Vir Biotechnology, Inc.

Shares of Vir Biotechnology, a small-cap developer of drugs for infectious diseases and cancer, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VIR/">soared</a>&nbsp;on Tuesday by almost 28% to reach their highest level in more than a year. The company provided a series of updates, which were described as amounting to a “<a href="https://investors.vir.bio/news/news-details/2026/Vir-Biotechnology-Provides-Corporate-Update-and-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Financial-Results/default.aspx">seminal moment</a>” for Vir. They include, among other things, a <a href="https://investors.vir.bio/news/news-details/2026/Astellas-and-Vir-Biotechnology-Announce-Global-Strategic-Collaboration-to-Advance-PSMA-targeting-PRO-XTEN-Dual-masked-T-Cell-Engager-VIR-5500-for-the-Treatment-of-Prostate-Cancer/default.aspx">partnership</a>&nbsp;with Japan’s Astellas worth up to $1.71 billion. Against this backdrop, several investment banks <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VIR/">raised</a>&nbsp;their target prices for Vir stock.

'Seminal moment': Biotech Vir sees shares jump over 25% amid flurry of announcements

AS MADARA Cosmetics

The Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia – are emerging from an economic downturn. According to the European Commission forecasts, the region is now entering a phase of moderate growth, with the key driver being a recovery in domestic demand. Against this backdrop, Baltic companies, whose shares are illiquid but which are stable in terms of fundamentals, can offer a risk premium in a segment that remains off large investors' radar and lacks broad analytical coverage. Marius Varneckas, head of Freedom24 in Lithuania, argues that this is creating attractive entry points for investors in 2026.

Freedom24-Lithuania head shares Baltic small-cap stocks and sectors with 2026 upside

NVIDIA Corporation

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Novo Nordisk A/S

First Solar, Inc.

The Home Depot, Inc.

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

Morning in New York: Nvidia will set the bidding vector

Alphabet Inc.

MediaTek Inc.

Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Citrini Research's portfolio is completely unprepared for a crisis, but so far it has produced great returns

"Alchemist" who earned 200%: what we know about the 33-year-old author of the Citrini report on AI

One of the world's most valuable private companies, Stripe, has increased its valuation to $159 billion in the latest employee stock deal - a 72% increase from a year earlier. The payment service <a href="https://stripe.com/en-fr/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update">announced the</a> deal on February 24, simultaneously with the publication of the traditional letter about the results of the year.

Patrick Collison created fintech giant Stripe. What advice would he have given himself as a young man?

International Business Machines Corporation

Market fears for future of IBM technology after announcement of new AI tool from Anthropic

IBM stock had its worst day in 26 years. Why does Wall Street believe in 45% growth?

Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Knowledge Atlas, known as Zhipu, is <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/37c91e08-d13a-45a7-a3a7-acb43fa5522e">called the</a> Chinese equivalent of OpenAI. In January 2026, it went public, and its quotations rose more than five times the IPO price. What an investor should know about it, wrote independent analyst Mikhail Zavaraev.

Shares of Zhipu, a China-based AI developer and OpenAI peer, have quintupled since its IPO. What do investors need to know about it? 

AI's most serious problem may not be a threat to jobs at all, but to the unpreparedness of the political system, argues a writer for The Atlantic

On fragile ice: why isn't anyone ready for AI to replace white-collar workers?

Gold miners will remain profitable even with the precious metal at $4,000 per troy ounce, according to Danny Moses of Moses Ventures

Traders from "The Downgrade Game" reveal the best investments in the midst of the soft-apocalypse

Netflix, Inc.

Paramount Group, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Donald Trump praised the duties in an address to the nation and said he would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demanded that Anthropic give the military full access to AI models under threat of recognizing the company as a "supply chain risk" or using emergency powers. On these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of February 25.

Main by morning: Trump praises duties, bids for Warner Bros. go up

One of the strongest players in the online payment processing market - non-public platform Stripe - is considering acquiring PayPal Holdings or its separate assets, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/payments-processor-stripe-expresses-interest-in-paypal">reported</a> citing sources.

Fintech giant Stripe has emerged as a contender to take over PayPal - Bloomberg

Microsoft Corporation

DeepSeek may unveil its newest AI model in February - a year after its other release caused the U.S. market to collapse

Small caps