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North Sea Oil Giant Petrofac’s Shocking Collapse Puts 2,000 Jobs at Risk

North Sea Oil Giant Petrofac’s Shocking Collapse Puts 2,000 Jobs at Risk

Petrofac’s Collapse into Administration Petrofac, a leading services provider to the oil, gas and renewable energy industry, filed for administration on 27 October 2025, after last-ditch restructuring talks fell apartireland-live.ie. The company confirmed it has applied to court to appoint administrators, effectively admitting it cannot meet its obligations without protection from creditorsireland-live.ie. Petrofac stressed that the insolvency filing affects only its top holding entity – all operating subsidiaries will continue to trade while “alternative options” are exploredireland-live.iereuters.com. In an announcement, the firm said administrators will work with management to “preserve value, operational capability and ongoing delivery” across Petrofac’s projectsnews.sky.com. Over
27 October 2025
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Ford Stock Skyrockets After Earnings Beat – Can the Rally Outrun EV Woes?

Ford Stock Skyrockets After Earnings Beat – Can the Rally Outrun EV Woes?

Ford Stock Rallies on Q3 Beat, Nears 52-Week High Ford’s third-quarter earnings delivered a much-needed upside surprise, igniting a rally in the automaker’s share price. The company reported Q3 2025 revenue of about $50.5 billion (up ~9% year-over-year) and adjusted earnings of $0.45 per share investopedia.com, handily beating analyst expectations (which were in the mid-$0.30s for EPS). This positive surprise — driven largely by strong demand for Ford’s gasoline pickups and SUVs — made Ford the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 on Friday, Oct. 24 investopedia.com. Investors “were so impressed by Ford’s third-quarter results that they overlooked a guidance
27 October 2025
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IAG Share Price Skyrockets 360% from Lows – Near Record Highs, What’s Next?

IAG Share Price Skyrockets 360% from Lows – Near Record Highs, What’s Next?

Shares Near Pre-Pandemic Highs After a 360% Rebound IAG’s share price has staged a stunning comeback from its pandemic plunge. In October 2020, amid travel bans, IAG traded below 90p. Today it hovers around 410p, its highest level since February 2020uk.investing.com. The stock has more than quadrupled (↑~360%) off the Covid-era bottomuk.investing.com. Just in the past year, IAG is up roughly 90%el-balad.com, vastly outperforming the broader FTSE 100 index. This rally has put IAG within touching distance of its record high (~440p) set pre-pandemicuk.investing.com – an extraordinary turnaround for the British Airways and Iberia owner. Driving the surge is surging
27 October 2025
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Apple’s AirPods Production Boom in India – Foxconn Doubling Output & Hiring 5,000

Apple’s AirPods Production Boom in India – Foxconn Doubling Output & Hiring 5,000

Foxconn Expands AirPods Production in Hyderabad Apple is rapidly scaling up AirPods manufacturing in India. According to sources, Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) – a subsidiary of Apple’s main manufacturing partner Foxconn – plans to double production at its Hyderabad, Telangana plant within the next 6–8 months Hindustantimes. The Kongara Kalan facility (about 15 km from Hyderabad’s airport) currently produces just over 100,000 AirPod units a month after starting mass production in April 2025 Hindustantimes. By early 2026, that output is targeted to reach 200,000 units per month, effectively doubling capacity Hindustantimes. To achieve this, Foxconn is undertaking a major expansion of
27 October 2025
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Lloyds Share Price: Can the FTSE‑100 Bank’s Value Keep Surging or Is a Crash Coming?

Lloyds Share Price Hits Decade High Despite £2bn Scandal – Can the 50% Rally Last?

Lloyds Stock Near 10-Year High After 50% Surge Lloyds Banking Group shares have been on a tear this year, climbing to levels not seen since 2015. As of October 27, 2025, LLOY.L trades around 86 pence, up slightly on the dayreuters.com and sitting just below its ~86.6p peak for the month (a decade high reached mid-October)ts2.tech. The stock has rallied ~50% in 2025, making Lloyds one of the FTSE 100’s standout performersts2.tech. By comparison, the blue-chip FTSE 100 index is up roughly 15% year-to-date and other UK bank stocks have also climbed, buoyed by an improved economic backdrop and earnings
27 October 2025
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Rolls-Royce Soars to Record High: What’s Fueling the Unstoppable Rally?

Rolls-Royce Stock Hovers at £11 After 2025 Rally – Is the Engine of Growth Still Running?

Rolls-Royce Stock Steadies After Record Surge Rolls-Royce’s stock is holding steady around £11 per share as of Monday, Oct. 27, after an explosive run this year. In morning trading the share price hovered at approximately 1,121 pence on the London Stock Exchangedirectorstalkinterviews.com. That’s virtually unchanged from last week, suggesting the market is catching its breath. Just weeks earlier, Rolls-Royce hit a year-to-date peak of about 1,196p – an all-time high for the company – before easing back slightlyts2.tech. Even with this minor retreat, the stock has doubled in 2025, a remarkable feat for a FTSE 100 blue-chip. Recent price action:
27 October 2025
GameStop Stock’s Wild October Rally: Pokémon Push, Meme Buzz & What’s Next for GME

GameStop Stock’s Wild October Rally: Pokémon Push, Meme Buzz & What’s Next for GME

GME Stock Rebounds After Volatile Month GameStop’s stock price has seen whipsaw action throughout October, reflecting both speculative fervor and fundamental recalibration. After languishing near its yearly lows earlier in the month, GME staged a late-October rebound: shares leapt over 5% in a single day on Oct. 23 amid a frenzy of call-option buying tipranks.com. Traders piled into short-term bullish bets, driving the put/call ratio down to 0.1, an extremely imbalanced level signaling almost exclusively call option activity tipranks.com. Such aggressive options positioning often forces market makers to buy the underlying stock (to hedge their call sales), which can amplify
27 October 2025
FTSE 100’s Record Run: Inside London’s Blue-Chip Rally and What’s Next

FTSE 100 Soars to Record on Oil & Trade Optimism; FTSE 250 Joins Rally

London Markets Rally to New Heights Britain’s stock market is extending its dramatic October rally, with both the blue-chip FTSE 100 and mid-cap FTSE 250 indices trading near multi-year highs. The FTSE 100 closed last week at a record 9,645.62 pointsreuters.com, capping its biggest weekly gain in over six months. The domestically-focused FTSE 250 likewise jumped to 22,529, its highest level since early 2022reuters.com. Early trading on Monday, October 27 saw the FTSE 100 hover flat to slightly higher around the 9,650 marktheguardian.com, holding onto those historic gains even as some investors cashed in profits. The index was essentially steady
27 October 2025
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OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

AMD Stock Near Record High as AI Mega-Deals Fuel Rally – Analysts Eye $300 Target

AMD Stock at Record Levels on Oct. 27 Advanced Micro Devices’ stock is starting this week right near its all-time high after a breathtaking rally in recent weeks. As of Monday morning (Oct. 27), AMD traded around $252–$253 per sharereuters.com, essentially unchanged after its record-setting jump last week. On Friday Oct. 24, AMD soared roughly 7% intraday and closed in the low-$250s – a new peak that put the stock up about 90% year-to-datets2.tech. That blistering rally far outpaces other chip giants (for comparison, NVIDIA’s stock is up around 40–50% YTD, and Intel’s only modestly higher)ts2.tech. This latest surge crowned
27 October 2025
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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 27.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT CSL faces second strike on executive pay as board survives spill vote October 27, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT. CSL has recorded a second strike on its executive pay after more than 40% of votes opposed at its AGM in Melbourne. The approval threshold to trigger a board spill is 25%, so this marks a second consecutive rebuke, though shareholders voted to keep the current board. The biotech group has seen its share price slide this year, weighed by weaker US vaccination momentum and the costly 2022 acquisition of Swiss firm
27 October 2025
AMD Stock Skyrockets on AI Mega-Deals & Quantum Breakthrough – Is $300 Next?

AMD Stock Skyrockets on AI Mega-Deals & Quantum Breakthrough – Is $300 Next?

Red-Hot October: From AI Deals to a Quantum Leap It has been a blockbuster October for AMD stock. The rally kicked off when AMD announced a multi-year AI chip deal with OpenAI on Oct. 6, sending shares up over 34% in one day reuters.com – their largest single-day gain since 2016. Under that transformative agreement, OpenAI will purchase hundreds of thousands of AMD GPUs (≈6 GW of compute) starting in late 2026, and notably secured the right to buy up to 160 million AMD shares at $0.01 each as part of the partnership reuters.com. Analysts called the OpenAI deal “certainly transformative” and “a
27 October 2025
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Nvidia Stock Near Record High as AI Mega-Deals Fuel $4 Trillion Rally – Is $300 Next?

Nvidia Stock Near Record High as AI Mega-Deals Fuel $4 Trillion Rally – Is $300 Next?

NVDA Rides AI Boom to Historic Highs Nvidia has been the poster child of the AI stock boom, and its recent performance reflects near-unprecedented optimism. In early October, NVDA briefly became the world’s most valuable publicly traded company when its market capitalization soared past $4 trillion ts2.tech – a milestone no other company (not even Apple or Microsoft) had ever reached ts2.tech. At its intra-month peak, Nvidia’s share price hit about $195.62 (an all-time high), valuing the company around $4.4–$4.5 trillion ts2.tech. “It highlights that companies are shifting their spend in the direction of AI and it’s pretty much the future of
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Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

7 February 2026
Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $175 billion–$185 billion, with most spending expected on data-center chips. Broadcom shares rose about 2% after the announcement, while Nvidia and AMD slipped. Jefferies reiterated a buy rating on Broadcom, maintaining a $500 price target, implying a 62% upside from Wednesday’s close.
No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

7 February 2026
The IRS has not announced new federal stimulus payments for February 2026, and Congress has not approved fresh checks. Trump told NBC he is considering $2,000 tariff rebate checks but has not committed, saying any payout would likely come later in 2026. The IRS warns taxpayers to ignore texts and emails about “stimulus payments” and verify notices through official channels.
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