$BABA China’s Alibaba outstrips revenue estimates with online sales growth – CNBC

1. BABA:  $BABA China’s Alibaba outstrips revenue estimates with online sales growth – CNBC

2. AABA, BABA:  $AABA Ex-Yahoo entity Altaba’s stock soars toward 17-year high – MW

3. HTHT:  $HTHT China Lodging Group, Limited Reports Second Quarter of 2017 Results – Nasdaq

4. TXMD:  $TXMD TherapeuticsMD Reports Observational Study of Vaginal Estrogen Use in Postmenopausal Women – SI

5. AERI, VRX:  $AERI Aerie boosted as Valeant’s $VRX troubled Tampa facility looks like it’s coming out of rehab

6. VRX:  $VRX Valeant Receives FDA Confirmation Of VAI Inspection Classification For Tampa Facility – PRN

7. NEFF, URI:  $NEFF United Rentals $URI to buy equipment rental chain Neff for about $1.3 billion – Reuters

8. ELGX:  $ELGX Endologix Announces Positive Clinical Results from the LEOPARD Clinical Study – BW

9. OSTK, XPO:  $XPO Overstock $OSTK looking to gain advantage with potential 2-day delivery – NYPost

10. ADI: $ADI Analog Devices names Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah its new CFO – MW

11. AMGN: $AMGN Amgen Announces Repatha Phase 3 Cognitive Function Study Results Published NEJM – SI

12. GOOG:  $GOOG Google snaps up AI image processing firm AIMatter – ZDNet

13. TGT:  $TGT Target sales, profit boosted by online traffic; raises outlook – Reuters

14. SNPS:  $SNPS Synopsys Tops Sales Views, Meets Earnings Expectations – IBD

15. FCAU:  $FCAU Chinese auto makers stall on Fiat Chrysler bid – Globe & Mail

16. ACHC:  $ACHC Acadia Healthcare Announces Secondary Offering of 2.8M Shares of Common Stock – SI

17. NTAP:  $NTAP NetApp Slips Despite FYQ1 Rev Beat; Q2 View In-Line – Baron’s

18. WMT:  $WMT Wal-Mart comparable sales beat estimates, margins dip – Reuters

19. FNGN:  $FNGN Financial Engines Announces 4.1M Share Secondary Offering of Common Stock – SI

20. BGG:  $BGG Briggs & Stratton Corp. reports weaker sales but improved earnings – Journal Sentinal

21. VIPS:  $VIPS Vipshop -5.8% as Q2 misses on profits, revenues – SA

22. LB:  $LB L Brands stock falls after weak outlook – CNBC

23. SMRT:  $SMRT Stein Mart reports 2Q loss – AP

24. LAKE:  $LAKE Lakeland Industries Announces Prelim Q2 Results, Launch of 2ndary Offering of Common Stock – SI

1. MOH:UPDATE: Morgan Stanley Double Upgrades Molina Healthcare $MOH to Overweight

2. NOV:National Oilwell upgraded to Buy from Hold at Loop Capital $NOV

3. TGT:MKM Partners Upgrades Target $TGT to Buy

1. HEI:UPDATE: Deutsche Bank Downgrades HEICO $HEI to Hold

1. NVDQ:$NVDQ reports FQ2 earnings of -21c EPS and $20.56M Revs –

2. SSI:$SSI reports FQ2 earnings of -15c EPS and $377.08M Revs –

3. BABA:$BABA reports FQ1 earnings of $1.17 EPS and $7.40B Revs –

4. BKE:$BKE reports FQ2 earnings of 24c EPS and $195.65M Revs –

5. WMT:$WMT reports FQ2 earnings of $1.08 EPS and $123.36B Revs –

6. WMT:$WMT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $381.33M –

7. LANC:$LANC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.04 EPS and $289.87M Revs –

8. MSG:$MSG reports FQ4 earnings of $-3.18 EPS and $305.57M Revs –

1. GBTC:Recommendation #HOLD for $GBTC with UB rating – 2.6 out of 5.

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3. GOLD:$Gold When I did this on FXstreet. All were satisfied and said it was Valuable.

4. BABA:$BABA reports Q1 adjusted EPS $1.17, consensus 93c Reports Q1 revenue $7.4B, consensus $7.13B

5. MCK:Goelzer Investment Management Inc. Cuts Stake in McKesson Corporation $MCK

6. VLO:AT Bancorp Cuts Stake in Valero Energy Corporation $VLO

7. OIL:Brent crude leeking lower. Down 0.25% @ $50.08/brl. $OIL

8. UNG:#natgas $UNG – Shown here as a Bull ‘Flag’…..

9. VRX:$VRX Valeant Receives FDA Confirmation Of VAI Inspection Classification For Tampa Facility – PRN

10. SDLP:$SDLP: Seadrill Partners Reports Amendments to Certain Credit …:

11. TGT:$TGT -0.82% at $55.85 after 3.61% gain yesterday- higher earnings guidance,shares -22% in 2017 & -19.90% in 52 wks.

12. NTAP:Baird Remains Sidelined on NetApp $NTAP Following Solid 1Q

13. MSG:Madison Square Garden EPS of -$3.58

14. AMAT:Do you know that #WallStreet price for $AMAT is $52.23

15. TVIX:$AABA $TVIX $NTNX are significant Pre-Market Gainers this AM on SpeculatingStocks Pre-Market,…

1. ECB Officials Expressed Concern Over Risk of Euro Overshooting

2. CNBC’s Fast Money on Twitter

3. Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Announces Submission and Validation of IV Eravacycline Marketing Authorization Application by European Medicines Agency

4. JE$US on Twitter

5. Wal-Mart earnings: $1.08 a share, vs $1.07 EPS expected

6. Alibaba’s Sales Beat Estimates on Surging Consumer Demand

Technology News

1. WSJ: It was Steve Schwarzman’s decision to disband the councils, not Trump’s.

Business leaders disbanded two CEO councils created by the White House a move they said was protesting Donald failure to sufficiently condemn racism marking a dramatic break between companies and a president who has sought close ties with.

In the hours that followed combative news conference which he appeared to apportion blame equally between white supremacist groups and.

2. As tech companies crack down on white nationalists, Apple has blocked 3 sites selling Nazi apparel from Apple Pay.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to employees Wednesday night announcing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the League saying that he disagreed with the president drawing a moral equivalence between Nazis and white nationalists and those who opposed them.

It is with this backdrop that PayPal strives to navigate the balance between freedom of expression and open dialogue and the limiting and closing of sites that accept payments or raise funds to promote hate violence and.

Color of Change a nonprofit advocating for racial justice has started a campaign called Blood Money listing known hate groups that use major credit cards employ payment processing services or sell items on.

3. We drafted the e-mail that Larry Page should have written to James Damore

The sole published comparison of actual competency in coding I am aware of found that women were more likely than men to have their GitHub contributions if they were project outsiders this was true only if their gender was concealed.

The intention was to make it easier to send notifications such as shared a photo with Presumably it occur to anyone involved in of them many women choose to conceal their sex online to cut down on harassment.

At Heterodox Academy Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt have compiled a pretty comprehensive list of psychological differences between the sexes are plenty not all point the same way and there are many caveats.

4. The Nokia 8 is official. Android flagship, and it has a BOTHIE camera!?

In terms of design the Nokia is slim at on average across its curved frame and it places the antennas at the top and bottom with a full aluminum back like seen from Meizu Apple and even OnePlus Oppo.

The bothie mode yes really is similar to what seen Samsung and LG do in the past and it will activate both the front and rear cameras to capture photos or video.

HMD setting the bar high here with an uninspiring design a lack of waterproofing or wireless charging and a price point that make this a cheap Android phone with good specs.

5. Member of the panel bailing on Trump: “there really was nothing to debate” after that press conference

In the face of corporate defections and the member disclosure Trump announced plans to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council.

The strategic forum led by Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and made up of top business leaders is separate from Trump manufacturing council which had seen seven defections this week.

Correction The headline of this story has been updated to reflect that the Strategic and Policy Forum is separate from the manufacturing council that several business leaders left this week.

6. “The defections left Mr. Trump all but isolated from the business leaders whose approval he covets.”

On Wednesday morning a dozen of the most influential joined a conference call and after some debate a consensus emerged The policy forum would be disbanded delivering a blow to a president who came into office boasting of his close ties with business leaders.

American history never had business leaders decline national service when requested by the president said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management.

Having stood with the president in recent months even as he advanced positions they vehemently opposed including tough immigration policies and withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord many executives felt his apparent tolerance for white nationalist violence was a bridge too far.

7. What’s wild is that Apple controls enough cash to do this another 255 times over

ET Apple has set a budget of roughly billion to procure and produce original content over the next year according to people familiar with the sign of how serious the maker of iPhones is about making a splash in Hollywood.

Combined with the marketing clout and global reach the step immediately makes Apple a considerable competitor in a crowded market where both new and traditional media players are vying for original shows.

budget is about half of what Time Warner HBO spent on.

8. This is important read for people who want to know how content is being regulated on internet & issues around them

The size and scale of the attacks that can now easily be launched online make it such that if you do have a network like Cloudflare in front of your content and you upset anyone you will be knocked offline.

In fact in the case of the Daily Stormer the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet.

In a future if we not there already it may be that if you going to put content on the Internet you need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon or Alibaba.

9. CEO member of Obama econ council once told me: “Gotta get it all done in 1st yr, because of midterm politics.” He overestimated the runway.