Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these five Top Five lists.
1. STOCK NEWS:
- Tesla (TSLA) reports Q4 deliveries of 405,278 on production of 439,701 vehicles [more]
- UC Investments will invest $4B in Blackstone (BX) Real Estate Income Trust [more]
- Targa (TRGP) will acquire Blackstone's 25% interest in Grand Prix for $1.05B [more]
- Evaxion (EVAX) received approval from the FDA to proceed with its Phase 2b study of EVX-01 [more]
- Beyond Meat (BYND) said that "Beyond Steak" is now available at select Costco (COST) locations [more]
2. WALL STREET CALLS:
- Truist upgrades PayPal (PYPL) to Buy, sees investors as "too negative" [more]
- Block (SQ) upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Baird [more]
- Coty (COTY) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Sandler [more]
- Wynn Resorts (WYNN) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Wells Fargo [more]
- CVS Health (CVS) downgraded to In Line from Outperform at Evercore ISI [more]
3. AROUND THE WEB:
- Apple (AAPL) told suppliers to lower orders for almost all product lines, Nikkei says [more]
- Exxon (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) are shifting their focus to oil projects in the Americas, WSJ reports [more]
- Twitter (TWTR) sued over rent payment in San Francisco, WSJ says [more]
- General Electric (GE) will split off its healthcare unit this week, WSJ reports [more]
- A Polish regulator has accused T-Mobile (TMUS) of misleading advertising, Reuters reports [more]
4. MOVERS:
- Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH) increases in New York after entering a patent settlement pact with Sun Pharmaceutical [more]
- ACM Research (ACMR) higher after reaffirming FY22 guidance and providing revenue guidance for FY23 [more]
- Oatly (OTLY) gains in New York after announcing a long-term manufacturing partnership with Ya YA Foods [more]
- PDS Biotechnology (PDSB) declines after announcing an exclusive global license agreement with Merck KGaA (MKKGY) [more]
- Futu Holdings (FUTU) lower in New York after CLSA downgraded the stock to Reduce from Buy [more]
5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:
- Centene (CNC) raised its 2024 adjusted EPS floor [more]
- BGC Partners (BGCP) sees Q4 adjusted earnings above the midpoint of its previous outlook [more]
- Blue Hat Interactive (BHAT) reported downbeat Q2 results [more]
- KB Home (KBH) reports quarterly results after the bell on January 11 [more]
- Big banks such as JPMorgan (JPM) Bank of America (BAC), and Citi (C) begin reporting earnings late next week [more]
INDEXES:
Near midday, the Dow was down 178.49, or 0.54%, to 32,968.76, the Nasdaq was down 122.07, or 1.17%, to 10,344.41, and the S&P 500 was down 30.36, or 0.79%, to 3,809.14.