>>> US Gapping down

Gapping down
In reaction to disappointing earnings/guidance
: YGE -28.2%, HNR -17.4%, VPCO -11.8%, AMCN -8%, DKS -5%, A -3.8%, NOAH -2.6%, WBAI -2.6%, WMT -2.1%, ZX -1.6%, TS -1.5%, CBMG -1%, EJ -0.8%, EVGN -0.8%, LEJU -0.7%, CCIH -0.7%

M&A news: ACHN -5% (Biotech blogger Adam Feuerstein out downplaying rumors regarding potential (GILD) acquisition of ACHN)

Select metals/mining stocks trading lower: GFI -3.7%, HMY -3.7%, RIO -2.7%, AU -2.1%, MT -1.7%, FCX -1.7%, GOLD -1.5%, EGO -1.4%

Select oil/gas related names showing early weakness: LNCO -5%, STO -3.1%, SDRL -2.8%, RIG -2.7%, GDP -1.5%, BBEP -1%

Other news: EOX -16.8% (announces the launch of an underwritten public offering of the Company's common stock with an aggregate public offering size of $150,000,000), RNDY -14.9% (announces a proposed underwritten secondary offering of 3.5 mln shares of its common stock owned by selling shareholders), LINE -8.1% (announces public offering of 16 mln units ), ARP -7.5% (Atlas Resource Partners to acquire natural gas producing properties in the Arkoma basin, from its parent company, Atlas Energy for $35.5 mln; also prices its 6.5 mln unit public offering of common units at $7.97/unit), MBI -6.2% (announces the sale of 27.25 mln shares of common stock, by funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus), MNTA -4.7% (announces a proposed public offering of 7.25 mln shares of common stock ), ICPT -4.6% (announces plans for a Phase 3 trial of obeticholic acid, to treat non-cirrhotic nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with liver fibrosis), BRG -4.1% (commenced a public offering of ~3.85 mln shares of its Class A common stock), SABR -2.3% (confirms the public offering of 22 mln shares of common stock by existing stockholders affiliated with TPG Global, LLC and Silver Lake Management Company),. CDW -2.2% (commences public offering of 10 mln shares of common stock by selling shareholders), ATLS -1.4% (Atlas Resource Partners to acquire natural gas producing properties in the Arkoma basin, from its parent company, Atlas Energy for $35.5 mln ), STOR -1.4% (proposed public offering of 9,250,000 shares of common stock to be sold by the Company and 9,250,000 shares of common stock to be sold by the selling stockholder)

Analyst comments: LL -2.1% (downgraded to Hold from Buy at Cantor Fitzgerald ), HSBC -1.8% (downgraded to Mkt Perform from Outperform at Bernstein), PAGP -1.8% (transferred/downgraded to Hold at Wunderlich), HII -1.6% (downgraded to Neutral from Buy at BofA/Merrill
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