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MasTec is expanding its infrastructure footprint with a deal to acquire The Superior Group, a full-service electrical contractor specializing in critical infrastructure. The acquisition adds end-to-end electrical design and preconstruction capabilities to MasTec's portfolio, signaling continued consolidation in the infrastructure services space as grid investment demand accelerates.
Turning to a capital markets move, FuelCell Energy priced an upsized public offering of ten point seven one million shares at twenty-one dollars apiece, raising two hundred twenty-five million dollars in total. The deal's upsized nature suggests healthy institutional demand, though dilution of this scale typically weighs on existing shareholders in the near term, and the market will be watching how FuelCell deploys that fresh capital.
Meanwhile, European equities are pointing lower at the open, pressured by two converging forces — a deepening global tech selloff and a sharp rise in oil prices driven by renewed United States-Iran tensions. Higher crude feeds directly into inflation expectations, and that keeps the conversation around interest rates very much alive for traders on both sides of the Atlantic.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
