• IPOs Priced or News: None of note.
• New SPACs launched: Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp (DBDR) to merge with CompoSecure and will trade as CMPO this morning.
• Secondaries Priced:
  • BiondVax (BVXV) Announces Pricing of $9.0 million Follow-on Underwritten Offering of American Depositary Shares.
• Notes Priced of note: None of note.
• Common Stock filings/Notes:
  • GWH: Filed Form S-1.. 10 million shares of common stock.
• Pricing of Over-Allotment: None of note.
• Direct Offering: None of note.
• Selling Shareholders of note: GWH Files for 5 Million share common stock offering by selling shareholders.
• Private Placement of Public Entity (PIPE): None of note.
• Mixed Shelf Offerings: None of note.
• Convertible Offering & Notes Filed: None of note. 
• Note Offerings 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: None of note.
  • Trading Down: None of note.

• News Items After The Close:
  • Apple (AAPL) closes New York City stores to shoppers amid covid spike. (New York Times)
  • Vipshop (VIPS) lowers Q4 revenue guidance to 0% from 5% to 0%.
  • President Biden calls Covid Omicron surge a state not a Federal problem  but vows Federal support effectively saying not a Federal issue. (CNBC)
  • Goldman Sachs (GS) spokesperson says starting in Feb, employees at U.S. offices will be required to get tested twice a week and in-office employees will need to get booster shots.
  • CDC updates and shortens recommended isolation and quarantine period for general population to 5 days.
  • Airline stocks (JETS) moving higher after hours on CDC decision to reduce COVID isolation time, was a key factor in weekend flight cancellations. (ALK, JBLU, HA, LUV, DAL, UAL, AAL)
  • Moderna (MRNA) announces supply agreement with South Korea for additional 20 Million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine or updated booster candidate in 2022.
  • Connecticut’s COVID-19 test positive rate exceeded 10% on Monday, the highest number since widespread testing began earlier in the pandemic. (NBC)
  • Australia reports 11,258 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record.
  • PLUG –  Hyundai Motor suspends genesis hydrogen car project.
• Exchange/Listing/Company Reorg and Personnel News: 
  • Former CFO of GSK’s Global Vaccines Business Mr. Jay Green Joins BiondVax’s (BVXV) Board of Directors.
  • Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA) CFO Ron Freeman to Retire.
• Buyback Announcements:
  • ATRenew (RERE) Announces US$100 Million Share Repurchase Program.
  • KKR increases available amount under its repurchase program to $500 million.
• Stock Splits: None of note.
• Dividends Announcements: None of note.

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

S&P 500 +13 Dow Jones Industrial Average +91 NASDAQ +89 Russell 2000 +4.90. Asia higher and Europe mixed. VIX is at 20.80 from 21.35 yesterday morning. Gold, Silver and Copper higher. WTI Crude Oil and Brent Oil Futures higher. Natural Gas is higher. $ is lower vs Euro, lower vs Pound and higher vs Yen. US 10 year Treasury price is at $130.56 from $130.48 yesterday with yields at 1.486% from 1.491% yesterday morning. Bitcoin at $49,222 from $51,166 yesterday morning and -3.78%. As of 8:00 a.m. EST.

Monday’s Action – 12/27 Close:  

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

Indexes continue its bounce, maybe now an uptrend.  Indexes led by tech with the NDX up 1.59%.  UNG getting jiggy again popping for 7.77% gain.  Updated 12/27 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: LVO +21%, ASPN +3%
  • Gap Down: KNSA -18%, BTCM -3%, INNV -3%

Insider Action: No stock sees Insider buying with dumb short selling and no stock has smart short sellers with insider buys. 12/22 close

Rags & Mags: Highlighted Stories may be clicked through to the original story.  Repeated stories from prior days never listed, i.e. “rehashed news”.

• Stocks Making the Biggest Moves: AAPL, VIPS, COIN, RRD, EXTR, HHC (CNBC)
• Covid-19 cases rise to 164,644 compare to 88,379 a week ago. Hospitalizations rise to 61,362 from 58,793.
• World hit daily Covid case record. (Bloomberg)
• South African Study show Omicron infection increased immunity against Delta infection. (Bloomberg)
• U.S. and Russia to hold security talks on 1/10. (Guardian)
• NIH Director retracts statement that there might be a vaccine mandate on flights. (Politico)
• Indonesia to allow Boeing (BA) 737 Max to fly in country. (Nikkei)

Moving Average Update:

• And then there was 1.  Score increases to 96% from 93%. Updated 12/27 close.

Geopolitical: