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美股前瞻 | 大麻股又嗨起来!Tilray盘前大涨25%

US stock outlook | Cannabis stocks are booming again! Tilray surged 25% before the market

富途资讯 ·  Jan 11, 2019 21:07

After more than a dozen days of violent rebound, U. S. stocks have lost momentum.

On Friday, so far, Dow futures are down 0.24%, S & P 500 index futures are down 0.32%, and Nasdaq 100 index futures are down 0.44%:

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[hot news]

  • The Polish National Security Service arrested a Chinese citizen and a Polish citizen on charges of espionage, Reuters reported today, citing the Polish state news agency PAP. Polish public television channel TVP said the Chinese citizen was an employee of Huawei. This is following the arrest of Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou in Vengo, Canada, on December 2, 2018, after Huawei employees were arrested abroad.Huawei responded that it had taken note of the situation and investigated it.

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  • There has been no substantial progress in negotiations between Mr Trump and the Democratic Party on the construction of the border wall. Mr Trump said: if no agreement can be reached on funding for the border wall, a state of emergency is likely to be declared and he should be able to reach a deal with Congress. In addition, the US government has been closed for 21 days, which is about to set a record for the length of the shutdown.

  • Moody's Corporation, a rating agency, said on Thursday that although the government shutdown had no direct impact on the US sovereign credit rating for the time being, it had a negative impact on the rating to the extent that it disrupted the economy. Moody's Corporation estimates that the impact of a partial shutdown of the US federal government on actual US GDP each week is about-0.04 per cent. Earlier, Fitch, another rating agency, warned of the US AAA sovereign credit rating: for the US rating, the debt ceiling is more important than the government shutdown; if the US debt ceiling becomes a problem, we will consider whether the US meets the AAA rating.

[Asian Market Overview]

Since the central bank cut the reserve requirement, A shares have risen continuously, the Prev continued to rise 0.74% on Friday, and foreign capital has continued to flow into more than $10 billion through Hong Kong Stock Connect.

The Hong Kong Hang Seng index rose 0.55 per cent to 26667 and Tencent returned to the HK $330s mark.

[important news of Chinese stocks]

$Autohome Inc (ATHM.US) $At one point, it fell 12% before the trading.Suspected of being banned by $Zhongsheng Group (00881.HK) $, Zhongsheng Group issued a notice on suspending the cooperation and payment of Autohome Inc members. For details, please refer to:Autohome Inc fell 9% and was suspected of being banned by a major car dealer.

$Himax Technologies Inc (HIMX.US) $At one point, it rose 7% before tradingLed the rise of US-listed stocks. Recently, the stock hit a new low in nearly six years, but rose 15.5% the night before last, and may continue to rebound in the short term.

[important news from American companies]

$Apple Inc (AAPL.US) $: 0.3% microsheet in front of the plate.On January 11, the three major platforms Taobao, JD.com and SUNING lowered the price of Apple Inc's mobile phone. In addition, Apple Inc plans to launch three new models this autumn, including follow-up models to the iPhone XR. According to people familiar with the matter, one of Apple Inc's three new iPhone models is an upgraded version of iPhone XR. The iPhone XR is the lower-priced device launched in 2018, equipped with liquid crystal display (LCD), and its sales fell short of Apple Inc's expectations. Apple Inc also plans to add some new camera features, including three rear lenses for the top models and dual rear lenses for the other two models, according to people familiar with the matter.

Activision Blizzard (ATVI.US) $: down 8% before tradingActivision Blizzard plans to put game software maker Bungie in charge of the release of the Destiny series, raising doubts about whether the company will have a strong enough lineup in 2019.

$Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA (BUD.US) $Us stocks soared 6.5% before trading.According to the latest Bloomberg report, Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA is considering IPO his Asian business and is seeking a valuation of $70 billion.

$Starbucks Corp (SBUX.US) $It was down 1.7% before trading.Goldman Sachs Group downgraded Starbucks Corp to neutral from buy, and lowered his target price from $75.00 to $68.00.

$Netflix Inc (NFLX.US) $It was up 2.2% before trading.UBS upgraded its rating to buy from neutral. It is understood thatNetflix Inc's rebound rose as much as 40 per cent.

$Pacific Gas Power (PCG.US) $: down nearly 6% before tradingMoody's Corporation rated it junk on the grounds that the company's financial position was in jeopardy. Recently, the worst forest fire in the United States in a century, PCG is accused of being the culprit of the biggest fire in the United States in a century. PCG may face compensation of $15 billion (about 102 billion yuan). If the charges are substantiated, the claim is far larger than the company's current assets, and with the fire caused by the company in 2017, the total amount of compensation currently facing PCG is estimated at $30 billion.

Yum Restaurant Group (YUM.US) $: down 2.22% before tradingGoldman Sachs Group rated it from neutral to sell, and Yum is now the world's largest catering group.

$Tilray, Inc. (TLRY.US) $Hemp stocks rose 25% before the trading.According to foreign media reports, Privateer Holdings Inc, the first private equity investment company in the world to focus on the emerging legal marijuana industry, issued a statement today, stressing that it has no plans to sell its 75 million shares of Tilray when the lock expires next week. The news triggered a sharp rise in the stock.

Slack Technologies: plans to list directlyIt could be the second major technology company after Spotify Technology SA (SPOT) to go public without a traditional IPO. Slack has raised more than $1 billion at rising valuations since it was founded in 2013 and is still sitting on a lot of cash, according to people familiar with the matter. Last August, Slack raised $427 million in a round of financing led by Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic L.L.C. (GAP.XX)It is valued at $7.1 billion. Before that, Slack received an investment from Softbank Corp. Group Co., Ltd. (SoftBank Group Corp., 9984.TO) in 2017.

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