PRE-MARKET | November 30, 2016 | #OPEC, $CL_F, $SCO, $USO, $ES_F, $TLT, $AMZN, $SPLK, $GE, $GPRO

1. SPLK: $SPLK Splunk Surges 7% on FYQ3 Beat – Barron’s

2. DL:  $DL China Distance Education Tops Q4 EPS by 9c – Street Insider

3. PZZA, WING:  $WING Wingstopwill replace Papa John’s International $PZZA in the S&P SmallCap 600

4. KMI:  $KMI Trudeau Approves Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline – BBG

5. GPRO:  $GPRO GoPro to cut 15% of jobs in restructuring; president Bates leaving – CNBC

6. CE:  $CE Goldman Sachs Upgrades Celanese to Buy, $92 PT

7. GS:  $GS Deutsche Bank Upgrades Goldman Sachs to Buy, $255 PT

8. MAA, OI:  $MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities will replace Owens-Illinois $OI in the S&P 500, after close 12/1

9. AMSG, LM:  $AMSG AmSurg will replace Legg Mason $LM in the S&P 500, after the close Thurs 12/1 – SI

10. ZAYO: $ZAYO Zayo to buy Electric Lightwave for $1.4 billion – Reuters

11. PPS, PZZA: $PZZA Papa John’s will replace Post Properties $PPS in the S&P MidCap 400

12. WMS: $WMS Advanced Drainage Systems to Restate Prior Period Financial Statements – Biz Wire

13. GWRE: $GWRE Guidewire Software Tops Q1 EPS by 7c, Offers Q2 & FY Guidance – Street Insider

14. ADSK: $ADSK Autodesk outlook disappoints; revenue declines – MarketWatch

15. H:  $H Hyatt Hotels Falls as 6M Share Block For Sale – Street Insider

16. RBS:  $RBS RBS emerges as biggest failure in tough UK bank stress tests – FT

17. EVH:  $EVH Evolent Health, Inc. Announces Pricing of $110.0 Million of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2021

18. NTNX:  $NTNX Nutanix hits skids after losses jump in first post-IPO earnings report – MarketWatch

19. AEO:  $AEO American Eagle Outfitters shares sink on weak outlook – MarketWatch

20. ARWR:  $ARWR Arrowhead Pharma shares plummet 60% on discontinued drug development – MW

1. ABUS:$ABUS upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Chardan PT $4

2. CE:$CE Goldman Sachs Upgrades Celanese to Buy, $92 PT

3. GS:$GS Deutsche Bank Upgrades Goldman Sachs to Buy, $255 PT

4. MAA:Mid-America Apartment catches upgrade at BMO

5. UNH:$UNH Upgraded at Mizuho UBS raising PT 180 to 193 Citi raising PT 164 to 178 Cowen Raising PT 150 to 175 Oppenheimer raising PT 161 to 171

1. ABAX:Northcoast Research Downgrades Abaxis Inc. $ABAX to Neutral

2. ARWR:William Blair Downgrades Arrowhead Research $ARWR to Market Perform

3. BOOT:Baird Downgrades Boot Barn $BOOT to Neutral

4. FCX:$FCX downgraded to Sell at Berenberg

5. FFIV:Bernstein Downgrades F5 Networks $FFIV to Market Perform

6. MANT:Maxim Group Downgrades ManTech $MANT to Hold

1. TITN:$TITN reports FQ3 earnings of -1c EPS and $332.27M Revs –

2. AEO:$AEO reports FQ3 earnings of 41c EPS and $940.61M Revs –

1. USO:OPEC agrees to cut output by 1.2M barrels per day – Bloomberg citing delegate $USO $OIL

2. GS:Goldman Sachs Is ‘Well Positioned For Stronger Macro Environment’; Deutsche Bank Upgrades To Buy $GS

1. Biotech Stock Mailbag: Looking for an investable idea in Alzheimer’s minefield

2. Javier Blas on Twitter

3. OPEC Cut Output in Bid to End Record Glut

4. OPEC Said Close to Deal on First Oil Supply Cut in Eight Years

5. OPEC agrees first oil output cuts since 2008: source

6. Challenges on Twitter

7. Oil prices surge 7% as source says OPEC has agreed to plan to cut output

8. GoPro to Cut 15% of Jobs Amid Restructuring

9. Philip Morris CEO looks towards phasing out cigarettes: BBC

10. Press Release | Spark Therapeutics

1. New Firefox/Tor Browser 0-day vulnerability discovered in the wild (being exploited against Tor users).

It consists of one HTML and one CSS file both pasted below and also.

The exact functionality is unknown but it getting access to VirtualAlloc in and goes from there.

I had to break the thecode line in two in order to post remove in the middle to restore it.

2. New Investigatory Powers Act gives police, security & intelligence agencies powers they need to keep public safe:

A landmark bill which sets out and governs the powers available to the police security and intelligence agencies to gather and access electronic communications has received Royal Assent.

In receiving Royal Assent the government has fulfilled its commitment to pass the legislation before the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act DRIPA sunsets on December.

I want to pay tribute to the independent reviewers organisations and Parliamentarians of all parties for their rigorous scrutiny of this important law which is vital for the safety and security of our families communities and country.

3. Mozilla: “We’ve found the bug being used and are working on a patch”

On Tue Nov at firstwatch at wrote This is an Javascript exploit Thanks.

I pointed some folks on irc to this mail and Daniel Veditz Mozilla Security Team said the Firefox team was sent a copy of that this morning.

And somewhere in there people will look at the bug and see whether they think it really does apply to Tor Browser.

4. The FBI, NSA and CIA are likely to gain new surveillance powers under Trump

You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter The fights expected to play out in the coming months in Senate confirmation hearings and through executive action legislation and litigation also will set up an early test of relationship with Silicon Valley giants including Apple and Alphabet Google.

James Comey director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said he also wants to renew a debate early next year about whether Apple and other companies can resist court warrants seeking to unlock encrypted communications.

While the FBI dropped that case against Apple after buying a tool to hack into the phone the increasing use of encryption on mobile devices and messaging services remains a challenge to national security and law enforcement agencies.

5. Introducing real-time co-authoring in PowerPoint on Windows Desktop. Learn more:

6. Our founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee answers 3 questions on the #IPBill, now passed into law:

Image copyrightThinkstockImage caption The UK internet service providers will need to install new equipment to log their customers net habits The Investigatory Powers Bill will get royal assent on Tuesday.

The fact that it has attracted more than signatures means that it will get debated in Parliament but there seems little chance of ministers taking any more notice than they did of the call for an exploration vessel to be named Boaty McBoatface.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesThe most contentious part of the forthcoming law is a requirement that communication providers keep a log of their customers net browsing behaviour for a year.

7. So many #driverless questions raised by this exchange: U.S. letter reveals details of GM self-driving vehicle system

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA said in a letter to GM that it was permissible for the automaker to automatically activate hazard lights if a driver fails to respond to alerts by a vehicle that has brought itself to a stop but it raised concerns that the system is safe.

GM monitoring system has facial recognition software that can detect if a driver is falling asleep or not paying attention spokesman Kevin Kelly said Monday.

Concerns about vehicles that drive themselves for limited periods were raised after the May death of Ohio technology company owner Joshua Brown in a Tesla Motors Inc Model S while the car Autopilot system was engaged.

8. Powerful piece by @brianpaddick – proud that @libdems voted against but why is Labour so quiet, & abstaining, again!

Well I do not need to ask you because the government is passing a law about to finish its final stages in parliament that will force your internet service provider whether it be Virgin Media Sky or BT to keep that list for you.

Would you then be surprised to hear that in parliament on Monday the chief executive of TalkTalk Dido Harding now a Conservative baroness and voted in favour of storing her own web histories so they could be handed over to the police on demand.

Would you be equally surprised that while Diane Abbott the shadow home secretary said on Tuesday that the new law the investigatory powers bill was and that the legislation her Labour party colleagues in the House of Lords were voting with the Tory government against a Liberal Democrat amendment that would have stopped connection ICRs aka your web history being stored by the internet companies.

9. #IPBill “one of the worst examples in democratic world of government trampling on human rights online” – @AFJellema

Rudd the UK Home Secretary described the Investigatory Powers Bill as.

She is right only in that it sets out one of the worst examples in the democratic world of government trampling on human rights online legalising the sweeping abuses under PRISM revealed by Edward Snowden.

everything you do online can be spied on by a long list of government agencies will inevitably take away some of our precious freedom to use the web as a space for exploration and dissent.

10. …I called it first :p

The feature is new to mobile devices though Twitter previously brought this design to the web in June.

The new design also includes conversation counts so you can see which tweets are generating the most abuse and harassment at a glance.

Twitter is a free app and you can download it on Android and iOS if you want.