Why did NEXT Biometrics Group stock rise on 7 October?
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NEXT Biometrics Group +3.86%
NEXT Biometrics rose clearly, helped by a funding scramble. Over the last five trading days NEXT Biometrics Group was roughly unchanged, holding up while Oslo Børs fell clearly, so it moved against the market. The most likely driver is the news that Jon H. Nordbrekken is urgently trying to raise money for the company — a shareholder effort to secure fresh funding, which the market may read as a lifeline for a small, cash-hungry fingerprint-sensor maker. That kind of financing news often moves a micro-cap more than the wider market, which likely explains why it diverged from a falling benchmark.
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