>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to earnings/guidance
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  • PVTL +4.8%, BTI +3%, CS +2.4% (provides FY18 guidance at investor day; approves CHF 1.5 bln ordinary share buyback) URI +1.6% (provided guidance from its Investor Day; will resume buybacks), .

M&A news:

  • BILI +2.1% (to acquire major assets from NetEase (NTES) Comics)

Other news:

  • BILI +2.1% (to acquire major assets from NetEase (NTES) Comics)
  • LX +6.9% (expects limited impact from P2P regulations, raises loan origination guidance)
  • HAIN +6.4% (disclosed the approval of the formalization of its Strategy Committee to evaluate strategic alternatives for the Company on Dec 5)
  • ABB +4.1% (confirms that it is currently in discussions with Hitachi (HTHIY) to expand and re-define the existing strategic power grid partnership )
  • AVEO +3.4% (enters into a clinical collaboration with AstraZeneca to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AstraZeneca's IMFINZI in combination with FOTIVDA)
  • APHA +2.4% (signs Letter of Intent with Insumos Medicos S.A. to enter into an exclusive supply and distribution agreement to provide medical cannabis in Paraguay)
  • RARX +2.1% (prices offering of 8,387,097 shares of its common stock at $15.50 per share)
  • PCRX +1.1% (publication of new data from a retrospective investigator-initiated study analyzing the use of EXPAREL)
  • NEOS +1% (prices offering of 10,835,145 shares of common stock of the Company by GE Medical Systems Information Technologies)
  • AAPL +1% (considering shifting iPhone production out of China if tariffs go to 25%, according to Bloomberg)

Analyst comments:

  • CORT +6.3% (upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Cantor Fitzgerald)
  • VKTX +3.7% (initiated with a Buy at B. Riley FBR)
  • LULU +2.7% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup)