PRE-MARKET | December 08, 2016 | #ECB, $LULU, $AMD, $JNPR, $COST, $GLW, $GOOG, $MSFT, $QCOM

1. VYGR: $VYGR Voyager Therapeutics’ stock soars after Parkinson’s disease treatment’s positive trial results -MW

2. TLRD:  $TLRD Jos. A. Bank Sales Recovery Helps Fuel Rally for Tailored Brands – BBG

3. LULU:  $LULU Lululemon’s Stock Pops On 28% Rise In Profits, Buyback Plan – Forbes

4. CTRV:  $CTRV ContraVir’s Cyclophilin Inhibitor CRV431 Potently Inhibits Essential Pathway in Hepatitis B – PRN

5. HRB:  $HRB H&R Block Incurs Narrower Loss in Q2, Revenues Up – Zacks

6. VIAV:  $VIAV Craig-Hallum Upgrades Viavi Solutions to Buy

7. AMD:  $AMD BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades AMD to Buy, $12 PT

8. CS:  $CS JPMorgan upgraded Credit Suisse from Underweight to Overweight, CHF18 PT

9. FOLD:  $FOLD Amicus Announces Positive Prelim. Data from ATB200/AT2221 Phase 1/2 as Paradigm Treatment – SI

10. JNPR:  $JNPR Instinet Upgrades Juniper Networks to Buy, $33 PT

11. UHS:  $UHS Universal Health Disputes and Denies Conclusions in BuzzFeed Article – Street Insider

12. COST:  $COST Costco Keeps Climbing on Membership Revenue Growth, Earnings Gains – Fox Biz

13. SAIC:  $SAIC Science Applications earnings top views – MarketWatch

14. GLW:  $GLW Corning Sets New $4B Share Repurchase Plan – Barron’s

15. HES:  $HES JPMorgan Upgrades Hess Corp. to Overweight, $65 PT

16. REPH: $REPH Recro Pharma amends Alkermers Pharma development milestone payment terms – Reuters

17. INTC, MSFT, QCOM: $INTC Microsoft $MSFT Unveils Windows 10 for Qualcomm $QCOM Chips, a Blow to Intel – BBG

18. GOOG: $GOOG Google’s self-driving car team is hiring execs as it preps to spin out from Alphabet’s X – Recode

19. APOL: $APOL Education Department places hefty conditions on University of Phoenix sale – Wa Po

20. YGE: $YGE Yingli Green Energy Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results – PRN

21. PRGO: $PRGO Perrigo to Restructure BCH Omega Pharma Belgium Biz; Will Terminate EuroGenerics Agreement – SI

22. LLL:  $LLL BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades L-3 Communications to Neutral, $170 PT

23. EME:  $EME Stifel Downgrades EMCOR Group to Hold, $70 PT

24. SHLD:  $SHLD Sears Holdings posts loss for fifth straight quarter – Reuters

25. UNFI:  $UNFI United Natural misses Street 1Q forecasts – AP

26. TKR:  $TKR Stifel Downgrades Timken to Hold, $42 PT

27. AZZ:  $AZZ Stifel Downgrades AZZ Inc. to Sell, $57 PT

28. CIEN:  $CIEN Ciena Misses Q4 EPS by 2c – Street Insider

29. OLLI:  $OLLI ollie’s Bargain Outlet reports Q3 EPS $0.17 – Reuters

30. CASY:  $CASY Casey’s profit falls on weaker fuel margins – MarketWatch

31. CODI:  $CODI Compass Diversified Holdings announces share offering – Reuters

32. CMTL:  $CMTL Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Announces Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2017 – Biz Wire

33. VRNT:  $VRNT Verint Systems Inc. posts loss as revenue falls nearly 9% – Newsday

34. HZNP:  $HZNP Horizon Pharma drug fails key study in rare neuromuscular disease – Reuters

35. OHRP:  $OHRP Ohr Pharmaceutical Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants – GN

1. AMD:BAC “We double-upgrade $AMD to Buy from Underperform, raise estimate well above consensus,and assign a $12 PO bull-case $15+, bear-case $7.”

2. BCS:Jefferies Upgrades Barclays $BCS to Hold

3. CS:$CS JPMorgan upgraded Credit Suisse from Underweight to Overweight, CHF18 PT

4. DFT:Citi Upgrades DuPont Fabros Technology $DFT to Buy

5. DK:Credit Suisse Upgrades Delek US $DK to Outperform; Merger Synergies Underappreciated

6. HES:$HES JPMorgan Upgrades Hess Corp. to Overweight, $65 PT

7. JNPR:$JNPR Instinet Upgrades Juniper Networks to Buy, $33 PT

8. LULU:Mizuho Securities Upgrades Lululemon Athletica Inc. $LULU to Buy; Sees Upside Continuing

9. MPLX:Evercore ISI Upgrades MPLX LP $MPLX to Buy

10. RSPP:JPMorgan Upgrades RSP Permian, Inc. $RSPP to Overweight

11. TLRD:Mizuho Securities Upgrades Tailored Brands $TLRD to Buy

12. VIAV:$VIAV Craig-Hallum Upgrades Viavi Solutions to Buy

1. AZZ:$AZZ Stifel Downgrades AZZ Inc. to Sell, $57 PT

2. CLR:JPMorgan Downgrades Continental Resources $CLR to Neutral

3. EME:$EME Stifel Downgrades EMCOR Group to Hold, $70 PT

4. FIT:Deutsche Bank Downgrades Fitbit $FIT to Hold

5. LLL:$LLL BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades L-3 Communications to Neutral, $170 PT

6. TKR:$TKR Stifel Downgrades Timken to Hold, $42 PT

7. TMHC:Gabelli Downgrades Taylor Morrison Home $TMHC to Hold

1. SAIC:$SAIC reports FQ3 earnings of 91c EPS and $1.11B Revs –

2. YGE:$YGE reports FQ3 earnings of -22c EPS and $218.88M Revs –

3. CIEN:$CIEN reports FQ4 earnings of 44c EPS and $716.19M Revs –

4. MEI:$MEI reports FQ2 earnings of 66c EPS and $209.30M Revs –

5. VNCE:$VNCE reports FQ3 earnings of 7c EPS and $75.97M Revs –

6. CHKE:$CHKE reports FQ3 earnings of 8c EPS and $6.50M Revs –

7. TTC:$TTC reports FQ4 earnings of 27c EPS and $468.36M Revs –

1. HZNP:$HZNP halted

2. LULU:Lululemon $LULU Q3 ‘Solid Beat Across the Board’, PT to $82 – Susquehanna

3. EURUSD:🇪🇺 $EURUSD rejecting from 1.0850 + 70 pips !! #forex #fx #ThursdayThoughts 🇪🇺

4. PBYI:$PBYI neratinib diarrhea under various arms of CONTROL open-label prophylaxis study…yikes

5. SHLD:“Leading” $SHLD

6. NWBO:@MaxJacobsEdison $NWBO — Let’s Make Bulletin Board Penny Stocks Great Again.

7. CVX:$CVX has announced a $19.8B CAPEX program for 2017; down 42% from its outlays in 2015

8. BABA:$BABA Morgan Stanley Assumes Alibaba Group with Overweight, $130 PT

1. zach on Twitter

2. Facebook’s Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest

3. Peter Spiegel on Twitter

4. jeroen blokland on Twitter

5. ECB to scale back asset buys as it extends to end-2017

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We look forward to seeing these new devices with integrated cellular connectivity and the great experiences people love like touch pen and Windows Hello in market as early as next year.

2. The spy program gathered all the cellular activity, data, metadata and content of calls on board commercial aircraft

This riddle appeared in in SIDtoday the internal newsletter of the Signals Intelligence Directorate or SID and it was classified It announced the emergence of a new field of espionage that had not yet been explored the interception of data from phone calls made on board civil aircraft.

The spoils of war observed phone uses are proudly listed in the GCHQ presentation voice communication data SMS Webmail Webchat social networks Facebook Twitter etc.

GCHQ notes that the Russian company Aeroflot has set up a system of specific connections for GSM phones on its aircraft for legal intercept as the agency remarks in a technical memo.

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6. Apple is pressing Hollywood studios for earlier access to movies, sources say

Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.

You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.

7. Apple will allow its AI teams to publish research papers for the first time

Researchers say among the reasons Apple has failed to keep pace is its unwillingness to allow its AI engineers to publish scientific papers stymieing its ability to feed off wider advances in the field.

You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter That policy has now changed Russ Salakhutdinov an Apple director of AI research said Monday at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona according to Twitter posts from those present.

To compensate for the hiring difficulties Apple has bought a series of AI startups spending million on Turi earlier this year to add to half a dozen other acquisitions.

8. Apple using AI for a lot under the hood, but some projects like video prediction and LiDAR that could raise eyebrows

Supplied to Quartz Apple unsurprisingly is working on a lot of the same problems as other companies that are exploring machine learning recognizing and processing images predicting user behavior and events in the physical world modeling language for use in personal assistants and trying to understand how to deal with uncertainty when an algorithm make a decision.

However two attendees of the presentation who asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the content both stressed that the company made no mention of cars or automotive ambitions.

By slimming down the neural network iPhones and iPads can identify faces and locations in photos or understand changes in a heart rate without needing to rely on remote servers.

9. As Apple Music reaches 20m subscribers, we speak to iTunes boss Eddy @Cue and @ZaneLowe on the future of streaming.

Apple also streamed Chance The Rapper Coloring Book which made history on Tuesday by becoming the first album to be nominated for the Grammys without being available in shops or download stores.

Apple Music UK top songs of streaming and downloads Drake One Lukas Graham Calvin Harris This Is What You Came For feat Rihanna Justin Timberlake Ca Stop The Calum Scott Dancing On My Own.

It wo come as a surprise when I tell you that I think Beats and Apple Music have played a really valuable role in bringing an artist like Christine to a global audience.

10. Theater stocks down again on this => Apple Said in Talks With Film Studios for Early Movie Rental

Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.

You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.