Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Merger Causes Pharma Company to Soar

Trade of the Day Wake-Up Watchlist

Good morning Wake-Up Watchlisters! While you're sipping coffee you'll see stock futures lagged on Wednesday as investors await the big Federal Reserve announcement. It's expected the Fed will deliver the seventh and final interest rate hike of 2022. It will likely be a half percentage point increase, and the markets could be volatile this afternoon during the move.

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Here's a look at the top-moving stocks this morning.

Vallon Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: VLON)

Vallon Pharmaceuticals is up 144.07% premarket after the company announced its entered into a merger agreement with GRI Bio. The combined company will focus on advancing GRI Bio's innovative pipeline of NKT cell regulators for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

 

Clovis Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLVS)

Clovis is up 17.19% premarket after entering bankruptcy. The maker of ovarian cancer drug Rubraca filed for chapter 11 a few days ago and also proposed selling a separate therapy to a Novartis affiliate. Novartis Innovative Therapies AG has agreed to make an upfront payment of $50 million for Clovis's clinical FAP-2286, and could pay an additional $333.75 million if certain development milestones are reached.

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QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS)

QuantumScape is down 6.08% premarket as the next-gen battery company struggles to raise money for its commercial product. Investor exuberance has evaporated, and their stock is crashing. Overall, it's down more than 70% on the year. There's still potential, but also a lot of risk for this startup.

 

Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR)

Charter Communications is down 6.64% premarket after the company held an investor day. The event featured expectations for next year's capital expenditures, including $6.5 billion to $6.8 billion in full-year expenditures. The company also expects expenditures from line extensions to be about $4 billion, which means a total of $10.5 billion to $10.8 billion is expected.

 

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Those are the top market movers today.

Happy trading!

The Wake-Up Watchlist Research Team

Legendary Investor Paul Tudor Jones Predicts "Violent Death" for Putin

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Source: Wikimedia Commons

 

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