$AMZN Why Amazon’s seven-part bond deal is a bargain

1. URBN:  $URBN Retailer Urban Outfitters beats on top and bottom lines, but same-store sales sink – CNBC

2. RADA:  $RADA RADA Receives First Breakthrough and Strategic $8 Million Order for US Military – GN

3. TGT:  $TGT Target shares jump as shoppers return to stores, boosting sales – CNBC

4. A:  $A Agilent shares rise more than 4% after company reports sales, EPS above forecast – MW

5. EXEL:  $EXEL Exelixis Submits sNDA for CABOMETYX for Treatment of Previously Untreated Advanced Kidney Cancer

6. LPLA:  $LPLA LPL Financial Announces the Purchase of National Planning Holdings – Nasdaq

7. BABA:  $BABA Alibaba earnings: Expect a boost from better spending trends in China – MW

8. BHP:  $BHP Elliott raises stake in miner BHP Billiton to 5% – FT

9. FGEN:  $FGEN FibroGen Prices 8M Common Share Follow-On Offering at $40.75/Sh – SI

10. UNH:  $UNH UnitedHealth names David Wichmann as chief executive – FT

11. FCAU, INTC:  $FCAU Fiat Chrysler partners with BMW, Intel $INTC, Mobileye on self-driving cars – CNET

12. BLCM:  $BLCM Bellicum Pharma Enters Cancer Research Grant Contract with CPRIT – SI

13. AAPL:  $AAPL Apple Readies $1 Billion War Chest for Hollywood Programming – WSJ

14. WLL: $WLL Whiting Petroleum Announces $500 Million Sale of Fort Berthold Area Assets in North Dakota – BW

15. MYOK, SNY: $MYOK Form 4 MyoKardia Inc For: Aug 14 Filed by: Sanofi $SNY – SI

16. TEVA:  $TEVA Israel’s Teva seeks partners to fund some drug development – Reuters

17. AMZN:  $AMZN Trump rips Amazon, says it causes ‘great damage to tax paying retailers’; shares drop – CNBC

18. AMZN:  $AMZN Amazon’s Instant Pickup points could be ideal for grabbing meds, says pharmacy expert – CNBC

19. AMZN:  $AMZN Why Amazon’s seven-part bond deal is a bargain – MW

20. NXST:  $NXST Nexstar Block of 1.1M Shares Said to be Offered Via MS – Bloomberg

21. BMY:  $BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb shares slip as kidney cancer drug trial falls short of goal – MW

22. NTEC:  $NTEC Intec Pharma Plans Public Offering of Ordinary Shares – SI

23. VIAV:  $VIAV Viavi Slips: ’3-D Sensing’ Revenue Tilted Toward Back Half of Year – Barron’s

1. BIIB:$BIIB upgraded from Buy to Conviction Buy at Goldman Sachs. PT $338

2. ENDP, MYL, TEVA:Mylan upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citi $MYL $TEVA $ENDP

1. C, TEVA:Teva Pharma was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Citigroup $TEVA $C

2. TEVA:$TEVA downgraded to Neutral at Citi. PT $19

1. TGT:$TGT reports FQ2 earnings of $1.23 EPS and $16.43B Revs –

2. MSGN:$MSGN reports FQ4 earnings of 52c EPS and $162.88M Revs –

3. ENZY:$ENZY reports FQ2 earnings of 4c EPS and $13.02M Revs –

4. ENZY:$ENZY reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $0.28M –

1. BABA:$BABA Alibaba earnings: Expect a boost from better spending trends in China – MW

2. AFL:Aflac Incorporated $AFL Stake Lowered by TD Asset Management Inc.

3. TGT:Stay on Target. Tar-jay beat on earnings. Boosts outlook. $TGT up 4% #premarket.

4. MCK:Anchor Capital Advisors LLC Decreases Position in McKesson Corporation $MCK

5. APD:Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. $APD Shares Sold by Cullen Frost Bankers Inc.

6. HMNY:Netflix Co-Founder Lands Funding to Help Save the Movie Theatre Industry $HMNY

7. ALL:Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. Buys 146,513 Shares of Allstate Corporation $The $ALL

8. SCYX:SCYNEXIS given $14.00 PT by HC Wainwright. buy rating.

9. VFC:FY2017 EPS Estimates for V.F. Corporation Increased by DA Davidson $VFC

10. SCCO:Southern Copper Corporation downgraded by HSBC Holdings plc to hold. $41.00 PT.

11. EXEL:$BMY vs $EXEL 1st line PFS improvement of 3.18 months vs 2.6 months . ORR & PFS better in CM214 for sunitinib.

12. ENZY:Enzymotec misses by $0.11, beats on revenue

13. NOC:Boston Partners Lowers Position in Northrop Grumman Corporation $NOC

14. CONE:CyrusOne upgraded by BidaskClub to strong-buy.

15. UDR:United Dominion Realty Trust upgraded by Morgan Stanley to equal weight.

1. Apple Readies $1 Billion War Chest for Hollywood Programming

2. Tencent Beats Estimates as WeChat, Mobile Games Drive Growth

3. Target shares jump as shoppers return to stores, boosting sales

1. I’m resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it’s the right thing for me to do.

2. The violence in Charlottesville has made web companies rethink their ideas about content neutrality.

In the wake of a killing and widespread violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia web services company GoDaddy announced it was dropping the Daily Stormer as a client leaving the site without a registrar.

SOPA and other copyright protection proposals have specifically targeted web infrastructure hoping to ban registrars and other providers from directing users to websites that host pirated content.

ban seems to have been specifically triggered by a Daily Stormer post celebrating the killing of Heather Heyer a Charlottesville resident struck by a car while protesting the rally.

3. .@cloudflare’s wriggling, hair-splitting statement on hosting nazi terrorists is truly something to behold

Although GoDaddy had previously defended its choice to provide domain services to the site citing its rights under the First Amendment the company took a different stance this time around.

Other tech companies have also made moves against the far right Airbnb banned users it suspected were traveling to attend the rally while Discord a chat service for online gamers shut down a server and some accounts used for spreading extremist views.

When users sent complaints to Cloudflare about content they saw on The Daily Stormer and similar sites it would automatically send the website owners the names and email addresses of the complainants who often then suffered prolonged harassment.

4. Intel CEO exits President Trump’s manufacturing council

5. “NSO’s spyware has a documented abuse potential and the list of cases continues to grow” says @CitizenLab researcher

Two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday that the talks had ended without Blackstone and NSO reaching an agreement.

Israel Calcalist business newspaper last month reported Blackstone was in advanced talks to buy percent of the privately held Israeli firm for million.

Access Now last month launched a petition that urged Blackstone to drop plans to invest in NSO and its surveillance technology.

6. Folks wising up to the fact that supporting hate is a choice: “No cash for hate, say mainstream crowdfunding firms” 🔥

NEW YORK Reuters Online sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields the man accused of driving his car into at a rally in Charlottesville Virginia on Saturday.

Most mainstream crowdfunding sites which let people fund projects or ventures by raising money online have policies that prohibit campaigns that promote hate speech or violence.

He started a campaign called the Unite the Right Legal Defense Fund on Sunday night and aims to raise to sue the city of Charlottesville for failing to protect the speakers and protesters at the rally.

7. LinkedIn’s New Feature “Active Status” Is Interesting (And On By Default) tip @Techmeme

CLOSE More Options.

Happiness is not a goal it is a.

8. Lil scoop: An inside source says that Lyft is spending less on marketing because of Uber’s troubles

Uber has been enduring horrendous press for almost a year the latest bad news being tied to a lawsuit from investors against former CEO Travis Kalanick.

Meanwhile smaller rival Lyft has been quietly reaping the gains of Uber journey from company to veritable Silicon Valley pariah.

The source who requested anonymity due to an NDA said that Lyft has been scaling back its partnerships with external promoters as well as reducing the financial incentives for new users to sign up.

9. Fb is trying harder to fight fake news, delete hate, & foster community. Now Internet addiction needs work

Taking inspiration from line drawings Reddit and Messenger Facebook is overhauling the design of the News Feed to make it more legible clickable and commentable.

Over the years repeatedly asked top executives like CPO Chris Cox and VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri about whether the company is doing research into how to prevent or minimize internet addiction that can stem from business model and never gotten a direct answer that indicates they think a priority.

Yet at some point when people are sitting in the dark alone refreshing the feed over and over it could be worth surfacing Internet addiction and mental health tips or encouraging them to connect directly with a friend via messaging.

10. Microsoft will make future versions of Cycle Computing HPC software ‘Azure focused’

We will continue to support Cycle Computing clients using AWS Google Cloud a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email.

JP Morgan Chase Lockheed Martin Pfizer and Western Digital are among the companies that have worked with Cycle Computing which was founded in.

WATCH Consumer Reports says percent of Microsoft Surface computers will break within two years.