11:43 AM EDT, 08/07/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Caterpillar ( CAT ) shares are priced for perfection after a 50% rally since April despite deteriorating margins, falling prices, increasingly unfavorable risk/reward and weakening construction demand, Morgan Stanley said Thursday in a report. While the Q2 earnings report showed sequential improvement in orders and backlog growth, the analysts warned that underlying KPIs...

As the healthcare industry continues to rebound from global disruptions, companies like Becton, Dickinson, and Company ( BDX ) are reporting robust financial performances that highlight their resilience and strategic adaptability. The company’s stock is trading higher on Thursday on better-than-expected third-quarter 2025 earnings. The medical device giant reported adjusted earnings per share of $3.68, up from $3.50 a year ago,...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

11:40 AM EDT, 08/07/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Palisade Bio ( PALI ) shares were up 3% in recent Thursday trading after the company disclosed positive topline results from its phase 1b clinical study evaluating PALI-2108 in patients with ulcerative colitis. The company said it recorded a 100% clinical response rate amongst its cohort of five patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis,...