Stanley Black & Decker to buy Sears $SHLD . $SWK, $STZ, $MG, $GNCA, $CEB, $HALO

1. CEB, IT: $CEB Gartner $IT to Buy CEB Inc. for $2.6 Billion in Cash, Stock – WSJ

2. HALO:  $HALO Halozyme jumps on positive late-stage pancreatic cancer data – Fierce Biotech

3. GNCA:  $GNCA Genocea Biosciences Announces Positive Interim Analysis of GEN-003 Phase 2b Clinical Trial – SI

4. SHLD, SWK:  $SHLD Stanley Black & Decker $SWK to buy Sears Craftsman brand for about $900 million – MW

5. ALXN:  $ALXN Alexion Pharma Files 10-Q; Says Previous Financial Results Don’t Require Restatement – SI

6. ARNA:  $ARNA Arena Pharma, Eisai Amend Marketing and Supply Agreement for BELVIQ – SI

7. PLCE:  $PLCE Children’s Place Q4 Comps Up 7.3%, Raises EPS Outlook – SI

8. MON:  $MON Agriculture company Monsanto reported improved first quarter earnings – MW

9. COST:  $COST Costco Wholesale December Comps Rise 3% – SI

10. WBA: $WBA Walgreens Boots Posts Lower Profit, but Raises Low End of its Yearly Guidance – WSJ

11. SCHN: $SCHN Schnitzer Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – SI

12. DB: $DB Deutsche Bank Eyes Private Equity Help in U.S. Settlement – BBG

13. LOXO:  $LOXO Loxo Oncology prices follow-on offering of common stock – Reuters

14. KRC:  $KRC Kilroy Realty Corporation Prices Offering of Common Stock – Biz Wire

15. STZ:  $STZ Constellation earnings lifted by strong beer sales – MW

16. LB:  $LB L Brands December Comps Fall 1%, Sees EPS at Low End – SI

17. MG:  $MG MISTRAS Group Inc. Is Pulling Back After Q2 Profit Fell Short – RTT

18. MC:  $MC Moelis & Company Commences Public Offering of Class A Common Stock – Biz Wire

19. HLX:  $HLX Helix Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock – Biz Wire

20. HRTX:  $HRTX Heron Therapeutics pain candidate positive effect mid-stage studies; down on soft Sustol guidance

21. M:  . $M Macy’s To Close Stores, Cut Jobs Amid Weak Holiday Sales – NPR

22. KSS:  $KSS Kohl’s Slashes 2016 Guidance on Volatile Holiday Sales – WSJ

23. AEZS:  $AEZS Aeterna Zentaris Announces Top-Line Results of Confirmatory Ph 3 Trial of Macrilen™ – BW

1. AMTD:Instinet Upgrades TD Ameritrade $AMTD to Buy

2. CMA:JPMorgan Upgrades Comerica $CMA to Overweight

3. CMG:Chipotle lands Wedbush upgrade

4. FHN:JPMorgan Upgrades First Horizon National $FHN to Overweight

5. HCN:Mitsubishi UFJ Upgrades Health Care REIT $HCN to Overweight

6. KAMN:KeyBanc Upgrades Kaman Corporation $KAMN to Overweight

7. MA:#MasterCard upgraded from outperform to Top Pick at RBC. Price target raised from $115 to $130. $MA 1/4 close: 106.…

8. MORE:Mitsubishi UFJ Upgrades Monogram Residential Trust $MORE to Overweight

9. RJF:Instinet Upgrades Raymond James $RJF to Buy; Trump Upside Mispriced

10. TU:Telus was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at Canaccord Genuity $TU

11. TWLO:Pacific Crest Securities upgrades Twilio to Overweight

12. WDC:Western Digital upgraded to Outperform at BMO Capital Markets

1. ADC:Jefferies Downgrades Agree Realty $ADC to Hold

2. DPM:Credit Suisse Downgrades DCP Midstream Partners $DPM to Underperform

3. ENDP:$ENDP downgraded to Neutral From Buy by Citi. PT $20

4. JPM, PENN:Penn National Gaming was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at J.P. Morgan $PENN $JPM

5. LAZ:Instinet Downgrades Lazard $LAZ to Neutral

6. LZB:La-Z-Boy Inc. was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Raymond James $LZB

7. PNM:Jefferies Downgrades PNM Resources $PNM to Hold

8. SHW:Longbow Research Downgrades Sherwin-Williams $SHW to Neutral

1. RPM:$RPM reports FQ2 earnings of 52c EPS and $1.19B Revs –

2. WBA:$WBA reports FQ1 earnings of $1.10 EPS and $28.50B Revs –

3. WBA:$WBA reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $681.67M –

4. STZ:$STZ reports FQ3 earnings of $1.96 EPS and $1.81B Revs –

5. SCHN:$SCHN reports FQ1 earnings of -3c EPS and $334.16M Revs –

1. ALXN:Deutsche Bank on $ALXN after 10Q: We view “10Q as supportive of a near best-case for the long-term thesis on ALXN”

2. SHLD:Stanley Black & Decker $SWK Reaches Agreement To Purchase Craftsman Brand From Sears $SHLD

3. M:94yrs ago Macy’s IPO’ed to fund investments in tech and distribution. Now dying for lack of same… $M

4. PIRS:$PIRS $31M upfront. CC at 8.30 am ET

5. CEB:$IT Gartner To Acquire $CEB In Deal Valued Near $3.3 Bln – RTRS

6. MON:$MON Monsanto Q1 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $0.21 -Revenue: $2.65

7. DRYS:$DRYS news type of day … will be looking at mostly scalps a lot of noise, data points and futes still heavy

8. HALO:$HALO Phase 2 Study in Advanced Pancreas Cancer Meets Key Endpoints

9. OTIC:$OTIC Expects to Submit a sNDA in 1H of 2017

10. KSS:There is 23.5 square feet of retail space per person in the U.S: $M $KSS

11. GM:Some perspective on how big China is to $GM. Last year that country accounted for more than one third of the company’s global sales.

12. DBVT:New NIH guidelines on infants and peanuts may contradict everything you’ve heard before $AIMT $DBVT

1. Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces Immunotherapy Clinical Collaboration with Janssen to Evaluate Opdivo (nivolumab) in Combination with Darzalex (daratumumab)

2. zach on Twitter

3. Halozyme jumps on positive late-stage pancreatic cancer data | FierceBiotech

4. Dismal holiday sales at Macy’s, Kohl’s spell gloom for sector

5. Synthetic Biologics’ SYN-004 (ribaxamase) Achieves Primary Endpoint in Phase 2b Trial for C. difficile Infection (CDI)

6. U.S. Spending More on Specialty Drugs Under Medicare

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2. My word. Why ever would they be hesitant to share salary data with anti-discrimination auditors?

In recent years major technology companies have begun to make public commitments to hire more women and minorities but progress has been slow.

As a federal contractor Google is barred from discriminating based on race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or against military veterans.

In September it filed an administrative lawsuit alleging a pattern of discrimination against Asian job applicants at Palantir a data mining company valued at billion and by technology investor and Trump adviser Peter Thiel.

3. Medium, in 2012: we want to create a ‘new model’ for online publishing Medium today: ad-based publishing is broken

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There so much stacked against you as an entrepreneur that you just have to will yourself to the next phase.

4. Medium didn’t give its publishing partners a heads-up before announcing it would stop selling native ads:

AM EST.

By Rich Lowry.

Trump attorney general nominee will likely prevail but his name will be dragged through the gutter.

5. Medium: we have years worth of runway, but the wings fell off our plane:

The reality again perhaps hard to see in the midst of such numbers is that it behooves no one to simply continue down a path if you know the end result ultimately going to be successful.

But just as vital is continuing to innovate on core product and experience while also building a sustainable model to make sure that all sides publishers and readers are deriving value actual value from the content for the.

The moves today will simply refocus the team to continue exploring the correct model for publishing heading forward into an uncertain future.

6. The arc of the media universe is long, and bends toward, “Turns out, we have no idea how to make money on this.”

While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.

As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.

The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.

7. this is huge: turns out ads are used by corporations to advance their goals. thank god we have these titans of tech

While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.

As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.

The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.

8. Medium feels like 2008 YouTube—creative work abounds but no one gets paid. Looking forward to what they come up with

While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.

As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.

The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.

9. The downside of having a central authority choose what software you’re allowed to install on your device.

Sainz declined to comment on what local regulations the Times apps were said to have violated who had contacted Apple and when and whether a court order or other legal document had been presented.

Farzana Aslam associate director of the Center for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong noted that in matters involving customer privacy Apple requires governments to submit subpoenas search warrants or other legal documents.

Mark Natkin the managing director of Marbridge Consulting who advises American technology firms in China said he did not think any such company entering the Chinese market could fully comprehend how challenging going to.

10. “ad-driven media” is getting beat up a too much. it’s still more often than not the best publisher business model.

While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.

As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.

The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.