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1/4/2023 16:01pm
What You Missed On Wall Street On Wednesday
Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these five Top Five lists.
1. STOCK NEWS:
- Salesforce (CRM) announced a restructuring and a 10% workforce reduction [more]
- China paused chip industry investments as COVID resurges, Bloomberg reports [more]
- GE Healthcare (GEHC) completed its spin-off from GE (GE) [more]
- Ireland's DPC fines Meta (META) EUR390M for breaches of the GDPR [more]
- General Motors (GM) reported a 41% increase in U.S. sales in Q4, while Toyota (TM) saw a 13.1% rise in U.S. sales in Q4 [more]
2. WALL STREET CALLS:
- Microsoft (MSFT) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS [more]
- Target (TGT) downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Wells Fargo [more]
- Boston Beer (SAM) downgraded to Underperform from Hold at Jefferies [more]
- Barclays upgrades Veeva (VEEV) to Overweight as defensive pick [more]
- Pfizer (PFE) downgraded to Neutral, Merck (MRK) upgraded to Buy at BofA [more]
3. AROUND THE WEB:
- 3M (MMM) has attempted to contain liability over "forever chemicals," earplugs, WSJ reports [more]
- SMFG (SMFG) is eyeing a larger stake in Jefferies (JEF), Nikkei reports [more]
- Fox Corp. (FOX) and News Corp. (NWS) renew office leases in Manhattan, WSJ says [more]
- Lawyer says U.S. seizing FTX-linked Robinhood (HOOD) stake, Bloomberg reports [more]
- ACI Worldwide (ACIW) is in talks with private equity about a possible sale, Bloomberg says [more]
4. MOVERS:
- Geron (GERN) rises after reporting “positive” results from its IMerge Phase 3 trial of imetelstat [more]
- Hayward (HAYW) higher after Jefferies upgraded the stock to Buy from Hold [more]
- Vera Therapeutics (VERA) lower after announcing results from its ORIGIN clinical trial [more]
- Mobileye (MBLY) declines in New York after announcing pact with Wistron NeWeb for software-defined imaging radars [more]
- ZoomInfo (ZI) slides after BofA downgraded the stock to Neutral [more]
5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:
- Perion Network (PERI) reported upbeat preliminary Q4 revenue [more]
- SGH (SGH) reported upbeat Q1 results [more]
- UniFirst (UNF) reported better-than-expected Q1 earnings and revenue [more]
- Theratechnologies (THTX) provided upbeat 2022 revenue guidance [more]
- Deciphera (DCPH) provided upbeat Q4 and FY22 revenue guidance [more]
INDEXES:
The Dow rose 133.40, or 0.40%, to 33,269.77, the Nasdaq gained 71.78, or 0.69%, to 10,458.76, and the S&P 500 advanced 28.83, or 0.75%, to 3,852.97.