Overnight Summary: The S&P 500 closed Monday at 3794.34 (higher by 1.19%) from Friday at 3752.74 (higher by 2.37%).  The overnight high of 3812.75 was hit at 2:35 a.m. EDT. The low was hit at 3790 at 6:25 a.m. EDT, a range of 22.75 points high to low which is below the recent range of 45.  At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the S&P 500 was down -9.50 points which is -0.25%.  

Earnings Out After The Close: 

• IPOs Priced or News: None of note.
• New SPACs launched/News:
  • Ligand Pharma (LGND): Avista Public Acquisition Corp II (AHPA) shareholders approve previously announced business combination with OmniAb.
  • Sizzle Acquisition Corp. (SZZL) and European Lithium AT announced SPAC merger agreement overnight (See M&A for full article)
• Secondaries Priced: None of note.
• Notes Priced of note: None of note.
• Common Stock filings/Notes:
  • DNLI: Announces Closing of a $316 Million Public Offering, Including Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares.
  • PCVX: Commencement of Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants. BAC, Jefferies, SVB, Evercore and Guggenheim bookmanagers.
  • STZ: Constellation Brands Announces Plan to Convert Common Stock Holding in Canopy Growth.
• Pricing of Over-Allotment/Notes: None of note.
• Direct Offering: None of note.
• Selling Shareholders of note:
  • UEC: Filed Form S-3ASR.. 17,805,815 Shares of Common Stock by selling shareholders.
• Private Placement of Public Entity (PIPE):
  • GRTS: Announces Private Placement Of $45.0 Million.
  • TNXP: Announces Pricing Of $15 Million Private Placement Of Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock..
• Mixed Shelf Offerings:
  • SNES: Filed Form S-1.. $8,000,000 Mixed Shelf.
• Debt Filing/Notes: None of note.
• Tender Offer: None of note.
• 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:

• After Hours: 
  • Trading Up: WEBR +24%, MEDP +20%, AAN +16%, ARI +13%, XM +9%, ADTN +7%, CALX +6%, ARE +5%, TM +5%, COOK +4%.
  • Trading Down: CCK -16%, ZION -6%, WRB -5%.

• News Since The Close:
  • Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: DFS, CDNS, AMZN, PKG, ZBK, WRB (CNBC)
  • Amazon (AMZN) freezes hiring in parts of lucrative web services division.  (NY Post)
  • Weber (WEBR) holder BDT Capital proposes acquisition at $6.25 per share in cash.
  • Shadow rental supply: A Las Vegas homebuilder started leasing some new homes last month because it doesn’t expect home-buying demand to rebound soon. “People still want to own homes, but they simply can’t afford it. So the business plan has to change.” (WSJ  Nick Timiraos)
  • China Central Bank: To Raise Cross-border Macro Prudential Adjustment Ratio For Corporates And Financial Institutions To 1.25 From 1. (bring in foreign investment)

• Exchange/Listing/Company Reorg and Personnel News:
  • Bill.com (BILL): Google (GOOG) Cloud CMO Alison Wagonfeld joins its Board of Directors.
  • Invivyd (IVVD) Announces the Appointment of Christine Lindenboom to Board of Directors.
  • PulteGroup (PHM) Announces Chief Operating Officer Succession Plan.
  • Rockley Photonics (RKLY) Announces Receipt of Notice from NYSE of Non-Compliance with Continued Listing Standards.
  • The Children’s Place (PLCE) appoints Sheamus Toal CFO.
  • Treasure Global (TGL) Receives Nasdaq Notice on Late Filing of Its Form 10-K.
• Buyback Announcements or News:
  • BayCom Corp (BCML) Announces Adoption of Stock Repurchase Program of up to 645,000 shares (~5% of outstanding shares).
  • Viomi Technology Co., Ltd (VIOT) Announces US$10 Million New Share Repurchase Plan.
• Stock Splits or News:
  • Hoth Therapeutics (HOTH) Announces a 1:25 Reverse Stock Split Effective Pre-Market Opening on October 26, 2022.
• Dividends Announcements or News: 
  • CYTO trading r/s price.
  • Graphic Packaging (GPK) raises dividend 33%.
  • Hess Midstream Partners (HESM) increases quarterly dividend to $0.5627 from $0.5559 per share.
  • Laureate Education (LAUR) Announces Special Cash Dividend o f$0.68 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: Consumer Defensive, Healthcare, Industrials, Technology, Financial, Communication Services, Utilities of note.
• Daily Negative Sectors: Basic Materials, Consumer Cyclical, Energy of note.
• One Month Winners:  Energy, Basic Materials, Healthcare of note.
• Three Month Winners:  Energy of note.
• Six Month Winners: Energy of note.
• Twelve Month Winners: Energy of note.
• Year to Date Winners: Energy of note.

Markets shook of some overnight negative pricing to continue the positive market action.  Indexes up over ~1%.  TLT continues lower closing at 92.40, down 0.83%.  UNG was up 4.26%.

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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: MEDP +25%, WEBR +23%, AAN +18%, XM +11%, CLS +7%, CALX +7%, ARI +6%, LOGI +5%, COOK +5%, EEFT +5%, UBS +4%, PRIM +4%.
• Gap Down: CCK -9%, HSII -7%, HSBC -7%, CR -5%, ZION -5%.

Insider Action: REPX, FITB, CCI stock sees Insider buying with dumb short selling.  IMRA 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: KO, GM, JBLU, MMM, XRX, UPS, SAP, UBS, LOGI, XM  (CNBC)
• Five Things to Know This Morning. (CNBC)
• Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day. (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Lead Story: Fed is Losing Billions, Wiping Out Profits That Funded Spending. (Bloomberg)
• Bloomberg Most Read Story: Adidas Ends Ye Partnership Kanye West. (Bloomberg)
• European Union ministers will debate a cap on natural gas prices. (WSJ)
• The U.K. has a new Prime Minister this morning Rishi Sunak. (CNBC)
• The Federal Reserve and other Central Banks are losing money as rates rise, governments might have to make up the difference. (Bloomberg)
• Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) looks to expand into UK consumer banking. (FT)
• General Motors (GM) has a strong beat in Q3 but strong headwinds ahead so cautious. (CNBC)
• Coca-Cola (KO) beats estimates and raises guidance. (CNBC)
• Adidas (ADDYY) ends partnership with Kanye West. (Bloomberg)
• Cronos Groups (CRON) was charged by the SEC with improperly accounting for millions of dollars of revenue and for other accounting issues. (SEC Release)

Moving Average Update:

• Score improves to 62% from 54%.  Those string of 0% days are……gone?

Geopolitical: 

• We enter a blackout period for the Fed – No speakers until  Fed Announcement on November 2nd.

M&A Activity:

• Canopy Growth (CGC) to acquire Acreage Holdings assets, including Acreage, Wana, and Jetty.
• Snap One (SNPO) acquires Parasol.
• European Lithium Is Said In Talks To Merge With Sizzle (SZZL) Acquisition (WSJ)

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