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France Stock Market Today (Nov 6, 2025): CAC 40 slips ~0.5% at midday as Legrand plunges; Worldline unveils €500m raise; Engie and Veolia update; Air France‑KLM tumbles

PARIS — November 6, 2025. The French equity benchmark trended lower through the lunch hour on Thursday, weighed by an earnings‑led selloff in electrical‑equipment maker Legrand and fresh turbulence in travel and payments stocks. By 12:09 CET, the CAC 40 was down 0.52% at 8,031.86, having traded between 8,005.88 and 8,043.61 after opening at 8,016.67. Year to date, the index remains +8.63%, with a 2025 high of 8,271.48 and low of 6,763.76. finanzen.ch Market snapshot (midday) Five things moving French stocks today 1) Legrand sinks on growth miss and tariff hit Legrand said nine‑month sales rose 11.9% to €6.97bn, a
6 November 2025
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Billion-Dollar Brawl: Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Clash in High-Stakes Obesity Drug Takeover

Billion-Dollar Brawl: Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Clash in High-Stakes Obesity Drug Takeover

Background: Novo vs. Pfizer in the Weight-Loss Drug Race The fight for Metsera is driven by fierce competition in GLP-1 obesity drugs. Novo Nordisk is the maker of Wegovy/Ozempic, and Eli Lilly’s drugs recently overtook Wegovy in US market share reuters.com. Novo’s new CEO Mike Doustdar and the company’s controlling foundation have pushed for bolder moves after days of sliding market performance reuters.com reuters.com. In late October, Novo – which had already agreed a separate $5 billion deal to buy diabetes biotech Akero – suddenly “launched a bid…valuing [Metsera] at some $9 billion and crashing Pfizer’s deal” reuters.com. This was weeks
4 November 2025
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Novo Nordisk (NVO) Stock Tanks as Weight-Loss Empire Faces Boardroom Coup and Fierce Rivalry

Novo Nordisk hijacks Pfizer’s Metsera deal with a $9B bid – obesity-drug war heats up

Novo’s counter-offer details Novo Nordisk’s proposal is unsolicited, meaning Metsera’s board and shareholders will now review it against Pfizer’s agreement. Novo emphasizes that Metsera’s experimental therapies would be “complementary” to its own obesity portfolio reuters.com. According to MarketScreener (Dow Jones Newswires), the bid is $56.50 in cash per Metsera share plus $21.25 in milestone CVRs marketscreener.com. By contrast, Pfizer’s September deal was $4.9B upfront (about $28.50/share) plus CVRs, for up to ~$7.3B ts2.tech reuters.com. Novo’s offer thus values the company at roughly $6.5B upfront, sweetened to ~$9B with earnouts. Novo’s CEO Maziar “Mike” Doustdar hailed the move as proof of
30 October 2025
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Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Update & Insight Report – 2 Oct 2025

Microsoft’s Blockbuster October 2025: Stock Soars on AI Boom, Bold Deals, and New Tech Unveiled

Stock Surge and Market Sentiment in October October 2025 saw Microsoft’s stock (MSFT) extending its year-long rally and flirting with record highs. By October 17, MSFT shares closed around $513–$514, within striking distance of their all-time peak (~$555) ts2.tech. This puts Microsoft up roughly 23% from a year ago ts2.tech and about 25% higher year-to-date ts2.tech, handily outperforming the broader indices. The stock’s climb has added hundreds of billions to Microsoft’s market capitalization, now just under the $4 trillion milestone ts2.tech ts2.tech. Investors have been encouraged by Microsoft’s resilient growth and AI leadership, treating the company as a cornerstone of the
25 October 2025
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Navan’s $6.5B IPO Set for Takeoff – TravelTech Unicorn Aims High, But Will It Deliver?

Navan’s $6.5B IPO Set for Takeoff – TravelTech Unicorn Aims High, But Will It Deliver?

Navan is a Palo Alto–based travel and expense management platform (formerly TripActions) that has expanded beyond corporate travel booking into payments and expense software. Its October IPO marks one of the first large travel-tech listings in 2025, aiming to capitalize on a rebounding business-travel market. In its S-1 filing, Navan projects about $537 million in revenue for 2024 (up from roughly $329M in H1 2025) ts2.tech, although it remains unprofitable due to high interest costs. At the proposed pricing, Navan would trade at roughly 13.8× trailing sales (8× 2026 forecast) ifre.com, well above peer multiples (SAP’s Concur is about 7.9×
21 October 2025
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Salesforce (CRM) Stock Soars on $60B AI Bet – Can the Cloud Giant’s Rally Last?

Salesforce Stock Surges After $60B AI Bombshell – Here’s What’s Next (Oct 20, 2025)

Stock Performance: Bumpy Ride Followed by AI-Fueled Bounce After a bumpy few months, Salesforce stock has shown signs of stabilizing in October. Shares hit a multi-month low of $235.69 on Oct. 1 amid broader market weakness and lingering post-earnings worries ts2.tech. That slump — roughly a 7% drop in September — was fueled by soft guidance from management on future sales, which tempered expectations despite strong last-quarter results ts2.tech. Early in October, an alarming (though ultimately indirect) security scare added to jitters: a hacker group claimed to have stolen data from Salesforce clients’ databases, sparking headlines about a potential breach
20 October 2025
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Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Offers a Lifeline as Microsoft Stumbles Google’s announcement comes at an opportune moment. In recent months, Microsoft 365 has suffered a string of outages and technical glitches that have frustrated corporate customers channelnews.com.au. Just last week on October 8, an authentication issue knocked out Exchange Online email access for many users, one of several incidents that have hit Microsoft’s cloud services this year. Such disruptions “underscore the dependence on Microsoft’s cloud – and the chaos when it hiccups,” as one report put it ts2.tech. Sensing an opening, Google is seizing the narrative: downtime isn’t an occasional blip but an
17 October 2025
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Tariff Trouble: 169‑Year‑Old Orvis Slashes Stores as It Returns to Its Outdoor Roots

Tariff Trouble: 169‑Year‑Old Orvis Slashes Stores as It Returns to Its Outdoor Roots

An Iconic Outfitter Scales Down Founded in 1856, Orvis is among America’s oldest outdoor retailers – a name synonymous with fly fishing rods, tackle, and rustic New England sporting tradition. Over nearly 170 years, the family-run company grew from a small Vermont tackle shop into a national premium brand with dozens of stores selling not just fishing gear and hunting shotguns, but apparel, home furnishings, dog beds, luggage, and more. By the mid-2010s, Orvis operated around 80 stores and had a thriving catalog business mailing out millions of catalogs annually. But in recent years, the retailer’s footprint and focus have
11 October 2025
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AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

Overview: Dallas-based Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) designs and operates high-performance data centers and cloud colocation – recently pivoting from crypto-mining hosting to AI and HPC (high-performance computing) workloads ts2.tech. Its flagship Polaris Forge campus in North Dakota was even named “Best Data Center in the Americas 2025” by Datacloud ts2.tech. In an AI-driven cloud boom, demand for such specialized capacity is running far ahead of supply, giving APLD a unique niche reuters.com ts2.tech. Q1 Results (Aug 31, 2025): Applied Digital’s Q1 (fiscal) was nothing short of a breakout quarter. Revenues jumped 84% YoY to $64.2 million stocktitan.net, thanks largely to tenant
10 October 2025
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Sony’s 2025 Surge: Inside the Tech Giant’s Record-Breaking Year and Bold Moves

Sony’s 2025 Surge: Inside the Tech Giant’s Record-Breaking Year and Bold Moves

Stock Performance: Near Highs After a Decade-Long Turnaround Sony’s stock has been on a tear, capping a remarkable turnaround from its early-2010s struggles. In 2025, the U.S.-listed shares have returned nearly 40% year-to-date, and by early October Sony traded around $30 – its highest level ever. In Tokyo, Sony’s stock hit record highs just under ¥4,500 per share in late September. Both the Tokyo shares and ADR have outperformed the broader Japanese market this year, reflecting investor optimism in Sony’s trajectory. Notably, the yen’s weakness (hovering near ¥148 per USD) has boosted Sony’s dollar-based returns even further. This stock rally
7 October 2025
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Tech Turmoil: AI Mega-Deals, Big Tech Battles & Space Surprises Rock October 2025

Tech Turmoil: AI Mega-Deals, Big Tech Battles & Space Surprises Rock October 2025

Key Facts Artificial Intelligence: Chips, Partnerships & New Players AI Hardware Mega-Deal: A blockbuster partnership emerged as ChatGPT creator OpenAI agreed to buy AMD’s latest AI chips in bulk. The multi-year deal will see AMD supply hundreds of thousands of GPUs – an arrangement AMD expects will generate over $100 billion in new revenue over four years reuters.com reuters.com. In exchange, OpenAI secured an option to take up to a 10% stake in AMD for virtually pennies per share reuters.com. Investors cheered the news: AMD’s stock leaped 34% in a single day, its biggest jump in nine years, adding about
7 October 2025
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Netflix Stock Skyrockets: Will Its Ambitious Deals and Plans Drive It Even Higher?

Netflix’s Bold Moves and Musk’s Backlash: Why Analysts Bet Big on the Streaming Giant’s Future

Netflix’s Recent Trajectory: A Comprehensive Analysis Institutional Stake Building and Insider Moves Institutional money continues to stream into Netflix. Woodward Diversified Capital LLC increased its position by 23.2%, bringing its holdings to 1,345 shares valued at roughly $1.8 million marketbeat.com. This represents 0.9% of Woodward’s portfolio, signaling confidence in Netflix’s growth prospects. Another investment firm, Panoramic Capital Partners LLC, purchased 234 shares worth approximately $304,000 marketbeat.com. The broader institutional ownership remains high (about 81% of shares outstanding) marketbeat.com, though not all insider activity is bullish: CFO Spencer Neumann and CEO Gregory Peters recently sold shares marketbeat.com. Analyst Views: Moderately Bullish Despite Downgrades Analysts
2 October 2025
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