>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance
:

  • SBH +14.7% (Q3 revs outlook), HIMX +2.9%

Select Chinese ADRs showing strength after Shanghai closes 5.7% higher:

  • NIO +21.9%, ASHR +9.1%, FXI +7.3%, WB +5.3%, JD +3.9%, BIDU +3.8%, BABA +3.8%

Other news:

  • MESO +9.1% (initiates expanded access protocol for compassionate use of Remestemcel-L in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19)
  • DTIL +6.9% (notified by Gilead (GILD) of its termination of the Collaboration and License Agreement)
  • UBER +6.4% (Bloomberg on Sunday said that UBER was buying Postmates for $2.65 bln in an all-stock transaction)
  • SEAS +4.6% (files for $500 mln mixed securities shelf offering)
  • BDX +4.1% (launches portable, rapid point-of-care antigen test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 minutes, dramatically expanding access to COVID-19 Testing)
  • MYGN +3.7% (announced new collaboration with OptraHEALTH to implement a cognitive ChatBOT named Gene to provide genetic and financial assistance information to prospective patients)
  • MYL +3.3% (secures regulatory approval for remdesivir lyophilized powder for injection 100 mg/vial in India for Restricted Emergency Use in COVID-19 patients)
  • DOW +3.1% (announces sale of rail infrastructure assets at six North American sites)
  • REGN +2.9% (starts REGN-COV2 Phase 3 COVID-19 prevention trial)
  • RRR +2.4% (reports the death of its President Richard Haskins )
  • CVM +1.9% (confirms filing for 613,792 share common stock offering by selling shareholders)
  • APT +1.8% (Texas governor mandates masks)
  • GILD +1.8% (receives conditional Marketing Authorization for Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19)
  • HTGC +1.7% (files for 16.5 mln share common stock offering)
  • ABT +1.4% (receives FDA approval for Gallant implantable cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator devices)
  • EBS +1.1% (signs five-year agreement for large-scale drug substance manufacturing for Johnson & Johnson's lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate; first two years valued at $480 mln)

Analyst comments:

  • TSLA +5.5% (target raised to $1500 from $1050 at JMP Securities)
  • CYBR +2% (upgraded to Buy at Monness Crespi & Hardt)
  • CCEP +1.7% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at ABN Amro)