Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures rise after Trump extends US-Iran ceasefire

🏥 Health insurer Elevance raises annual profit forecast on medical cost controls

Elevance Health raised its annual profit forecast on Wednesday, as it looks to keep medical costs in check.

Health insurers have been grappling with high medical costs, driven by rising demand for behavioral health services and specialty drugs across government-backed plans in recent years.

Elevance said it has made deliberate changes to its healthcare plans and exited select locations to manage sustained pressure in its Medicaid plans for low-income people. Yahoo Finance reports.


💻 Software makers' best may not be good enough as AI fears mount

Salesforce will likely report its fastest quarterly revenue growth in three years, but analysts say that may not be enough, as fears that artificial intelligence would decimate software makers have sapped investor confidence in the industry.

Software CEOs such as Salesforce's Marc Benioff have tried to reassure shareholders that proprietary data, decades of enterprise experience and in-house AI offerings would keep customers loyal, even as AI tools from the likes of Anthropic encroach on legal, marketing and customer-service work. Yahoo Finance reports.


🏥 Teleflex stock surges over 8% in pre-market trading

Teleflex Inc. shares jumped 8.22% to $135.00 in pre-market session on Wednesday, after private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and GTCR submitted a joint bid to take the medical device maker private.

The offer is currently under evaluation, and there is no certainty that a deal will be finalized, Reuters reported, citing a source.

TFX closed the regular session down 5.46% at $124.75, according to Benzinga Pro data. Benzinga reports.


✈️ Airlines cut flights as fuel costs surge - an economic fallout from the Iran war that markets may be missing

More airlines are starting to cut flights just as summer travel demand heats up, as surging jet-fuel prices squeeze margins and force tough tradeoffs.

Carriers are walking a fine line between strong demand and rising costs, and they’re responding the only way they can in the short term: fewer flights. MarketWatch reports.


🏌️ FST Corp. announces 31% revenue increase, rises in pre-market

FST Corp., a leading manufacturer and marketer of steel and graphite golf shafts and a provider of other golf-related services, today announced its audited financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.

Revenue was $47,969,791, a 31 percent increase from revenue of $36,499,644 for the year ended December 31, 2024.

This improvement was primarily due to increased sales of the Company's steel shafts to OEM partners and the growth of its KBS graphite shafts.

These shafts accounted for more than half of the Company's incremental revenue in 2025. News FileCorp reports.

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