Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these five Top Five lists.
1. STOCK NEWS:
- JPMorgan (JPM) reported downbeat Q2 results and said it would "temporarily" suspend share buybacks [more]
- Morgan Stanley (MS) also reported lower-than-expected Q2 results, with CFO Sharon Yeshaya saying the company's second half will be difficult to predict [more]
- Amazon (AMZN) reported Prime members purchased over 300M items during Prime Day [more]
- Conagra Brands (CAG) reported upbeat Q4 earnings but downbeat Q4 revenue [more]
- TSMC (TSM) reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings [more]
2. WALL STREET CALLS:
- Twitter (TWTR) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Rosenblatt [more]
- Deutsche Bank upgrades Costco (COST) to Buy ahead of "meaningful share gains" [more]
- AMD (AMD) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at BMO Capital [more]
- F5 Networks (FFIV) downgraded to Neutral at JPMorgan and at Credit Suisse [more]
- Dollar General (DG) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Citi [more]
3. AROUND THE WEB:
- Microsoft's (MSFT) total layoffs to be 1,000 of its 180,000 workforce, Fox Business reports [more]
- Bonitas Research reported a short position in Alphatec (ATEC) [more]
- BP (BP) is looking to make sustainable aviation fuel in Australia by 2025, Reuters reports [more]
- Credit Suisse (CS) chairman Axel Lehmann said the future of the lender is as an "independent" entity, Bloomberg reports [more]
- Deutsche Bank (DB) faces delays in its core IT restructuring project, FT reports [more]
4. MOVERS:
- Green Brick (GRBK) higher after being named to join the S&P 600 [more]
- Canoo (GOEV) rises after its platform was selected by the U.S. Army for analysis and demonstration [more]
- Bellus Health (BLU) falls in New York after its 16.54M share offering priced at $9.25 per share [more]
- Industrial Logistics Property Trust (ILPT) lower after cutting its quarterly distribution to 1c per share [more]
- Vaalco Energy (EGY) declines after announcing it will acquire TransGlobe (TGA) in $307M stock-for-stock combination [more]
5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:
- Ericsson (ERIC) reported a year-over-year increase in Q1 earnings and revenue [more]
- Cintas (CTAS) reported upbeat Q4 results [more]
- Theratechnologies (THTX) reported upbeat Q2 revenue [more]
- Pacira (PCRX) reported lower-than-expected preliminary Q2 revenue [more]
- Biotricity (BTCY) reported upbeat Q4 revenue [more]
INDEXES:
Near midday, the Dow was down 318.48, or 1.03%, to 30,454.31, the Nasdaq was down 81.97, or 0.73%, to 11,165.61, and the S&P 500 was down 35.28, or 0.93%, to 3,766.50.