>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up

In reaction to strong earnings/guidance: JKS +10.2%, TSN +3.9%.

A few financial related names showing strength: DB +1.3%, IBN +1.4%, ITUB +1%, JPM +1% (reaches $4.5 bln agreement with 21 institutional investors to resolve repurchase and servicing claims), RBS +0.7% (disclosed that it previously announced that it planned to exit its structured retail investor products and equity derivatives business; RBS continues to make progress).

Select solar stocks trading higher: JASO +4%, CSIQ +2.8% ( DIF Infrastructure to Acquire Four Utility-Scale Solar Power Plants from Canadian Solar), SPWR +2.7%, YGE +2.2%, SOL +1.9% (announced it will deliver more than 178,000 PV modules, which will be used in a 53.5MW project being developed by leading solar PV project developer, OCI Solar Power ), SUNE +1.1%, FSLR +0.3%

Other news: CTIC +7% (continued strength; plans to discuss with investors and analysts its Development, Commercialization and License Agreement with Baxter (BAX); Co expects to receive $67 million in cash milestone progress payments from Baxter through 2015), CPRX +6.2% (Announces Publication of Preclinical Proof-of-Principle of CPP-115 Efficacy in Suppressing Infantile Spasms in Epilepsia; CPP-115 suppresses spasms in the multiple-hit model of IS), VJET +5.1% / DDD +1.3% (continued strength), ARIA +4.8% (still checking), ONVO +4.8% (continued strength), FREE +4.2% (announces results of annual meeting of shareholders and Appointment of new Chief Financial Officer Dimitris Papadopoulos), BA +3.3% (receives order from Etihad Airways, Boeing and flydubai announce historic single-aisle agreement), PSTI +3.3% (still checking), MCP +3% (still checking), JCP +2.4% (still checking), CG +1.8% (Carlyle ticking higher on positive Barron's mention), FUEL +1.7% (Rocket Fuel higher after exec interview on MadMoney), YY +1.6% (YY announced that it has decided to withdraw its previously announced proposed offering of $250 mln in aggregate principal amount of convertible notes due 2018 ), POT +1.5% / MOS +0.9% (Russia's Mikhail Prokhorov has agred to purchase a 21.75% stake in Uralkali, according to reports), CRM +1.4% (mentioned favorably on MadMoney on Friday), QIHU +1.3% (Qihoo 360 Tech. and Xunlei plan launch of new 360 Safe Browser in November, according to Marbridge ), SNE +1.1% (Sony has sold 1 mln PS4's on first day, according to reports), SI +0.4% (Chairman plans to stay at company until 2018, according to reports).

Analyst comments: DBD +1.4% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc), GG +0.7% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup)