Gapping down
In reaction to disappointing earnings/guidance: ARNC -0.7%, (guidance at Investor Day)
M&A news: SNY -1.7% (said to be in talks with Actelion)
Select metals/mining stocks trading lower: HMY -4.1%, GFI -2.3%, CLF -1.9%, AU -1.6%, VALE -1.5%, RIO -0.5%
Select oil/gas related names showing early weakness: SDRL -3.4%, ESV -2.8%, WLL -2.6%, YNDX -2.3%, OAS -2.1%, SDLP -1.8%, CHK -1.6%, COP -1.6%, RIG -1.2%
Other news:
- ANW -9.4% (prices $150 mln of convertible senior notes due 2021 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers, $50 mln more than previously announced)
- EGLE -5.7% (announces $100 mln private placement of approx 22.2 mln shares of common stock at a purchase price of $4.50 per share)
- PBF -4.3% (prices 10 mln shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $277.5 mln)
- HTZ -4.3% (announces Kathryn Marinello to become President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 3, 2017; announced that its three longest serving directors, Non-Executive Chair Linda Fayne Levinson, Compensation Committee Chair Carl T. Berquist and Financing Committee Chair Michael J. Durham have chosen to leave )
- CPE -4% ( subsidiary buys acreage in core southern Delaware Basin for $615 mln in cash; upsizes and prices 40 mln shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $656 mln)
- GM -3.4% (may be attributed to China Daily details that China plans to fine an unnamed US automaker for alleged monopolistic behavior)
- WFC -1.2% (FDIC/Fed Reserve agencies jointly determined that Wells Fargo did not adequately remedy two of the firm's three deficiencies)
- TLRD -1.1% (appoints Jack Calandra as CFO effective January 3, 2017 )
- OTEX -1% (prices 9.25 mln shares of common stock at $61.00 per share)
- GWR -0.9% (prices 4 mln shares of common stock at $75.00 per share)
Analyst comments:
- QCOM -1.6% (downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JP Morgan)