>>> US Gapping down

Gapping down
In reaction to disappointing earnings/guidance
:

  • L -3.3%, PBI -2.3%, MCY -1.7%, CNA -1.2%, BRK.B -1.1%

M&A news:

  • SMLP -18.7% (Summit Midstream Partners acquires Summit Midstream Partners in transformational simplification transaction; suspends common & series A preferred unit distributions; provides updated 2020 guidance)

Select ETFs showing early weakness:

  • USO -2.8%, XLE -2.4%, XLF -1.3%, SMH -1.1%, DIA -1%, IWM -1%, SPY -0.8%, QQQ -0.6%, IGV -0.6%

Other news:

  • SPR -6.2% (announces workforce reduction at sites supporting commercial programs)
  • SPCE -6% (files for 150,464,840 share common stock offering by selling shareholders)
  • BJRI -4.1% (to sell $70 million of common stock to Act III Holdings, LLC. and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates)
  • SFL -3.1% (files mixed securities shelf offering)
  • USAS -2.7% (provided an operations update, withdraws FY 20 guidance)
  • DBI -2% (amends $400 mln revolving line of credit, co is now restricted from paying dividends and making share buybacks)
  • XAIR -1.4% (files for 172,187 share common stock offering by selling shareholders)
  • AVDL -1% (files for 9,167,839 share common stock offering by selling shareholders in the form of ADSs)
  • TEF -1% (Telefonica S.A. confirms it is in discussions with Liberty Global (LBTYA) on a potential integration of their respective telecommunications businesses in the United Kingdom)

Analyst comments:

  • CI -2.7% (downgraded to Mkt Perform from Outperform at Bernstein)
  • DIS -2.2% (downgraded to Neutral from Buy at MoffettNathanson)
  • QCOM -1.5% (initiated with an Underweight at Wells Fargo)
  • HON -1% (downgraded to Hold from Buy at Deutsche Bank)
  • CTSH -0.9% (downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at BMO Capital Markets)