>>> US Gapping Up

Gapping up
In reaction to earnings/guidance:
  • WDAY +12.7% (also announces $1 bln share buyback authorization; also announces new partnership with Equifax), CAVA +8.9%, AMSWA +7.2%, ROST +5.4%, BILL +2% (also authorizes new $300 mln share repurchase program), HAFN +0.9%
Select uranium stocks trading higher following Kazatomprom earnings and production update:
  • CCJ +5.8%, UUUU +4.6%, URA +3.4%, SMR +2.5%, NLR +1.8%
Other news:
  • TVTX +4.9% (to present abstracts at symposium)
  • GLPG +4.5% (receives FDA clearance of IND application for Phase 1/2 ATALANTA-1 study of CD19 CAR-T, GLPG5101, in relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
  • RKLB +4.4% (former LMT CFO named to RKLB's Board of Directors)
  • IBTA +4.2% (authorizes new $100 mln share repurchase program)
  • BABA +2.8% (confirms voluntary conversion of secondary listing to primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will become effective on August 28)
  • PRPL +2.6% (consolidates its mattress production ops)
  • AVDX +1.8% (authorizes first ever $100 mln share repurchase program)
  • LC +1.4% (launches LevelUp Savings)
  • GM +1.3% (Uber and Cruise partner to bring Cruise autonomous vehicles to Uber platform)
  • MRNA +1.2% (receives approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan for partial change application for Moderna's COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine) QCOM +1.2% (Sequans Communications (SQNS) agrees to sell its 4G IoT technology for $200 mln to Qualcomm while retaining license for ongoing use and development)
  • CP +1% (prepares to restart railway operations, awaits CIRB order; disappointed by TCRC's decision to dispute Minister's direction to resume railway operations