COMPASS Pathways plc

AtaiBeckley Inc.

Definium Therapeutics, Inc.

GH Research PLC

Cybin Inc. Common Stock

Quotes of psychedelic drug developers <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/4576434-psychedelic-stocks-rally-after-trump-orders-faster-ptsd-research-compass-pathways-atai-lead-gains">jumped</a> by at least 15% at the April 20 premarket, Seeking Alpha <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/4576434-psychedelic-stocks-rally-after-trump-orders-faster-ptsd-research-compass-pathways-atai-lead-gains">noted</a>. This happened after US President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-18/trump-signs-order-easing-restrictions-on-psychedelic-drugs">signed an</a> executive order aimed at accelerating research and expanding patient access to psychedelics for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Wall Street is calling it a turning point for the sector.

Papers of makers of psychedelics to treat PTSD soar after Trump's executive order 

NVIDIA Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Amazon.com, Inc.

Broadcom Inc.

Apple Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

More than half of the recent record growth of the S&amp;P 500 provided only seven major technology companies - among them Nvidia, Apple and Amazon, <a href="http://bloomberg">noted</a> Bloomberg. In recent weeks, they have collectively increased their market capitalization by about $4 trillion, the agency <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-19/big-tech-s-4-trillion-boomerang-powers-s-p-500-to-new-heights">calculated</a>.

Bigtechs are up $4 tlrn on the back of S&amp;P 500 records. Will the rally continue?

Golar LNG Limited

ConocoPhillips

Permian Resources Corporation

Vistra Corp.

Halliburton Company

Goldman Sachs advised investors to pay attention to five stocks of energy companies, among which one belongs to the mid-cap segment, CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/goldman-says-buy-these-dividend-paying-energy-stocks-with-upside.html">noted</a>. Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta published an investment note on April 17, after Iran <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/iran-ob-avil-o-polnom-otkrytii-ormuzskogo-proliva-na-vrema-prekrasenia-ogna">announced the</a> "full opening" of the Strait of Hormuz for the passage of commercial vessels. At the same time, US President Donald Trump said the US blockade of Iranian ports and ships was still in place.

Goldman Sachs advised 5 energy stocks. One of them is mid-cap

Palantir Technologies Inc.

The era of nuclear deterrence has come to an end, the era of AI deterrence is coming, Palantir believes. The company <a href="https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312">published a</a> brief for the book "Technological Revolution" by its CEO Alex Karp and head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamisky on social network X. Oninvest publishes it without abbreviations.

Palantir Manifesto: Silicon Valley must serve the state

Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz

Tencent Holdings Limited

Chinese IT company Tencent has become one of the largest shareholders of Kazakh fintech company Kaspi.kz, according to a <a href="https://ir.kaspi.kz/media/Tencent_Invests_in_Kaspi.kz_Alongside_Co-Founder__CEO_Mikheil_Lomtadze_.pdf">release</a> on the Kazakh group's website.

Chinese IT giant Tencent became one of the largest shareholders of Kaspi.kz 

Alaska Air Group, Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

American Airlines Group Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Capital Markets Research, Freedom Broker.

Morning in New York: Investors focus on escalation in the Middle East  

Ahead of listing, Revolut wants to build confidence in the bank

Revolut will not go public until 2028 at the earliest - Storonsky

Blackstone Inc.

Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Ares Management Corporation

S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/wall-street-creates-new-credit-default-swap-index-bet-against-private-credit-2026-04-10/">has launched a</a> new index for the private credit market, which is on the brink of a potential crisis. This is Wall Street's first attempt to "make visible" the risk of the opaque $2 trillion sector and the opportunity to capitalize on its problems. How does it work and who might be interested?

S&amp;P has launched an index for the private credit market, CDX Financials. How will it perform?  

Data

Independent Bank Corporation

Hanmi Financial Corporation

Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc.

Horizon Bancorp, Inc.

Accel Entertainment, Inc.

Green Dot Corporation

Freedom Broker, at Oninvest's request, analyzed which small-cap stocks from the finance sector turned out to be the most popular among hedge funds at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025. The sample included ten companies whose capitalization in the reporting period was less than $6 bln. Their shares cost less than $35.

10 financial small-cap stocks cheaper than $35 - hedge fund picks 

QuidelOrtho Corporation

QuidelOrtho shares <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QDEL/">tumbled</a>&nbsp;more than 27% on Thursday to their lowest level since April 2011 after the small-cap diagnostics provider <a href="https://ir.quidelortho.com/news/news-release-details/2026/QuidelOrtho-Announces-Preliminary-Revenue-for-the-First-Quarter-2026-and-Provides-Update-on-Full-Year-2026-Guidance/default.aspx">reported</a>&nbsp;preliminary first-quarter results that came in well <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/quidelortho-diagnostics-stock-moderate-flu-season-51c6af1a?mod=RTA">below Wall Street expectations.</a> The move was driven by a weaker flu season in the U.S. and the Middle East conflict, the company said.

Diagnostics stock QuidelOrtho falls to 15-year low on disappointing 1Q26 results

Allbirds, Inc.

Still, Allbirds shares are up 336% versus before the strategy change announcement

'Peak silliness': Allbirds plummets after 700% rise on AI infrastructure pivot

Kailera Therapeutics

Shares of biotech Kailera Therapeutics Inc. are available for trading on the Freedom client trading platform. The company’s lead asset, ribupatide, is part of the multibillion-dollar race for weight-loss drugs, a market expected to exceed $150 billion over the next decade. Later on Friday, the stock will start regular-session trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol <a href="https://tap.freedom24.com/to/quote/HMH.US?utm_source=stocks&amp;utm_medium=HMH.US&amp;utm_campaign=pfu17521958">KLRA</a>.

Kailera Therapeutics IPO: Shares of obesity drugmaker start trading

Lumen Technologies, Inc.

Shares of mid-cap company Lumen Technologies, which builds fiber-optic infrastructure, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LUMN/">jumped</a>&nbsp;more than 10% on Wednesday after the company <a href="https://ir.lumen.com/news/news-details/2026/AWS-and-Lumen-Redefine-Private-Cloud-Connectivity-by-Bringing-Cloud-and-Network-Together/default.aspx">said</a>&nbsp;it had become the first network provider to work with Amazon Web Services on the AWS Interconnect project.

Shares of fiber network provider Lumen jump on collaboration with AWS

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