SoftBank will make investments $2 billion into Intel, chipmaker’s shares rise
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will make investments $2 billion into Intel, in keeping with an announcement from the 2 firms.
SoftBank can pay $23 per share of Intel’s frequent inventory. The chipmaker’s shares ended Monday’s common session at $23.66. Intel jumped greater than 4% in prolonged buying and selling.
Intel shares over the previous day
Meta Platforms sees largest improve in brief curiosity of any U.S. inventory this yr, S3 says
Meta Platforms, which dropped 2.3% on Monday, has seen the most important improve in brief curiosity of any U.S. inventory this yr, in keeping with S3 Companions, which makes a speciality of monitoring the exercise of brief sellers, who try to revenue from a decline in an organization’s inventory worth.
Meta’s notional brief curiosity has soared 75%, or $11 billion, to date in 2025, S3 stated in a word Monday. The quantity of Meta’s shares bought brief as a proportion of the overall excellent has jumped 38% in current weeks, and 35% to date in 2025, the researcher stated.
The second-largest improve in year-to-date notional brief curiosity was in Palantir, which rose $2.8 billion, S3 stated.
“META’s 30% YTD inventory worth achieve accounts for roughly half of the rise in brief curiosity notional, with the rest pushed by new shorts. Causes for shorting META embrace Heavy AI and Metaverse spending, Commerce/Tariff Dangers, Development Slowdown, Greater Valuation and Weakening Advert Market,” S3 stated.
— Scott Schnipper
Palo Alto Networks jumps 5% after earnings beat
Shares of Palo Alto Networks jumped greater than 5% in prolonged buying and selling after the chipmaker’s quarterly outcomes topped Wall Avenue estimates and issued better-than-expected steerage for the primary quarter and full yr.
The outcomes come weeks after Palo Alto introduced plans to purchase Israeli identification safety supplier CyberArk for $25 billion, its heftiest deal ever.
Palo Alto additionally stated its founder and Chief Know-how Officer Nir Zuk is retiring.
— Yun Li
