>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance
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  • N/A.

M&A news:

  • HESM +7.8% (to acquire Hess Infrastructure Partners LP)

Other news:

  • AVYA +16.6% (RingCentral and Avaya enter strategic partnership ; also authorized $500 mln share repurchase program and plans to pay down $250 million of the principal debt under its Term Loan B)
  • RNG +6% (RingCentral announces strategic partnership with Avaya)
  • MEIP +5% (provides updated data from ongoing Phase 1b study of investigational ME-401 in patients with indolent B-cell malignancie)
  • GO +1.7% (prices secondary offering of 13 mln shares of common stock at an initial price to the public of $33.75 per share)
  • LGIH +1.3% (Sep closings)

Analyst comments:

  • SNAP +2.5% (upgraded to Equal-Weight from Underweight at Morgan Stanley)
  • TNDM +2.3% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at UBS)
  • AAPL +1.6% (positive comments from Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives on CNBC)
  • SAM +0.9% (upgraded to Neutral from Sell at UBS)