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Chip design software maker Synopsys has reached an ‌agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management ‌that will give one board seat to the activist investor's ​managing partner Jesse Cohn, the company said on Wednesday. Synopsys, which has a market valuation of about $100 billion and counts Tesla and Google parent Alphabet among ‌its customers, has ⁠held discussions with Elliott, one of the industry's most powerful activists, for roughly ⁠two months. Elliott pushed the company to improve its margins and Synopsys' stock price has climbed roughly 20% ​since Elliott's ​involvement became public.

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June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM26) are up +0.67%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM26) are up +1.03% this morning as investors remained hopeful that the latest U.S. strikes on Iran would not derail talks to end the Middle East conflict.

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The stock market is right at highs with several leaders near buy points. Marvell, Dell and Costco earnings are on tap, along with the Fed's inflation gauge.

Investing.com -- President Donald Trump's latest OGE Form 278-T disclosure reveals a significant paring of his larger technology securities during the first quarter of 2026. Large-scale sales of securities in Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) were recorded in the peak-valuation tier of $5 million to $25 million.

Investing.com -- President Donald Trump’s latest OGE Form 278-T disclosure reveals a significant paring of his larger technology holdings during the first quarter of 2026. Large-scale sales of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) were recorded in the peak-valuation tier of $5 million to $25 million.

Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) executives said the company made progress across several customer engagements during its first-quarter 2026 earnings call, highlighting momentum in advanced logic, memory, RF, power devices, and gallium nitride (GaN) applications for its Mears Silicon Technology (MST). Gate-Al

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Synopsys will release its second-quarter earnings soon, and analysts anticipate a double-digit profit dip.