Kardigan with Buy ratings and price targets ranging from $25 to $184 per share.
Markets see a 91% chance of a November BOE hike, while a sustained retreat in energy prices could reduce pressure for faster tightening.
On-chain demand and whale holdings are improving, but Bitcoin could face a correction after the U.S. midterm elections.
Nifty 50 held 22,300, but elevated oil prices and bond yields kept the recovery fragile ahead of the weekly options expiry.
The Baltic Dry Index fell 2.2%, while a sharp decline in Capesize outweighed modest gains in Panamax and Supramax.
Analyst CyclesFan sees a possible move toward $54.76 by November unless silver recovers above its 20-week moving average.
Seaport says toy stocks offer underappreciated value as investors reconsider the sector’s resilience, recession resistance and free-cash-flow generation.
Corn futures recover after a sharp post-report selloff, while soybeans and wheat edge lower as traders review the latest USDA data.
Morgan Stanley moved Ally Financial to Equal-weight and cut its price target from $55 to $43, citing higher rates and fewer catalysts.
RBC Capital kept Fortinet, Commvault Systems, Magna International and Lucid Group at Sector Perform, while cutting targets for the latter two.
RBC Capital keeps its Outperform rating and raises price targets for Datadog, Atlassian, ServiceNow and Versigent.
UBS assigned price targets to seven biotechnology companies, with Neutral or Buy ratings also reported for some of the stocks.
North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust, associated with Oryx director Christopher Mills, purchased 133,500 fund shares on 9 October.
RBC Capital maintained Outperform ratings on Dynatrace, F5, Aptiv, Visteon and General Motors while changing price targets for four of them.
National and Labour representatives support a broad political accord on retirement, with pension eligibility age included in possible talks.
HSBC will phase out fixed-pay allowances from January 2028 while keeping base salaries unchanged and maintaining its overall compensation approach.
Microsoft introduced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip and said it could deploy more than one million processors next year.
Microsoft is expanding use of Maia accelerators for incoming AI requests while retaining Nvidia and AMD as major partners for model training.