Apple at all TIME HIGH with 20%+ YTD as it launches a new IPAD | $AAPL, $DIS, $WMT, $AMZN, $NFLX

Apple ($AAPL) has been a solid performer in 2017 with 20%+ year to date solid gains, we have been long in core position and also we added to our trading portfolio yesterday (march 20, 2017) $AAPL April 21, 2017 142 CALLS at… looking for a new time high..we are still looking for 161 as one of the targets for $AAPL. We will post in Chat Room

1. PTIE: $PTIE Pain Therapeutics Announces Positive Regulatory Guidance for REMOXY™ ER – GN

2. HTBX:  $HTBX Heat Biologics Announces Positive Interim Phase 2 Data – SI

3. ATNM:  $ATNM Actinium Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from EU Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

4. FRAN:  $FRAN Francesca’s Holdings tops Street 4Q forecasts – AP

5. DB:  $DB Justice Dept. closed investigation into Deutsche Bank currency manipulation – CNN

6. DB:  $DB Deutsche Bank Said to Face Regulatory Fines Over Currency Trades – BBG

7. AUPH:  $AUPH Aurinia Closes US$173.1 Million Public Offering – BW

8. OCUL:  $OCUL Ocular Therapeutix CFO Resigns – SI

9. WMT:  $WMT Walmart Expands Its E-Commerce Ambitions With a New Investment Arm – Dealbook

10. PPG: $PPG PPG Said to Prepare New Akzo Bid After $22.4 Billion Failed – BBG

11. LE: $LE Lands’ End reports wider loss, but adjusted profit beats expectations – MW

12. AKAO: $AKAO Ian R. Friedland, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Achaogen Resigns – SI

13. LEN: $LEN Lennar beats profit and sales expectations as home deliveries increase – MW

14. SSH:  $SSH Sunshine Heart files for offering of Class A units of up to $5 mln – Reuters

15. GBDC:  $GBDC Golub Capital BDC, Inc. Announces Public Offering – PRN

16. MMSI:  $MMSI Merit Medical Announces Commencement of Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

17. GIS:  $GIS General Mills Falls as Third-Quarter Revenue Misses Estimates – BBG

18. CALA:  $CALA Calithera Biosciences, Inc. Offering 4.5M shares – GN

19. DB:  $DB CORRECTION Deutsche Bank down 5% in premarket, we have some bad closing prices in system

20. GEL:  $GEL Genesis Energy Prices 4M Share Public Offering – SI

21. LJPC:  $LJPC La Jolla Pharmaceutical Plans $100M Common Stock Offering – SI

22. CSIQ:  $CSIQ Canadian Solar Inc. Bottom Line Drops 77% In Q4 – Nasdaq

1. CCL:Carnival Corp was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at William Blair $CCL

2. PGR:Sandler O’Neill Upgrades Progressive to Buy $PGR

3. TECK:$TECK coming off Support at $20 could rally to $25-26 use $19 as a STOP upgraded to buy today @ Deutsche Bank

4. WYNN:Yesterday takeover rumors & today Aegis upgraded $WYNN to Buy . Target increased to $125 from $95 Funny market

1. CAG, CPB:Bernstein analysts downgrade a slew of consumer staples stocks to UNDERPERFORM from prior market perform, incl: $CAG $CPB $GIS $K $SJM

2. GNMX:$GNMX downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies. PT $2.50

1. LEN:$LEN reports FQ1 earnings of 59c EPS and $2.34B Revs –

2. GIS:$GIS reports FQ3 earnings of 72c EPS and $3.79B Revs –

3. FRAN:$FRAN reports FQ4 earnings of 39c EPS and $146.35M Revs –

4. CSIQ:$CSIQ reports FQ4 earnings of 24c EPS and $668.43M Revs –

5. CCE:$CCE reports FQ4 earnings of 46c EPS and $2.78B Revs –

1. WYNN:David Bain, ex Sterne Agee upgrading $WYNN to BUY from Neutral , price tgt to $121 from $95

2. GIS:General Mills $GIS Tops Q3 EPS by 1c, Sales Light; Reaffirms

3. ATNM:$ATNM Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from the European Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

1. Aurinia Closes US$173.1 Million Public Offering of Common Shares and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Common Shares

2. Goldman to move hundreds of staff from London pre-Brexit: Europe CEO

3. Deutsche Bank Said to Face Regulatory Fines Over Currency Trades

4. Apple launches new 9.7-Inch iPad for $329

5. Tillerson no-show at NATO renews European disquiet about Trump

6. Actinium Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from the European Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

1. This will have enormous economic impact. It is also a direct attack on so-called “skills based” immigration

A representative of Saudi Arabian Airlines based at JFK International Airport in New York told BuzzFeed News that the ban begins immediately and covers all electronic devices excluding cell phones.

intelligence indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressively pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items.

All these countries are US allies many of them crucial ones Turkey is a NATO member Egypt is the recipient of American military aid and Qatar hosts the forward operating headquarters of the US Central Command.

2. We know brands want more choice about where their ads appear. How we’re expanding safeguards for advertisers →

why we been conducting an extensive review of our advertising policies and tools and why we made a public commitment last week to put in place changes that would give brands more control over where their ads appear.

also tighten safeguards to ensure that ads show up only against legitimate creators in our YouTube Partner Program opposed to those who impersonate other channels or violate our community guidelines.

We be hiring significant numbers of people and developing new tools powered by our latest advancements in AI and machine learning to increase our capacity to review questionable content for advertising.

3. Merger of Vodafone India unit and Idea Cellular to create company twice as big as AT&T

Cost savings for the merged unit will help it challenge billionaire Mukesh Reliance Jio Infocomm which has spurred consolidation after offering free calls and data since last year.

deal should be viewed as a positive giving Vodafone and Idea scale to help reduce costs Saeed Baradar a telecoms sales specialist at Louis Capital Markets UK said in a note.

The agreement shows that Vodafone increasingly becoming a holding company is willing to relinquish partial control of its most troubled assets Stephane Beyazian an analyst with Raymond James in London wrote in a note.

4. After weeks of testing, DoorDash robot delivery begins this Thursday in Redwood City:

DoorDash is putting a small fleet of delivery robots into action for the first time in Redwood City California following weeks of tests.

The robots built by a company called Starship Technologies are about the size of a golden retriever and roll around sidewalks with relative ease.

Though a significant amount of attention has been directed towards autonomous driving as a potential job killer specifically for long haul trucking delivery robots appear poised to go mainstream much sooner.

5. If you’re going to ban any particular people from having computers because of security, wouldn’t it be Russians?

US authorities have secretly required airlines from eight nations to forbid passengers from carrying any electronic or electrical device larger than a cellphone.

The lack of specificity leaves airlines in the dark as to whether their employees will be cited or otherwise punished for performing the vital functions of aircraft crew as usual.

Royal Jordanian airways notifies its passengers that they will not be allowed to have tablet computers laptops or game consoles on flights to and from the US Photograph Sam In a tweet from its official account Saudia also warned its customers that new security measures were introduced by the TSA and would be enforced from Tuesday.

6. “We’re not a photo sharing company,” says @Kevin Systrom, the CEO of @Instagram.

The story of how Systrom and cofounder Mike Krieger went from coding Instagram at a tech incubator on San Pier in to selling their startup months later to Facebook for more than million remains a Silicon Valley fairy tale.

big change happened when we decided to go says Systrom who with his beard quilted blazer and wooden water bottle has a sense of style befitting the cocreator of a tool for sharing beautiful photography.

Today Systrom says the mission is relationships through shared The idea underpinning this goal is that Instagram should offer users a more overt and unvarnished way to connect through the universal language of broadcast moments and not just snapshots.

7. Surely it’s no coincidence that @Apple new iMessage Stickers ad is basically an AR demo:

Run by a former Dolby Laboratories executive the group includes engineers who worked on the Oculus and HoloLens virtual reality headsets sold by Facebook and Microsoft as well as wizards from Hollywood.

Among them the people say Cody White former lead engineer of Amazon Lumberyard virtual reality platform Duncan McRoberts Meta former director of software development Yury Petrov a former Oculus researcher and Avi who worked on the HoloLens and Google Earth.

The company has also mined the movie industry animation ranks the people said opening a Wellington office and luring several employees from Weta Digital the New Zealand shop that worked on King Kong Avatar and other films.

8. The directive will impact over a dozen airlines flying into the US.

The intelligence community has been tracking this threat for some time but the official said that some information from a recent Special Forces raid in Yemen contributed to the ongoing concern.

Emirates another big carrier from the UAE said it had yet received any notification but would comply with any new operational or regulatory requirements issued by the relevant authorities.

Saudi Arabian Airlines told its customers in a statement on Twitter that new measures from the Transportation Security Administration include a ban on laptops and tablets like iPads and Kindles in baggage on flights to the.

9. Google: “We’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content” #funding #hatespeech

So starting today taking a tougher stance on hateful offensive and derogatory content Philipp Schindler chief business officer wrote in a blog announcing the changes late Monday night.

The moves are aimed at rebutting criticism the search giant has not done enough to curb hate speech online but they also thrust Google further into a heated public debate over censorship and political ideologies.

Its prior ads policy was fairly boilerplate restricting content that contains harassment and incites violence against groups based on race religion or gender identity.

10. Hidden in this article is mention that Apple has opened a Wellington office

Run by a former Dolby Laboratories executive the group includes engineers who worked on the Oculus and HoloLens virtual reality headsets sold by Facebook and Microsoft as well as wizards from Hollywood.

Among them the people say Cody White former lead engineer of Amazon Lumberyard virtual reality platform Duncan McRoberts Meta former director of software development Yury Petrov a former Oculus researcher and Avi who worked on the HoloLens and Google Earth.

The company has also mined the movie industry animation ranks the people said opening a Wellington office and luring several employees from Weta Digital the New Zealand shop that worked on King Kong Avatar and other films.