Konrad Wysocki

Konrad Wysocki is a senior markets reporter at Bez-kabli.pl, specializing in technology stocks, artificial intelligence and global financial markets. A graduate of the University of Rzeszów, he previously worked in investment research and market analysis. His coverage helps readers understand the key trends, companies and innovations influencing investors worldwide.

Playtech Jumps After Big Client Changes 2026 Outlook
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Playtech Jumps After Big Client Changes 2026 Outlook

Playtech PLC surprised the market on Thursday, telling investors it expects adjusted EBITDA for 2026 to hit at least €270 million. That’s €51 million higher than analysts expected before the update. The forecast, for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation and some adjustments, follows a strong first half from the Americas and Hard Rock Digital. The main point now is how Playtech beat. The company says a solid first half should offset an expected slowdown in the second half. That includes a drop but steadier revenue from Hard Rock Digital and the hit from higher UK Remote Gaming Duty, which started in April.
July 9, 2026
LSEG shares slip as market eyes two under-the-radar bets
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LSEG shares slip as market eyes two under-the-radar bets

London Stock Exchange Group plc slipped Thursday, as investors weighed two new business lines aimed at private-company share trading and wider clearing collateral. Shares settled at 8,768p, off 1.06%, while the FTSE 100 dipped 0.16%. LSEG is still about 20% under its 52-week high of 10,985p. This matters now because LSEG’s public-market brand faces a tough home market. The Financial Times said UK takeover bids hit £59.7 billion in the first half of 2026, compared to just £2.2 billion raised from new London listings. That’s a 27-to-1 ratio, adding to pressure on the old exchange story. LSEG is leaning into other areas: data, indices, clearing, workflow software, and some private-market liquidity.
July 9, 2026
Unilever (LON:ULVR) lags FTSE 350 with traders eyeing buyback and July results
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Unilever (ULVR.L) Sinks After $66 Billion Food Deal Hit by More Terry Smith Criticism

Unilever PLC dropped almost 2% in London on Thursday, giving up most of Tuesday’s bounce. The move came as ex-shareholder Terry Smith renewed criticism of its $66 billion food deal, keeping focus on management and governance instead of product lines or profit margins. Delayed data from AJ Bell put the shares at 4,566p, off 1.9%, with market cap just under £98 billion. Based on Tuesday’s £46.89 close, the drop has wiped out about £2.6 billion from Unilever’s equity value. This matters now because the latest drop isn’t about a new profit warning. Investors are reacting to Unilever’s plan for a new structure. The company aims to dig further into beauty, wellbeing, personal care and home care, while splitting off Foods
July 9, 2026
Glencore options traders get boost from Goldman ahead of July test
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Glencore options traders get boost from Goldman ahead of July test

Glencore plc jumped Thursday after Goldman Sachs moved the stock to Buy, giving quick gains for traders who loaded up on July calls the day before. The company’s share feed showed Glencore up 20.75 pence at 511.40 pence by 16:47 GMT. FTSE 100 closed a touch lower on broker screens. The move is notable because this wasn't simply a rally across all miners. Goldman Sachs cut its 12-month price target to 630 pence from 660 pence but still said the sector’s drop has opened a good entry point. At about 511.6 pence, that target suggests around 23% upside.
July 9, 2026
Strategy Sells Bitcoin, MSTR Investors Face $8.3B Hit
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Strategy Sells Bitcoin, MSTR Investors Face $8.3B Hit

Strategy Inc stock ticked up Thursday. The bitcoin-treasury firm posted a $8.32 billion Q2 loss tied to digital assets and said it sold more bitcoin this quarter than at any point since it started buying in 2020. Strategy, seen by a lot of investors as just a big bitcoin holder, is now tapping some of its coins to raise cash. The company sold bitcoin for less than what it paid on average, and used the money to pay out its preferred shareholders and boost its dollar reserves.
July 9, 2026
FTSE 100 Drops as AstraZeneca Hit Pounds London Shares
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FTSE 100 Drops as AstraZeneca Hit Pounds London Shares

FTSE 100 finished lower Thursday, weighed down by AstraZeneca after the pharma giant missed on a key late-stage trial. That left the London blue-chip index trailing gains seen in the rest of Europe. The blue-chip index, which tracks the 100 largest London-listed firms by market cap, dropped 0.61% to 10,424.59 at 13:48 BST, according to delayed data. The day's range ran from 10,397.48 to 10,539.47. Google Finance data showed the FTSE 250 mid-cap index ahead 0.28%, showing a mixed session rather than a larger London selloff.
July 9, 2026
Evolution Mining Shares Drop as Gold Stalls on Rate Worries
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Evolution Mining Shares Drop as Gold Stalls on Rate Worries

Evolution Mining stock is set for a weak open on Thursday after finishing Wednesday at A$11.44, down 4.19%. Lower bullion prices weighed on Australian gold miners. The ASX will open for regular trade shortly before 10 a.m. Sydney. Timing is a key issue here. Evolution’s next test comes soon, with the miner confirming its June-quarter report will be out before the open on July 15. Managing Director and CEO Lawrie Conway and COO Matt O’Neill are set for a call at 10:30 a.m. Sydney time.
July 9, 2026
WiseTech’s Founder Shock Still Hangs Over WTC Shares
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WiseTech’s Founder Shock Still Hangs Over WTC Shares

WiseTech Global shares dropped in Sydney on Wednesday, pulling back after a recent governance bounce. Founder Richard White is no longer executive chair but has remained with the logistics software firm. WiseTech shares ended at A$34.65 on July 8, falling A$2.72, or 7.28%. That drop erased the gains from the prior session, when Raelene Murphy was named independent chair. WiseTech is now down almost 70% over the past year, a sharp fall for a former Australian tech leader.
July 9, 2026
Goodman Shares Fall as AI Data-Centre Push Sees Market Pressure
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Goodman Shares Fall as AI Data-Centre Push Sees Market Pressure

Goodman Group dropped harder than Australia’s main index on Wednesday. Investors gave a lower price to the fast-growing data centre pipeline ahead of Thursday’s open. Goodman shares ended 1.6% lower at A$30.19. The S&P/ASX 200 was off 0.21%. Goodman’s market cap held near A$61.7 billion, making it one of Australia’s bigger stocks tied to AI infrastructure demand.
July 8, 2026
Santos clinches 200 PJ Cooper Basin gas deal, sets savings target as Pikka ramp looms
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Santos jumps 5.8% as ASX slides

Santos Limited finished up strongly Wednesday, jumping 5.78% to A$7.50. Investors returned to Australian energy stocks after another move up in oil prices. The shares gained A$0.41 from the previous close at A$7.09 and changed hands in a tight A$7.30 to A$7.55 range. Energy led gains as the S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.21% to 8,785.10. Woodside Energy added 3.22% and Ampol was up 1.37%, even as the rest of the market dropped, a market report said.
July 8, 2026
ANZ shares lag bank rally as APRA risk-weight plan gives investors a 2027 reason to wait
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ANZ Holds Up as ASX Drops; Bigger Test Ahead

ANZ Group Holdings Limited finished up 1.21% at A$35.87 Wednesday, running counter to weaker action in the wider Australian market. Investors held on to the major banks as new Middle East tension kept oil and interest rate risks in focus. Shares traded in a range from A$34.92 to A$35.95, according to Google Finance. The move stood out since the S&P/ASX 200 dropped 18.80 points, or 0.21%, settling at 8,785.10. ANZ’s rise seemed to be part of a broader rally among banks, lending some support as the market took a hit from oil and geopolitical news.
July 8, 2026
BHP faces Port Hedland strike threat as copper growth story in focus
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BHP faces Port Hedland strike threat as copper growth story in focus

BHP Group Ltd goes into Thursday’s session with shares under pressure as the market treats a short labour stoppage as something that could drag out and challenge the miner’s main cash source. The ASX gave BHP’s latest close at A$57.51, down 2.31%. For the S&P/ASX 200, the daily wrap showed a 0.21% drop. That 2.10 percentage point difference points to a BHP-driven selloff, not just overall weakness in Australia. It's awkward for shareholders since iron ore actually climbed. Trading Economics showed iron ore CNY at 746 yuan a tonne for July 8, up 1.43%, with futures gaining on news of the planned BHP Port Hedland strike. Usually a miner with low-cost tonnes gets a lift from higher ore prices. BHP
July 8, 2026
Qube Holdings (ASX:QUB) shares suspended on ASX as takeover gap, dividend, index removal in focus
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Qube Holdings (ASX:QUB) shares suspended on ASX as takeover gap, dividend, index removal in focus

ASX normal cash trading goes from 09:59:45 to 16:00 Sydney time. The 2026 ASX trade calendar doesn’t list July 9 as a holiday, which means this is pre-open, not a weekend or official exchange holiday. Qube Holdings has shifted to a takeover settlement trade, after court orders made the Rubik Australia scheme legally effective. The company said it lodged the orders with ASIC. Implementation is planned for Aug. 14. Qube also announced a fully franked special dividend of A$0.3465 per share.
July 8, 2026
BP shares rise as oil shock tests debt-first repair trade
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BP shares rise as oil shock tests debt-first repair trade

BP PLC rose against a falling London market on Wednesday, as crude’s jump gave traders a fresh reason to buy a stock still priced like a repair case rather than a finished turnaround. The London quote showed BP up 3.53% at 491.30 pence after the close, while the FTSE 100 fell 1.66% to 10,489.04. The day’s tape was clear. Oil risk lifted BP and Shell PLC, while most of the index sold off. Reuters said more than 80% of FTSE 100 names closed lower, with energy the top boost and industrial metal miners the biggest drag. BP rose 3.5% and Shell rose 2.3%, among the FTSE 100’s best performers.
July 8, 2026
Anglo American share sell-off puts copper merger premium back on trial
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Anglo American share sell-off puts copper merger premium back on trial

Anglo American plc did not trade like a company hit by a fresh profit warning. It traded like a crowded restructuring and copper-merger position being marked down before the next production update. The latest confirmed regulatory item was a July 1 total voting rights notice, not an operating update, so the day’s price action looks market-led first and company-specific second. The closing screen was blunt:
July 8, 2026
China snaps Tianwen-2 asteroid image, testing deep-space skills rather than asteroid mining

China snaps Tianwen-2 asteroid image, testing deep-space skills rather than asteroid mining

BEIJING, July 9, 2026, 00:03 China’s first detailed look at Kamoʻoalewa puts the spotlight on the Tianwen-2 mission, but the harder part begins now. For investors, China’s space program is moving out of the PR phase and into tougher engineering. The space agency said the probe is now about 20 km from the asteroid, has started science work, and used optical navigation to shrink the position error from several hundred km to around a km.
July 8, 2026
HSBC (LON:HSBA) trades at a premium as Asia exposure weighs and buyback faces scrutiny
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HSBC (LON:HSBA) trades at a premium as Asia exposure weighs and buyback faces scrutiny

HSBC Holdings Plc changed hands more like a top-tier lender that’s being discounted on risk, not a troubled bank. The shares last showed 1,431.20p, off 22.20p, according to HSBC’s delayed pricing at 14:57 GMT, during the London cash hours from 0800 to 1630 BST. HSBC shares have dropped, but the stock remains near the top of its one-year range. According to AJ Bell data, the high was 1,590p while the low came in at 895.3p. The latest price trades about 10% under the high and roughly 60% above the low, so any miss in August may hit harder than the single-day move shows.
July 8, 2026
Airbus (EPA:AIR), MTU (ETR:MTX) hydrogen engine plan hits shares as investors look for progress
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Airbus (EPA:AIR), MTU (ETR:MTX) hydrogen engine plan hits shares as investors look for progress

Airbus SE is moving into engine-making, something civil aircraft companies usually avoid. The company and MTU Aero Engines AG plan a joint venture to build and sell a fully electric hydrogen fuel-cell engine for commercial jets. They aim to start in 2027 if regulators and labour sign off. Airbus called the move the “next logical step.” MTU’s Stefan Weber said they want a “safe, reliable and economical” propulsion system. Investors didn’t price in any short-term lift for the project. Google Finance listed Airbus at 198.56 euros as of 1647 CEST, down 2.64%, valuing the company at 156.99 billion euros with a P/E of 31.32. MTU was at 356.40 euros at 1646 CEST, off 3.18%, giving it a 19.21 billion euro
July 8, 2026
KOSPI weak as SK Hynix ADRs lift won, chip leverage risk exposed
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KOSPI weak as SK Hynix ADRs lift won, chip leverage risk exposed

South Korean shares tumbled into a bear market on Wednesday, but the won moved up, leaving foreign funds with a murkier picture. By 22:01 KST, both regular and after-hours stock sessions were closed on Korea Exchange. The KRX holds regular equity trading from 0900-1530 and after-hours trade from 1540-1800. KOSPI dropped 409.52 points, or 5.35%, to end at 7,246.79, its weakest finish since May 20. The index has now fallen 20.5% from its June 22 record close of 9,114.55, falling past the 20% threshold that signals a bear market.
July 8, 2026
GSK stock rises as £80 billion valuation shifts focus to oncology delivery
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GSK stock rises as £80 billion valuation shifts focus to oncology delivery

GSK plc rose on Tuesday, but the more useful number for investors was not the one-day gain. It was the gap between the share price and the Street model. At 1901 BST, after the London Stock Exchange regular session that runs from 0800 to 1630 BST, Davy’s delayed feed showed GSK at 2,003p, up 20p, or 1.01%, with a 1,982p-2,031p day range. The FTSE 100 closed up 0.1% at 10,655.88 points.
July 7, 2026
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