U.S. STOCKS ON THE MOVE-Microsoft, Boeing, Walgreens Boots Alliance

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08/01/2020 16:54

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U.S. stocks extended gains on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said there
were no American casualties in the overnight Iranian missile strikes and that
Tehran appeared to be standing down, easing concerns of an all-out conflict in
the Middle East.  .N 
    At 11:28 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average  .DJI  was up 0.18% at
28,635.21. The S&P 500  .SPX  was up 0.20% at 3,243.74 and the Nasdaq Composite
 .IXIC  was up 0.17% at 9,084.108.
 
 The top three S&P 500  .PG.INX  percentage gainers:
 ** Lennar Corp  LEN.N , up 4.7%
 ** Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc  VRTX.O , up 2.8%
 ** Idexx Laboratories Inc  IDXX.O , up 2.6%
 
 The top three S&P 500  .PL.INX  percentage losers:
 ** Walgreen Boots Alliance Inc  WBA.O , down 6.3%
 ** Marathon Oil Corp  MRO.N , down 3.8%
 ** Phillips 66  PSX.N , down 3.5%
 
 The top NYSE  .PG.N  percentage gainers:
 ** Yuma Energy Inc  YUMA.N , up 14.9%
 ** Mechel PAO  MTL.N , up 14.4%
 
 The top three NYSE  .PL.N  percentage losers:
 ** Pier 1 Imports  PIR.N , down 16.3%
 ** Livent Corp  LTHM.N , down 11.3%
 ** Montage Resources Corp  MR.N , down 10.1%
 
 The top three Nasdaq  .PG.O  percentage gainers:
 ** ShiftPixy Inc  PIXY.O , up 182.3%
 ** Wah Fu Education Group  WAFU.O , up 80%
 ** Five Star Senior Living Inc  FVE.O , up 23.8%
 
 The top three Nasdaq  .PL.O  percentage losers:
 ** Genetic Technologies Ltd  GENE.O , down 20.9 %
 ** Cellect Biotechnology Ltd  APOP.O , down 18.6 %
 ** Inpixon  INPX.O , down 18.1 %
 
 
 ** A 10 Networks Inc  ATEN.N : up 4.1%
 BUZZ-Gains on upbeat Q4 outlook  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29C3MP
 
 ** Livent Corp  LTHM.N : down 11.3%
 BUZZ-Falls after lowering FY revenue, profit forecast on pricing concerns
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29C3O0
 
 ** Microsoft Inc  MSFT.O : up 1.0%
 BUZZ-Morgan Stanley raises PT on commercial cloud growth  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D2Y7
 
 ** New York Mortgage Trust  NYMT.O : down 1.5%
  BUZZ-New York Mortgage Trust down on heavy volume after pricing stock offering
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29D0D2
 
 ** Lennar Corp  LEN.N : up 4.7%
 BUZZ-Up after 2020 home deliveries forecast, Q4 beat  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D315
 
 ** Zebra Technologies Corp  ZBRA.O : down 2.7%
 BUZZ-Morgan Stanley downgrades on likely fall in revenue growth  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D31Y
 
 ** Ciena Corp  CIEN.N : up 1.9%
 BUZZ-Rises after Morgan Stanley upgrades to 'overweight'  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D2X6
 
 ** Comstock Mining  LODE.A : up 19.2%
 BUZZ-Comstock Mining: Shares more than double on sale of Silver Springs assets
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 ** UnitedHealth Group Inc  UNH.N : up 1.3%
 BUZZ-Bernstein bullish on UnitedHealth Group, raises PT  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D33N
 
 ** Occidental Petroleum Corp  OXY.N : down 0.5%
 BUZZ-Occidental Petroleum: Mizuho says enough punishment for stock, upgrades to
"buy"  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D34U
 
 ** Walgreens Boots Alliance  WBA.O : down 6.3%
 BUZZ-Falls as Q1 results miss estimates  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3L3
 
 ** Midatech Pharma Plc  MTP.O : up 58.5%
 BUZZ-Midatech Pharma: Surges after cancer treatment succeeds study  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D33O
 
 ** ShiftPixy Inc  PIXY.O : up 182.3%
 BUZZ-Surges on $20 mln contract assignment  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D38M
 
 ** Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc  ALXN.O : up 1.0%
 BUZZ-Guggenheim sees little impact on Alexion from Apellis' comparative study
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D39Z
 
 ** Quintana Energy Services Inc  QES.N : up 6.3%
 BUZZ-Quintana Energy: Continues to rise on business segment reshuffle
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D36P
 
 ** FireEye Inc  FEYE.O : down 3.6%
 ** Palo Alto Networks Inc  PANW.N : down 1.7%
 BUZZ-BofA Global downgrades FireEye, Palo Alto on 2020 headwinds  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3A1
 
 ** Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc  ITCI.O : down 10.5%
 BUZZ-Intra-Cellular Therapies falls after pricing stock deal  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29D0JX
 
 ** Glu Mobile  GLUU.O : down 8.7%
 BUZZ-Stephens downgrades on its Disney game prospects  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3F0
 
 ** Scynexis Inc  SCYX.O : up 1.9%
 BUZZ-Rises as anti-fungal drug shows promise in late-stage study  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3BL
 
 ** Cisco Systems Inc  CSCO.O : down 1.1%
 BUZZ-BofA downgrades to 'neutral' on 2020 headwinds  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3GG
 
 ** RADA Electronic Industries Ltd  RADA.O : down 4.6%
 BUZZ-Drops on deep-discounted stock offering  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29D0LN
 
 ** Jaguar Health Inc  JAGX.O : up 1.3%
 BUZZ-Jumps on positive study results for diarrhea drug  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3H7
 
 ** Applied Therapeutics Inc  APLT.O : up 21.1%
 BUZZ-Surges on positive result from rare disease trial  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3KC
 
 ** Cellect Biotechnology Ltd  APOP.O : down 18.6%
 BUZZ-Falls on direct share offering  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29D0MP
 
 ** Verastem Inc  VSTM.O : up 37.7%
 BUZZ-Rises on licensing agreement with Chugai Pharma  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3M6
 
 ** Boeing Co  BA.N : down 1.6%
 ** Spirit AeroSystems Inc  SPR.N : down 2.1%
 ** Arconic Inc  ARNC.N : down 1.2%
 ** Allegheny Technologies Inc  ATI.N : down 2.4%
 ** General Electric Co  GE.N : down 1.2%
 BUZZ-Boeing, suppliers fall as 737-800 jet crash kills all 176 aboard
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3H1
 
 ** Biocept Inc  BIOC.O : up 3.5%
 BUZZ-Soars on U.S. patent win for tumor cell detection devices  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3OY
 
 ** Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc  VRTX.O : up 2.8%
 BUZZ-Investors underestimating 2020 potential - brokerages  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3P4
 
 ** SeaSpine Holdings Corp  SPNE.O : up 11.2%
 BUZZ-Jumps on 2020 revenue forecast beat, upsized stock offering  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29D0RD
 
 ** Biolife Solutions Inc  BLFS.O : up 2.6%
 ** Cryoport Inc  CYRX.O : up 2.3%
 BUZZ-Rise of gene therapy will pay off for sector's supply chain cos - Stephens
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3N0
 
 ** BioCardia Inc  BCDA.O : up 14.5%
 BUZZ-Surges on new patent wins in U.S., China and Japan  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3S6
 
 ** Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc  ADMS.O : up 11.1%
 BUZZ-Up on upbeat FY forecast of parkinson's treatment  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3RE
 
 ** Phillips 66  PSX.N : down 3.5%
 BUZZ-Slips to near 3-month low after JPM, CS lower earnings estimates
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3QR
 
 ** Range Resources Corp  RRC.N : down 2.5%
 BUZZ-Falls as co expects 'significant' impairment charges  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N29D3SZ
 
    
    
 The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:
 
 Communication Services   .SPLRCL   up 0.31%
 Consumer Discretionary   .SPLRCD   up 0.17%
 Consumer Staples         .SPLRCS   up 0.27%
 Energy                   .SPNY     down 1.24%
 Financial                .SPSY     up 0.48%
 Health                   .SPXHC    up 0.23%
 Industrial               .SPLRCI   up 0.11%
 Information Technology   .SPLRCT   up 0.32%
 Materials                .SPLRCM   down 0.06%
 Real Estate              .SPLRCR   up 0.26%
 Utilities                .SPLRCU   up 0.03%
 
 (Compiled by Abhishek Manikandan in Bengaluru)
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