Overnight Summary: The S&P 500 closed Friday at 4228.48% (lower by -1.28%) while Thursday closed at 4283.74 (higher by 0.23%).  The overnight high of 4221.50 was hit at 6:05 p.m. EDT. The low was hit at 4175.50 at 5:40 a.m. EDT, a range of 47 points high to low which is around the range of late with 45 the average range. At 7:15 a.m. EDT the current price was 4186.50 which is -1.06% and -45 points.  Currently, at 8:00 a.m. EDT the S&P 500 is now down -47 points.

• IPOs Priced or News: None of note.
• New SPACs launched/News: None of note.
• Secondaries Priced:
  • Assure Holdings Corp. (IONM) Prices $6.2 Million Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock.
• Notes Priced of note: None of note.
• Common Stock filings/Notes:
  • ADXN: Filed Form F-1.. Up to 4,250,000 American Depositary Shares Representing 25,500,000 Shares.
  • GRFX: Closing of Upsized $11.7 Million Public Offering and NYSE American Listing.
  • KRBP: Filed Form RW.
  • RVLP: Filed Form S-3.. 15,451,612 Ordinary Shares.
  • WTM:  to commence self-tender offer to purchase up to $500 million in value of its common shares.
• Pricing of Over-Allotment/Notes: None of note.
• Direct Offering: None of note.
• Selling Shareholders of note:
  • DSX: Filed Form F-3.. 18,487,395 shares of Common Stock offered by Selling Stockholders.
  • INST: See mixed shelf offerings below.
• Private Placement of Public Entity (PIPE): None of note.
• Mixed Shelf Offerings:
  • FOCS: Filed From S-3ASR – Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • HCWB: Filed Form S-3.. $100 Million Mixed Security Shelf.
  • INST: Filed Form S-3.. $800,000,000 Mixed Shelf — 122,065,804 Shares of Common Stock by the Selling Stockholders.
  • KDP: Filed Form S-3ASR — Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • PBLA: Filed Form S-1.. Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • SKYT: Filed Form S-3.. Mixed Shelf Offering.
  • TMDI: Filed Form F-3.. $90,000,000 Mixed Shelf.
  • TNXP: Filed Form S-3.. $300,000,000 Mixed Shelf.
  • VIAV: Filed Form S-3ASR.. Mixed Shelf Offering.
• Debt Filing:
  • FFIC: Closing of $65.0 Million of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes.
  • LUV: Announces Redemption Of 4.750% Notes Due 2023.
• Convertible Offering & Notes Filed: None of note.

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

News After The Close and Over the Week:

• Weekly Wrap Up: Best and Worst performing large cap stocks:
  • Trading Up: RGS 119%, TISI 52%, PRTY 48%, FL 22%, CGC 14%, RYTM 14%, BTU 12%, GEL 11%, CAMP 11%, ESPR 10%, OXM 10%, GTX 9%, HOLI 9%, SIBN 9%, DCP 8%, TXMD 8%, JT 8%, TELL 8%.
  • Trading Down: AXDX -36%, NVTA -34%, RAD -29%, PACB -28%, TPIC -27%, DVAX -26%, STNE -24%, ATRA -24%, MGNX -23%, EDIT -21%, BBBY -19%, TREE -19%, FTCH -19%, SENS -19%, CVNA -19%.

• News Items After the Close:
  • Japan reports 261,029 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase so far, with daily deaths at a record-high of 256.
  • Some Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Suppliers Halt Shipments on Unpaid Bills. (Bloomberg)
  • Wendy’s Restaurants (WEN) linked to e. Coli outbreak, CDC.  22 of 26 people interviewed by CDC ate at Wendy’s within week.
  • General Electric (GE), GE Edison Works, has been awarded a US Air Force contract for technology maturation and risk reduction activities.  Contract is worth $975 million.
• News Items Over the Weekend:
  • More Stocks Are Taking Part in Bounceback Rally (WSJ)
  • The Week in Business: WeWork’s Founder Rises Again.  (NYT)
  • Europe’s Natural-Gas Crunch Sparks Global Battle for Tankers. (WSJ)
  • 97% of corporate execs think US economy is in recession or headed for one, survey shows. (FBN)
  • USA Gas Prices: lowest since early March $3.888.
  • Japan PM Kishida tests positive for Covid-19 – (FNN)
  • Governor of Indiana has arrived in Taipei for a visit.
  • China plans $29 billion in special loans to troubled developers.
  • Viasat (VSAT) Awarded $99 Million Lot Buy Order for Military Tactical Radios.
  • Barron’s:
    • Positive View: PNC, EQT, RRC, SWN, CTRA, GLNG, LNG, EOG, SHEL, MSFT, GOOG, TSM, DG, DLTR, PLNT, MCW
    • Cautious View: None of note.
    • Mixed View: None of note.

• Exchange/Listing/Company Reorg and Personnel News:
  • Adidas AG (ADDYY) announces CEO Kasper Rorsted to leave company.
  • BWXT: Names Robert Duffy as Chief Administrative Officer.
  • Credit Suisse (CS) appoints Dixit Joshi as Chief Financial Officer and Francesca McDonagh as Group Chief Operating Officer.
  • Digital Medicine Leader Akili (DNAA) to List on Nasdaq Following Successful Business Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I.  DNAA will trade under symbol AKLI  this morning.
  • ENDP: On August 17, 2022, the Company received a letter (the “Notice”) from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rules 5101, 5110(b) and IM-5101-1, Nasdaq has determined that the Company’s common stock will be delisted from Nasdaq.
  • First Bancshares (FBMS) announces that CEO Ray “Hoppy” Cole, Jr. has assumed the additional position of Chairman of the Board of Directors.
  • Jaguar Health (JAGX) Receives Additional 180-day Grace Period to Regain Compliance with Nasdaq’s Bid Price Rule.
  • LJPC Halt Additional Information Requested by NASDAQ.
  • McDonald’s (MCD) Announces Key Changes to Board of Directors.
  • NHWK old symbol was HTBX.
• Buyback Announcements or News:
  • Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (OIG) Announces $50 Million Equity Purchase Agreement.
• Stock Splits or News: 
• Dividends Announcements or News:
  • AMERCO (UHAL) Announces Special Cash Dividend.
  • AMC: keep in mind it is split adjusted with their APE Offering.
  • Cable ONE (CABO) increases quarterly dividend to $2.85 per shares, a $0.10 increase.
  • CTO Realty Growth (CTO) Increases Quarterly Dividend By 1.8% and Declares Dividends For the Third Quarter 2022.
  • Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE) Increases Quarterly Dividend By 1.9% and Declares Dividend For the Third Quarter 2022.

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

S&P 500 -45, Dow Jones -286, NASDAQ -189  and Russell 2000 -19  (as of 8:10 a.m. EDT). Europe lower and Asia lower ex Shanghai.  VIX Futures are at 25.12 from 23.65 Friday morning and the VIX closed at 20.60 from 19.56 Friday. Gold, Silver and Copper lower. WTI Crude Oil  and Brent Oil Futures higher and Natural Gas higher. $ is higher vs Euro, higher vs Pound and higher vs Yen. US 10 year Treasury sees yields at 2.974% from 2.95% yesterday morning. Bitcoin is at $21,259 from $21,490 Friday morning  and is lower by -1.23% this morning. 

Sector Action – 08/19/22 Close (1/3/6/12/YTD Updated Weekly with Monday release):  

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

Options expiration day started down and ended down.  A broad pullback for all indexes including a -2.17% drop for the Russell 2000. More inflation concerns coming from over the pond, this time Germany coming in hot with PPI data.  For the week the NASDAQ pulled back 2.6% and the SPX dropped 1.2%.  Updated 08/19/22 close.

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

Gap Ups & Down In Early Pre-Market:

• Gap Up: MSPR +41%, GTH +7%.
• Gap Down: ADES -20%, BBBY -8%, RVLP -4%.

Insider Action: AAT sees Insider buying with dumb short selling.  VRDN sees Insider buying with smart short sellers. 08/19/22 close.

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: SGFY BBBY AMC F TSLA (CNBC)
• 5 Things To Know Before The Stock Market Opens. (CNBC)
• Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Lead Story: U.S. Futures and Stocks Fall as Fed Outlook Takes Toll. (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Most Read Story: Fed Chair Powell Can Reset at Jackson Hole. (Bloomberg)
• Ukrainian President Zelensky warns of escalation by Russia after daughter of Alexsandr Dugin, close Putin ally, was killed in a car bombing. (WSJ)
• European gas prices surge on Russia maintenance and fear of a total shutdown. (CNBC)
• Russia rules out an peace deal and expects war to be a long conflict. (FT)
• Banks (BAC C DB GS MS UBS JEF JPM NMR) near a $1 billion settlement on traders using messaging applications that fail to keep records. (WSJ)
• Louisiana Judge blocks President Biden’s pause on federal oil and gas leasing in 13 states. (Reuters)
• President Biden to issue more Executive Orders on climate change that will be challenged in courts. (NYT)
• Student loan announcement in the next two weeks. (NBC News)
• Warren Buffet unlikely to bid for Occidental Petroleum (OXY). (WSJ)
• Meme traders remain confident in Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY). (WSJ)
• MGM China (MGM) to invest $594 million into Macau. (Reuters)
• Amazon (AMZN) could bid $8 billion for Signify Health (SGFY). (WSJ)
• United Healthcare (UNH), CVS Corp (CVS) and Option Care (OPCH) could also bid for Signify. (Bloomberg)
• Credit Suisse (CS) to reduce the number of investment banks. (FT)
• Apple (AAPL) employees are pushing back on three days a week in the office. (FT)

Moving Average Update:

• Score drops to 42% from 71% with a break down in short term moving averages.  Updated 08/19/22 close.

Geopolitical: 

• None of note.

M&A Activity:

• None of note.

Top Tier Sell-side Upgrades & Downgrades:

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