(12/18) Monday's Pre-Market Stock Movers & News Good Morning Stockaholics! Happy Monday! STOCK FUTURES NOW: LAST WEEK'S MARKET HEAT MAP: LAST WEEK'S S&P SECTORS: TODAY'S ECONOMIC CALENDAR: THIS WEEK'S ECONOMIC CALENDAR: THIS WEEK'S IPO'S: MOST ACTIVE TRENDING DISCUSSIONS (STOCK SYMBOLS ARE CLICKABLE!): NIO NIO Inc - ADR X United States Steel Corp. ARDX Ardelyx Inc BNZI Banzai International Inc - Ordinary Shares - Class A CLF Cleveland-Cliffs Inc AAPL Apple Inc. UNIT Uniti Group Inc PNT POINT Biopharma Global Inc PGTI PGT Innovations Inc AEE Ameren Corp. THIS WEEK'S EARNINGS CALENDAR: ($NKE $MU $CCL $FDX $HEI $CTAS $ACN $GIS $BB $KMX $FCEL $AIR $SCS $WOR $LIVE $MLKN $QIPT $EPAC $FDS $AVO $CETX $WGO $PAYX $LMNR $TTC $APOG $OGI $KNW $SHIM) THIS MORNING'S PRE-MARKET EARNINGS RELEASES: (NONE.) BEFORE TODAY'S MARKET OPEN: (NONE.) THIS AFTERNOON'S AFTER-HOURS EARNINGS RELEASES: AFTER TODAY'S MARKET CLOSE: FRIDAY'S ANALYST UPGRADES/DOWNGRADES: FRIDAY'S INSIDER TRADING FILINGS: TODAY'S DIVIDEND CALENDAR: THIS MORNING'S PRE-MARKET STOCK NEWS MOVERS: source: cnbc.com U.S. Steel — U.S. Steel shares popped more than 28% after Japan’s Nippon Steel said it would buy the company at $55 per share, a deal that values the American steel company at $14.9 billion, including debt. Affirm — Shares of the buy now pay later company fell more than 5% after Morgan Stanley downgraded Affirm to underweight from equal weight. The bank saying that its valuation is hard to justify downside despite the recent stock surge. Illumina — Illumina popped nearly 6% after the company said its plans to sell its Grail unit through a third-party sale of capital markets transaction, finalizing the terms by the end of the second quarter of next year. The news comes after a federal appeals court sided with the U.S. government in its challenging of Illumina’s 2021 acquisition of the cancer test maker. Roku — Shares of the streaming video platform fell more than 3% after Seaport downgraded Roku to sell from neutral, citing increased competition in digital video advertising. Shares of Roku also fell more than 6% on Friday. Uber— Shared inched marginally lower as the ride sharing company readies to join the S&P 500 Monday. Jabil and Builders FirstSource are also set to join the broad-based index, with shares last down 0.5% and up 0.5%, respectively. Vodafone — Shares popped 6.5% after French telecommunications company Iliad Group said it submitted a proposal to Vodafone to merge their Italian businesses. Sunnova Energy — Sunnova Energy’s stock rose nearly 4% after Goldman Sachs upgraded the solar company to a buy rating, citing an improving growth setup for residential solar. Have a happy trading day to everyone in here on this Monday!
