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Wedbush: Raises target price for Intel (INTC.O) from $60 to $98.

Deutsche Bank: Lowered its target price for Meta Platforms (META.O) from $810 to $800.

Stifel: Lowered its price target for Intel (INTC.O) from $120 to $110.

Bahrain's Defense Forces: Intercepted an Iranian attack on Friday.

Truist Securities upgraded PayPal (PYPL.O) from Sell to Hold and raised its price target from $44 to $57.

Deutsche Bank: Lowered its target price for T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) from $285 to $250.

Deutsche Bank raised its price target for Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO.N) to $635 from $630.

Deutsche Bank raised its price target for Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ.O) from $116 to $118.

Deutsche Bank lowered its price target for Blackstone Group (BX.N) from $150 to $149.

Deutsche Bank raised its price target for Raytheon Technologies (RTX.N) from $228 to $238.

Deutsche Bank raised its price target for Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) from $550 to $581.

American Express (AXP.N) reported second-quarter revenue of $19.64 billion, below market expectations of $19.69 billion; it projects full-year revenue growth of 10%, up from its previous forecast of 9% to 10%.

On July 24th, ST Taiyuan Heavy Industry announced that its controlling shareholder, Taiyuan Heavy Industry Group, had completed its shareholding increase plan as of the date of the announcement. From July 26, 2025 to July 24, 2026, Taiyuan Heavy Industry Group cumulatively increased its holdings of the company's shares by 43,959,300 shares through centralized bidding on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, representing approximately 1.32% of the company's total share capital, with a total investment of RMB 109 million. After the increase, Taiyuan Heavy Industry Group holds 1.722 billion shares of the company, accounting for 51.68% of the company's current total share capital.

July 24th - The opinion requires strengthening the overall planning of comprehensive transportation. It calls for enhanced inter-departmental collaboration in the preparation of comprehensive transportation plans, the establishment and improvement of a comprehensive transportation planning management system, and strengthened alignment between comprehensive transportation planning and national development plans, other national-level special plans, and regional plans. It also emphasizes leveraging the guiding and binding role of territorial spatial planning, and implementing the ecological environment zoning control system and environmental impact assessment system. Furthermore, it stresses the need for strengthened integration of railway, highway, waterway, civil aviation, and postal planning with comprehensive transportation planning throughout the entire process.

Citigroup lowered its target price for Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) from $55 to $50.

On July 24th, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government released an opinion on building a first-class innovation ecosystem and creating the most competitive business environment. The opinion points out the need to promote high-quality development of science and technology finance. It calls for accelerating the construction and improvement of a science and technology finance system adapted to technological innovation, strengthening financial services throughout the entire life cycle of science and technology innovation enterprises, vigorously promoting the innovation points system, and guiding more financial resources to science and technology innovation enterprises. It also calls for implementing a special action to "build patient capital," establishing and improving a market-oriented operation mechanism for social security science and technology innovation funds, strengthening the leverage role of industrial funds, and guiding financial capital to invest in early-stage, small-scale, long-term, and hard-tech industries. Furthermore, it calls for the in-depth implementation of the "Phoenix Action" plan to support the listing, mergers, and acquisitions of science and technology innovation enterprises. The opinion emphasizes making good use of monetary policy tools such as re-lending for technological innovation and technological transformation, improving the special mechanism for bank science and technology innovation loans, and expanding the issuance scale of science and technology innovation bonds. Finally, it calls for improving the risk-sharing mechanism for science and technology finance. By 2027, science and technology loans will maintain steady growth, and the scale of science and technology insurance coverage will exceed 700 billion yuan. By 2030, the issuance of science and technology innovation bonds will rank among the top in the country.

Bank of Montreal: Lowered its price target for American Airlines (AAL.O) from $19.50 to $19.00.

Citigroup lowered its price target for American Airlines (AAL.O) from $22 to $19.

Bank of America (BAC.N) raised its stock dividend by 14% to $0.32 per share.

Citigroup lowered its target price for AT&T (TN) from $31.50 to $28.