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1. AVAV:  $AVAV AeroVironment shares surge on better-than-expected quarter – MW

2. VRA:  $VRA Vera Bradley shares pop, as company takes more aggressive approach to refining business – MW

3. MDT, MZOR:  $MZOR Medtronic $MDT invests $40m in Mazor Robotics – Globes

4. HIMX, QCOM:  $HIMX Qualcomm $QCOM & Himax Technologies Jointly Announce High Resolution 3D Depth Sensing Solution

5. ADI:  $ADI Analog Devices Smashes Earnings Estimates, Guides Higher – IBD

6. CPRX:  $CPRX Catalyst Pharma Provides Update on the Status of Firdapse Development Activities – Nasdaq

7. MDCO:  $MDCO The Medicines Company Announces FDA Approval of VABOMERE™ – BW

8. BOBE:  $BOBE Bob Evans Reports First Quarter FY 2018 Results and Raises Guidance – ET

9. LLY:  $LLY Eli Lilly Plans to File Baricitinib Resubmission to U.S. FDA before end of January 2018 – SI

10. BAC:  $BAC Buffett Converts BofA Warrants Into $16.5 Billion Stake in Bank – BBG

11. CAL:  $CAL Caleres’ 2Q sales rise, profit falls – STL PD

12. COL, UTX:  $COL Takeover of Rockwell Collins Said to Be Near $UTX – NYT

13. BIIB, IONS:  $IONS Ionis Earns $40 Million SPINRAZA Regulatory Milestone Payment from Biogen $BIIB – PRN

14. ABT: $ABT Abbott Releases New Software Updates to Protect Pacemakers From Hacking – WSJ

15. TERP: $TERP TerraForm Power Reports 1Q 2017 Financial Results and Files Form 10-Q – SI

16. WDC:  $WDC Bain-led consortium in last-minute $18 billion bid for Toshiba chip unit: source – Reuters

17. OLLI:  $OLLI Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings Announces Fiscal 2017 Second Quarter Financial Results – GN

18. SCSC:  $SCSC ScanSource Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results – SI

19. HRB:  $HRB H&R Block shares fall 5% after wider fiscal Q1 loss – MW

20. CHS:  $CHS Chico’s plunges after sales and margins disappoint – SA

21. DY:  $DY Dycom Industries Sees Q1 Results Below Market View After Weak Q4 Profit – Nasdaq

22. OTIC:  $OTIC Otonomy’s ear disease drug fails key trial, shares nosedive – Reuters

1. LSTR:Stephens Upgrades Landstar System $LSTR to Overweight

2. MSGN:FBN Securities Upgrades MSG Networks $MSGN to Sector Perform

3. PSEC:Prospect Capital upgraded at Raymond James

4. SNY:$SNY upgraded to Hold from Reduce at HSBC

1. COTY:Coty Inc was Downgraded to a Sell Rating at Berenberg Bank $COTY

1. DY:$DY reports FQ4 earnings of $1.47 EPS and $780.19M Revs –

2. DY:$DY reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $25.59M –

3. BOBE:$BOBE reports FQ1 earnings of 37c EPS and $109.27M Revs –

4. CHS:$CHS reports FQ2 earnings of 18c EPS and $578.58M Revs –

5. VRA:$VRA reports FQ2 earnings of 13c EPS and $112.42M Revs –

6. ADI:$ADI reports FQ3 earnings of $1.26 EPS and $1.46B Revs –

7. SFL:$SFL reports FQ2 earnings of 30c EPS and $94.22M Revs –

1. GOLD:$GOLD A monthly closing above 1320 despite of manipulation of central banks, will be ultra bullish for September

2. GLD:Jews worldwide united are working hard on anti-gold propaganda $gld gold this oil crashing buy #nsa #bitcoin…

3. MDCO:FDA OKs The Medicines Company’s Vabomere antibiotic; shares ahead 6% premarket

4. BAC:Bank of America – $BAC now has Berkshire Hathaway as its biggest shareholder

5. USO:Which Way Wednesday – GDP Edition #Oil #Gasoline $SPY $USO $UGA —

6. TLT:$TLT Pot. pullback in Downtrend LONGERTERM Wly-Dly-Hly combo chart #Bonds #FOMC #FED

7. OIL:Daily Pre-Market Prep & #Trade Plan for #CrudeOil $Oil with important #Trading Levels for Todays Session >>…

8. CSCO:Cisco Systems just filed a paper-based report

9. SHLD:#SearsHoldings Sears Opens 2 More DieHard Auto Centers. Read more:

10. REXR:Rexford Industrial Realty downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to hold.

11. PCRX:Pacira Pharmaceuticals given $48.00 PT by Canaccord Genuity. buy rating. $PCRX #PCRX

12. MOMO:$MOMO: Standpoint Research starts at Buy

13. DY:Dycom Industries beats by $0.03, misses on revenue

14. T:Investors Buy AT&T Inc. $T on Weakness

15. LSTR:Landstar System upgraded by Stephens to overweight. $103.00 PT.

1. US revised second-quarter GDP up 3.0% vs 2.7% rise expected

2. Companies in U.S. Add More Workers Than Forecast, ADP Data Show

3. Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

4. Morning Agenda: Takeover of Rockwell Collins Said to Be Near

1. We’re bringing high-quality augmented reality to millions of Android phones with #ARCore →

working with manufacturers like Samsung Huawei LG ASUS and others to make this possible with a consistent bar for quality and high performance.

Motion tracking Using the camera to observe feature points in the room and IMU sensor data ARCore determines both the position and orientation pose of the phone as it moves.

We built Blocks and Tilt Brush to make it easy for anyone to quickly create great content for use in AR apps.

2. Excited to welcome Dara Khosrowshahi as our new CEO—looking forward to the road ahead, @dkhos.

He grew up in Tarrytown trained as an engineer at Brown and spent many years at IAC serving as Chief Financial Officer and in various operational and strategic roles.

He has four children and not surprisingly loves to travel one of his favorite trips being to the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia where his wife Sydney said yes to marrying him.

Whether an Indian inspired samosa a good American burger or Vietnamese pho people in countries are using UberEATS to get a taste of the flavors at the push of a button.

3. Amazon and Microsoft unite to make Alexa, Cortana cooperate. My Interviews with Bezos, Nadella on their plan

Amazon Apple Microsoft Google and nearly every other big tech company is pouring huge amounts of money into making digital assistants that are smarter and can do more seeing them as a new way for people to interact naturally with devices and online services.

In a phone interview Nadella compared digital assistants like Cortana and Alexa to competing web browsers that provide access to the same pools of online information.

Apple and Google may see competitive advantages in keeping their separate from rival assistants partly as a way to protect a selling point of their mobile software iOS and Android.

4. iPhone 8 details: taller screen, how Apple will deal with the notch, gestures to replace home button, much more

With a crisper screen that takes up nearly the entire front Apple has tested the complete removal of the home a digital favor of new gesture controls for tasks like going to the main app grid and opening multitasking according to the people and the images.

In the new iPhone Apple also plans a taller screen with rounded corners a cutout at the top of the display for the camera and sensors and new antenna locations the images show.

The cutout is noticeable during app usage in the middle of the very top of the screen where the status bar the area that shows cellular reception the time and battery life would normally be placed according to the images.

5. Amazon’s partnership with Microsoft for Cortana and Alexa integration makes sense. Bing already powers Alexa

Microsoft has built its digital assistant more directly into its Office products and now Alexa will get that functionality via Cortana accessing work calendars and email for example.

a surprise move by both companies and comes just as Microsoft is preparing to launch a Cortana speaker with Harman Kardon and push its digital assistant into cars thermostats and more devices.

Amazon Microsoft Apple and Google have all built rival digital assistants that have been seen as walled gardens blocked off from each other and this partnership signals a move to make them work better together.

6. I’ve been working on Google antitrust for 6 years. This is both the most shocking & least surprising thing I’ve read

Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.

The Open statement that drew ire praised the fine and called on United States regulators to more aggressively enforce antitrust rules against Google Amazon and dominant platform.

willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

7. Khosrowshahi says he didn’t seek the job at Uber: “This is not something I was looking for”

Speaking publicly for the first time since getting picked to run Uber the outgoing Expedia CEO suggested he plans to tackle allegations of sexual discrimination and systemic cultural issues at the giant.

is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege Khosrowshahi said in an interview at headquarters in Bellevue Washington.

At the end of a contentious CEO search Khosrowshahi emerged as the dark horse beating out candidates such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Meg Whitman and General Electric Jeffrey Immelt.

8. I guess now we know why the Lock Screen/Cover Sheet on iOS 11 are dismissed vertically

A report from Bloomberg provides fresh details on how Apple plans to replace the button with new gestures and navigational elements for the iPhone user interface.

On the lock screen users pull this bar upwards to unlock the phone reminiscent of the iconic to action that Apple removed in iOS.

Bloomberg says recent test devices position the time on the left whilst the right side shows signal bars WiFi indicator and battery life.

9. Excited to be working with @RRHoover again! @ProductHunt’s founder has his own VC fund via @axios

10. Four Seasons! TPG offices! Phone calls from Ryan Graves! A @MikeIsaac tick tock

board was still too fractured Meg Whitman chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise said of Jason Henry for The New York Times Earlier on Tuesday in an interview at offices in Bellevue Khosrowshahi said of the company would be happy to get.

Whitman a veteran of the tech industry who had led multiple public companies quickly became a favorite candidate of Benchmark one of largest investors which also has a board seat.

Jeffrey Immelt the former chief executive of General Electric dropped out of the race to lead Uber on Sebastien Getty Images Some of points to board members did echo.