>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to earnings/guidance
:

  • DAL +1.6% (guidance), ABCM +1.2% (guidance; also Starboard issues statement regarding the opportunity to maximize value at Abcam)

Other news:

  • AEL +14.3% (receives acquisition proposal from Brookfield Reinsurance for $55.00 per AEL share)
  • ACIU +12.1% (receives FDA fast track designation for anti-amyloid-beta active immunotherapy aci-24.060 to treat alzheimer's disease)
  • CIR +6.9% (enters into amendment to definitive merger agreement with KKR (KKR) at $51/share)
  • MOD +4.6% (Director sold $560K of stock)
  • INSE +4.5% (signs contract extension with bet365)
  • ALDX +3.9% (top-line results from the Phase 2 clinical trial of orally administered ADX-629)
  • SSYS +3.5% (3D Systems (DDD) submits enhanced proposal to combine with Stratasys)
  • TERN +3% (new preclinical data for TERN-601)
  • EWTX +2.8% (positive 12-month topline results from ARCH open label study)
  • IQ +2.2% (wins thirteen awards at the 2023 Shanghai TV Festival)
  • VRNA +2% (submits NDA to FDA for Ensifentrine for the Maintenance Treatment of COPD)
  • FREY +1.8% (announces key achievements ahead of capital markets day)
  • EGLE +1.6% (Danaos Corporation (DAC) Delivers Letter to Eagle Bulk Shipping Board of Directors)
  • LLY +1.6% (phase 2 retatrutide results published in The New England Journal of Medicine show the investigational molecule achieved up to 17.5% mean weight reduction at 24 weeks in adults with obesity and overweight )
  • EU +1.4% (announces agreement for at-the-market offering)
  • HOOD +1.3% (cutting 7% of its workforce according to WSJ)
  • EXPI +1% (increases repurchase cap by $500 mln)

Analyst comments:

  • GWRE +3.5% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel)
  • K +2.5% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman)
  • SAIA +2.2% (upgraded to Outperform from In-line at Evercore ISI)