PRE-MARKET | December 09, 2016 | $AAPL, $GOLD, $KATE, $TSLA, $FNSR, $GIMO, $AZN, $WYNN, $MGM

1. IDXG: $IDXG :Interpace Diagnostics Reports Favorable Coverage Policy for ThyraMir at Aetna – SI

2. SBGL, SWC:  $SWC South Africa’s Sibanye Gold $SBGL to Buy Stillwater Mining for $2.2B in Latest Platinum Push – WSJ

3. FNSR:  $FNSR Finisar Rising: FYQ2 Beats, Q3 View Beats on ’100G’ Momentum – Baron’s

4. AVGO:  $AVGO Broadcom Doubles Dividend, Q1 Rev View Tops Consensus – Barron’s

5. GIMO:  $GIMO DA Davidson Upgrades Gigamon to Buy, $60 PT

6. MNOV:  $MNOV MediciNova Announces Exploratory Interim Clinical Outcomes Data from Clinical Trial of MN-166 – GN

7. AZN, LLY:  $AZN Eli Lilly $LLY and AstraZeneca to co-develop Alzheimer’s Disease treatment – MW

8. WCN:  $WCN KeyBanc Upgrades Waste Connections Inc. to Overweight, $85 PT

9. ADSK:  $ADSK Canaccord Genuity Upgrades Autodesk to Buy, $95 PT

10. AIXG: $AIXG Aixtron considers partial sell-off after Chinese deal blocked – Reuters

11. AAPL: $AAPL Apple files patent for autonomous vehicle collision avoidance system – appleinsider

12. GLPG: $GLPG Galapagos NV Commences Dosing in SELECTION Phase 2b/3; Milestone Payment Triggered – SI

13. HDSN: $HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock – Biz Wire

14. TSLA:  $TSLA Samsung Is Reportedly Going to Start Supplying Chips to Tesla – Fortune

15. AFL:  $AFL RBC Capital Downgrades AFLAC to Underperform, $65 PT

16. LBAI:  $LBAI Lakeland Bancorp Announces “At-The-Market” Offering of Common Stock – GN

17. ANF:  $ANF Argus Downgrades Abercrombie & Fitch to Sell

18. FRO:  $FRO Frontline Says Thinking About Offering $100M of Common Stock – Street insider

19. BCS:  $BCS BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades Barclays to Underperform

20. FRED:  $FRED Fred’s Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results, November Sales – Biz Wire

21. NCS:  $NCS NCI Building Systems Reports Fourth Fiscal Quarter and 2016 Fiscal Year End Results – PRN

22. USAC:  $USAC USA Compression prices offering of 4.5 mln shares at $16.25

23. CLSD:  $CLSD Form S-1/A Clearside Biomedical, – Street Insider

24. RH:  $RH Restoration Hardware Tops Q3 EPS by 4c; Guides Well Below the Street – SI

25. DLTH:  $DLTH Duluth Holdings shares drop as outlook cut – MarketWatch

26. XTLY:  $XTLY Xactly Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2017 Financial Results – Biz Wire

1. ADSK:$ADSK Canaccord Genuity Upgrades Autodesk to Buy, $95 PT

2. AZN:Leerink Partners Upgrades AstraZeneca $AZN to Outperform

3. EROS:Wells Fargo Upgrades Eros International Plc $EROS to Outperform

4. GIMO:$GIMO DA Davidson Upgrades Gigamon to Buy, $60 PT

5. PCAR:JPMorgan Upgrades PACCAR $PCAR to Neutral

6. WCN:$WCN KeyBanc Upgrades Waste Connections Inc. to Overweight, $85 PT

1. AFL:$AFL RBC Capital Downgrades AFLAC to Underperform, $65 PT

2. ANF:$ANF Argus Downgrades Abercrombie & Fitch to Sell

3. BCS:$BCS BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades Barclays to Underperform

4. BXP:Citi Downgrades Boston Properties Inc. $BXP to Neutral

5. DLTH:William Blair Downgrades Duluth Holdings Inc to Hold $DLTH

6. HLT:CLSA Downgrades Hilton Worldwide $HLT to Outperform

7. IL:Ladenburg Thalmann Downgrades IntraLinks Holdings $IL to Neutral

8. MTW:JPMorgan Downgrades Manitowoc $MTW to Underweight

9. OSK:JPMorgan Downgrades Oshkosh $OSK to Neutral

10. SON:Sonoco Products was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Argus Research $SON

1. MTN:$MTN reports FQ1 earnings of $-1.70 EPS and $178.27M Revs –

2. FGP:$FGP reports FQ1 earnings of -44c EPS and $379.54M Revs –

1. SGYP:$SGYP – Announces Positive Results in First Phase 3 Trial of Plecanatide in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation

2. LLY:$LLY $AZN Lilly and AstraZeneca to Develop Second Potentially Disease-Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease -Dow Jones

3. KO:Coca Cola $KO Announces James Quincey to Succeed Muhtar Kent as CEO

4. MGM:Did you miss last night’s Mad Money? Check out @JimCramer’s top takeaways: $MGM

5. IBB:Post-election gains almost erased for US #biotech companies $NBI $IBB $XBI

6. AVGO:$AVGO Broadcom Doubles Dividend, Q1 Rev View Tops Consensus – Barron’s

1. ECB Said to Reject Monte Paschi Bid for More Time on Capital

2. Trump Team’s Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy

3. Exclusive: ECB rejects Monte Paschi’s request for more time to raise cash – source

4. Lilly and AstraZeneca to Develop Second Potentially Disease-Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (NYSE:LLY)

5. Year’s Best Miner Cliffs Says Trump to Keep Good Times Rolling

6. Early movers: LVS, MGM, WYNN, RH, AFL, MTN & more

7. OPEC Oil Deal Faces Test as Cartel Tries to Pin Down Russia on Details of Cuts

8. dough on Twitter

1. Starting today, developers can build for the Google Assistant! Learn more at

2. NEW COVER: How Google budgets its moonshot factory

Critics including more than a dozen former top Google executives who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements describe a company having trouble balancing innovation and its core business search advertising.

Two years earlier for instance Google had spent billion to buy Nest explaining the acquisition as part of a plan to create an ambitious hardware division led by Fadell the former Apple engineer known for building the original iPod prototype.

Wearing several earrings two hair scrunchies Rollerblades and a shirt with a pattern that improbably combines paisley and plaid Teller describes a between discipline and freedom disputing the contention that the Other Bets have been subjected to unwanted scrutiny from Porat and denying that losing steam.

3. YouTube has taken steps to mend fences with the music industry. But the fight is far from over.

Several musicians including Katy Perry shown performing at a gala during the Cannes Film Festival this year have complained bitterly about YouTube and the copyright laws that apply to Andreas Images YouTube the latest target of the music battle over royalties and control has taken steps this week to mend fences and show that it is a good partner.

The settlement is estimated to be worth more than million according to two people with knowledge of the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private terms.

Also this week YouTube announced that over the last months it had paid billion in royalties from advertising revenue which it shares with people and companies that upload content to its platform.

4. A great farewell to newspaper reporting from @markoff. The best reporter on tech for longer than I can remember.

For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.

heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.

Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.

5. If anything should be open-sourced, not patented, it’s this:

Facebook has more or less dismissed the idea of letting the workers who review pornography and bullying content assess the truthfulness of news articles largely because of the difficulty in establishing clear standards.

some hoaxes can be completely debunked a greater amount of content including from mainstream sources often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or Moreover most people believe the fake news that they say is true undermining efforts to use them to report bad links.

Today the company says it links that many users have reported as false but the penalty appears to be minor in many cases it prevented fake stories from racking up tens of thousands of shares and millions of page views.

6. The guy who inspired all of us: “I Covered Tech for the Times for 28 Years, And Now My Time Is Over” by @markoff

For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.

heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.

Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.

7. Is Magic Leap the next Theranos? Sad if so.

Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.

8. Listen to John @markoff, who taught the rest of us how to do tech journalism:

For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.

heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.

Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.

9. “Fake news will come and go, but an independent press will always be the bedrock of a democracy.”

For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.

heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.

Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.

10. Developers can start making stuff for Google Home now, but actions will come to early next year 1/

Making a decent conversational bot is hard so Google is suggesting services like its own which is meant to simplify the process for developers.

Google has a lot of education to do surrounding these actions a weird and new kind of audio thing that sits somewhere between a website a chat bot and an app.

But those philosophical ecosystem concerns feel especially urgent at this early stage Google just needs to get the new actions for Home working and out the door to consumers.