Gapping up:
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance: GLW +22.9% (also Corning and Samsung strengthen Strategic Collaborations; Corning board authorizes additional $2 billion share repurchase program), APOL +16%, SIFY +5.5%, FBRC +5% (light volume), BA +3.7%, LL +2.9%, WYN +2.5%, MTSN +1.9% (light volume), NSC +1.7% (light volume), CP +1.6%, (light volume), AMGN +1.5%, NOC +1.5% (light volume), MSI +0.9%, (light volume), LLY +0.7%.
M&A news: COLE +15.1% and ARCP +4.9% (Cole Real Estate Investments and American Realty Capital Properties announce merger agreement; Cole stockholders may elect to receive 1.0929 shares of ARCP common stock or $13.82 cash for each share of Cole common stock), SWY +4.1% ( PE Firms are considering a deal to purchase all or parts of SWY, according to reports).
Other news: IMMU +3.9% (develops Dendritic-Cell vaccine technology for Lymphomas and Leukemias), SRC +1.7% (still checking), EOX +1.1% (following MadMoney segment), DV +0.7% (following APOL earnings; ecently was served with a complaint in a qui tam action filed under the federal False Claims Act and the Minnesota False Claims Act by two former employees of a customer of DeVry's subsidiary), VE +0.7% (still checking), .
Analyst comments: SYT +2% (upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at HSBC ), TCPC +1.2% (light volume, initiated with a Mkt Perform at JMP Securities; tgt $18), FINL +0.3% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canaccord Genuity)