$TSLA Tesla price target lifted to $411 at Baird who says don’t short ahead of Model 3

1. CVM:  $CVM U.S. FDA Removes Clinical Hold on CEL-SCI’s Phase 3 Head & Neck Cancer Trial – BW

2. HEES, NEFF:  $NEFF Neff Corporation Announces Receipt of Superior Proposal $HEES – BW

3. NBR, TESO:  $TESO Nabors Industries $NBR Reports Acquisition of Tesco Corp. – SI

4. TSEM:  $TSEM TowerJazz Says DENSO Utilized its 0.18um SiGe Tech to Develop 24GHz Rear & Side Radar Sensor

5. VMW:  $VMW VMware Prelim. Q2 EPS Tops Views – SI

6. TSLA:  $TSLA Tesla price target lifted to $411 at Baird who says don’t short ahead of Model 3 – MW

7. ZEAL:  $ZEAL FDA designates $ZEAL dasiglucagon an Orphan Drug for the treatment of patients with hypoglycemia

8. ISRG:  $ISRG Intuitive Surgical plans stock split as shares near $1,000 – MW

9. ANDV, WNRL:  $WNRL Andeavor $ANDV unit to buy Western Refining Logistics for $1.5 billion – Reuters

10. GILD:  $GILD Entospletinib granted ODD for the treatment of GvHD – FDA

11. ANY: $ANY Sphere 3D Announces Private Placement of U.S. $3 Million of Equity Securities – GN

12. VFC: $VFC V.F. Corp. to Acquire Williamson-Dickie for $820M; Raises FY17 Outlook, 2021 Targets – SI

13. AMRN: $AMRN Amarin’s REDUCE-IT study to continue as planned – GN

14. AMZN, DIS, NFLX:  $NFLX The Trouble With Netflix – Barron’s $DIS & $AMZN looms, shares could drop more than 50%.

15. NFLX:  $NFLX Netflix Signs ‘Scandal’ Creator Shonda Rhimes Away from ABC, as Battle for Talent Escalates -WSJ

16. JD:  $JD falls back to quarterly loss despite rapid sales growth – FT

17. CSIQ:  $CSIQ Canadian Solar Reports Second Quarter 2017 Results – PRN

18. OPHT:  $OPHT Ophthotech’s Final Try at Combo Eye Drug Comes up Short – Xconomy

19. SORL:  $SORL Sorl Auto Parts Misses Q2 EPS by 2c, Slight Miss on Revenues; Reiterates FY17 Revenue Guidance

20. ZYNE:  $ZYNE Zynerba’s lead candidate ZYN002 flunks mid-stage study in osteoarthritis-associated knee pain

1. FE:UPDATE: Evercore ISI Upgrades FirstEnergy Corp. $FE to Outperform

2. IPG:Pivotal Research Upgrades Interpublic Group $IPG to Buy

3. TPX:Tempur Sealy on watch after Piper Jaffray upgrade

1. GOLF:D.A. Davidson Downgrades Acushnet Holdings to Hold $GOLF

1. JD:$JD reports FQ2 earnings of 10c EPS and $13.75B Revs –

2. CSIQ:$CSIQ reports FQ2 earnings of -15c EPS and $692.37M Revs –

3. SYY:$SYY reports FQ4 earnings of 72c EPS and $14.42B Revs –

4. SYY:$SYY reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $185.73M –

1. JD:Why did $JD’s capex collapse?

2. DIA:Recent $DIA technical alerts: Non-ADX 1,2,3,4 Bullish plus 5 more alerts…

3. DRYS:DryShips: Insider Trading? $ORIG $DRYS

4. DJIA:Europäische Hochzinsanleihen in Mischportfolios reduziert #börse #finanzen $DJIA

5. AUDUSD:AUDUSD Bullish Flag $AUDUSD

6. ALL:Norris Perne & French LLP MI Maintains Position in Allstate Corporation $The $ALL

7. LPCN:LIPOCINE INC. Files An 8-K Financial Statements and Exhibits $LPCN

8. NOC:Palisade Capital Management LLC NJ Has $1,547,000 Position in Northrop Grumman Corporation $NOC

9. SGMO:$SGMO wonder if we see a #TAU partnership soon. Seems like it would be worth a $500M+ bet for a big pharma with cas…

10. JACK:Jefferies Group LLC Lowers Jack In The Box FY2017 Earnings Estimates to $4.05 Per Share . $JACK

11. VFC:$VFC acquiring Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co for $820M Cash

12. AEP:American Electric Power Company, Inc. $AEP Shares Sold by Cambridge Trust Co.

13. CLMT:CALUMET SPECIALTY PRODUCTSTNERS, L.P. Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement $CLMT

14. TSEM:TowerJazz announces use of its tech in Toyota sensor #premarket $TSEM

15. DIS:$NFLX The Trouble With Netflix – Barron’s $DIS & $AMZN looms, shares could drop more than 50%.

1. Merck on Twitter

2. Donald J. Trump on Twitter

3. Merck on Twitter

4. Merck CEO resigns from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, citing ‘responsibility to take a stand against intolerance’

5. Merck CEO quits Trump panel in ‘stand against violence and extremism’

6. Amarin’s REDUCE-IT Cardiovascular Outcomes Study of Vascepa to Continue as Planned at Recommendation of Independent Data Monitoring Committee

7. Merck on Twitter

8. Ophthotech’s Final Try at Combo Eye Drug Comes up Short | Xconomy

1. Kind of amazing that pure self-play works so well. No cloning, no search, just neural networks:

Today we played Dendi on mainstage at The International winning a match.

Agents must learn to plan attack trick and deceive their opponents.

Success in Dota requires players to develop intuitions about their opponents and plan accordingly.

2. Clearer explanation of “AI First” than Microsoft’s or Google’s.

why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.

With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.

And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.

3. on eBay funding ISIS story

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ET investigators uncovered a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money to an alleged ISIS operative in the through fake eBay transactions according to a recently unsealed FBI affidavit.

The alleged recipient of the funds was an American citizen in his early who had been arrested more than a year ago in Maryland after a lengthy Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance operation.

4. hello! Uber moving forward on investments from SoftBank and a consortium led by Dragoneer Group! w/@ktbenner

Yet even as Uber undergoes leadership troubles the company which is largely funded by venture capital and private equity firms remains an attractive investment because it is the biggest service and is growing fast.

More recently an investor coalition led by Dragoneer which includes the private equity firm General Atlantic and others has emerged with a deal that would protect valuation.

I publicly asked you to resign from the Uber board in light of the overall circumstances I do have tremendous appreciation for your role in helping the development in the past Pishevar said in a new letter to Benchmark on Saturday which was obtained by The New York Times.

5. Baidu’s Qi Lu on AI: Amazon is winning.

why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.

With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.

And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.

6. Founder Friendly

Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.

The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.

They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.

7. WSJ: “Months before social-media co Snap Inc. publicly disclosed slowing user growth, rival Facebook already knew.

ET Months before company Snap publicly disclosed slowing user growth rival Facebook already knew.

Late last year Facebook employees used an internal database of a sampling of mobile activity to observe that usage of flagship app Snapchat growing as quickly as before people familiar with the matter said.

They saw that the shift occurred after Instagram app launched Stories a.

8. .@fredwilson: “I reject the notion that being led by its founder is always what is best for a company.”

Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.

The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.

They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.

9. @ktbenner these are two separate deals, voted on over the past week. there’s also the third deal offered to benchmark by shervin pishevar.

10. @Techmeme @fitztepper Bitcoin first passed $3k in June, not last week.

That was Mark take last Tuesday but the own central figures beat him to the punch by warning about overly inflated prices from the stage at the Consensus blockchain conference in May.

And when he saw disgruntled attendees turned away from the overbooked Token Summit conference Fortune Robert Hackett saw bubble written all over the bitcoin market.

Most observers including Cuban have by now accepted that blockchain technology a promising innovation in data security based on shared ledgers has huge potential for tracking assets and information in fields from supply chain management to health records.