Business 10 March 2026 - 13 March 2026

LegalZoom Drops Ahead of Shareholder Meeting as AI Fight Hangs Over Stock
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LegalZoom Drops Ahead of Shareholder Meeting as AI Fight Hangs Over Stock

LegalZoom.com traded lower in premarket Wednesday, with the stock near $6.53 as investors prepared for the company’s annual meeting. Shares have had trouble translating stronger sales into better numbers on the bottom line. The latest price was off 14.5 cents from Tuesday’s close, giving LegalZoom a market cap near $1.16 billion. The timing sets the scene. U.S. markets are open as usual, and Nasdaq’s 2026 holiday list shows the next full day off is Juneteenth, June 19. LegalZoom’s shareholder meeting is scheduled for later in the day, not on a weekend or holiday.
June 3, 2026
Atlassian Layoffs 2026: Jira Maker Cuts 1,600 Jobs as AI Pressure Builds
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Atlassian Layoffs 2026: Jira Maker Cuts 1,600 Jobs as AI Pressure Builds

Atlassian plans to lay off around 1,600 employees—about 10% of its staff—as the company behind Jira and Confluence doubles down on artificial intelligence and enterprise sales in a bid to land larger corporate customers. The shakeup comes with another change at the top: Chief Technology Officer Rajeev Rajan will leave by the end of March. This hits as jitters ripple through software stocks. For weeks, investors have been pressing a single question: Could AI agents — those software helpers that handle multi-step tasks — start eating into the business of subscription software outfits? These software-as-a-service names are the go-to for companies needing workflow tools.
March 13, 2026
Clough CEO Peter Bennett Dies at 59, Leaving Webuild’s Australian Arm Facing a Leadership Test
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Clough CEO Peter Bennett Dies at 59, Leaving Webuild’s Australian Arm Facing a Leadership Test

Clough announced Thursday that its chief executive, Peter Bennett, has died. Australian media put his age at 59. The company declined to provide a cause of death, requesting privacy for Bennett’s family. The loss comes as the business faces a sensitive moment. Bennett remained in charge as Clough shifted under Webuild, which has turned the group into Webuild’s Australian base. The business now counts over 3,000 staff and a pipeline in Australia valued near A$18 billion.
March 12, 2026
Smith & Nephew Share Price Today: Stock Slips as ALLEVYN Launch Meets Tariff Doubts
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Smith & Nephew Share Price Today: Stock Slips as ALLEVYN Launch Meets Tariff Doubts

Smith & Nephew slipped 0.24% to finish at 1,240.5 pence on Thursday, as shares drifted lower just days after the FTSE 100 medical-device group launched a fresh wound-care line. The broader London market struggled as well, with the blue-chip index dropping 0.4%—renewed inflation jitters flaring up on the back of rising oil prices. The March 10 debut of ALLEVYN COMPLETE CARE marks one of the first concrete signs of Smith & Nephew’s 2026 product cycle—and it comes right after management closed out a three-year turnaround and reiterated its forecast. Investors, however, aren’t letting go of the risk factors flagged in the annual report: tariffs, supply chain turmoil linked to conflicts, and the possibility that guidance could wobble before the year
March 12, 2026
Nigeria Freeze on Petrol Imports Leaves Dangote With 92% of Supply, Fueling Monopoly Fears
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Nigeria Freeze on Petrol Imports Leaves Dangote With 92% of Supply, Fueling Monopoly Fears

For the second month running, Nigeria hasn’t issued any new petrol import permits, effectively clearing the way for Aliko Dangote’s refinery to tighten its grip on the fuel market. According to NMDPRA figures, Dangote delivered 36.5 million litres per day in February, while imports averaged a mere 3 million litres—enough for the refinery to control roughly 92% of Nigeria’s new domestic supply. The clash over imports is suddenly hitting drivers at the pump, with crude markets and freight rates still rattled by Middle East conflict. It’s a sharp turn from last year, when Dangote took the policy dispute to court before eventually backing out. Gone, too, is the long-standing regulatory line that imports were necessary to preserve competition.
March 12, 2026
LSEG Stock Price Rises 3% After Annual Report Shows CEO Pay Fell to £6.4 Million
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LSEG Stock Price Rises 3% After Annual Report Shows CEO Pay Fell to £6.4 Million

Shares in London Stock Exchange Group jumped roughly 3% Thursday afternoon, after the company’s annual report revealed Chief Executive David Schwimmer is set for 6.4 million pounds in pay for 2025. The stock was trading near 8,676 pence, making gains in a London market that saw the FTSE 100 slip 0.5%. LSEG’s disclosure arrives at a tricky moment. Schwimmer faces the dual task of repairing investor confidence after the AI-led selloff and handling Elliott Management’s scrutiny. Shares have underperformed rivals—a 22.6% slide over the past year. Intercontinental Exchange slipped 5.5%, Deutsche Boerse dropped 8.35%. Euronext, on the other hand, rose 11.23%.
March 12, 2026
Diageo Share Price Slides Toward 52-Week Low as Red Soul Launch Puts Turnaround in Focus
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Diageo Share Price Slides Toward 52-Week Low as Red Soul Launch Puts Turnaround in Focus

Diageo dropped around 3.8% in London afternoon deals Thursday, settling near 1,434.5 pence. The stock traded between 1,433 and 1,485 pence, landing right at the bottom of its 52-week range. The drop sharpens the pressure after February, when Chief Executive Dave Lewis slashed Diageo’s fiscal 2026 organic sales forecast to a 2%-3% decline, cut the interim dividend in half to 20 cents per share, and pledged a wider restructuring. Organic sales exclude currency effects, acquisitions and disposals.
March 12, 2026
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA stock falls as oil tops $100; IAG fuel hedges face fresh test
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International Consolidated Airlines Group SA stock falls as oil tops $100; IAG fuel hedges face fresh test

Shares of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA dropped 3.23% to 362 pence on Thursday, tracking oil’s rebound above $100 a barrel. Investors are on alert for higher fuel costs biting into airline profits. Notably, British Airways parent IAG had said just days earlier its fuel hedges offered some near-term relief. This shift is notable—back in March, IAG stood out as one of Europe’s more resilient full-service carriers. Not even a fortnight has passed since the group surprised with a 2025 operating profit of 5.02 billion euros, topping forecasts, and revealed plans for 1.5 billion euros in returns to shareholders. That includes a 500 million euro buyback, slated to wrap up by end-May.
March 12, 2026
CSL Limited Breaks Ground on $1.5 Billion Illinois Plant as Turnaround Pressure Builds
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CSL Limited Breaks Ground on $1.5 Billion Illinois Plant as Turnaround Pressure Builds

MELBOURNE, March 11, 2026, 09:36 AEDT CSL Limited has kicked off construction on a $1.5 billion expansion at its Kankakee, Illinois, plant, sharpening its focus on the business segment leaders hope will fuel future growth. The project targets increased production of plasma-derived therapies—drugs sourced from proteins in donated human plasma—and is set to come online by 2031, bringing at least 300 new pharma jobs with it.
March 11, 2026
Suncorp Pushes Ahead With Buyback After Storm-Hit Half, Sets A$14.32 DRP Price
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Suncorp Pushes Ahead With Buyback After Storm-Hit Half, Sets A$14.32 DRP Price

Suncorp Group stepped in on Tuesday, scooping up 1.19 million shares for A$17.17 million. In a separate update posted late Monday, the insurer locked in its interim dividend reinvestment price at A$14.32 per share. Fresh filings highlight that Suncorp is keeping capital flowing back to investors, even after a storm-battered half. Right now, the focus is on just how much capital insurers can return to shareholders, especially after weather-related hits took a bite out of Australian earnings. Based on the buyback filing and Reuters math, Suncorp’s buyback tally sits at around A$223.9 million for 12.27 million shares so far. That leaves approximately A$176.1 million to go if management aims to hit its A$400 million fiscal 2026 buyback target.
March 11, 2026
Pro Medicus Ltd locks in A$40 million U.S. renewals as MedStar adds heart-imaging tools
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Pro Medicus Ltd locks in A$40 million U.S. renewals as MedStar adds heart-imaging tools

Pro Medicus announced Monday its U.S. arm locked in two renewed imaging software deals totaling at least A$40 million. The bigger slice, an A$31 million extension with MedStar Health, will bring new heart-imaging capabilities. Another A$9 million contract covers a renewal with Zwanger-Pesiri, a radiology group on Long Island. Both renewals locked in higher per-transaction fees, and there’s still upside if scan volumes climb. They also push Pro Medicus further into the U.S. market, while the MedStar deal now stretches into cardiology.
March 11, 2026
Wesfarmers Limited’s Bunnings Expands Auto Range With 500 New Products in Fresh Growth Push
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Wesfarmers Limited’s Bunnings Expands Auto Range With 500 New Products in Fresh Growth Push

SYDNEY, March 11, 2026, 10:10 AEDT. Bunnings, owned by Wesfarmers, plans to boost its automotive offering by 500 new products and expand the section’s floor space by about 30% throughout Australia and New Zealand, according to a March 9 statement. The upgrade, rolling out in March and April, brings the chain’s in-store auto selection to over 1,200 items at more than 300 locations.
March 11, 2026
National Australia Bank Survey Shows Australian Business Confidence Turns Negative After RBA Hike
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National Australia Bank Survey Shows Australian Business Confidence Turns Negative After RBA Hike

Australian business confidence dipped into negative territory for the first time in nearly a year, with National Australia Bank’s monthly survey showing sentiment at -1 in February. Despite the drop in confidence, conditions stayed unchanged at +7 and sales ticked higher. Shares slid after the Reserve Bank of Australia bumped its cash rate up by 25 basis points—a quarter point—bringing the main policy rate to 3.85% as of Feb. 3. The timing is tight, coming just ahead of the RBA’s March 16-17 gathering. Governor Michele Bullock last week called March a “live meeting,” keeping investors alert.
March 10, 2026
BHP Group Ltd Succession Spotlight Sharpens as Geraldine Slattery Emerges in Twin CEO Race
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BHP Group Ltd Succession Spotlight Sharpens as Geraldine Slattery Emerges in Twin CEO Race

Melbourne, March 11, 2026, 08:41 AEDT. Geraldine Slattery, BHP Group Ltd’s Australia President, is suddenly at the heart of not one but two high-profile CEO succession talks. The Australian, on March 11, flagged her as a frontrunner inside BHP to take over from Chief Executive Mike Henry down the line. Just days before, Reuters reported that Slattery’s name is also circulating as a candidate for the open CEO spot at Woodside Energy.
March 10, 2026
GE Aerospace to Invest Another $1 Billion in U.S. Jet Engine Plants Amid Supply Crunch
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GE Aerospace to Invest Another $1 Billion in U.S. Jet Engine Plants Amid Supply Crunch

GE Aerospace plans to pour an additional $1 billion into its U.S. factories and supplier base in 2026—marking a second year in a row at that level—as it looks to ramp up jet-engine and parts production. Shares climbed about 2.2% by Tuesday afternoon. Right now, airlines, manufacturers, and repair shops continue to grapple with shortages across engines and parts. Last month, Airbus trimmed its production goal for A320-family single-aisle jets, following a spat with RTX's Pratt & Whitney about engine deliveries—another signal that there’s barely any cushion left in the supply chain.
March 10, 2026
ServiceNow Partners With Cohesity to Safeguard AI Agents as Enterprise Risks Rise
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ServiceNow Partners With Cohesity to Safeguard AI Agents as Enterprise Risks Rise

Santa Clara, California, March 10, 2026, 09:05 PDT ServiceNow has teamed up with data security firm Cohesity, aiming to make it easier for customers to recover AI agents and their data following mishaps, cyberattacks, or accidental changes. This move tacks on a new layer of recovery to ServiceNow’s autonomous enterprise tool ambitions. The two companies said they plan to roll out integrated features connecting ServiceNow’s AI Agent Control Tower with Cohesity Data Cloud later this year.
March 10, 2026
JPMorgan Chase Faces Fresh Legal Pressure as Employee Drug-Cost Suit Moves Ahead
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JPMorgan Chase Faces Fresh Legal Pressure as Employee Drug-Cost Suit Moves Ahead

A federal judge in Manhattan has let key claims move forward in a proposed class action that targets JPMorgan Chase over alleged mismanagement of its health and prescription benefits plan. According to the lawsuit, employees in the country’s biggest bank say they were charged too much for both drugs and premiums. This ruling drops into the middle of an escalating dispute over how large companies oversee drug-plan vendors. It comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 2025 Cornell decision, which lowered the bar for workers to keep certain ERISA cases alive early on. ERISA is the federal law covering workplace benefit plans.
March 10, 2026
Hims & Hers Health Stock Jumps Again as Novo Nordisk Deal Ends Wegovy Fight
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Hims & Hers Health Stock Jumps Again as Novo Nordisk Deal Ends Wegovy Fight

Hims & Hers Health climbed for a second day on Tuesday, with shares up roughly 11% at $24.70 in early trading, after Novo Nordisk agreed to make Wegovy and Ozempic available via the telehealth company’s platform. That deal also put an end to a recent patent dispute between the two. The stock had already surged over 40% on Monday. This is significant for Hims, removing a legal and regulatory cloud from its weight-loss operations. The dispute involved compounded GLP-1 drugs—tailor-made alternatives to well-known diabetes and obesity meds—right as the company flagged a $65 million hit in the first quarter and set guidance below what analysts were looking for.
March 10, 2026
Oracle Corporation Earnings Today: Can AI Cloud Growth Calm Wall Street’s Cost Fears?
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Oracle Corporation Earnings Today: Can AI Cloud Growth Calm Wall Street’s Cost Fears?

AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2026, 08:58 CDT Oracle Corp faces its third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, with investors watching whether accelerating demand for its AI cloud business will outweigh the hefty data center expenses required to support it. The company plans to unveil results once markets close, followed by a conference call scheduled for 4 p.m. Central Time.
March 10, 2026
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