>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance
: LCI +14.6%, NMBL +10.7%, LTRX +8.6%, GOGL +2%

M&A news: LEI +19.3% (shareholders vote to approve Segundo transaction and related financings)

Select financial related names showing strength: LYG +3.2%, BCS +2.2%, DB +2.1%, BBVA +2%, SAN +1.9%, HSBC+1.1%

Other news:
  • URRE +56.8% (develops energy metals business and acquires its first lithium property in Nevada)
  • AEHR +22.8% (announces a development/manufacturing partnership including an investment by Semics in 200K shares of Aehr Test Systems common stock)
  • INSY +12.2% (reports that the Phase 3 trial for the Buprenorphine Sublingual Spray met its primary endpoint)
  • OSUR +8.6% (receives a contract for up to $16.6 million in total funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to advance the Company's rapid Zika tests)
  • CLVS +7.9% (continued strength after yesterday's FDA approval of NDA for Rucaparib)
  • RADA +6.2% (cont strength)
  • WNC +6.2% (will replace EnerSys in the S&P SmallCap 600)
  • SCYX +5.6% (granted orphan designation by the FDA for its (1,3)-ß-D-glucan synthesis inhibitor for the treatment of invasive Aspergillus infections)
  • FIT +2.7% (continued strength after yesterday's FDA approval of NDA for Rucaparib)
  • FLO +1.8% (Directors (2) disclosed purchase of 24000 shares, worth total of $365.3K)
  • AAN +1.1% (light volume, Director disclosed purchase of 40K shares, worth total of ~$1.01 mln)
  • GPRO +1.1% (cont strength on the back of BBY earnings call yesterday)
  • VRX +1% (cont strength)
  • MOMO +1% (cont strength)
Analyst comments:
  • NEWM -2% (downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Citigroup)
  • CSIQ -2.7% (downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Barclays)