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Shawon Hannan is a markets writer at Primary Ignition, covering equities in defense and aerospace, industrials, automotive and electric vehicles, and the energy and technology names tied to them. He writes about the catalysts that actually move these stocks: procurement budgets and order books, production milestones, earnings and guidance, and the capital flowing into next-generation defense systems, AI infrastructure and electrification. His coverage runs from earnings, dividends and IPOs to market commentary, with an emphasis on the numbers behind the narrative rather than the headline itself.
The FPT Software Poland subsidiary launched September 8, 2026, is the company’s clearest statement yet that it intends to compete at the engineering core of Europe’s software-defined vehicle…
Volkswagen’s Osnabrück defense deal, signed September 7, converts a factory that once built Porsche Boxsters and Golf Cabriolets into a production site for air-defense systems, selling the 125-year-old…
Croatia’s Chunmoo procurement, approved by the government in Zagreb for 18 K239 multiple-rocket launchers from Hanwha Aerospace, is more than a single defense deal. At €544.1 million ($631.9…
The Alexander Dennis Liverpool contract awarded by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is worth £57m on a firm basis and up to £95m if all options are exercised,…
Ukraine’s formal request for a PAC-3 exemption under the EU’s €90 billion support loan is the first real stress test of whether the facility can actually fund Western-standard…
Zscaler (ZS) delivered strong earnings guidance for fiscal year 2027, beat every quarterly metric Wall Street was watching, and still watched its stock sink on Friday. The market’s…
Lululemon’s (LULU) earnings outlook took another sharp step down on Thursday, with the company reporting a steeper-than-guided revenue decline and slashing full-year guidance for the second consecutive quarter,…
Lucid’s France market entry pairs the EV maker’s direct commercial control with Emil Frey France’s local operational infrastructure, a structure designed to sidestep traditional distributor economics without requiring…
The U.S. Army’s $464.8 million AeroVironment laser contract for the Enduring High Energy Laser program (E-HEL) is, by the Army’s own description, the first production contract for a…
BYD’s export gap with Chery has compressed to roughly 7,500 units, and the company’s August BEV volumes cleared 256,000 units for the first time, but neither record changes…
