On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Dominion Energy (D) shares climb. NextEra Energy Inc. agreed to pay about $67 billion in stock for Dominion Energy Inc. in the biggest power acquisition ever, creating a giant utility extending from Florida to the data centers clustered in Virginia.
- Regeneron (REGN US) shares sink. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. said a key late-stage melanoma study failed, adding to a series of challenges for the US biotech. Regeneron’s experimental drug fianlimab couldn’t beat Merck & Co.’s established cancer blockbuster Keytruda in the study, Regeneron said late on Friday. Another head-to-head trial of the Regeneron compound versus Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s Opdualag continues.
- Hive Digital Technologies (HIVE US) shares rise. The cryptocurrency mining firm’s cloud and data center subsidiary BUZZ HPC says it’s building a 320-megawatt AI data center in Toronto. The facility will deploy over 100,000 GPUs at full capacity, creating one of North America’s largest domestically controlled AI clusters, according to Executive Chairman Frank Holmes in a press release.