News 6 March 2026

Etihad Orders 10 Boeing Jets, Raising Talk of Hard-to-Get 787 Slots
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Stock Market Today: Live Updates 16.07.2026

LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: July 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EDTUpdated: July 16, 2026, 4:39 PM EDT QBE (ASX:QBE), Goodman Group (ASX:GMG) flag as potential blue chips on ASX July 16, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT. QBE Insurance Group Ltd (ASX:QBE) is up 25.3% in 2025. The insurer operates in 27 countries with about 30% of revenue coming from the U.S. QBE’s debt/equity is at 27.0%, with a five-year average yield of 2.8% and ROE for 2024 at 17.2%, beating the 10% seen as solid for mature insurers. Goodman Group (ASX:GMG) trades 22% below its 52-week high. Goodman, biggest logistics and industrial property
July 16, 2026
Why SailPoint Stock Is Jumping Before Earnings as Wall Street Eyes Identity-Security Demand
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Why SailPoint Stock Is Jumping Before Earnings as Wall Street Eyes Identity-Security Demand

SailPoint shares jumped 9.7% to $15.28 just after the open at 9:04 a.m. EST on Friday. The identity-security software firm is set to deliver its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 numbers on March 18, less than two weeks from now. SailPoint’s shares remain under the $23 mark—the same price where they started trading when the company made its return to public markets in February 2025. That puts the spotlight squarely on the March 18 report, which investors will be watching for any signal that the growth pitch still holds up.
March 6, 2026
Wix.com Kicks Off $1.75 Billion Tender Offer as AI Bet Meets Margin Questions
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Wix.com Kicks Off $1.75 Billion Tender Offer as AI Bet Meets Margin Questions

Wix.com launched a $1.75 billion tender offer Thursday, putting $80 to $92 per share in cash on the table as part of a push to accelerate its buyback. Shares jumped 10.9%, ending the session at $92.94, Reuters reported. This comes as software stocks have been under heavy pressure. Since late October, the S&P 500 software index has dropped 28%, with AI's potential to shake up the sector fueling investor anxiety. “I don’t think the buybacks are enough,” said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel.
March 6, 2026
Booking shares jump after OpenAI checkout rethink, but AI pricing questions pile up
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Booking shares jump after OpenAI checkout rethink, but AI pricing questions pile up

Booking Holdings jumped about 8% on Thursday after a report said OpenAI is scaling back plans to build direct bookings into ChatGPT, easing a worry that chatbots could cut out online travel agencies. Expedia gained more than 12% and Tripadvisor rose about 5%. Bernstein analyst Richard Clarke called the development “incrementally positive” for online travel agencies in a note. Why it matters now: investors have been trying to price a fast shift in how people plan trips, with chat-based search and “agent” tools threatening to reroute traffic away from travel apps and the ads that feed them.
March 6, 2026
Credo Technology stock jumps as Broadcom backs copper over optical links in AI data centers
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Credo Technology stock jumps as Broadcom backs copper over optical links in AI data centers

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 6, 2026, 06:06 PST Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd shares jumped nearly 12% on Thursday after Broadcom said its AI-chip customers would likely “stay on direct attached copper” inside racks as data rates rise, lending support to the copper-link market at the heart of Credo’s growth story. The shares were last quoted at $114.74, up 11.9% from the previous close, according to LSEG data.
March 6, 2026
Venture Global seeks U.S. approval for 35 mtpa Plaquemines LNG exports after Qatar halt tightens market
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Venture Global seeks U.S. approval for 35 mtpa Plaquemines LNG exports after Qatar halt tightens market

Venture Global is pushing the U.S. Department of Energy to boost the export cap on its Plaquemines LNG plant in Louisiana, targeting 35 million metric tons a year instead of the current 27.2 mtpa, a Thursday filing shows. In the March 5 application, the company said the proposed increase comes out of a refined look at their existing equipment—no new infrastructure needed. The figure also lines up with a separate filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which seeks to raise peak output by June 25. Timing is key here. After Qatar halted production this week, about 20% of global LNG supply vanished from the market almost overnight, sharply tightening conditions. Unlike in Europe, U.S. gas prices haven’t budged much—American
March 6, 2026
Rigetti Computing Stock Falls After Revenue Miss as Quantum Roadmap Faces Fresh Scrutiny
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Rigetti Computing Stock Falls After Revenue Miss as Quantum Roadmap Faces Fresh Scrutiny

Shares of Rigetti Computing dropped 4.4% ahead of the bell on Friday, with the quantum-computing firm missing quarterly revenue targets and posting a deeper operating loss. LSEG pegged the stock at $16.97 in premarket action. This comes during a stretch when investors are sifting through earnings from quantum players such as IonQ and D-Wave Quantum, looking for evidence that lab advances are finally driving revenue growth. The group remains volatile: thin top lines, hefty valuations, and extended R&D cycles have fueled choppy trading in the past.
March 6, 2026
Netflix Buys Ben Affleck’s AI Startup InterPositive as Hollywood’s AI Race Accelerates
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Netflix Buys Ben Affleck’s AI Startup InterPositive as Hollywood’s AI Race Accelerates

LOS GATOS, Calif., March 6, 2026, 05:34 PST Netflix Inc has acquired InterPositive, the AI film-tech startup launched by Ben Affleck, bringing the streamer further into the nuts and bolts of movie production—not just distribution. Netflix did not reveal what it paid for the deal. Affleck is set to step in as a senior advisor, according to the company.
March 6, 2026
Why IREN Limited Stock Is Falling After a $6 Billion Share-Sale Plan and Huge Nvidia GPU Order
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Why IREN Limited Stock Is Falling After a $6 Billion Share-Sale Plan and Huge Nvidia GPU Order

IREN stock dropped roughly 8.5% in premarket trading Friday, after news broke of a hefty stock sale alongside a major AI hardware purchase. The data center firm revealed it’s acquiring more than 50,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs, pushing total capacity to 150,000 units. Alongside that, IREN announced a new at-the-market offering targeting up to $6 billion. IREN’s latest step comes just as it works to pivot from bitcoin mining’s wild swings and secure hard-to-get AI chips. Notably, it’s happening alongside a $9.7 billion, five-year cloud deal with Microsoft. Back in November, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned that the company’s AI capacity shortage could persist “at least mid-2026.”
March 6, 2026
Broadcom stock rises after Q1 earnings, $100 billion AI chip target and OpenAI plan
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Broadcom stock rises after Q1 earnings, $100 billion AI chip target and OpenAI plan

Broadcom Inc projected current-quarter revenue at roughly $22.0 billion and outlined plans for AI chip sales topping $100 billion by 2027. The stock jumped nearly 4.8% early Friday. First-quarter revenue climbed 29% to $19.31 billion. This update carries weight. Broadcom supplies custom AI chips and networking hardware to some of the largest cloud players, so its results are a real-world measure of ongoing AI infrastructure investment. The likes of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta together are predicted to pour over $600 billion into AI-related infrastructure this year.
March 6, 2026
Amazon Launches Connect Health, Pushing AWS Deeper Into Healthcare AI
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Amazon Launches Connect Health, Pushing AWS Deeper Into Healthcare AI

Seattle, March 6, 2026, 4:32 AM UTC-08:00 Amazon.com’s cloud arm rolled out a new AI tool for healthcare on Thursday, stepping further into a sector where hospitals are eager to automate phone calls, paperwork, and billing. The new offering, Amazon Connect Health, taps what AWS is calling agentic AI — software built to handle tasks with minimal human input — and integrates directly into electronic health records, or EHRs. That lets it check patient details, handle appointment scheduling, draft notes, and produce billing codes, all within the digital systems clinicians already use.
March 6, 2026
Opendoor Technologies’ 4.99% Mortgage Bet Puts Turnaround Under Fresh Pressure
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Opendoor Technologies’ 4.99% Mortgage Bet Puts Turnaround Under Fresh Pressure

Opendoor Technologies is rolling out 4.99% 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for buyers using its platform—a move that's turning heads as the company pushes its turnaround plan. The pilot, available only on homes sold by Opendoor, comes with zero points, Chief Executive Kaz Nejatian said. Timing’s in play here. Freddie Mac puts the average U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate at 6.00% this week, just up from 5.98% last week—still not far off the lowest since 2022, but affordability remains squeezed. Opendoor, meanwhile, is quoting a rate that's about a percentage point under that.
March 6, 2026
Palantir’s Pentagon AI platform scrambles after Anthropic gets ‘supply-chain risk’ label
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Palantir’s Pentagon AI platform scrambles after Anthropic gets ‘supply-chain risk’ label

The Pentagon has officially tagged AI startup Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk,” barring U.S. defense contractors from deploying Anthropic’s technology, according to people with knowledge of the decision. That designation is adding new pressure to Palantir Technologies’ military software business. Palantir finds itself in a tricky spot. According to people familiar with the matter, its Maven Smart Systems—used for military intelligence tasks and weapons targeting—leans heavily on prompts and workflows developed with Anthropic’s Claude. Those Maven contracts, spread across the Defense Department and other U.S. national security entities, could top $1 billion in value, Reuters previously reported.
March 6, 2026
Dow Futures Slip, Oil Jumps Before U.S. Jobs Report Caps Volatile Week
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Dow Futures Slip, Oil Jumps Before U.S. Jobs Report Caps Volatile Week

Stock futures in the U.S. slipped early Friday, with oil climbing again as traders braced for the monthly jobs report—capping a volatile stretch marked by Middle East conflict and surging energy costs. As of 5:14 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis had dropped 0.27%, S&P 500 E-minis were off 0.34%, and Nasdaq 100 E-minis lost 0.41%. With traders weighing up whether stubbornly strong jobs data and pricier oil will force the Federal Reserve to delay its next rate cut, the pressure is on. LSEG figures reported by Reuters point to a shift in expectations—a quarter-point cut is now seen in October, pushed back from July last month, as upbeat economic reports and costlier crude fuel inflation concerns.
March 6, 2026
Plug Power Inc Rings Nasdaq Bell, but New CEO Still Faces a Cash-Burn Test
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Plug Power Inc Rings Nasdaq Bell, but New CEO Still Faces a Cash-Burn Test

Plug Power is set to ring Nasdaq’s closing bell Friday, a move that comes as the company points to a leadership shakeup and steadier operating trends heading into year-end. Shares changed hands at $2.29 as of 6:41 a.m. EST, off 19 cents from Thursday’s close. Timing is key here. Plug Power posted a positive gross margin for the fourth quarter and managed to shrink its cash burn, yet the company ended up posting a $1.69 billion loss in 2025. As for the broader hydrogen sector, project delays, cancellations, and shaky demand haven’t let up.
March 6, 2026
Ford’s new 1.74 million-vehicle recall: Bronco and Edge hit by rearview camera blackout risk
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Ford’s new 1.74 million-vehicle recall: Bronco and Edge hit by rearview camera blackout risk

Ford Motor is pulling back 1.74 million vehicles in the U.S. after regulators flagged a faulty rearview camera that can go dark, wiping out the view behind the car, the U.S. auto safety agency said Friday. The recall hits certain Ford Bronco and Ford Edge models. NHTSA added there’s a different glitch: on some Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair vehicles, the rear camera image might flip or show up inverted on the center screen. Timing is crucial here: rear visibility systems have shifted from being extras to mandatory features in the U.S. Under a federal rule, all new light vehicles built on or after May 1, 2018, must have rear visibility technology. The regulation targets “backover” fatalities and injuries—risks especially
March 6, 2026
Intel under fire: US senators question chip-tool tests tied to China-linked ACM Research
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Intel under fire: US senators question chip-tool tests tied to China-linked ACM Research

A group of U.S. lawmakers from both parties is putting pressure on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, questioning the company’s use of chipmaking equipment from ACM Research over national security worries. The lawmakers want specifics on the testing and what safeguards are in place, as Washington sharpens its focus on supply-chain exposure in the advanced semiconductor space. Questions are swirling as Intel works to claw back its manufacturing lead and pitch its foundry services — that's contract chipmaking — to external clients. Restrictions on tool qualification or supplier collaboration could drag out those efforts, adding to expenses.
March 6, 2026
Nvidia halts China H200 chip output as U.S. weighs tougher AI export rules
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Nvidia halts China H200 chip output as U.S. weighs tougher AI export rules

Nvidia has halted output of its H200 AI chips designed for China, rerouting manufacturing at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co toward its upcoming Vera Rubin line, according to the Financial Times, which cited two sources familiar with the shift. Reuters was unable to independently confirm the details. TSMC declined comment. Nvidia also did not reply to a request for comment. This shift is significant—U.S. export restrictions have transformed Nvidia's once-simple China sales into a maze of permits and compliance. Product plans keep getting reworked, and now the uncertainty is starting to affect production choices as well, not just the deals with customers.
March 6, 2026
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