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Walmart, Home Depot Rise Premarket; Tesla, Pfizer Fall -Breaking

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Investing.com — Premarket Trade on Tuesday November 16th: Stocks In Focus For the latest updates, please refresh.

  • WalmartThe stock of (NYSE:) rose 0.7% following an increase in sales forecasts and profits. This retail giant anticipates strong holiday demand.

  • Tesla(NASDAQ:) Stock dropped 1.1% as Elon Musk, CEO of Elon Motors sold more shares the day before. JPMorgan Chase also filed $162 million suit against the company for breach of contract due to stock warrants this year.

  • Home Depot The stock of (NYSE:) rose 0.8% following the retailer’s quarterly sales beat. This was due to a robust housing market, which kept home improvements spending high.

  • Pfizer The stock of (NYSE:) fell 0.9% following the announcement by drugmaker that it would allow generic producers to sell its antiviral Covid-19 pills to 95 countries with low and moderate incomes.

  • Microsoft (NASDAQ:) stock rose 0.2% after Credit Suisse initiated coverage of the software giant at ‘outperform’, seeing significant growth ahead and another 19% stock price gain.

  • Southwest Airlines (NYSE:) stock fell 0.9% after Goldman Sachs downgraded its stance to ‘neutral’ from ‘buy’, citing last month’s operational problems. This influential investment bank upgraded Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:), up 3.1%, to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’, after it posted higher passenger traffic in October.

  • AbbVie (NYSE:) stock fell 0.2% after a report mentioned the biopharmaceutical company’s Humira rheumatoid arthritis drug as the most extreme case of drugmakers hiking prices without justification in 2020.

  • Quantumscape (NYSE:) stock fell 5.6% after Morgan Stanley downgraded its stance on the lithium battery maker to ‘equal weight’ from ‘overweight’, citing potential competition.

  • Lucid GroupStock rose 5.1% on NASDAQ after electric vehicle maker Lucid Air reported that it had more than 17,000 reservations. That’s an increase of 13,000 from the quarter before. 

  • Royalty PharmaThe stock of (NASDAQ:) rose 7.9% following the announcement that Berkshire Hathaway purchased an additional $475million stake in the drug royalty purchaser.

 

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