Overnight Summary: The S&P 500 closed Tuesday at 3991.73 (higher by 0.87%) from Monday at 3957.52 (lower by -0.89%).  The overnight high of 4015.75 was hit at 3:00 a.m. EDT. The low was hit at 3980.50 at 8:35 p.m. EDT, a range of 35 points high to low which is below the recent range of 45.  At 7:00 a.m. EDT, the S&P 500 was lower by -2.75 points at 3996.75 which is -0.07%.

Earnings Out After The Close: 

• IPOs Priced or News: None of note.
• New SPACs launched/News:
  • Majic Wheels Corp enters definitive merger agreement with OceanTech Acquisitions I Corp (OTEC).
• Secondaries Priced:
  • ESAB: Announces Pricing of Secondary Offering of 6,003,431 Shares Currently Held by Enovis Corporation. Priced @$40
  • NTRA: Prices offering of 11.43 million shares of common stock at $35.00 per share.
• Notes Priced of note:
  • CCL: Announces Pricing of 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 for Refinancing 2024 Maturities.
• Common Stock filings/Notes:
  • ASLE: Secondary Offering of Common Stock and Concurrent Share Repurchase. 4M Shares. (Cowen RBC and Stifel Bookmanagers)
  • ACRX: Filed Form S-3.. Up to 81,150 Shares of Common Stock Issuable Upon Exercise of a Warrant.
  • DNA: Proposed Public Offering of Class A Common Stock. $100 Million.  (BTIG Bookmanager)
  • NTRA: Filed Form S-3ASR — $350,000,000 Common Stock.
  • PRVA: Secondary Offering 5 Million shares. (GS Bookmanager)
• Pricing of Over-Allotment/Notes: None of note.
• Direct Offering: None of note.
• Selling Shareholders of note:
  • LAUR: Commences underwritten secondary offering of 32,842,183 shares by certain existing stockholders affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.
• Private Placement of Public Entity (PIPE): None of note.
• Mixed Shelf Offerings:
  • BKD: Filed Form S-3ASR — Mixed Shelf.
  • DRMA: Filed Form S-3.. $100,000,000 Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • HOLX: Filed Form S-3ASR.. Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • KRT: Filed Form S-3..$150,000,000 Mixed Shelf and 2 Million Common Stock.
  • PRVA: Filed Form S-3ASR.. Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • STRC: Filed Form S-3.. $150,000,000 Mixed Shelf.
  • URGN: Filed Form S-3.. $250,000,000 Mixed Shelf.
• Debt Filing/Notes:
  • BBBY: Announces Extension of Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations for Certain of its Outstanding Debt Securities.
  • OKE: Announces $75.0 Million Notes Offering.
  • TMO: Prices Offering of USD-Denominated Senior Notes.
  • TXN: Prices $800 million of investment grade notes.
• Tender Offer: None of note.
• Convertible Offering & Notes Filed:
  • INDI: Announces Proposed Convertible Senior Notes Offering and $50 million Repurchase Authorization.
  • WOLF: Announces Offering of $1,300 Million of Convertible Senior Notes..

Capital Raise Summary From The TradeXchange, bringing traders and investors real time news and Squawk Box, and other sources.

News After The Close:

• After Hours: 
  • Trading Up: NTRA +4%.
  • Trading Down: LVLU -14%, CCL -12%, AAP -10%, SMWB -9%, GSM -7%, DNA -6%, NVGS -4%, ASLE -4%.

• News Since The Close:
  • Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: CCL, AAP, SAGE, DNA (CNBC).
  • Amazon (AMZN) starts cutting jobs, with layoffs hitting Alexa unit and cloud gaming division. (CNBC)
  • Intel (INTC): Jury Orders INTC To Pay $948.8 Million U.S. Jury Verdict In VLSI Computer Chip Patent Trial.
  • Disney (DIS) World to hike Magic Kingdom ticket prices to as high as $189 for entry. (NYPost)
  • Meta, Lyft, Salesforce and Other Tech Firms Dump Office Space as They Downsize. (WSJ)
  • NATO Ambassadors To Meet On Wednesday At Request Of Poland On Basis Of Alliance’s Article 4 – Two European Diplomats Say. Morning update – looks like the missiles came from Kyiv by Ukraine. (See Rags and Mags)

• Exchange/Listing/Company Reorg and Personnel News:
  • Delayed 10-Q Filings: HYZN, NUTX
  • AMERCO (UHAL) to transfer of listing of common stock to the NYSE and change name to U-Haul Holding Company on December 19.
  • Aravive (ARAV) Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
  • Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA) appoints Chris Villavarayan as CEO and President.
  • NYSE to Suspend Trading Immediately in Securities of G&P Acquisition Corp. (GAPA) and Commence Delisting Proceedings.
  • Lulu’s (LVLU) Fashion Lounge promotes CFO Crystal Landsem to become new CEO.
  • LL Flooring (LL) Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition.
  • Membership Collective Group (MCG) announces changes to its executive leadership team.
  • Missfresh (MF) Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Periodic Filing Requirement.
  • The Pennant Group (PNTG) Reorganizes Executive Team.
  • Restaurant Brands Int’l (QSR) appoints Patrick Doyle as Executive Chairman. Doyle ran Dominos and turned it into a giant from 2010 to 2018.
  • Teradyne (TER) Announces CEO Succession.
  • Vinco Ventures (BBIG) Appoints Richard Levychin, CPA, CGMA to its Board of Directors for Governance and Leadership.
• Buyback Announcements or News:
  • Discover Financial Services (DFS) resumes repurchases under its existing share repurchase program authorizing up to $4.2 billion of share repurchases.
  • Group 1 Automotive (GPI) Board Approves Share Repurchase Authorization increase by $161 million to $200 million & Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend up $0.01 to $0.39.
  • INDI: See Convertible Notes above.
  • ORLY: Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a resolution to increase the authorization amount under its share repurchase program by an additional $1.5 billion.
  • Sundial Growers (SNDL) Announces Renewal of Share Repurchase Program.
• Stock Splits or News: None of note.
• Dividends Announcements or News:
  • Amkor (AMKR) Announces 50% Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend and Shareholder Return Goal.
  • Broadmark Realty (BRMK) lowers monthly cash dividend to $0.035 per share from $0.07 per share.
  • Group 1 Automotive (GPI) – See Buyback Announcements.
  • Insteel Industries (IIIN) declares a special cash dividend of $2.00 per share.
  • NIKE, Inc. (NKE) Announces 11% Increase in Quarterly Dividend.
  • TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST) increases quarterly dividend by 2.9% to $0.36 per share.

What’s Happening This Morning: Futures value reflects the change with fair value.

Sector Action – (1/3/6/12/YTD Updated Weekly with Monday release):  

• Daily Positive Sectors:  Communication Services, Technology, Consumer Cyclical, Consumer Defensive, Energy, Real Estate of note.
• Daily Negative Sectors: None of note.
• One Month Winners:  Industrials, Basic Materials, Financial of note.
• Three Month Winners:  Energy, Basic Materials of note.
• Six Month Winners: Energy, Industrials, Financial of note.
• Twelve Month Winners: Energy, Utilities of note.
• Year to Date Winners: Energy of note.

U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday after slowing increases in supplier prices offered more evidence that inflationary pressures could be easing.  The gains were broad-based, with nine of the S&P 500’s 11 sectors advancing. Stocks from technology to energy to consumer staples ended the day higher. The S&P 500 rose 34.48 points, or 0.9%, to 3991.73. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 56.22 points, or 0.2%, to 33592.92. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 162.19 points, or 1.4%, to 11358.41 as tech stocks extended their recent run.  (WSJ)

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Upcoming Earnings Of Note: (sorted by market cap, highest to lowest with most visible names)

Gap Ups & Down In Early Pre-Market:

• Gap Up: ARDX +5%.
• Gap Down: AAP -14%, LVLU -12%, CCL -12%, SMWB -9%, GSM -9%, NVGS -8%, DNA -6%, ASLE -5%.

Insider Action: XRAY, WW, SAGE, ESI sees Insider buying with dumb short selling.  TACT sees Insider buying with smart short sellers.

Rags & Mags: Repeated stories from prior days never listed, i.e. “rehashed news”. Sorted by Global, U.S. and stock specific.

• Stocks Making The Biggest Moves: TGT, CCL, LOW, AAP, SAGE, CTVA, BABA, NTES, ETSY. (CNBC)
• 5 Things To Know Before The Market Opens Wednesday. (CNBC)
• Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day. (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Lead Story (The Big Take today): FTX came close to upending the Futures market. (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Most Read Story: Trump makes 2024 Run official.  (Bloomberg)
• NATO Chief says the Poland missile blast was from a Ukrainian missile that was misdirected as Ukraine tried to defend against over one hundred missiles hit Ukraine. (CNBC)
• Oil Tanker hit off the Oman coast by a bomb-carrying drone. (AP)
• U.K. Inflation is still high at 11.1% in the latest release. (CNN)
• ECB Muller says that need another “substantial” rate hike in December. (Bloomberg)
• Former President Donald Trump announced last night that he is running for President of the United States. (CNN)
• Florida’s Rick Scott (R-FL) to challenge the Kentucky Gentleman aka Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for the Minority Leader role. (Fox News)
• Senate votes 62-36 to end Covid Emergency Funding. President Biden says he will veto. (WSJ)
• NASA’s Artemis took off for its “fly me to the moon” mission which has no astronauts this time. (NYT)
• Mortgage Applications rose 2.7% week over week. (Fox Business News)
• 55 million Americans to travel next week for Thanksgiving. (WSJ)
• Target (TGT) misses earnings “by a mile” making a Walmart Long/ Target Short an interesting trade. (CNBC)
• Lowe’s (LOW) beats expectations as they hit the target. (CNBC)

Moving Average Update:

• Score inches up 3% to 88%…again.

Geopolitical: 

• Federal Reserve New York President John Williams 9:50 a.m. EST
• Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr  10:00 a.m. EST
• Federal Research Board of Governors Christopher Waller 2:35 p.m. EST

M&A Activity:

• UPS Completes Acquisition of Bomi Group, Multi-National Healthcare Logistics Provider

• Company Meetings: CLX, ORCL, WDC.
• Fireside Chat:
  • TMC The Metals Company Inc. (TMC) fireside chat hosted by Water Tower Research.
• Investor/Analyst Day/Calls: BC, CTV, ENSC, EPAC, EXLS, GSAT, JLL, LPLA, PACB, ROK, SMTS.
  • Texas Pacific Ltd (TPL) is a Type 1 Short Squeeze that holds their analyst meeting.
• Update: None of note.
• R&D Day: None of note.
• Company Event: None of note.
• Industry Meetings:
  • 2022 Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) Annual Meeting (11/16/22-11/20/22)
  • Cervical Spine Research Society 50th Annual Meeting (11/16/22-11/19/22)
  • 2022 Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) Annual Meeting 2022 (11/16/22-11/19/22)
  • National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) Annual Conference 2022 (11/16/22-11/20/22)
    • Previously posted and ongoing conferences:
      • NYSE Industrials Virtual Investor Access Day 2022 (11/15/22-11/16/22) (SON, BKSY, ML, WTS, REZI, LPX, STN)
      • The 7th Special Food Congress 2022 (11/15/22-11/17/22)
      • ELECTRONICA 2022 (11/15/22-11/18/22)
      • Financial Brand Forum 2022 (11/14/22-11/16/22)
      • World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity 2022 (11/14/22-11/16/22)
      • World Orphan Drug Congress Europe 2023 (11/14/22-11/17/22)
      • Phocuswright Conference 2022 (11/14/22-11/17/22)
      • Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2022 (11/12/22-11/16/22)
      • HLTH 2022 (11/13/22-11/16/22) (WBA, HCA, WMT, CNC, MRNA, DAL, DVA, GOOG, GOOGL, BIIB, TAK, PTON, VOYA, MS, MSFT, CRM, BMY, HUM, RHHBY, ROG.CH, BA, AMZN, DIS, ZM, TWLO, ELV, TALK, MERC, SYF, KVSA, OSH, ABBV, CMPS, CVS, GSK, MDT, HRB, TEVA, AZN, KMX, TOI, ATAI, IBEX, EVR)
      • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 43rd Annual Meeting 2022 (11/13/22-11/17/22)

Top Tier Sell-side Upgrades & Downgrades:

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