01:44 PM EST, 01/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks were higher Monday afternoon, with the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) increasing 0.3% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) edging up 0.1%. In corporate news, Abercrombie & Fitch ( ANF ) said that it now expects fiscal Q4 net sales to increase 7% to 8%, up...

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Microsoft ( MSFT ) . And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big...

01:45 PM EST, 01/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Shares of Salarius Pharmaceuticals ( SLRX ) were up over 151% Monday after the company said it and Decoy Therapeutics agreed to a merger deal to create a new company in which Salarius and Decoy investors will respectively hold 14% and 86% of the combined company's outstanding shares. Salarius' wholly-owned unit will merge...

01:45 PM EST, 01/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- National Bank has raised its target on Metro by $5, to $94, and reiterated its Sector Perform rating. Analyst Vishal Shreedhar is projecting 7.2% y/y EPS growth for the fiscal first quarter. Our expectation of continued momentum in food retail for MRU largely reflects, among other factors, continued growth in transactions while basket...