Breaking News:

IPOs on deck: None of note.

IPOs Filed:  None of note.

Secondaries Priced: None of note.

Notes Priced of note:  None of note.

Common Stock filings: None of note.

Mixed Shelf Offerings: None of note.

Convertible Offering Files: None of note.

Senior Notes Filed: None of note.

Courtesy of IPO Financial

Earnings After The Close:

Beat: 

None of note.

Flat: SJR

Misses:

WDFC (0.17) of note.

Gap Ups:  BCRX +35%, OMI +7%, ADRO +5%, REVG +5%, I +5% 

Gap Downs: SLP -8%, ADT -8%, WDFC -6%

Hourly Action This Past Week: Updated 4/8 Close

News After The Close (In Order)

Hawaiian Holdings (HA) reduces flight schedule by 95%.

Artisan Partners (APAM) sees assets fall to $95.2 billion from $111.7 billion.

Invesco (IVZ) sees assets at $1,053.4 billion a drop of 9.1%.

Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR) fires back at short seller report.

Freshpet (FRPT) sees accelaerated demand into crisis.

 Amazon (AMZN) begins work on self testing.

President Trump may seek further testing  on food processing  plants.

Raises Guidance: 

Lowers Guidance: FOXF (Q1)

Withdraws Guidance: TXG   WDFC BOOT O AERI AAP EPAM

Stock Buybacks Stopped:

Dividend Cut Or Suspended: 

What’s Happening This Morning: Futures value reflects the change with fair value. We will still indicate the fair value direction. 

S&P 500 – 11  Dow Jones Industrial Average -85 NASDAQ -33 Russell 2000 -6. Fair values are higher.  Asia mixed and Europe sees Germany and U.K. closed with others mixed.

Gold and silver lower with copper higher. WTI Crude Oil and Brent Oil Futures higher. Natural Gas is higher. $ is higher vs Euro, lower vs Pound and lower vs Yen. US 10 year Treasury price is at $138.23 from $138.14 with  yields at 0,722% from 0.729%.

Positive Sectors On Thursday: Utilities, Financials and Industrials of note.

Negative Sectors On Thursday: None of note.

One Month Winners: Materials, Energy, Healthcare and Technology of note.

Three Month Winners: None of note.

Six Month Winners:  Healthcare and Technology of note.

Twelve Month Winners: Healthcare and Technology of note.

Year to Date: None of note.

Upcoming Earnings Of Note (sorted by market cap, highest to lowest)

Today After The Close:  WTFC AGX of note.

Tuesday Before The Open: JNJ JPM WFC INSY FAST FRC OMC FHN PACW FLR REV OGI CONN of note.

Earnings This Morning Of Note

Beat: 

PNM +0.02 of note.

Flat:

None of note.

 Rags & Mags: Highlighted Stories may be clicked through to the original story.

Top News Story:  OPEC agrees to production by 9.7 million barrels starting May 1st. (CNBC)

5 Things To Know To Start Your Day. (Bloomberg)

5 Things To Know To Start Your Monday. (CNBC)

Stocks Making The Biggest Moves. (CNBC)

Coronavirus update:  China defends WHO and Spain sees deaths falling.

Global Coronavirus Map update: 

U.S. Coronavirus Map update: 

Apple (AAPL) and Google(GOOGL) to partner on COVID-19 contact tracing.

DexCom (DXCM) to be added to NASDAQ 100 Index.

Smithfield Foods (SAFM) to keep Sioux Falls  SD facility closed until further notice.

Gilead Sciences (GILD) Remdesivir trial for sick COVID-19 patients sees 68% success rate on seriously ill patieints.

Stock Index Tracking

Current through 4/9 close.  Improvement noted below.

Bold means a change from prior day.

The advance/decline line model is now a buy on 4/2 close. Updated through 4/9 close. In 2019, the model was up 16.48% on the S&P 500 and this year is up 1.14% with the S&P 500 lower by -13.65% through Thursday. Now 6 buy signals and 4 cash signals in 2019 and 2020. The latest buy is up 10.40%.

Algo/HFT Trading Levels:

The Erlanger Value Lines track the intraday range of resistance, pivot and support used by Algo/HFT Traders. Each day we show where we closed within the range. Update through 4/9 close. EVL Ranges remain above normal and are highlighted in blue.

Courtesy of Phil Erlanger Research, Inc.

Economic & Related:

The latest short interest for NYSE and NASDAQ was out after the close on Thursday for the period of March 11th through March 27th. NYSE fell by -8.78% and NASDAQ by -7.57%.

Geopolitical: 

President Trump will have lunch with the Vice President at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

The Coronavirus Task Force to meet at 5:00 p.m. EDT for their daily press conference. Not last Friday the President did not attend.

Meetings, Calls & Conferences

Investor/Analyst Days & Conference Calls of Note: AMRN SRC BBD  (Conference Call) ITCB (Webcast) 

Industry Conferences: None of note.

M&A Activity