Rolls-Royce is riding the defense boom and AI buildout to a big earnings beat

The British engineering group posted £2.5 billion in first-half operating profit and raised its full-year guidance on both metrics

Rolls-Royce shares jumped on Thursday after the company hiked its targets and posted a near 50 per cent jump in operating profits in the first half of the year, as it reaps the rewards of a boom in defence spending. The FTSE 100 engineering firm said rising profitability across all of its ⁠divisions ​resulted in…

Orders in the company's data center power business grew more than 50% in the first half of the year.

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StanChart lifts income target after wealth boom powers earnings beat; shares jump  Reuters

HONG KONG/LONDON, July 29 : Standard Chartered reported on Wednesday a better-than-expected 9 per cent rise in first-half pretax profit and lifted its full-year income target, as wealth and global banking revenue surged and credit charges tied to the Iran war held steady.The bank's Hong Kong-traded shares rose more tha