>>> US Gapping Down

Gapping Down:

In reaction to disappointing earnings/guidance: SMTC -18.0% (downgraded at Oppenheimer, B. Riley), RAD -5.7%, KBH -3.3%, APOG -2.5%, DRI -1.2%, MLHR -0.8%

Precious metals stocks getting hit with weakness in underlying metals: GFI -3.8%, SLV -3.1%, AUY -2.7%, AU -2.6%, HMY -2.5%, KGC -2.4%, RGLD -2.3%, NEM -2.0%

Other news: GIG -8.5% announces proposed public offering of common stock (no amount given); CVM -8.5% announces proposed public offering of common stock and warrants (amount not given); VRTX -7.5% Vertex Pharm announces results of Phase 3 Study of Ivacaftor in people with CF who have the R117H Mutation; study did not meet its primary endpoint); CIE -7.2% announces targeted zones of its Aegean #1 exploratory well on Keathley Canyon Block 163 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico did not encounter commercial hydrocarbons and operations are underway to plug and abandon the wellbore); IBN -5.3% (still checking for anything specific); SPCB -4.5% (priced 3 mln ordinary shares at $4.00 per share); FB -4.3% Facebook commences public offering of 70 mln shares of its Class A common stock; total of 27,004,761 shares are being offered by co, and a total of 42,995,239 shares are being offered by certain selling stockholders, including 41.35 mln shares offered by Mark Zuckerberg); WDR -1.6% (Waddell & Reed increases quarterly dividend by 21% to $0.34 per share from $0.28 per share); TSLA -0.7% (Tesla Motors Model S charging system may have started California garage fire, according to reports); MCD -0.3% (McDonald's Japan lowers revenue forecast to JPY 280 bln versus prior guidance of JPY 285 bln); UUUU -0.2% Energy Fuels enters into a Securities Purchase Agreement to sell all of its shares of Bayswater Uranium to Mega Uranium in exchange for 1.75 mln newly issued common shares of Mega)