Peter Nurse

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• Twitter (NYSE:) stock rose 0.3%, adding to Monday’s gains made on reports of private equity interest in the , potentially creating a battle for control after the company last week rejected a hostile $43 billion approach from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

• Netflix (NASDAQ:) stock rose 0.3% ahead of the ’s quarterly earnings, due after the close. Market research firm Kantar said that U.K. households had canceled 1.51 million subscriptions from all services in the three months through March, casting a shadow over the company’s release.

• Johnson & Johnson(NYSE): The stock dropped 0.4% due to the fact that the Covid-19 vaccine sales forecast was canceled by drugmaker CDC. Moreover, CDC had reduced its profit forecast.

• TouristsStock rose 0.6% on the NYSE after insurer reported a huge 48% rise in quarterly profit. The increase was helped by lower catastrophic-related claims that were expected.

• WeWork (NYSE:) stock rose 5.7% after Piper Sandler initiated coverage of the commercial real estate company with an ‘overweight’ rating, saying it will be cash-flow positive by the second quarter of 2024.

• Roblox (NYSE:) stock fell 2.8% after Goldman Sachs downgraded its stance on the gaming company to ‘neutral’ from ‘buy’, saying its user growth could decelerate in a post-pandemic world.

• HalliburtonStock fell 2.8% following a $22 million charge for Ukraine’s assets writedown. With oil prices rising sharply, the company was able to post an increase of 85% in its adjusted profit for the first quarter.

• American Campus The stock of (NYSE:) rose by more than 12 percent after Wall Street Journal reported Blackstone, the asset manager for student-housing owners, agreed to pay $12.8 billion in debt.

• HasbroThe stock of (NASDAQ:) fell 0.6% following quarterly profits expectations being missed by the toymaker and warning of potential revenue hits of around $100 million due to Russia’s invading Ukraine.

• ZendeskThe stock of (NYSE: ) rose 6.8% on Bloomberg reporting that the software company was in talks with an advisor to discuss a sale.

• Acadia Pharmaceuticals(NASDAQ): The stock dropped 7.6% after the company announced that its post-operative pain drug did not achieve its primary goals in Phase 2.