Pre market
Gainers: RLOG +121%. SINO +99%. GSL +94%. DCIX +32%. NMM +32%. ESEA +24%. TOPS +22%. WNR +22%. NM +22%. NAO +19%. SB +18%. ANW +17%. PANL +16%. SHIP +12%. NTAP +12%. HAIN +11%. GLBS +11%. UAM +11%. GURE +10%. PLCE +8%. NNA 8%. BBY 8%. INCY 6%. RCON 6%. PLUG 6%. GNK 6%. ENDP 6%
Losers: LEI -26%. VUZI -18%. SPP -18%. NVTA -14%. FSLR -12%. ZX -10%. TEGP -10%. SSI -9%. STEM -8%. FOXF -8%. TTMI -7%. PFGC -6%
6. LPLA, SCHW: 
$LPLA Charles Schwab $SCHW Said Among Bidders for LPL Financial – Source – Street Insider
$LPLA Charles Schwab $SCHW Said Among Bidders for LPL Financial – Source – Street Insider12. GILD: $GILD Gilead Momelotinib Ph3 Met Primary Endpoint in Myelofibrosis; 2dary Endpoint Missed – SI
14. SPLS: 
$SPLS Staples quarterly earnings meet expectations, but sales miss Wall Street’s target – MW
$SPLS Staples quarterly earnings meet expectations, but sales miss Wall Street’s target – MW
UPGRADES
1. FSLR:$FSLR upgraded to Market Perform at JMP Securities
6. TWX:$TWX upgraded to Buy at Moffett Nathanson
DOWNGRADES
2. BUD:$BUD downgraded to Hold at Investec
18. URBN:$URBN downgraded to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley – PT raise $39 from $36
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
1. BBY:Best Buy Q3 EPS $0.62 vs $0.47 Est, Revenue $8.95B vs $8.85B Est. $BBY
4. WMT:EARNINGS ALERT: @Walmart EPS beats $0.98 vs. $0.96 • revs. miss $118.179B vs. $118.695B $WMT
Trending News Headlines
1. Hey Gilead, stop developing drugs and start buying biotech companies — now!
2. No early win for Sanofi, Regeneron cholesterol drug in study
3. Wal-Mart Sales Edge Up, Though Profit Falls
4. Tesoro Petroleum (TSO) to Acquire Western Refining (WNR) in Net $4.1B Deal
5. Russia starts blocking LinkedIn website after court ruling
6. Goldman Sachs Sees Accelerating Growth at Microsoft (MSFT); Rating Raised to ‘Buy’
7. Griffen Securities Positive on ZIOPHARM’s (ZIOP) Latest Membrane-Bound IL-15 Data; Affirms at ‘Buy’
8. Incyte (INCY) PT Lifted to $126 at BMO Capital Following Competitor Set-Back
Technology News
- Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows and acquired Xamarin to aid mobile app development.
- Microsoft even open sourced Xamarin SDKs and developer tools and brought SQL Server to Linux.
- Google is joining the Foundation which oversees Platform programming languages that form part of Microsoft major competitor to Java and Android.
2. Twitter suspends accounts associated with the “alt-right movement” which advocate white nationalism
- Among those whose accounts have been suspended is Richard Spencer president and director of the National Policy Institute which identifies itself as an organization dedicated to the heritage identity and future of people of European descent in the United States and around the world.
- Others whose accounts have been suspended include Pax Dickinson founder of site Wesearchr an internet personality who goes by the fake name Ricky Vaughn and blogger Paul Town who describes himself as the leading thoughtleader of.
- The site rules say abuse includes hateful conduct that promotes violence against threatens or attacks people on the basis of race ethnicity national origin sexual orientation gender gender identity religious affiliation age disability or disease.
- Before it officially is adopted however it will need to receive Royal Assent which is likely to be given before the end of to match the government intentions and ahead of existing surveillance laws expiring.
- and GCHQ collected private data for years The Home Office the department responsible for the law has said the provisions listed within it are needed to help protect the country national security and give more oversight than ever before.
- This could include downloading data from a mobile phone that is stolen or left unattended or software that tracks every keyboard letter pressed being installed on a laptop.
- Other suspended accounts include Ricky Vaughn who was previously banned after a BuzzFeed News story detailing his campaign to disenfranchise voters with false information former Business Insider CTO Pax Dickenson and John Rivers.
- Though the abuse tools were received tepidly as a small first step that was in many ways cosmetic the decision to begin to ban some of more prominent and white nationalist voices is a signal that the company may be getting serious about reclaiming its platform from trolls.
- In a statement given to BuzzFeed News Jared Taylor founder and editor of American Renaissance and advocate and Richard Spencer president of the National Policy Institute a white nationalist called purge of accounts associated with the and.
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- Twitter on Tuesday removed Spencer verified account RichardBSpencer that of his think tank the National Policy Institute npiamerica and his online magazine radixjournal.
- As a private company Twitter has no obligation to provide a forum for white nationalist views and can do what it wants said James Grimmelmann a law professor who studies social networks at Cornell University.
- Heimblach said he applied to have his account verified because he leads a political party registered with the Federal Communications Commission advocating for the best interests of white Americans.
7. After 3 wonderful years, I’ll leave @FCC at year’s end & will serve the public in a different role:
- Charles West will create a guide to help local government officials develop and implement policies and programs to improve the life outcomes of boys and men of color.
- Gigi Sohn will use storytelling techniques to help demonstrate how public policy can improve access to communications networks new technology and media for communities too often left behind in the digital age.
- Terri Gerstein will develop the capacity of state and local government agencies to improve the conditions of and immigrant workers through strategic enforcement of labor laws including through ongoing partnerships with NGOs.
- The Investigatory Powers Bill cleared its final hurdle in the House of Lords on Wednesday afternoon when peers agreed to stop a proposed press intrusion amendment between the lower and upper chambers of the Palace of Westminster.
- Ironically the Tory government has repeatedly used DRIPA expiration for political gain with ministers warning that the UK would be naked to any national security threat without any provision in law that allowed for a communications data acquisition regime to continue into.
- Key passages of the Investigatory Powers Act demand that telecoms firms retain data on the Web activity of British citizens for months to allow cops spooks and public authorities to access the information.
- Twitter on Tuesday removed Spencer verified account RichardBSpencer that of his think tank the National Policy Institute npiamerica and his online magazine radixjournal.
- As a private company Twitter has no obligation to provide a forum for white nationalist views and can do what it wants said James Grimmelmann a law professor who studies social networks at Cornell University.
- Heimblach said he applied to have his account verified because he leads a political party registered with the Federal Communications Commission advocating for the best interests of white Americans.
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