Pre-Market | Seeking Options

by Jeff Barr on NOV in AWS re Invent Polly Permalink As I was getting ready to write this post I thought back to my childhood largely spent watching TV and some of the popular computer and robot voices of the and.

In just a few minutes pleasant memories of Lost in Space the original Star Trek Computer and Rosie from The Jetsons all came to mind.

We asked each speaker to pronounce a myriad of representative words and phrases in their chosen language and then disassembled the audio into sound units known as diphones.

2. The vulnerable code in Firefox/Tor Browser that was used to hack dark web users had been there for 5 years.

3. Why is comma.ai giving away its self-driving software for free? To sidestep regulators. @sokane1 & I report

Hotz framed the software called Open Pilot as an source alternative to during a press event that was held in a San Francisco house that serves as headquarters.

Earlier this year Hotz announced ambitions to create and sell a kit called that could add capabilities to Honda Civics and some Acura cars.

strongly encourage you to delay selling or deploying your product on the public roadways unless and until you can ensure it is safe Paul Hemmersbaugh chief counsel wrote in the letter.

4. the most expansive surveillance rule in almost a decade just cleared the senate and will go into effect tomorrow

WASHINGTON A effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the government hacking powers failed Wednesday despite concerns the changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans and risk possible abuse by the incoming administration of Donald Trump.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden attempted three times to delay the changes which will take effect on Thursday and allow judges will be able to issue search warrants that give the FBI the authority to remotely access computers in any jurisdiction potentially even overseas.

In an effort to address concerns Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell wrote a blog post this week arguing that the benefits given to authorities from the rule changes outweighed any potential for unintended harm.

5. Reddit being torn apart by nazis plus its own long term dodging of responsibility.

Its members spread coded hate speech openly antagonize other Redditors and break the most basic rules with impunity while moderators feel the brunt of the abuse and Reddit leadership fail to adequately address the problem.

When asked what instances merit intervention by admins the Reddit spokesperson gave three examples targeted harassment or doxxing of an individual two mod teams requesting mediation to resolve a conflict with each other or the breach of a site rule.

And where a prejudicial agenda is concerned the and regressive beliefs held by own transition team are reflected in users who gleefully attack people on the basis of their religion race heritage sexuality gender identity or political leanings.

6. These new ML announcements highlighting how far behind AWS is compared to Google in this space #reinvent

7. AppNexus, last valued at $1.8 Billion, files confidentially for an IPO Profile:

By.

ET AppNexus an automated technology company has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering that is likely to come in the second quarter of according to people familiar with the matter.

The company which was valued at billion in a funding round could seek a valuation between billion and billion in the offering though pricing talk is still fluid the people said.

8. Amazon Polly looks pretty cool. That they store all text submissions for 6 months is not that great.

In just a few minutes pleasant memories of Lost in Space the original Star Trek Computer and Rosie from The Jetsons all came to mind.

We asked each speaker to pronounce a myriad of representative words and phrases in their chosen language and then disassembled the audio into sound units known as diphones.

9. “If Reddit is a city… The_Donald is a crumbling tenement next to a sewage plant.”

10. Small sum but big deal for struggling wearables industry.

Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.

11. US JOBLESS CLAIMS

PRE-MARKET | November 30, 2016 | #OPEC, $CL_F, $SCO, $USO, $ES_F, $TLT, $AMZN, $SPLK, $GE, $GPRO

by Alpha | Nov 30, 2016 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. SPLK:

$SPLK Splunk Surges 7% on FYQ3 Beat – Barron’s

2. DL:

$DL China Distance Education Tops Q4 EPS by 9c – Street Insider

3. PZZA, WING:

$WING Wingstopwill replace Papa John’s International $PZZA in the S&P SmallCap 600

4. KMI:

$KMI Trudeau Approves Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline – BBG

5. GPRO:

$GPRO GoPro to cut 15% of jobs in restructuring; president Bates leaving – CNBC

6. CE:

$CE Goldman Sachs Upgrades Celanese to Buy, $92 PT

7. GS:

$GS Deutsche Bank Upgrades Goldman Sachs to Buy, $255 PT

8. MAA, OI:

$MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities will replace Owens-Illinois $OI in the S&P 500, after close 12/1

9. AMSG, LM:

$AMSG AmSurg will replace Legg Mason $LM in the S&P 500, after the close Thurs 12/1 – SI

10. ZAYO: $ZAYO Zayo to buy Electric Lightwave for $1.4 billion – Reuters

11. PPS, PZZA: $PZZA Papa John’s will replace Post Properties $PPS in the S&P MidCap 400

12. WMS: $WMS Advanced Drainage Systems to Restate Prior Period Financial Statements – Biz Wire

13. GWRE: $GWRE Guidewire Software Tops Q1 EPS by 7c, Offers Q2 & FY Guidance – Street Insider

14. ADSK:

$ADSK Autodesk outlook disappoints; revenue declines – MarketWatch

15. H:

$H Hyatt Hotels Falls as 6M Share Block For Sale – Street Insider

16. RBS:

$RBS RBS emerges as biggest failure in tough UK bank stress tests – FT

17. EVH:

$EVH Evolent Health, Inc. Announces Pricing of $110.0 Million of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2021

18. NTNX:

$NTNX Nutanix hits skids after losses jump in first post-IPO earnings report – MarketWatch

19. AEO:

$AEO American Eagle Outfitters shares sink on weak outlook – MarketWatch

20. ARWR:

$ARWR Arrowhead Pharma shares plummet 60% on discontinued drug development – MW

UPGRADES

1. ABUS:$ABUS upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Chardan PT $4

2. CE:$CE Goldman Sachs Upgrades Celanese to Buy, $92 PT

3. GS:$GS Deutsche Bank Upgrades Goldman Sachs to Buy, $255 PT

4. MAA:Mid-America Apartment catches upgrade at BMO

5. UNH:$UNH Upgraded at Mizuho UBS raising PT 180 to 193 Citi raising PT 164 to 178 Cowen Raising PT 150 to 175 Oppenheimer raising PT 161 to 171

DOWNGRADES

1. ABAX:Northcoast Research Downgrades Abaxis Inc. $ABAX to Neutral

2. ARWR:William Blair Downgrades Arrowhead Research $ARWR to Market Perform

3. BOOT:Baird Downgrades Boot Barn $BOOT to Neutral

4. FCX:$FCX downgraded to Sell at Berenberg

5. FFIV:Bernstein Downgrades F5 Networks $FFIV to Market Perform

6. MANT:Maxim Group Downgrades ManTech $MANT to Hold

EARNINGS

1. TITN:$TITN reports FQ3 earnings of -1c EPS and $332.27M Revs –

2. AEO:$AEO reports FQ3 earnings of 41c EPS and $940.61M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. USO:OPEC agrees to cut output by 1.2M barrels per day – Bloomberg citing delegate $USO $OIL

2. GS:Goldman Sachs Is ‘Well Positioned For Stronger Macro Environment’; Deutsche Bank Upgrades To Buy $GS

Trending News Headlines

1. Biotech Stock Mailbag: Looking for an investable idea in Alzheimer’s minefield

TheStreet’s Adam Feuerstein answers reader questions about biotech stocks.

2. Javier Blas on Twitter

“BOOM!!!! #OPEC deal — more on @TheTerminal #OOTT”

3. OPEC Cut Output in Bid to End Record Glut

The reduction will take 1.2 million barrels a day from the market

4. OPEC Said Close to Deal on First Oil Supply Cut in Eight Years

OPEC is near an agreement to cut production for the first time in eight years, sending oil prices surging on optimism a deal with start to drain record global inventories.

5. OPEC agrees first oil output cuts since 2008: source

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has agreed its first oil output cuts since 2008, an OPEC source told Reuters on Wednesday.

6. Challenges on Twitter

“ABONNÉS – Apple et SpaceX : coup double pour STMicroelectronics

7. Oil prices surge 7% as source says OPEC has agreed to plan to cut output

Oil prices jumped to a five-week high as oil producers appeared set to agree to a production cut that could be bigger than expected.

8. GoPro to Cut 15% of Jobs Amid Restructuring

GoPro plans to restructure its business, cutting about 15% of its workforce in an effort to lower expenses as it seeks profitability.

9. Philip Morris CEO looks towards phasing out cigarettes: BBC

Philip Morris International (PM.N), the world’s largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday, as it launched its alternative product IQOS in Britain.

10. Press Release | Spark Therapeutics

PHILADELPHIA , Nov. 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ONCE), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, announced today that Katherine High , M.D., president and chief scientific officer of Spark Therapeutics , and Lindsey A. George , M.D., hematologist and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , will present updated Phase 1/2 clinical trial data for SPK-9001 in hemophilia B at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in San Diego .

Technology News

1. New Firefox/Tor Browser 0-day vulnerability discovered in the wild (being exploited against Tor users).

It consists of one HTML and one CSS file both pasted below and also.

The exact functionality is unknown but it getting access to VirtualAlloc in and goes from there.

I had to break the thecode line in two in order to post remove in the middle to restore it.

2. New Investigatory Powers Act gives police, security & intelligence agencies powers they need to keep public safe:

A landmark bill which sets out and governs the powers available to the police security and intelligence agencies to gather and access electronic communications has received Royal Assent.

In receiving Royal Assent the government has fulfilled its commitment to pass the legislation before the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act DRIPA sunsets on December.

I want to pay tribute to the independent reviewers organisations and Parliamentarians of all parties for their rigorous scrutiny of this important law which is vital for the safety and security of our families communities and country.

3. Mozilla: “We’ve found the bug being used and are working on a patch”

On Tue Nov at firstwatch at wrote This is an Javascript exploit Thanks.

I pointed some folks on irc to this mail and Daniel Veditz Mozilla Security Team said the Firefox team was sent a copy of that this morning.

And somewhere in there people will look at the bug and see whether they think it really does apply to Tor Browser.

4. The FBI, NSA and CIA are likely to gain new surveillance powers under Trump

You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter The fights expected to play out in the coming months in Senate confirmation hearings and through executive action legislation and litigation also will set up an early test of relationship with Silicon Valley giants including Apple and Alphabet Google.

James Comey director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said he also wants to renew a debate early next year about whether Apple and other companies can resist court warrants seeking to unlock encrypted communications.

While the FBI dropped that case against Apple after buying a tool to hack into the phone the increasing use of encryption on mobile devices and messaging services remains a challenge to national security and law enforcement agencies.

5. Introducing real-time co-authoring in PowerPoint on Windows Desktop. Learn more:

6. Our founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee answers 3 questions on the #IPBill, now passed into law:

Image copyrightThinkstockImage caption The UK internet service providers will need to install new equipment to log their customers net habits The Investigatory Powers Bill will get royal assent on Tuesday.

The fact that it has attracted more than signatures means that it will get debated in Parliament but there seems little chance of ministers taking any more notice than they did of the call for an exploration vessel to be named Boaty McBoatface.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesThe most contentious part of the forthcoming law is a requirement that communication providers keep a log of their customers net browsing behaviour for a year.

7. So many #driverless questions raised by this exchange: U.S. letter reveals details of GM self-driving vehicle system

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA said in a letter to GM that it was permissible for the automaker to automatically activate hazard lights if a driver fails to respond to alerts by a vehicle that has brought itself to a stop but it raised concerns that the system is safe.

GM monitoring system has facial recognition software that can detect if a driver is falling asleep or not paying attention spokesman Kevin Kelly said Monday.

Concerns about vehicles that drive themselves for limited periods were raised after the May death of Ohio technology company owner Joshua Brown in a Tesla Motors Inc Model S while the car Autopilot system was engaged.

8. Powerful piece by @brianpaddick – proud that @libdems voted against but why is Labour so quiet, & abstaining, again!

Well I do not need to ask you because the government is passing a law about to finish its final stages in parliament that will force your internet service provider whether it be Virgin Media Sky or BT to keep that list for you.

Would you then be surprised to hear that in parliament on Monday the chief executive of TalkTalk Dido Harding now a Conservative baroness and voted in favour of storing her own web histories so they could be handed over to the police on demand.

Would you be equally surprised that while Diane Abbott the shadow home secretary said on Tuesday that the new law the investigatory powers bill was and that the legislation her Labour party colleagues in the House of Lords were voting with the Tory government against a Liberal Democrat amendment that would have stopped connection ICRs aka your web history being stored by the internet companies.

9. #IPBill “one of the worst examples in democratic world of government trampling on human rights online” – @AFJellema

Rudd the UK Home Secretary described the Investigatory Powers Bill as.

She is right only in that it sets out one of the worst examples in the democratic world of government trampling on human rights online legalising the sweeping abuses under PRISM revealed by Edward Snowden.

everything you do online can be spied on by a long list of government agencies will inevitably take away some of our precious freedom to use the web as a space for exploration and dissent.

10. …I called it first :p

The feature is new to mobile devices though Twitter previously brought this design to the web in June.

The new design also includes conversation counts so you can see which tweets are generating the most abuse and harassment at a glance.

Twitter is a free app and you can download it on Android and iOS if you want.

PRE-MARKET | November 29, 2016 | $TSLA, $AAPL #trade, $GOLD, $USO, $CL_F, $JAZZ, $PFE, $REGN, $IBB

by Alpha | Nov 29, 2016 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. NOVN:

$NOVN Novan reports statistically significant phase 2 clinical trial results for sb206 – Reuters

2. THO:

$THO Thor Crushes Forecasts, Sees Need For More Production Capacity – IBD

3. TIF:

$TIF Tiffany & Co. Sales Increase – WSJ

4. NFLX, TIVO:

$TIVO TiVo and Netflix $NFLX Enter Into Product and Intellectual Property Agreements – Biz Wire

5. ARIA:

$ARIA ARIAD Pharma’s Iclusig Granted Full FDA Approval – Street Insider

6. UNH:

$UNH UnitedHealth Gives Upbeat Outlook for 2017 – WSJ

7. ZTO:

$ZTO ZTO Reports Third Quarter 2016 Unaudited Financial Results – PRNewswire

8. MNK:

$MNK Mallinckrodt plc Reports Fiscal 2016 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results – PRN

9. JAZZ:

$JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals Announces That Patient Enrollment Complete for the Ph 3 Study of JZP-110

10. BSX, NVRO: $BSX Nevro $NVRO Files Lawsuit for Patent Infringement Against Boston Scientific in the U.S. – PRN

11. TSLA: $TSLA SEC knocks Tesla over ‘tailored’ accounting in earnings release – MarketWatch

12. VNET: $VNET 21Vianet Group Tops Q3 EPS by 1c – Street Insider

13. ALL:

$ALL Allstate to Acquire Squaretrade in $1.4 Billion Deal – WSJ

14. COTV:

$COTV Cotiviti Announces Secondary Public Offering – Business Wire

15. SITE:

$SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. Announces Launch of Secondary Public Offering of Common Stock – BW

16. TCBI:

$TCBI Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. Prices Common Stock Offering – Nasdaq Read more:

17. SCVL:

$SCVL Shoe Carnival shares fall on results, outlook – MarketWatch

18. FOLD:

$FOLD Amicus shares drop 28% after FDA denies quick drug approval – MarketWatch

19. NVLS:

$NVLS Nivalis Therapeutics plummet as cystic fibrosis drug study fails – MarketWatch

UPGRADES

1. ALXN:UPDATE: Barclays Upgrades Alexion Pharmaceuticals $ALXN to Overweight

2. BAC:$BAC Upgrade DJ Bank of America Raised to Outperform From Market Perform by Keefe Bruyette & Woods Tue Nov 29 05:46:52 2016 EDT

3. OLBK:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Upgrades Old Line Bancshares $OLBK to Outperform

4. PFE:$pfe upgraded to overweight by Barclays

5. TSCO:$TSCO gapping higher on zero volume on an upgrade from Northcoast , upgrading to BUY with a $102 price tgt

6. VCYT:$VCYT upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Janney

DOWNGRADES

1. AKS:Macquarie Downgrades AK Steel $AKS to Neutral

2. BNCN:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades BNC Bancorp $BNCN to Market Perform

3. CSL:Longbow Research Downgrades Carlisle $CSL to Neutral

4. FFIN:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades First Financial Bankshares $FFIN to Underperform

5. KEY:KeyCorp was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at KBW $KEY

6. LABL:KeyBanc Downgrades Multi-Color Corp $LABL to Underweight

7. MBWM:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades Mercantile Bank Corporation $MBWM to Market Perform

8. NEWT:KBW Downgrades Newtek Business to Hold $NEWT

9. PSTB:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades Park Sterling Bank $PSTB to Market Perform

10. RNST:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades Renasant Corp $RNST to Market Perform

11. SGEN:$SGEN downgraded to Equal-Weight from Overweight at Barclays

12. SSB:Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Downgrades South State $SSB to Market Perform

13. UTHR:UPDATE: Barclays Downgrades United Therapeutics Corp. $UTHR to Underweight

14. VRTX:$VRTX downgraded to Equal-Weight from Overweight at Barclays

15. WEN:$WEN downgraded to Neutral at Goldman Sachs

16. WOR:Macquarie Downgrades Worthington Industries $WOR to Underperform

17. X:$X downgraded to Hold at Argus Research

EARNINGS

1. MNK:$MNK reports FQ4 earnings of $2.04 EPS and $887.20M Revs –

2. TIF:$TIF reports FQ3 earnings of 76c EPS and $949.30M Revs –

3. SFL:$SFL reports FQ3 earnings of 35c EPS and $93.53M Revs –

4. BERY:$BERY reports FQ4 earnings of 73c EPS and $1.62B Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. CYTR:$CYTR Reports Statistically Significant Updated Results from Pivotal P3 Trial of Aldoxorubicin

2. X:Good start to the day with $X down over $1.20,

3. TIF:Tiffany Q3 EPS $0.76, Revenue $949M vs $927M Est $TIF

4. MTSC:$MTSC Halted, news pending

5. BLUE:Piper sees bluebird regaining ‘mojo and momentum’ $BLUE

6. TRIL:$TRIL CC and Webcast on Dec’5th to Discuss TTI-621 Data Presented at #ASH16

7. PFE:UPDATE: Barclays Upgrades Pfizer $PFE to Overweight

8. CL_F:Crazy 80 cent drop in crude futures $CL_F

9. USO:iranian oil minister says will not cut production. $USO $CL_F

Trending News Headlines

1. CytRx CEO Pockets Millions of Dollars as Failed Sarcoma Drug Moves to FDA

CytRx announced a plan Tuesday to seek U.S. marketing approval of aldoxorubicin based more on hocus-pocus than credible science.

2. In OPEC Poker Game, Iran and Iraq Call Saudi Arabia’s Bluff

For decades, Saudi Arabia has had its way at OPEC. All of a sudden the position has turned: Riyadh finds its power waning against a resurgent Iran and Iraq.

3. Exclusive: ECB ready to buy more Italian bonds if referendum rocks market – sources

The European Central Bank is ready to temporarily step up purchases of Italian government bonds if the result of a crucial referendum on Sunday sharply drives up borrowing costs for the euro zone’s largest debtor, central bank sources told Reuters.

4. Don’t Be Surprised When Activision Blizzard CEO Does a Big Deal

Activision Blizzard Inc. is giving Chief Executive Officer Robert Kotick major financial incentives to do deals — a form of compensation that’s become increasingly unusual amid investor scrutiny.

5. Iran, Iraq at loggerheads with Saudis ahead of OPEC meeting

Iran and Iraq are resisting pressure from Saudi Arabia to curtail oil production, making it hard for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to reach a global output-limiting deal when it meets on Wednesday.

6. Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen

Amazon.com Inc. is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a screen, a sign the world’s largest online retailer is trying to capitalize on the surprise success of its voice-controlled home gadgets and fend off competition from Google and Apple Inc.

7. Jeweler Tiffany posts first sales rise in eight quarters

Tiffany & Co (TIF.N) reported its first rise in sales in eight quarters as strong sales in Japan and China more than offset a decline in the United States, its biggest market.

8. In OPEC’s High-Stakes Poker Game, Iran and Iraq Call Saudi Bluff

For decades, Saudi Arabia has had its way at OPEC. All of a sudden the position has turned: Riyadh finds its power waning against a resurgent Iran and Iraq.

9. Trillium Therapeutics Announces Conference Call and Webcast on December 5th to Discuss TTI-621 Data Presented at ASH

Trillium Therapeutics Inc. , a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it will host a conference call and webcast at 8:30 …

Technology News

1. What we learned when we tracked down and talked to a fake news creator in the suburbs

What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened Coler says.

It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they about to get served Coler says.

So it seems to be a kind of arbitrary step that they taking either based on I do know if it was my reputation within the industry or specifically the Denver Guardian site that angered them or I do know what it is but back to your question there hundreds of people that will work with me.

2. cats outta the bag now.. CNN buys Casey Neistat’s video app Beme

ET CNN has acquired startup Beme a social media app launched last year by popular YouTube star Casey Neistat the network announced Monday.

The Beme app which allowed users to shoot and share quick unedited video clips had an auspicious start thanks in large part to diehard social media following.

The Beme app will be shuttered with the employees joining CNN to form a separate technology unit focusing on the new media venture and wider mobile video efforts.

3. Silicon Valley plan to solve poverty: 1: Invite-only event on Stanford campus 2. Palantir demo 3. Uber ride home

Tomorrow the White House will partner with Stanford University and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative a limited liability corporation launched by the CEO of Facebook and his wife to the Summit on Poverty and Opportunity a event held on the campus.

The list of attendees and speakers also includes CEO Steve Ballmer White House CTO Megan Smith formerly a top executive at Google Martin Ford author of two books on automation including Rise of the Robots Marian Edelman founder of the Defense Fund Nobel economist Ken Arrow and Bryan Desloge president of the National Association of Counties who backed Donald Trump in the presidential election and has participated in a previous White House summit on poverty.

This event comes at a time when tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker have been subject to increased scrutiny for their approach to doing good which eschews nonprofit foundations for traditional investment vehicles labeled as philanthropy.

4. CNN is bringing Casey Neistat — and, it hopes, his youthful audience — in-house

CNN announced on Monday that it had agreed to acquire the technology and talent behind Beme the social media app built and started by Neistat and Matt Hackett a former vice president of engineering at Tumblr.

Beme saw early traction especially among avid personal following but failed to capture a large part of the social sharing market amid competitors like Instagram Facebook and others.

AMC the network known for the hit series Walking Dead announced this month that it had taken a minority stake in Funny or Die the digital comedy site founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

5. NPR tracked down the owner of one of the biggest fake news businesses in the country.

It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they about to get served Coler says.

6. AT&T has fully committed itself to the war to destroy net neutrality. Its vanguard is free stuff.

At an event in New York City today AT T has announced that its mobile subscribers will be able to stream its new DirecTV Now service without using their data.

AT T is just the latest to challenge the ruling but with a new and likely more lenient administration at least on net neutrality the bet to go against the FCC may just pay off.

DirecTV Now will be available on November and will offer over channels starting at a month for a limited time.

7. How Germany has become a test case for how Facebook polices what may be published online, via @markscott82 @meddynyt

The incident is one of several examples including threats of regulation and attempts to prosecute chief executive Mark Zuckerberg of how Germany has become an important test case globally for how the social network polices what may be published online and how it should respond to inappropriate and illegal content.

a mural by Günther Schaefer that depicts a Star of David on a German flag is painted on the remains of the Berlin Phil Moore for The New York Times recognize that this is a work in progress Richard Allen director of policy in Europe said in an interview.

Jun recently filed a complaint with Munich authorities seeking prosecution of Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives on charges they failed to sufficiently tackle the widespread wave of hate speech in Germany.

8. This doesn’t seem openly and blatantly anti-competitive at all.

At an event in New York City today AT T has announced that its mobile subscribers will be able to stream its new DirecTV Now service without using their data.

AT T is just the latest to challenge the ruling but with a new and likely more lenient administration at least on net neutrality the bet to go against the FCC may just pay off.

DirecTV Now will be available on November and will offer over channels starting at a month for a limited time.

9. Silicon Valley is going to explain things about poverty and income inequality to the White House tomorrow

10. Nevada DMV official: Self-driving truck company @Otto flouted & ignored autonomous testing rules. Important read.

In April of this year Steve Hill executive director of the Nevada Office of Economic Development GOED wrote an email to Jude Hurin the administrator in charge of autonomous vehicle AV regulation at the DMV.

Otto had now come full circle from a tiny startup intent on disrupting taxis in Las Vegas to maverick autonomous truckers to a key part of the biggest company on the planet.

The testing facility a wholly owned subsidiary called Nevada ATCF LLC received its license from the DMV at the end of September and is currently hiring staff and remodeling a building in southwest Las Vegas.

PRE-MARKET | November 23, 2016 | $BIIB, $NFLX, $CL_F, $GDX, $GLD, $SLV, $ES_F, $JUNO, $AMZN, $NFLX, $AAPL

by Alpha | Nov 23, 2016 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. XTNT:

$XTNT Xtant Medical Holdings Granted FDA Clearance for the Xsert Lumbar Expandable Interbody System – SI

2. DE:

$DE Deere Jumps as Profit Forecast Beats Estimates Amid Cost Cuts – BBG

3. VEEV:

$VEEV Veeva Systems Q3 Earnings, Q4 Guidance Beat; Stock Up – IBD

4. GME:

$GME GameStop Rising Despite FYQ3 Revenue Miss; Q4 EPS View In-Line – Barron’s

5. TSL: $TSL Trina Solar Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results – PRNewswire

6. GSK: $GSK GlaxoSmithKline reports ph lll study of mepolizumab met both co-primary and all secondary endpoints

7. FB: $FB Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China – NYT

8. MSG: $MSG Credit-Card Breach Hits Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall – WSJ

9. MENT: $MENT Mentor Graphics results top expectations – MarketWatch

10. AMZN:

$AMZN Amazon’s Holiday Deliveries Face Turbulence From Pilot Strike – WSJ

11. TWTR:

$TWTR OTR Global Downgrades Twitter, Inc. to Negative

12. VRX:

$VRX Mizuho Securities Downgrades Valeant Pharmaceuticals to Underperform, $11 PT

13. HPQ:

$HPQ HP Inc. Posts Revenue Increase as PC Business Rebounds – WSJ

14. ANF:

$ANF Deutsche Bank Downgrades Abercrombie & Fitch to Sell, $13 PT

15. HPE:

$HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Profit Sinks – WSJ

16. KITE:

$KITE Kite Pharma: Zuma-1 Debate Not Significant – Jefferies

17. FGP:

$FGP Ferrellgas Partners Slashes Quarterly Dividend 80.5% to $0.10; 5.5% Yield – Street Insider

18. BIIB, LLY:

$BIIB Eli Lilly $LLY Sola Failure is a ‘Serious Blow’ to Biogen and Others in AD Field – Leerink

19. AXON:

$AXON Axovant Sciences Sinks on Eli Lilly Sola Failure – Street Insider

20. NMBL:

$NMBL Nimble Drops 8%: FYQ3 Revenue, Profit In-Line; Q4 Loss Forecast Wider – Barron’s

21. URBN:

$URBN Urban Outfitters Shares Flop After Sales Fall Short of Expectations – Fortune

22. LLY:

$LLY Eli Lilly’s Late-Stage Alzheimer’s Trial Fails to Achieve Goal – WSJ

23. JUNO: $JUNO Juno Therapeutics JCAR015 Phase II ROCKET Trial Placed on Clinical Hold – Street Insider

UPGRADES

1. BMO:Credit Suisse Upgrades Bank Of Montreal to Hold $BMO

2. CCL:Bernstein Upgrades Carnival Corporation $CCL to Outperform

3. CPT:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades Camden Property Trust $CPT to Buy

4. CSTM:Seaport Global Securities Upgrades Constellium $CSTM to Buy

5. FTI:Griffin Securities Upgrades FMC Technologies $FTI to Buy

DOWNGRADES

1. AEO, ANF:Abercrombie & Fitch downgraded to Sell from Hold at Deutsche Bank $ANF $AEO

2. ANF:$ANF Deutsche Bank Downgrades Abercrombie & Fitch to Sell, $13 PT

3. CTSH:William Blair Downgrades Cognizant Technology Solutions $CTSH to Market Perform

4. FSLR:Macquarie Downgrades First Solar $FSLR to Neutral

5. JPM, TGNA:TEGNA Inc. was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at J.P. Morgan $TGNA $JPM

6. MCK:Credit Suisse Downgrades McKesson $MCK to Underperform

7. NCLH:Bernstein Downgrades Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings $NCLH to Market Perform

8. SJI:Williams Capital Downgrades South Jersey Industries, Inc. $SJI to Hold

9. TGNA:JPMorgan Downgrades TENGA, Inc. $TGNA to Neutral

10. TWTR:$TWTR OTR Global Downgrades Twitter, Inc. to Negative

11. URBN:Urban Outfitters -10% on “anemic” Q3 results; Wunderlich downgrades

12. VRX:$VRX Mizuho Securities Downgrades Valeant Pharmaceuticals to Underperform, $11 PT

EARNINGS

1. TSL:$TSL reports FQ3 earnings of 29c EPS and $741.06M Revs –

2. DE:$DE reports FQ4 earnings of 90c EPS and $6.52B Revs –

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PRE-MARKET | November 22, 2016 | $SPX, $CL_F, $DLTR, #OPTIONS, $SINA, $AAPL, $SNY, $GE, $FB

by Alpha | Nov 22, 2016 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. DLTR:

$DLTR Dollar Tree beats profit estimates, shares surge 6% – MarketWatch

2. BURL:

$BURL Burlington Stores’ revenue beats expectations – MarketWatch

3. TGTX:

$TGTX TG Therapeutics Announces Positive DSMB Recommendation for Continuation of UNITY-CLL Ph 3 Trial

4. BKS:

$BKS Barnes & Noble Tops Q2 EPS by 5c – Street Insider

5. ADI:

$ADI Analog Devices tops Street 4Q forecasts – AP

6. HRL:

$HRL Hormel’s profit rises, provides upbeat outlook – MarketWatch

7. DSW:

$DSW DSW, Inc. Tops Q3 EPS by 3c, Lifts Outlook – Street Insider

8. SBLK:

$SBLK BRIEF-Star Bulk Carriers Q3 loss per share $0.44 excluding items – Reuters

9. CTIC:

$CTIC CTI BioPharma Ph 3 Data from PERSIST-2 Trial of Pacritinib to be Presented at ASH

10. SINA:

$SINA Sina profit grows on Weibo, investment gains – MarketWatch

11. TECD:

$TECD Tech Data Tops Q3 EPS by 18c; Issues Q4 Outlook – Street Insider

12. E, GE:

$E Eni signs framework agreement with GE $GE for renewable projects – Reuters

13. CPB:

$CPB Campbell Soup beats sales and profit estimates – MarketWatch

14. WLL:

$WLL Whiting Petroleum Corporation Enters into Sales Agreements for North Dakota Midstream Assets – BW

15. DPS: $DPS Dr Pepper Snapple to buy Bai Brands for $1.7 billion – Reuters

16. BRCD: $BRCD BRIEF-Brocade Q4 non-gaap earnings per share $0.33 – Reuters

17. SNY: $SNY Sanofi gets FDA’s OK to sell diabetes drug Soliqua – MarketWatch

18. KKR: $KKR KKR to buy Nissan-backed supplier Calsonic for up to $4.5 billion – Reuters

19. BAC, BPOP:

$BPOP Bank of America $BAC, Bain Said to Weigh Bids for Popular Assets – BBG

20. CHS:

$CHS Chico’s FAS Expects Low Single Digit Comparable Sales Decline In Q4 – RTT

21. NVS:

$NVS Novartis said to weight selling ritalin, clozaril, exelon drugs – Bloomberg

22. JEC:

$JEC Jacobs Engineering to cut costs as profit falls – MarketWatch

23. JACK:

$JACK Jack in the Box Same-Store Sales at Company-Owned Locations Disappoint – WSJ

24. MDT:

$MDT Medtronic cuts guidance on sluggish revenue – MarketWatch

25. VIPS:

$VIPS Vipshop Holdings Tops Q3 EPS by 1c – Street insider

26. DY:

$DY Dycom Industries Inc. Profit Advances 28% In Q1 – RTT

27. PANW:

$PANW Palo Alto Drops on FYQ1 Revenue Miss; Q2 Outlook Misses – Barron’s

28. PDCO:

$PDCO Patterson Companies Cuts FY17 Adj. EPS View As Q2 Results Miss Estimates – Nasdaq Read more:

UPGRADES

1. AMX:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades America Movil $AMX to Buy

2. ANET:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades Arista Networks $ANET to Neutral

3. CPS:UPDATE: Goldman Sachs Upgrades Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. $CPS to Buy

4. GDDY:B. Riley Upgrades GoDaddy Inc $GDDY to Buy

5. OUT:UPDATE: Wells Fargo Upgrades Outfront Media $OUT to Outperform

6. PNW:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades Pinnacle West Capital $PNW to Neutral

7. RUN, TSLA:Sunrun upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays $RUN $TSLA

8. TRTN:Cowen Upgrades Triton International $TRTN to Outperform

DOWNGRADES

1. AB:Citi Downgrades AllianceBernstein $AB to Neutral

2. AMCC:Canaccord Genuity Downgrades Applied Micro Circuits $AMCC to Hold

3. BNCN, SFNC:Two more bank downgrades

4. BPOP:BTIG Downgrades Popular to Hold $BPOP

5. CHRW:UPDATE: Stifel Downgrades C.H. Robinson Worldwide $CHRW to Hold

6. CPN:BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades Calpine Corporation $CPN to Neutral

7. CSIQ:Canadian Solar downgraded to market perform from outperform at FBR. Price target cut to $12 from $23. $CSIQ 11/21 c…

8. ETP:Stifel Downgrades Energy Transfer Partners $ETP to Hold Following Acquisition

9. ETR:BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades Entergy Corp $ETR to Underperform

10. GEF:Greif Inc was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Merrill Lynch $GEF

11. GPI:UPDATE: Goldman Sachs Downgrades Group 1 Automotive Inc. $GPI to Sell

12. HW:Headwaters Inc. was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at D.A. Davidson $HW

13. KATE:Cowen & Co. Downgrades Kate Spade to Hold $KATE

14. LOCK:$LOCK downgraded to Hold at Deutsche Bank – PT $24, downgraded to Hold at Canaccord Genuity – PT raise $24 from $23

15. NRG:BofA/Merrill Lynch Downgrades NRG Energy $NRG to Neutral

16. ONB:Raymond James Downgrades Old National Bancorp $ONB to Market Perform

17. PCH:Merrill Lynch Downgrades Potlatch Corp. to Sell $PCH

18. SFR:Instinet Downgrades Colony Starwood Homes $SFR to Neutral; Limited Scope for Improvement

19. WSBC:Macquarie Downgrades WesBanco $WSBC to Neutral

EARNINGS

1. TECD:$TECD reports FQ3 earnings of $1.44 EPS and $6.49B Revs –

2. HRL:$HRL reports FQ4 earnings of 45c EPS and $2.63B Revs –

3. AMWD:$AMWD reports FQ2 earnings of $1.07 EPS and $264.08M Revs –

4. BURL:$BURL reports FQ3 earnings of 51c EPS and $1.35B Revs –

5. JEC:$JEC reports FQ4 earnings of 77c EPS and $2.64B Revs –

6. JEC:$JEC reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $126.03M –

7. MOV:$MOV reports FQ3 earnings of 91c EPS and $179.82M Revs –

8. MDT:$MDT reports FQ2 earnings of $1.12 EPS and $7.35B Revs –

9. MDT:$MDT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $126.12M –

10. SIG:$SIG reports FQ3 earnings of 30c EPS and $1.19B Revs –

11. DSW:$DSW reports FQ3 earnings of 51c EPS and $696.62M Revs –

12. PDCO:$PDCO reports FQ2 earnings of 56c EPS and $1.42B Revs –

13. SDRL:$SDRL reports FQ3 earnings of 28c EPS and $743M Revs –

14. CPB:$CPB reports FQ1 earnings of $1 EPS and $2.20B Revs –

15. DLTR:$DLTR reports FQ3 earnings of 81c EPS and $5B Revs –

16. CHS:$CHS reports FQ3 earnings of 20c EPS and $596.91M Revs –

17. ADI:$ADI reports FQ4 earnings of $1.05 EPS and $1B Revs –

18. CBRL:$CBRL reports FQ1 earnings of $2.01 EPS and $709.97M Revs –

19. NM:$NM reports FQ3 earnings of -25c EPS and $113.09M Revs –

20. BKS:$BKS reports FQ2 earnings of -29c EPS and $858.55M Revs –

21. EV:$EV reports FQ4 earnings of 57c EPS and $346.85M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. MDT:After a big year outperforming #biotech, #Medtech falling apart after Q3 earnings… $MDT $EW $DXCM etc

2. SIG:Signet Jewelers $SIG Tops Q3 EPS by 10c; Comps Outpaced; Guides Q4, FY17 EPS Above Views $$

3. TGTX:$TGTX Announces Positive DSMB Recommendation for Continuation of the UNITY-CLL Phase 3 Trial

4. PANW:$PANW Palo Alto Drops on FYQ1 Revenue Miss; Q2 Outlook Misses – Barron’s

5. QURE:$QURE Updated Clinical Data on AMT-060 in Hemophilia B at #ASH16

6. ADI:Analog Devices Reports Q4 EPS $1.05 vs. Est. $0.89, Rev. $1B vs. Est. $942M $ADI

7. JACK:$JACK Jack in the Box Same-Store Sales at Company-Owned Locations Disappoint – WSJ

8. BKS:$BKS Barnes & Noble Tops Q2 EPS by 5c – Street Insider

9. BURL:$BURL: Burlington Stores beats by $0.18, beats on revs; guides Q4 EPS below consensus; rev in-line

Trending News Headlines

1. Nearly 350 Abstracts Evaluating Celgene Therapies to Be Presented at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting (ASH) | Business Wire

Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced that data from nearly 350 abstracts, including more than 150 oral presentations, evaluating Celgene

2. AIG joins list of finance companies looking to move from Britain

U.S. insurer AIG (AIG.N) may move its European headquarters from London to another European Union country because of Britain’s vote to leave the EU, the head of the AIG’s European and UK operations said at an industry conference on Tuesday.

3. Trump cancels meeting with New York Times, complaining about ‘nasty tone’

President-elect Donald Trump abruptly canceled a meeting scheduled for Tuesday with The New York Times newspaper that he has frequently criticized, complaining in morning Twitter posts about inaccurate coverage and a “nasty tone.”

4. Early movers: CPB, DPS, KKR, MDT, DSW, PANW, BA, JACK, AZN & more

Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.

5. Dollar Tree is climbing after strong earnings and guidance

The stock is climbing after better than expected results.

6. Dr Pepper Snapple to Acquire Bai Beverages for $1.7 Billion

Dr Pepper Snapple Group agreed to buy Bai Brands, the maker of low-calorie, coffee-fruit drinks, for $1.7 billion, as consumers continue to turn away from traditional sodas.

7. Iteris to Attend the Benchmark Discovery Conference in Chicago on December 1, 2016 | Business Wire

Iteris’ CEO, Joe Bergera, and CFO, Andy Schmidt, will be participating in the Benchmark Annual Micro Cap Discovery Conference taking place on December

8. OPEC experts resume talks on oil output cut, delegates upbeat

OPEC experts discussing how to implement a plan to cut oil output are likely to reach agreement later on Tuesday, a Nigerian delegate said, a possible sign of progress in finalizing the group’s first supply-limiting deal since 2008.

Technology News

1. Yeah, I don’t think an online truth squad led by Facebook and Jeff Jarvis is the best way to save democracy.

Just imagine what things will look like if the unsavory elements that tore through the election false narratives fake news and aggressive efforts to delegitimize traditional journalism come back into play as Donald Trump presses to enact his agenda.

The national security adviser Trump named last week Michael Flynn a retired Army lieutenant general has subscribed to the conspiracy theory that Shariah law is taking root in the United States it contributing to his insistence that Americans have every reason to view Islam as.

not so outlandish to envision attempts to sell his plans getting a lift from the likes of Jones or a fake site out of Macedonia perhaps claiming that Democrats are working with ISIS to use undocumented immigrants to poison local water supplies or some such.

2. Facebook didn’t have a pronounced fake and sensationalized news problem in 2012. Here’s why it does in 2016:

It made a huge push over the last four years to be a destination for news indeed to be your personalized Since that Obama tweet the company retooled its platform creating a system designed to make it easier to share and promote timely and trending stories and to help them spread rapidly across its network.

On June Donald Trump hit the ground in Iowa and began campaigning for president taking shots at his fellow Republican contenders and telling the news media that only he could beat Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

With the presidential primaries underway another fundamental change was taking place inside Facebook one responsible for giving even more prominence to posts from news organizations and public figures though the company had not yet started reckoning with it.

3. Lots of talk about fake news and sensationalism on Facebook. But little on how and why it began. Here’s that story.

4. This is a real shame. Food delivery start up (in a city with 7K homeless people) wasted 653,400 meals in 2 years

Meanwhile Munchery line cooks in San Francisco its flagship market stayed up until assembling Vietnamese caramel chicken roasted half game hen and beef pho said the current and former employees.

5. FB told @Verge its Aquila flight was successful. it wasn’t.

were happy with the successful first test flight and were able to verify several performance models and components including aerodynamics batteries control systems and crew training with no major unexpected results the company said in an statement.

Company Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said he was deeply disappointed when a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite that would have helped spread internet access across Africa.

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla spoke to Zuckerberg in recent days at the Economic Cooperation summit in Peru about using the Aquila drone to beam internet to remote parts of the country the Jakarta Post reported.

6. In a nutshell, I think Facebook could learn a lot from Wikipedia when it comes to dealing with fake news:

As John Herrman argued in a recent New York Times article part of the difficulty in solving the problem stems from the fact that many people appear to have lost faith in the existing media.

This is part of the reason why the problem be solved by appointing an for Facebook as Washington Post media writer and former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan recommended in a recent column.

Take a look at the recent analysis by the New York Times of a single fake news story A man in Texas posts a photo of a bus on Twitter and says he thinks it is carrying paid protesters to an rally.

7. Amazon sought NBA’s League Pass exclusively, but NBA demurred. $AMZN is eyeing everything – even World Surf League!

is exploring an ambitious push to infiltrate the last bastion of traditional live sports.

In recent months the giant has been in talks with heavy hitters like the National Basketball Association Major League Baseball and the National Football League for the rights to carry live games according to people familiar with the matter.

It also has talked with soccer lacrosse and surfing.

8. “though it is known R3 is now soliciting as much as $150m in funding from its members”

The news comes hours after it was revealed that Goldman Sachs one of the original members of the consortium effort would depart the group.

A source close to the deal indicates that Santander is among a small number of firms that may have privately withdrawn from the consortium in recent weeks and that a planned funding round is still moving ahead.

Developing technology like this requires dedication and significant resources and our diverse pool of members all have different capacities and capabilities which naturally change over time.

9. The unit economics of a business like Munchery are brutal.

Meanwhile Munchery line cooks in San Francisco its flagship market stayed up until assembling Vietnamese caramel chicken roasted half game hen and beef pho said the current and former employees.

10. Facebook has built a petri dish for confirmation bias. Here’s how: