PRE-MARKET | December 06, 2016 | $AAPL, $AMZN, $AZO, $VZ, $CVS, $CL_F, $NFLX

1. TXMD: $TXMD TherapeuticsMD Soars On Positive Menopause Drug Clinical Trial Results – IBD

2. NVCN:  $NVCN Neovasc Updates on Tiara TMV Program; Reports Technical Success Rate of 86% – SI

3. COUP:  $COUP Coupa Software Earnings, Guidance Top Wall Street Expectations – IBD

4. SAGE:  $SAGE SAGE Therapeutics Expedites Development of SAGE-547 Following FDA Meeting Minutes – SI

5. BOBE:  $BOBE Bob Evans reports fiscal 2017 Q2 results and updates fiscal 2017 guidance – Reuters

6. CONN:  $CONN Conn’s, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2017 Financial Results – Biz Wire

7. CLNE:  $CLNE Clean Energy Fuels Awarded Two New Fueling Station Construction Projects – SI

8. P:  $P Oppenheimer Upgrades Pandora to Outperform, $18 PT Aegis Initiates w Buy, $16 PT

9. UBS:  $UBS Morgan Stanley Upgrades UBS AG to Overweight

10. DAL:  $DAL Delta Air Lines Added to US 1 List at BofA/ML, $66 PT

11. AZO:  $AZO AutoZone Revenue Grows as It Opens More Stores – WSJ

12. UAL:  $UAL BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades United Continental to Buy, $85 PT

13. TOL:  $TOL Luxury home builder Toll Brothers revenue beats estimates for fifth quarter in a row – CNBC

14. AZN:  $AZN AstraZeneca pill slashes lung cancer progression in study – Reuters

15. EQIX, VZ:  $VZ Equinix $EQIX to buy 24 data center sites from Verizon in $3.6 billion deal – VB

16. NFLX:  $NFLX Evercore ISI Upgrades Netflix to Hold; Competition Gaining Little Traction, $111 PT

17. CVS:  $CVS CVS Health Added to US 1 List at BofA/ML

18. ROP: $ROP Roper Technologies to buy software firm Deltek in $2.8 billion deal – Reuters

19. GDDY: $GDDY GoDaddy to Buy Host Europe Group – WSJ

20. CG, MCD: $MCD Carlyle Consortium $CG Nears Deal to Buy McDonald’s China Franchise – WSJ

21. LSCC: $LSCC U.S. Lawmakers Urge Rejection of China-Linked Purchase of Lattice Semiconductor – WSJ

22. KKR: $KKR Optiv Security to Be Acquired By KKR – Biz Wire

23. AMZN, KR: $KR Amazon $AMZN Could Open Over 2,000 Brick-and Mortar Groceries if Tests Succeed – DJ; Kroger on Watch

24. JNJ, SNY: $SNY Sanofi to Explore Counterbid for Actelion Amid J&J Talks $JNJ – BBG

25. REI:  $REI Ring Energy, Inc. Announces Common Stock Offering – Biz Wire

26. STWD:  $STWD Starwood Property Trust Prices 17.8M Share Stock Offering for Proceeds of ~$394.3M – SI

27. ASUR:  $ASUR Asure Software, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – Nasdaq

28. LXRX:  $LXRX Lexicon’s sotagliflozin flunks mid-stage study – SA

29. TEVA:  $TEVA Teva Pharma Appoints New Global Generic Medicines Group CEO; FY16 Guidance Affirmed – SI

30. TEVA:  $TEVA Teva names Bhattacharjee as generics group head, replacing Olafsson – Reuters

31. FET:  $FET Forum Energy Technologies Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock – Biz Wire

32. RCII:  $RCII Rent-A-Center VP of Finance, CFO and Treasurer Guy Constant Resigns – Street Insider

33. MIK:  $MIK Michaels Misses Q3 EPS by 3c, Comps Fall 2%; Lowers Outlook, Announces $300M Stock Buyback – SI

34. SB:  $SB Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – MarketWired

1. HSBC, MS:HSBC Holdings was Upgraded to a Hold Rating at Morgan Stanley $HSBC $MS

2. NFLX:$NFLX Evercore ISI Upgrades Netflix to Hold; Competition Gaining Little Traction, $111 PT

3. NGL:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades NGL ENERGY $NGL to Buy

4. P:$P Oppenheimer Upgrades Pandora to Outperform, $18 PT Aegis Initiates w Buy, $16 PT

5. UAL:$UAL BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades United Continental to Buy, $85 PT

6. UBS:$UBS Morgan Stanley Upgrades UBS AG to Overweight

1. ESNT:Essent Group was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at BTIG $ESNT

2. IRTC:BTIG Downgrades iRhythm Technologies $IRTC to Neutral

3. NKE:$NKE downgraded to Market Perform at Cowen & Co

4. NOV:Guggenheim Downgrades National-Oilwell Varco $NOV to Neutral

5. OSK:Longbow Research Downgrades Oshkosh $OSK to Neutral

6. RCII:Raymond James Downgrades Rent-A-Center $RCII to Market Perform

7. RES:Guggenheim Downgrades RPC Inc. $RES to Neutral

1. BA:It’s $BA’s turn in the spotlight

2. SNCR:$SNCR halted, news pending

3. T:AT&T’s Stephenson: DirecTV Now hit its December subscriber forecast last Wednesday on its launch day. $T

4. P:Oppenheimer Upgrades Pandora $P to Outperform

5. SAGE:$SAGE Announces Expedited Development Plan For SAGE-547 In The Treatment Of Postpartum Depression Based On FDA Breakthrough Therapy Meeting

6. CHK:Indigo sold $CHK ~15-20k acres for around 350mm in Haynesville boom if memory serves me. Getting 4x land and produc…

7. MDGN:$MDGN initiated with a Buy at H.C. Wainwright. $14 TP

8. CMG:Chipotle management said its sales haven’t recovered as much as they previously predicted $CMG

1. Donald J. Trump on Twitter

2. Updated KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Data in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma Presented at 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer

3. Quoth the Raven on Twitter

4. DEALTALK-Trump’s corporate tax holiday could spur pharma M&A

Our shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in cars computer vision sensor fusion and deep learning.

We offer delicious breakfast lunch dinner and snack options made fresh every day by our chefs and favorite local kitchens and bakeries.

Our selection of grocery essentials ranges from staples like bread and milk to artisan cheeses and locally made chocolates.

The tech giant has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in cars to allow shoppers to come in grab items and walk out without going through a register.

The Wall Street Journal has reported citing people familiar with the matter that success in its experiments could lead Amazon to open more than stores in various formats.

One example is Starbucks a global retail empire been banking on an increasingly robust smartphone app to lure consumers into its loyalty program and payment system.

Of course they also predicted Bill Clinton will die this year said are violent and generally impulsive but they are not all bad and also claimed that financier George Soros instructs and influences every layer of US government.

A conspiracy theorist who pulled these things into a post and used them to claim has emerged from the Clinton email investigation that a massive child trafficking and pedophile sex ring operates in.

Ending the Fed is the website that briefly achieved fame when Trending algorithm promoted its false report about Fox News host Megyn Kelly being fired.

This method called deep learning leans heavily on the vast data sets that private technology companies own and that are used to train computers to do simple tasks such as match patterns or recognize faces in photographs.

Marcus who helped found Geometric Intelligence in late said the gist of his philosophy goes something like this Instead of training machines by feeding them enormous amounts of data what if computers were capable of learning more like humans by extrapolating a system of rules from just a few or even a single example.

Labs to apply its method to other tasks including combating fraud extracting information from street signs and learning to improve its mapping research and capabilities.

This hub will operate much like Google Brain the team that drives AI research for the search giant and FAIR lab which does much the same thing for Mark Zuckerberg and company.

What is has done is assemble a team of fifteen researchers who can be very useful to Uber including Stanford professor Noah Goodman who specializes in cognitive science and a field called probabilistic programming and University of Jeff Clune an expert in deep neural networks who has also explored robots that can themselves.

Deep neural pattern recognition systems that can learn tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data rapidly reinvented the likes of Google and Facebook.

Eighteen months ago Recode spotted an Amazon patent that laid out the vision for a new type of retail store with no lines and no cashiers.

Amazon says it is using a combination of AI computer vision and data pulled from multiple sensors to allow customers to only be charged for the stuff they grab.

The computer vision part seems to indicate that there are cameras being used to track you in the store which some shoppers could find.

founded the company on the premise that many of our complex social problems are becoming increasingly stuck he said referring to issues like climate change and access to food.

it comes to imagining what the future will be like a lot of that is fun and entertaining but it bear a great deal of resemblance to the systems that we are building he said.

The company is working with the National Health Service NHS in the UK on a project around the early detection of acute kidney injuries.

The tech giant has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in cars to allow shoppers to come in grab items and walk out without going through a register.

The Wall Street Journal has reported citing people familiar with the matter that success in its experiments could lead Amazon to open more than stores in various formats.

One example is Starbucks a global retail empire been banking on an increasingly robust smartphone app to lure consumers into its loyalty program and payment system.

Congress has passed a law protecting the right of US consumers to post negative online reviews without fear of retaliation from companies.

By ending gag clauses this legislation supports consumer rights and the integrity of critical feedback about products and services sold online Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune.

Reviews on where to shop eat or stay on websites like Yelp or TripAdvisor help consumers make informed choices about where to spend their money said Brian Schatz.

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Amazon Go is a new kind of store featuring the most advanced shopping technology.

No lines no checkout just grab and go.