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Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia Index added 3.93% to hit a new 1-month high.

The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia Index were Unipro PJSC (MCX:UPRO), which rose 7.92% or 0.12 points to trade at 1.69 at the close. Meanwhile, NOVATEK PJSC (MCX:NVTK) added 4.98% or 54.00 points to end at 1,137.80 and Aeroflot PJSC (MCX:AFLT) was up 4.02% or 2.37 points to 61.28 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Rostelekom PJSC (MCX:RTKM), which fell 1.08% or 0.74 points to trade at 68.09 at the close. GDR ROS AGRO PLC ORD SHS (MCX:AGRODR) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 1,083.80 and Bank VTB PJSC (MCX:VTBR) was up 0.06% or 0.05 points to 79.65.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 175 to 66 and 9 ended unchanged.

Shares in GDR ROS AGRO PLC ORD SHS (MCX:AGRODR) unchanged to 52-week lows; unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to 1,083.80.

The Russian Volatility Index – RVI, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia Index options, was up 0.77% to 36.77.

Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.44% or 49.45 to $3,482.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.82% or 0.53 to hit $63.82 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $66.32 a barrel.

USD/RUB was unchanged 0.00% to 79.22, while EUR/RUB unchanged 0.00% to 92.43.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 97.93.

Investing.com -- Leidos Inc. has been awarded a $105.5 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide operational readiness research support services for the Naval Health Research Center.

The single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will involve investigative studies including planning, coordinating, designing, and executing experimental protocols.

The contract includes a 60-month ordering period with no options. Work will begin in September 2025 and is expected to be completed by September 2030.

The majority of the work (80%) will be performed in San Diego, California, with the remaining 20% taking place at Leidos’ location in Reston, Virginia.

The DoD will initially obligate $1,000 in fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds from the Navy. These funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Subsequent task orders under the contract will be funded with appropriate fiscal research, development, test and evaluation funds from the Navy.

The contract was awarded through a competitive procurement process via the system for award management (SAM.gov) as an unrestricted competition. Two offers were received before the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk’s Contracting Department in Philadelphia made the final selection.

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CTW Cayman, a gaming platform company that operates the HTML5 platform G123.jp, completed its initial public offering on August 6, 2025. The company sold 2.4 million Class A ordinary shares at $5.00 per share, raising $12 million in gross proceeds before underwriting fees and expenses.

The shares began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol NASDAQ: CTW. The company has granted underwriters an option to purchase up to 360,000 additional shares at the IPO price within 45 days to cover over-allotments.

CTW operates G123.jp, which provides web-based games inspired by Japanese animations including Queen’s Blade, So I’m a Spider, So What?, and Goblin Slayer. The platform offers free-to-play games and shares revenue from in-game purchases with game developers.

Kingswood Capital Partners served as the representative of the underwriters for the offering. The Securities and Exchange Commission declared the company’s Form F-1 registration statement effective on July 30, 2025.

According to a Frost & Sullivan report cited in the company’s filing, CTW was the largest anime intellectual property-based H5 game platform globally in 2023 measured by gross billings. The Tokyo-based company focuses on helping game developers monetize Japanese anime intellectual property by reaching global audiences.

After-hours movers:

The Trade Desk Inc . (NASDAQ:TTD) fell 28% despite publishing second quarter results that topped consensus, after it published lackluster third quarter guidance. The Trade Desk sees Q3 2025 revenue of at least $717 million, versus the consensus of $716.2 million.

Block, Inc (XYZ) rose 11% despite a miss on the bottom line in the second quarter, after guidance beat estimates.

Microchip Technology (NASDAQ:MCHP) fell 5% despite solid quarterly results, after it cut full year capex. Capital expenditures for all of fiscal 2026 are expected to be at or below $100 million. Consistent with the slow macroeconomic environment in fiscal 2025, it paused most factory expansion actions and reduced planned capital investments through fiscal 2026.

Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) rose 4% after better than expected results. Monster Beverage reported Q2 EPS of $0.52, $0.04 better than the analyst estimate of $0.48. Revenue for the quarter came in at $2.11 billion versus the consensus estimate of $2.08 billion.

Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) fell 9% despite results that were generally in-line with consensus. It announced an all-time high of 578 million global monthly active users, an increase of 11%.

Sweetgreen (SG) fell 18% after reporting weak second quarter comps.

Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) fell 13% after issuing guidance that was mixed, with decent organic growth offset by a weaker bottom line.

Investing.com - Canada’s main stock exchange ended lower on Thursday, as investors gauged the impact of new U.S. tariffs and assessed a stream of corporate earnings.

By 4.05 ET, the S&P/TSX 60 index standard futures index had was down 13.7 points, or 0.82%.

S&P/TSX Composite was down 159 point or 0.57% at 27,761.27

In the prior session, the S&P/TSX composite index notched a fresh record high, thanks in part to a jump in shares in e-commerce group Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP) that made it the index’s most valuable listed company.

Markets are now turning their attention to President Donald Trump’s fresh elevated tariffs on a host of countries, which came into effect after midnight Eastern time. Canada, in particular, faces a levy of 35% on its goods sent to the United States, with uncertainty surrounding Ottawa’s negotiations with the White House.

U.S. stocks lower

U.S. stocks were lower on Thursday even with a relatively solid earnings season as Trump’s latest tariff barrage takes effect.

At 4:00 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 224 points lower, or 0.5%, the S&P 500 index fell 0.03%, and the NASDAQ Composite rose 0.4%.

The main averages on Wall Street rose in the prior session, buoyed by strong quarterly reports, while strong gains from iPhone-maker Apple underpinned the gains.

Week to date, the S&P 500 has gained 1.7%, the NASDAQ Composite has added 2.5% and the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average has advanced 1.4%.

Apple soars on $100 billion investment pledge

Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) soared over 5% on Wednesday, and have continued to rise in premarket trading, after the White House said the company would pledge an additional $100 billion in domestic manufacturing over the next four years, raising its total U.S. investment commitment to approximately $600 billion.

The move is seen as both a policy alignment with the Trump administration and a strategic response to rising trade tensions.

Traders have continued to monitor tariff developments, with U.S. President Donald Trump imposing an additional 25% tariff on India, bringing total U.S. levies on the major trading partner to 50%.

The president said the hike is because India continues to buy Russian oil, a sign that he is following through on his threats to punish Russia’s trade partners unless a Ukraine peace deal is reached by September.

Meanwhile, Trump said he would impose a tariff of about 100% on imported semiconductors, though products from companies that build chips within the U.S. would be exempt.

Earnings season in final stretch

With the reporting season now in its final stretch, LSEG data showed that more than 80% of companies that have reported so far have exceeded earnings expectations.

In extended trading, Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) stock slumped after the vacation rental company forecast weaker growth for the rest of the year.

DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) stock climbed higher after the food delivery company reported a strong second-quarter earnings report that beat expectations, boosted by resilient demand for food and grocery delivery services despite a challenging consumer environment.

Shares of engineering materials manufacturer Rogers jumped in extended trading after the Wall Street Journal reported that activist investor Starboard Value took a more than 9% stake in the company.

Jobless claims due

Weekly initial jobless claims are due later in the session, and are expected to show that initial claims for unemployment benefits rose by 3,000 to 221,000 for the week ended August 2.

Last week’s disappointing payrolls report raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rate cuts next month, with some Fed policymakers having signaled a willingness to slash rates at the central bank’s upcoming meeting in September to address the cooling labor market, even as worries remain that the tariffs could fuel inflation.

Traders are pricing in around a 94% chance of a Fed cut in September, up from 48% a week ago, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch Tool. In total, traders see 60.5 basis points in cuts this year.

Crude bounces on U.S. demand

Oil prices rose, helped by signs of strong U.S. demand, although concerns about the macroeconomic impact of U.S. tariffs and the potential for the return of Russian oil remain.

At 07:52 ET, Brent futures gained 0.6% to $67.26 a barrel, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 0.5% to $64.70 a barrel.

Crude markets were supported from a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude inventories last week.

The Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday that U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell by 3 million barrels in the week ended August 1, exceeding analysts’ expectations for a relatively small draw.

Both benchmarks had fallen to their lowest in eight weeks on Wednesday, on a five-day losing streak, after Trump indicated progress in talks with Moscow over ending the war with Ukraine, potentially leading to the return of Russian oil to the global market .

Still, despite a more positive tone, the U.S. continues preparations to impose secondary sanctions, including potentially on China, to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.

Gold gains

Gold prices edged higher, aided by growing safe-haven demand after fresh tariff threats from Trump and weak U.S. economic data, which renewed bets of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

At 07:54 ET, Spot Gold edged up 0.3% to $3,378.05 an ounce, while Gold Futures for December gained 0.5% to $3,451.30/oz.