(Updated with index futures, pre-market prices of semiconductor groups, General Mills, Tesla, Nordstorm and Vir Biotechnology)
PARIS, December 21 (Reuters) – Main stocks to watch Tuesday on Wall Street where futures on major indices suggest an opening up around 0.8% for the Dow Jones, 0.9% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and 1.1% for the Nasdaq:
* NIKE – The sports equipment manufacturer posted higher than expected quarterly revenue and profit on Monday amid strong demand in North America and said it was confident of improving channel issues procurement for its next annual fiscal year. The stock is up 3.7% in non-session transactions.
* MODERNA – Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, said on Tuesday that his group did not expect to encounter any problems developing a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine targeting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and that clinical trials could start in early 2022.
* ARIDIS PHARMACEUTICALS soars 108% before the market at 5.29 dollars, the biopharmaceutical company having announced that it has developed a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies against COVID-19 which retains efficacy against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
* MICRON TECHNOLOGY gained 8.4% on Monday pre-market the day after the publication by the semiconductor manufacturer of a profit forecast for the second quarter higher than analysts’ expectations. In Micron’s wake, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, MARVELL NVIDIA CORP, QUALCOMM AND BROADCOM take 1% to 2.8%.
* Cryptocurrency-related stocks like RIOT BLOCKCHAIN, MARATHON PATENT GROUP, BIT DIGITAL and HUT 8 MINING advance 4.3% to 6.1% in transactions before Wall Street opens in the wake of the morning rise in nearly 4% of bitcoin, which is benefiting from a renewed appetite for risk.
* TESLA – The automotive group, whose action on Monday lost all the gains recorded since the announcement in October of an order for 100,000 cars from Hertz, rebounded on Tuesday by 1.7% before the market.
* NORDSTORM gained 2% in pre-stock market, the chain of department stores having announced, according to the agency Blooomberg, studying a possible split of its subsidiary of low-cost stores Nordstrom Rack.
* GENERAL MILLS – The agri-food group fell 5.2% on the pre-market after quarterly results below expectations linked in part to the rise in the cost of raw materials, transport and labor.
* BOEING, AT&T, VERIZON – Dave Calhoun, chief executive of Boeing, and Jeffrey Knittel, his counterpart in the North American branch of Airbus, on Monday urged, in a joint letter, the administration of Joe Biden to delay the launch of services AT&T and Verizon are scheduled to roll out Jan.5 in 5G C-band due to potential disruption in aviation.
* MCDONALD’S – The Japanese arm of the U.S. group, McDonald’s Holdings Japan, on Tuesday announced plans to halt sales of medium and large fries for a week, starting Friday, due to supply issues.
* AMAZON – The Casino group and its renewable energies subsidiary Greenyellow announced on Tuesday a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services in the fields of energy and cloud computing.
* CERNER – Canaccord Genuity lowered its advice on the value to “hold” versus “buy” in the aftermath of the announcement of the acquisition of the medical data specialist by ORACLE for an amount of 28.3 billion dollars (25 billion dollars). euros).
* ALIBABA GROUP – Atlantic Equities lowers its advice on the Chinese e-commerce giant to “neutral”, with a price target reduced from $ 185 to $ 140.
* VIR BIOTECHNOLOGY – Baird lowers his recommendation on the title to “underperformance”. The action fell by 2.3% on the pre-market. (Written by Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault)