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9/24/2021 12:09pm
Wall Street in Fives - Must Read Lists at Midday

Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these Top Fives, as compiled by the editors of The Fly. 


1. STOCK NEWS: 

  • Nike (NKE) reported upbeat Q1 results [more]
  • Costco (COST) also reported upbeat quarterly results [more]
  • China's central bank has reportedly deemed all cryptocurrency transactions illegal, pushing Bitcoin prices down [more]
  • Carnival (CCL) guided for Q3 adjusted net losses of ($2B) [more]
  • McDonald's (MCD) raised its quarterly dividend and resumed share repurchases [more]


2. WALL STREET CALLS: 

  • Street Fight: Wells Fargo cuts Roku (ROKU) to Equal Weight day after Guggenheim upgrades to Buy [more]
  • Salesforce (CRM) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Sandler [more]
  • Oppenheimer downgrades Cloudflare (NET) amid competition from Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) [more]
  • Jefferies upgrades five casual dining stocks following selloff in the space [more]
  • JPMorgan cuts Micron (MU) target to $100 from $140 on DRAM pricing softness [more]


3. AROUND THE WEB: 

  • China is unlikely to approve Baidu's (BIDU) acquisition off Joyy's (YY) YY Live, Reuters reports [more]
  • IAC (IAC) is in talks to acquire Meredith (MDP) in a deal valued at over $2.5B, WSJ reports [more]
  • Tesla's (TSLA) Elon Musk sees the chip shortage as a "short-term" issue, CNBC reports [more]
  • AMD (AMD) is rumored to be in talks to form a joint venture with MediaTek, DigiTimes says [more]
  • Alibaba (BABA) will sell its stake in Mango Excellent Media due to pressures from Beijing, WSJ says [more]


4. MAJOR MOVERS: 

  • vTv Therapeutics (VTVT) jumps after announcing results of a multiple ascending dose study evaluating HPP737, an orally administered phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibitor, in healthy adults [more]
  • Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) higher after reporting quarterly results [more]
  • Helbiz (HLBZ) drops after filing to sell 11M shares of common stock [more]
  • Altice USA (ATUS) continues to slide as JPMorgan analyst Philip Cusick cut the firm's price target to $30 from $40 [more]
  • InMed Pharmaceuticals (INM) lower after reporting 2021 results [more]


5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE: 

  • CalAmp (CAMP) reported upbeat Q2 adjusted earnings [more]
  • Progress Software (PRGS) provided a "beat and raise" report for Q3 [more]
  • Trip.com (TCOM) reported upbeat Q2 results [more]
  • HNI Corporation (HNI) lowered its Q3 revenue growth view [more]
  • Applied Genetic (AGTC) reported upbeat Q4 earnings [more]


INDEXES: 

Near midday, the Dow was up 5.11, or 0.01%, to 34,769.93, the Nasdaq was down 23.50, or 0.16%, to 15,028.74, and the S&P 500 was up 2.47, or 0.06%, to 4,451.45.

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