IN THE NEWS
BENZINGA
TASER International, Inc TASR on Wednesday announced an unprecedented move: The company will offer a one-year free trial of all its existing body camera products, full software suite and training support to every police agency in the United States: Link
Yelp Inc YELP shares spiked 3 percent Wednesday on a DAMS Consulting tweet suggesting takeover interest by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA: Link
One of the hottest stocks in the market in the past two years, NVIDIA NVDA has started off April on shaky ground, dropping more than 7 percent so far this month: Link
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Unilever PLC UL said it would divest its 145-year-old margarine and spreads business, part of a broad restructuring in the wake of a spurned takeover approach by Kraft Heinz Co. KHC: Link
PepsiCo Inc. PEP is yanking a commercial that united liberals and conservatives in a backlash that swept across social media: Link
Music-streaming service Spotify is readying an initial public offering that is expected by year-end. The rub is this: It may not really be an IPO. Link
REUTERS
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians and said his attitude toward Syria and Assad had changed, but gave no indication of how he would respond: Link
Trump removed his chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council on Wednesday, reversing his controversial decision early this year to give a political adviser an unprecedented role in security discussions: Link
Twitter Inc TWTR is launching a faster version of its mobile service on Wednesday aimed at people with sporadic connections or little data on their smartphone plans, hoping to pick up users in harder-to-reach emerging markets: Link
BLOOMBERG
In a private meeting with lawmakers, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said he supports a policy that could radically reshape Wall Street’s biggest firms by separating their consumer-lending businesses from their investment banks, said people with direct knowledge of the matter: Link
Internet billionaire and aspiring rocket man Jeff Bezos said he sells $1 billion a year in Amazon.com Inc. AMZN stock to fund Blue Origin LLC, the company fueling his dream of sending people into space: Link
NY POST
On Wednesday, just 24 hours after Amazon announced its first major sports deal — tying up with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday night games — Alphabet Inc GOOGL laid claim to viewers’ credit cards by debuting YouTube TV, a bundle of 50 major television channels for $35 per month: Link
ECONOMIC DATA
- March 2017 US Challenger layoffs report 43,310 vs 36,975
- Initial Jobless Claims for Mar 31 234.0K vs 250.0K estimate; Continuing Claims for Mar 24 2.03M vs 2.04M estimate.
- San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams is set to speak in Frankfurt at 9:30 a.m. ET.
- The Energy Information Administration’s weekly report on natural gas stocks is schedule for release at 10:30 a.m. ET.
- Data on money supply for the recent week will be released at 4:30 p.m. ET.
ANALYST RATINGS
- Goldman Sachs initiated Advanced Micro Devices AMD at Sell
- JMP Securities upgraded NetApp NTAP from Market Underperform to Market Perform
- PiperJaffray upgraded Abiomed ABMD from Neutral to Overweight
- Deutsche Bank downgraded T-Mobile TMUS from Buy to Hold
- Mizuho downgraded Jazz Pharmaceuticals JAZZ from Buy to Neutral
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