by Alpha | Feb 14, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. CMRX:$CMRX downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JP Morgan
2. LIFE:$LIFE downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
3. LXRX:$LXRX downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan. PT $10
4. TTPH:$TTPH downgraded to Market Perform at BMO. PT $2.75 from $24
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1. ES_F:This is NOT like other news events. S&P 500 futures selloff right now $ES_F
2. VIX:$VIX 25, UST10Y 2.877, A New Regime is showing its ugly head and stocks hate it.
4. ETH:OKEX $ETH Weekly futures has liquidated a short position of 2892 contract at 877.823 – 2018-02-14 19:57:48
5. EURUSD:Risk for $EURUSD and $GBPUSD to extend recent corrective declines towards their 2017 highs around 1.2100 and 1.3660…
6. TVIX:$TVIX_10.80 dayum added back
9. LTC:went to bed, $LTC pumping waking up, $LTC pumping
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1. Futures sink as CPI data raises inflation fears
U.S. stock reversed course to trade half a percent lower on Wednesday after data showed consumer prices rose more than expected in January, with a measure of underlying inflation posting its biggest gain in a year.
2. Bristol, needing a cancer immunotherapy boost, pays shockingly steep price for Nektar drug
Bristol-Myers Squibb, seeking a new way to make its cancer immunotherapies more effective, is paying a shockingly steep price to lock up rights to an experimental drug from Nektar Therapeutics.
3. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Nektar Therapeutics Announce Global Development & Commercialization Collaboration for Nektar’s CD122-biased Agonist, NKTR-214 | BMS Newsroom
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq:NKTR) announced today the companies have executed a global strategic development and commercialization collaboration for Nektar’s lead immuno-oncology program, NKTR-214.
4. Stock Futures Sink With Treasuries on CPI Surprise: Markets Wrap
U.S. stock futures tumbled and Treasury yields climbed after data showing consumer prices rose more than forecast last month fueled speculation the Federal Reserve will quicken its pace of monetary tightening.
5. U.S. consumer prices accelerate; core CPI posts largest gain in a year
U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January, with a measure of underlying inflation posting its biggest gain in a year, strengthening expectations that price pressures will accelerate this year and prompt a faster pace of interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve.
6. M on Twitter
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Last week a video published by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny alleging a new link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign made headlines around the world.
The video was released last Thursday and accused Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey top foreign policy having been a conduit between the Kremlin and Oleg Deripaska an oligarch linked to the Trump campaign.
As a result communications added the YouTube videos and Instagram posts to its list of prohibited websites giving internet providers until Wednesday to blacklist the URLs.
by Alpha | Feb 12, 2018 | Pre-Market
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3. IWM:Volume on this little pull, keep a eye n things $IWM leading the down move so far
15. ZIOP:$ZIOP Presents Data on Very Rapid Production of CAR T Cells at Keystone Symposia Emerging Cellular Therapies: T Cel…
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1. Axovant Sciences Announces Changes to Management Team and Board of Directors
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXON ) today announced that Chief Executive Officer David Hung, M.D., has resigned to pursue other opportunities and has also resigned from the Company’s board of directors. In addition, President and Chief Operating Officer Marion McCourt has also resigned to pursue another opportunity, and directors Kate Falberg, Tony Vernon, and Patrick Machado have resigned as members of the Company’s board of directors.
2. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GD, QSR, FOXA, QCOM, AMZN, F, BABA & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
3. Inside Facebook’s Two Years of Hell
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Ovadya saw early what many including lawmakers journalists and Big Tech CEOs grasp until months later Our platformed and algorithmically optimized world is vulnerable to propaganda to misinformation to dark targeted advertising from foreign governments so much so that it threatens to undermine a cornerstone of human discourse the credibility of fact.
Imagine for example a algorithm which analyzes gobs of data in order to teach itself to perform a particular function fed on hundreds of hours of footage of Donald Trump or North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un which could then spit out a and virtually impossible to distinguish from reality audio or video clip of the leader declaring nuclear or biological war.
Given the early dismissals of the efficacy of misinformation like Facebook CEO Mark statement that it was crazy that fake news on his site played a crucial role in the election the first step for researchers like Ovadya is a daunting one Convince the greater public as well as lawmakers university technologists and tech companies that a information apocalypse is not only plausible but close at hand.
We saw a pretty big event take place over the weekend where a party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered.
At first the obvious thought is that the ICO were compromised so I immediately started digging into this after firing off a few emails to contact people who may be able to help me with disclosure.
To take this one step further and ensure absolute protection you can use Content Security Policy and the directive to make sure that no script is allowed to load on the page without an SRI integrity attribute.
At am GMT on Sunday February a JavaScript file which is part of the Texthelp Browsealoud product was compromised during a cyber attack.
has in place continuous automated security tests for Browsealoud and these detected the modified file and as a result the product was taken offline.
The company has examined the affected file thoroughly and can confirm that it did not redirect any data it simply used the computers CPUs to attempt to generate cryptocurrency.
We saw a pretty big event take place over the weekend where a party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered.
The most common way to set a Content Security Policy on your site is to deliver it as a HTTP response header but that not always possible.
On hosted platforms like GitHub Pages Ghost Pro or WordPress it not always easy or even possible to set a HTTP response.
cellular version of the Apple Watch was in strong demand in the US Japan and Australia where all major operators stocked it in time for the holiday season said Vincent Thielke Research Analyst at Canalys.
limited operator selection in the UK Germany and France influenced consumer purchase decisions and stifled the growth potential of the connected Apple Watch.
innovative designs such as the rotating bezels and circular screens employed by other vendors Apple has pulled far ahead as it continues to focus on its core iPhone user base.
ET Broadcom secured as much as billion of debt financing for its hostile bid for Qualcomm and enlisted two more big firms strengthening the chip hand in the takeover battle.
A dozen Bank of America Citigroup Deutsche Bank AG JPMorgan Chase and Morgan agreed to provide up to billion of committed credit facilities including a billion revolver and bridge financing Broadcom said Monday.
Unlike their counterparts elsewhere who might seek to expose security vulnerabilities steal corporate and state secrets or simply sow chaos North Korean hackers have a singular purpose to earn money for the country currently squeezed by harsh international sanctions for its rogue nuclear program.
He denies any complicity in the kinds of crimes that security experts have attributed in recent years to North Korea such as snatching credit card numbers installing ransomware on corporate servers and swiping South Korean defense secrets.
One of the defectors who worked under the auspices of a state agency called the Korea Computer Center had long been cynical about his country come to hate bellowing out the loyalty oath to Kim Jong Un every Saturday and finally concluded that everything about the regime was a lie.
by Alpha | Feb 9, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Pieris Pharmaceuticals and Seattle Genetics Announce Multi-Program Immuno-Oncology Collaboration
Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing novel biotherapeutics through its proprietary Anticalin® technology platform for cancer, respiratory and other diseases, …
2. Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses, positioning it to directly compete with United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.
3. Jacob Plieth on Twitter
“$SRPT confirms UK golodirsen study halt. Scoop via @EPVantage
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“$AGN PRAC recommends no new patients on Esmya and liver monitoring for those on. US PDUFA in May”
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ET is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses positioning it to directly compete with United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp.
Dubbed with Amazon or SWA the new service will entail the tech giant picking up packages from businesses and shipping them to consumers according to people familiar with the matter.
Despite the fact that the Bay Area offers the highest salaries for tech workers job candidates are beginning to notice the perks of living and working in other cities.
Knowledge empowers and liberates candidates and companies to achieve their goals and why made a commitment to release regular data reports to arm people with the information they need to make some of the most important decisions of their lives.
In addition to our proprietary data we collected survey responses from more than tech workers on the Hired platform to inform our understanding of how salaries and cost of living affect decision making and satisfaction.
by Alpha | Feb 9, 2018 | Pre-Market
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by Alpha | Feb 8, 2018 | Pre-Market
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2. ENTA:$ENTA downgraded from Overweight to Neutral at JPMorgan. PT $95
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1. Celgene Announces Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior unsecured notes under a shelf
2. Arbutus Consolidates HBV Business Around Warminster, PA Site
VANCOUVER, British Columbia and WARMINSTER, Pa., Feb. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (Nasdaq: ABUS ), an industry-leading Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) therapeutic solutions company, today announced a site consolidation and organizational restructuring to better align its HBV business in Warminster, PA. These organizational changes are expected to result in increased efficiency, a more flexible variable cost structure, and additional preservation of the Company’s cash reserves. The Company’s Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) technology group will remain intact.
3. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: TWTR, REGN, YUM, GRUB, CVS, TMUS & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
4. Texas flood: U.S. oil exports pour into markets worldwide
In the two years since Washington lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, tankers filled with U.S. crude have landed in more than 30 countries, ranging from massive economies like China and India to tiny Togo.
5. Twitter Posts Surprise Sales Gain; Monthly User Growth Stagnates
Twitter Inc. posted a surprise gain in revenue, the first growth in four quarters, driven by improvements to its app and added video content that are persuading advertisers to boost spending on the social network.
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But eight hours after I left during my layover in Toronto I opened the app on my phone and it reported back that the camera was offline the most recent video was from that morning showing my daughter in my arms in the kitchen.
I would discover the camera was offline thanks to the cries of a daughter woken up by a bright orange whole episode reinforced something that was already bothering me Getting a smart home means that everyone who lives or comes inside it is part of your personal panopticon something which may not be obvious to them because they expect everyday objects to have spying abilities.
Almost every TV on the market now is connected otherwise how do you Netflix and chill over million smart speakers were sold last year alone with Apple soon to release its version the HomePod meaning a good percentage of American homes have or will have an assistant waiting patiently for someone in the house to say their wake word.
With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF founder visionary and our ongoing inspiration John Perry Barlow passed away quietly in his sleep this morning.
So I predicted Utopia hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls totalitarianism.
lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race economic power military force or station of birth.
ET YouTube is the new television with more than billion users and videos the site recommends have the power to influence viewpoints around the world.
Those recommendations often present divisive misleading or false content despite changes the site has recently made to highlight fare a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
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this funding we will further invest in building differentiated offerings plugging the white spaces in the ecosystem and developing our technology while keeping superlative customer experience at the core said Sriharsha Majety CEO Swiggy.
At about orders fulfilled per day Foodpanda is a distant third in the Indian market followed by UberEATS and Google Areo both of which have been steadily increasing customer discounts while reducing restaurant commissions in a bid to make their platforms more attractive.
The last months marked a period of for food aggregators with significant growth in revenues buoyed by a swell in order volumes thus stoking investor interest in the sector once again.
Generally speaking Alphabet pursues a broader strategy of launching a smattering of independent tech companies in hopes of finding the next big thing outside Google massively profitable online advertising business.
Wednesday move also calls into question Alphabet broader strategy of creating a bunch of different tech companies in hopes of stumbling onto a new growth area outside of Google core advertising business.
By working together continue to combine hardware software and services to create a home safer friendlier to the environment smarter and even helps you save with artificial intelligence and the Assistant at the core.
As of Wednesday around EST Reddit appears to have suspended the subreddit dedicated to creating fake porn videos using a machine learning algorithm.
In the last week Discord Gfycat Pornhub and Twitter have all denounced involuntary pornography including deepfakes and banned these videos from their platforms.
The methods and tools for creating these videos are still easy to find and deepfake makers have already set up shop on new Discord channels their own dedicated websites and other platforms.
In the online gaming world virtual reality has already been used by some of the top streamers to engage with their audiences but not much return for what the personalities have to give up.
By dropping a game avatar into a VR world that they can navigate a level of agency and connection is possible that really adds a lot to the perceived relationship between streamers and their audiences.
As opposed to watching a static screen clear a lot of potential for interaction but only if virtual reality devices continue to catch on.
by Alpha | Feb 8, 2018 | Pre-Market, Trade Ideas
