Inventory market as we speak: Reside updates

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will make investments $2 billion into Intel, in response to an announcement from the 2 corporations.

SoftBank can pay $23 per share of Intel’s widespread inventory. The chipmaker’s shares ended Monday’s common session at $23.66. Intel jumped greater than 5% in prolonged buying and selling.

Meta Platforms, which dropped 2.3% on Monday, has seen the biggest enhance briefly curiosity of any U.S. inventory this yr, in response to S3 Companions, which makes a speciality of monitoring the exercise of quick sellers, who try to revenue from a decline in an organization’s inventory worth.

Meta’s notional quick curiosity has soared 75%, or $11 billion, thus far in 2025, S3 stated in a word Monday. The quantity of Meta’s shares bought quick as a proportion of the entire excellent has jumped 38% in latest weeks, and 35% thus far in 2025, the researcher stated.

The second-largest enhance in year-to-date notional quick curiosity was in Palantir, which rose $2.8 billion, S3 stated.

“META’s 30% YTD inventory worth achieve accounts for roughly half of the rise briefly curiosity notional, with the rest pushed by new shorts. Causes for shorting META embody Heavy AI and Metaverse spending, Commerce/Tariff Dangers, Development Slowdown, Larger Valuation and Weakening Advert Market,” S3 stated.

— Scott Schnipper

Shares of Palo Alto Networks jumped greater than 5% in prolonged buying and selling after the chipmaker’s quarterly outcomes topped Wall Avenue estimates and issued better-than-expected steerage for the primary quarter and full yr.

The outcomes come weeks after Palo Alto introduced plans to purchase Israeli id safety supplier CyberArk for $25 billion, its heftiest deal ever.

Palo Alto additionally stated its founder and Chief Expertise Officer Nir Zuk is retiring.

— Yun Li