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20:26 EDT Department of Defense selects Microsoft over Amazon for cloud contract - The Department of Defense announced the award of its enterprise general-purpose cloud contract to Microsoft (MSFT). "This continues our strategy of a multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment as the department's needs are diverse and cannot be met by any single supplier. This contract will address critical and urgent unmet warfighter requirements for modern cloud infrastructure at all three classification levels delivered out to the tactical edge," the agency said in a statement. The contract is valued at as much as $10B. Amazon.com (AMZN) was seen as likely to win the deal. Reference Link

18:23 EDT American Airlines CEO: Demand for air travel is very strong - In an interview on CNBC's Mad Money, American Airlines (AAL) CEO Doug Parker said: We had to modernize our fleet, but it's behind us now... Working to ensure Boeing (BA) shareholders bear the cost of Boeing's failures... We feel Boeing will do what is right on MAX damages... We are making innovations... Seeing increasing demand for air travel in most regions.

18:12 EDT Atara Biotherapeutics announces executive departures - Atara Biotherapeutics announced the departures of Dr. Christopher Haqq, Chief Scientific Officer, and Mina Kim, General Counsel and Head of Corporate Strategy. Atara continues to actively search for a new Global Head of Research and Development as well as a new Head of Commercial. The company also plans to recruit a new General Counsel.

17:25 EDT PG&E monitoring adverse weather this weekend, may affect 850K customers - Pacific Gas and Electric Company said it continues to monitor a potentially powerful and widespread dry, hot and windy weather event expected to begin impacting the service area Saturday between 6 and 10 p.m. and lasting until midday Monday. PG&E will need to turn off power for safety several hours before the potentially damaging winds arrive. The potential Public Safety Power Shutoff is expected to affect approximately 850,000 customers and may impact portions of 36 counties across portions of Humboldt, the Sierra foothills, Western Sacramento Valley, North Bay, and across the greater Bay area, Monterey Bay and northern Central Coast on Saturday, Oct. 26. Customers in the southern-most portion of PG&E's service area in Kern County could have power shut off for safety on Sunday, Oct. 27.

16:47 EDT UAW General Motors members ratify 2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement - UAW General Motors (GM) members ratified the 2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement this evening ending the longest automotive strike in 50 years, the union said. "General Motors members have spoken," said Terry Dittes, UAW Vice President and Director of the UAW-GM Department. "We are all so incredibly proud of UAW-GM members who captured the hearts and minds of a nation. Their sacrifice and courageous stand addressed the two-tier wages structure and permanent temporary worker classification that has plagued working class Americans." With ratification of the contract, the UAW members strike has ended, and workers will begin to report to work as instructed by General Motors. The ratified contract includes an economic package of an $11,000 per member signing bonus, performance bonuses, two 3% annual raises and two 4% lump sum payments and holding the line on health care costs. The UAW will announce the next pattern bargaining company, FCA (FCAU) or Ford (F) shortly.

16:40 EDT Temasek reports 5.03% passive stake in Vir Biotechnology - Temasek disclosed a 5.03% stake in Vir Biotechnology, which represents 5.5M shares of common stock. The filing does not allow for activism.

16:32 EDT Care.com spikes up over 7% on report of sale evaluation - Shares of Care.com are up 7.2% or 80c afterhours at $11.98 per share after Bloomberg report the company is working with advisors.

16:23 EDT Teradyne director Bradley sells 14K shares of common stock - In a regulatory filing, Teradyne disclosed that its director Michael Bradley sold 14.1K shares of common stock on October 24th. The total transaction size was $876K.

16:19 EDT AZZ Inc. CAO James Byelick to depart, Philip Schlom to succeed - AZZ Inc. announced that James Byelick, VP and chief accounting officer, or CAO, of AZZ, will leave the company effective October 31. Byelick's departure is not the result of any disagreement with the company regarding its operations or accounting policies or practices. Philip Schlom has agreed to join the company and will transition into the role of CAO of AZZ. Before joining the company, Schlom served as VP finance, audit, controls and financial transformation of Exterran from 2017 until 2019, which provides energy equipment and services to energy customers globally.

16:15 EDT Diana Shipping names Semiramis Paliou deputy CEO - Diana Shipping announced the appointment of Semiramis Paliou to the office of Deputy Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Paliou has served as a director of the company since 2015 and as Chief Operating Officer since 2018, and will continue to serve in these roles. It is expected that the company's current Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Simeon Palios, will remain fully engaged in his current role. The appointment was made by the unanimous decision of the board of directors upon the recommendation of the company's independent Nominating Committee.

16:10 EDT GIC reports 5.01% passive stake in Uxin - GIC disclosed a 5.01% stake in Uxin, which represents over 42.0M shares. The filing does not allow for activism.

16:03 EDT Evolving Systems satisfies Nasdaq's minimum bid price rule - Evolving Systems announced that its shares of Common Stock closed at $1.19 on October 23, 2019, marking the tenth consecutive day that the shares' closing price exceeded $1.00 per share and enabling Evolving Systems to regain compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5550a2. The company received notification from Nasdaq that Evolving Systems has regained compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule. As previously reported, on July 8, 2019, Nasdaq notified the company that it no longer complied with the Minimum Bid Price Rule, as the bid price of the company's shares of Common Stock closed below the minimum $1.00 per share for the 30 consecutive business days prior to the date of the letter.

15:03 EDT Avalara says dividend rumor 'false,' working to have removed from sites - In a regulatory filing, Avalara stated: "Avalara would like to correct a false rumor in the market. Unfortunately, third party data providers have incorrectly indicated that the company is paying a dividend. The company is working to have the false information removed from the third party sites."

14:32 EDT Entergy raises dividend payment to 93c per share - The board of directors of Entergy has approved a quarterly dividend payment of 93c per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable Dec. 2 to shareholders of record as of Nov. 7.

14:22 EDT Columbus Capital reports 9.7% passive stake in Edison Nation - In a regulatory filing, Columbus Capital disclosed a 9.7% stake in Edison Nation, which represents 750,000 restricted shares of common stock. The filing does not allow for activism.

13:30 EDT CA Governor declares state of emergency in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties - California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation for the counties of Sonoma and Los Angeles due to the effects of the Kincade and Tick fires, which have destroyed structures, threatened homes and critical infrastructure, and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents. Yesterday, the Governor announced that the state has secured federal Fire Management Assistance Grants to help ensure the availability of resources to fight the Kincade and Tick fires and enable local, state and tribal agencies to recover eligible costs. Yesterday, the Governor also held a public briefing in Los Angeles "regarding the ongoing fire threats and the need to hold utilities accountable for the consequences of their decisions to shut off power for large portions of the state," the office of the governor announced. California utility operators include PG&E (PCG) and Edison International (EIX).

13:02 EDT Baker Hughes reports U.S. rig count down 21 to 830 rigs

12:00 EDT Vocera falls -22.8% - Vocera is down -22.8%, or -$5.54 to $18.75.

12:00 EDT Granite Construction falls -32.0% - Granite Construction is down -32.0%, or -$11.80 to $25.10.

12:00 EDT Vipshop rises 13.2% - Vipshop is up 13.2%, or $1.32 to $11.37.

11:28 EDT AT&T agrees to sale-leaseback on wireless towers - AT&T announced that it agreed to a sale-leaseback of its remaining domestic company-owned wireless towers to Peppertree Capital Management. Under the terms of the sale, valued at up to $680M, Peppertree will purchase more than 1,000 AT&T towers, and AT&T will lease back capacity on the towers from Peppertree. The sale is consistent with AT&T's plans to monetize non-strategic assets as it continues to pay down debt. AT&T said, "Given the company's confidence in reaching a net debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio in the 2.5x range by the end of this year, shareholders should expect that share buybacks will be in the mix in Q4 of 2019, along with continued de-levering." The transaction is subject to certain closing conditions, including due diligence. AT&T expects to close a substantial number of the towers by the end of the year and the remaining in subsequent closings.

11:14 EDT Oil States sees U.S. onshore businesses negatively impacted by lower rig count

11:08 EDT Oil States sees Q4 CapEx $15M, net interest expense $4.6M - Sees Q4 net interest expense $4.6M, depreciation & amortization expense $29M. Sees Q4 CapEx $15M. Comments taken from the Q3 earnings conference call.

10:36 EDT Hubbell boosts quarterly dividend by 8% to 91c from 84c - The board of Hubbell declared an 8% increase in the common stock dividend rate. The new annual payment of $3.64 per share, or 91c per quarter, compares to the former rate of $3.36 or 84c per quarter. The dividend will be paid on December 16, to shareholders of record on November 29.

10:25 EDT PG&E trading halted, volatility trading pause

10:00 EDT PG&E falls -24.3% - PG&E is down -24.3%, or -$1.75 to $5.45.

10:00 EDT Granite Construction falls -26.9% - Granite Construction is down -26.9%, or -$9.91 to $26.99.

10:00 EDT On Deck Capital rises 9.7% - On Deck Capital is up 9.7%, or 41c to $4.62.

10:00 EDT Titan Medical Inc trading resumes

09:47 EDT PG&E falls -19.4% - PG&E is down -19.4%, or -$1.40 to $5.80.

09:47 EDT Comfort Systems USA rises 7.5% - Comfort Systems USA is up 7.5%, or $3.53 to $50.61.

09:47 EDT Direxion Daily Jr Gld Mnrs Bull 3X Shrs rises 8.4% - Direxion Daily Jr Gld Mnrs Bull 3X Shrs is up 8.4%, or $5.21 to $67.15.

09:32 EDT Corning gets FDA approval of Valor Glass for marketed drug product - Corning announced that a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer has received FDA approval of Corning Valor Glass for use as a primary package for a marketed drug product. Valor Glass has been specifically designed for pharmaceutical applications, and this approval makes Valor Glass the first and only fundamentally new glass composition to be approved by the FDA since the advent of borosilicate glass more than 100 years ago.This innovative glass packaging solution has been designed to enable superior chemical durability and improve resistance to breakage, damage, and particulate contamination. These attributes can help enhance manufacturing productivity by enabling increased throughput and quality assurance for pharmaceutical manufacturers. "We are thrilled to reach this important milestone. This modernization of glass packaging was made possible through our strong customer relationships and our shared passion for life-changing innovations," said Wendell P. Weeks, Corning Incorporated chairman, chief executive officer, and president. "We would also like to recognize the members of the FDA's Emerging Technology Team. Their strong support encourages the development and adoption of innovative technologies like Valor Glass." "We believe that Valor Glass is the future of parenteral glass packaging for manufacturers. This FDA approval is an important first step on our journey to create a new standard in pharmaceutical glass packaging. It's great news for patients, for the industry, and for Corning," added Ronald Verkleeren, vice president and general manager, Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies.

09:12 EDT Activision Blizzard announces Call of Duty: Modern Warfare available worldwide - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available worldwide. The game is published by Activision, and developed by Infinity Ward. Activision's thriller unites the Call of Duty community to play together through crossplay and cross progression support, and new post-release content coming free for all players on all platforms. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare features a new engine delivering a photo-realistic experience across the entire game. The new technology utilizes the latest advancements in visual engineering, including a physically-based material system allowing for photogrammetry, a new hybrid tile based streaming system, new PBR decal rendering system, world volumetric lighting, 4K HDR, DirectX Raytracing and more as well as a new GPU geometry pipeline. Spectral rendering delivers thermal heat radiation and infrared identification for both thermal and night-vision in-game imaging. With Modern Warfare as the debut title, the inaugural season of Call of Duty League will kick off home vs. away match play in early 2020. The league includes 12 teams from four countries.

09:08 EDT Verizon turns on 5G Ultra Wideband service in Dallas, Omaha - Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband network is now available in parts of Dallas and Omaha, bringing the total number of Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband mobility service cities to 15. In Dallas, 5G Ultra Wideband service will be concentrated in parts of the following areas: Knox/Henderson, Downtown Dallas, Uptown, Medical Center Area, Deep Ellum; and around such landmarks as Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center, Jade Waters Pool, Dallas Comedy House, The Curtain Club, Dallas Theological Seminary and Turtle Creek Park. In Omaha, 5G Ultra Wideband service will be concentrated in parts of Downtown Omaha around landmarks such as Old Market, Omaha Children's Museum, The Orpheum Theatre, The Durham Museum, Heartland of America Park, Central High School and Creighton University.

09:03 EDT Verizon says remains 'disciplined' in approach to capital allocation - Says: Three priorities for capital are 1) Invest in the business... 2) Maintain the dividend... 3) Manage the balance sheet...Don't expect debt leverage ratio to go below 1.75... New plans will eventually include higher 5G prices... Disney+free offer should increase unlimited signups... Seeing "great momentum" in Wireless customer gains so far in Q4.... "Nothing major" immediately ahead for M&A.

09:02 EDT First Community CFO Joseph Sawyer retiring December 31, Donald Jordan succeeds - First Community CFO Joseph Sawyer will retire on December 31. Donald Jordan has been selected as new CFO and will assume this position upon the retirement of Sawyer. Jordan has held leadership and executive positions with public and private financial institutions including local, regional and national organizations. Jordan's most recent role was with Iberiabank, a $32B asset institution where he served as Senior Vice President and Manager of Corporate Analytics. Jordan will join the company on November 12 to provide time with Sawyer and ensure a smooth transition.

08:51 EDT Titan Medical Inc trading halted, news pending

08:41 EDT Capstone Turbine secures initial flare gas pilot project in France - Capstone Turbine announced that it secured an initial order for six C65 microturbines for a critical flare gas pilot project in France. Microturbine Power, one of Capstone's exclusive European distributors, secured the initial project, which is set to be commissioned by January 2020. The six microturbine array will provide on-site power for one of Europe's largest energy producers, utilizing the associated gas generated by one of the firm's Electrical Submersible Pump's located at the wellhead, Capstone said in a statement. The microturbines will utilize the indigenous free waste fuel to reduce the purchased power from the local utility.

08:38 EDT Valley National receives application waiver for acquisition of Oritani Financial - Valley National Bancorp (VLY) announced it received notice from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that it waived the requirement for a bank merger application for the previously announced merger of Oritani Financial Corp. (ORIT) with and into Valley. In conjunction with the previously announced approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Valley has obtained the requisite regulatory approvals to complete the Proposed Transaction. The Proposed Transaction remains subject to other customary closing conditions, including approval by the shareholders of both Valley and Oritani. Valley and Oritani will hold their respective shareholder meetings on November 14, 2019 to vote on the Proposed Transaction. If shareholders approve, Valley and Oritani expect to close the Proposed Transaction in the fourth quarter of 2019. The combined company is expected to have approximately $38B in assets, $30B in loans, $29B in deposits, and 245 branches across New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Alabama.

08:36 EDT Alimera Sciences announces $20M equity purchase pact with Lincoln Park Capital - Alimera Sciences announces that it has entered into a $2M common stock purchase agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, a Chicago-based institutional investor. Upon entering into the agreement, LPC purchased $1M of Alimera's registered common stock at 50c per share, which represents a 35% premium to the closing market price of the stock on October 24, 2019. Thereafter and upon satisfaction of the conditions in the agreement, Alimera, from time to time over a 36-month period, will have the right, in its sole discretion, to sell up to an additional $19.0 million of its common stock to LPC. Alimera will control the timing and amount of any future sale of shares of common stock to LPC, and LPC is obligated to make purchases according to Alimera's direction, as governed by the agreement. There are no upper limits to the price per share LPC may pay to purchase common stock from Alimera, and the purchase price of the shares will be based on the prevailing market prices of Alimera's common shares at the time of each sale to LPC.

08:33 EDT Homology Medicines presents investigational PKU gene editing program data - Homology Medicines announced the oral presentation of preclinical data related to its nuclease-free, homologous recombination-based, in vivo gene editing program for phenylketonuria , PKU, at the European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy,ESGCT, 27th Annual Congress. Homology also presented preclinical data that showed the effect of full and empty capsids on in vivo efficacy with Homology's adeno-associated virus vectors derived from human hematopoietic stem cells, AAVHSCs, including its investigational phenylketonuria, PKU, gene therapy candidate HMI-102, and comparisons to an AAV5 PKU gene therapy vector. "The ability of AAVs to induce nuclease-free gene editing through homologous recombination has been established for decades, and here we presented data showing that our AAVHSCs induced in vivo targeted gene insertion into genomes using this natural DNA repair pathway in humanized and PKU murine models," stated Albert Seymour, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Homology Medicines. "Importantly, the in vivo gene insertion was characterized and confirmed at the DNA level, demonstrating the efficiency and precision of editing supporting our PKU gene editing program."

08:27 EDT Verizon says sees Q4 Wireless service revenue growth approximately 3%-3.5% - Says: Media Group gaining momentum in key areas.

08:18 EDT Goodyear Tire CEO says 'softer' industry conditions in Europe - "In the Americas, we saw continued strength in our U.S. consumer replacement business and solid growth in Brazil, giving us positive momentum in these important markets as we head into the final months of the year," said Richard Kramer, chairman, CEO and president. "Our Asia Pacific business improved in the quarter as we benefitted from the launch of several new OE fitments in China, which helped mitigate the impact of lower auto production. This is a testament to the strength of our technology and our success winning fitments on the right platforms," he added. "Industry conditions were softer than we anticipated in Europe and we continued to see an adverse impact from lack of alignment in our distribution channels. In response, we expect to accelerate our plans to rationalize distribution in the region. These actions, which will begin early next year, should improve the focus on our brands and ensure that we capture the full benefits of the investments we are making to increase the supply of premium, high margin tires over the next few years," said Kramer.

08:14 EDT Marathon Patent Group begins deployment of 6,000 S-9 Bitmain Antminers - Marathon Patent Group announced the company has begun to deploy its recently acquired 6,000 S-9 Bitmain Antminers. he first Miners are being installed under a hosting agreement with Compute North at its new 100MW site in Nebraska. The Company selected Compute North because of its strategically located facilities which provide lower cost renewable energy with a high level of reliability and security. Marathon made the decision to relocate the Miners from the company's facility in Granby, Quebec in order to reduce the operating costs by approximately $60,000 per month for the 1,200 miners that were operating. The company expects to have 3,500 Miners installed over the next two weeks and the remaining 3,700 Miners installed by December 15, 2019. Once the full deployment is completed, Marathon will have 7,200 miners in production and will increase the current HashRate production level from 14 PH/s to approximately 100 PH/s, making Marathon one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin Mining companies in North America.

08:09 EDT Kratos Defense gets $5.1M in C5ISR program production awards - Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that it has recently received $5.1M in Command, Control, Communication, Computing, Combat, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance System, C5ISR, program related production awards. Kratos is a leading provider of products in support of C5ISR programs and systems including, unmanned systems, missile defense, high power directed energy, radar, and surface combatants. Contract awards will be performed at secure Kratos manufacturing facilities. Due to customer related, competitive and other considerations, no additional information will be provided related to these contract awards. Tom Mills, President of Kratos C5ISR Modular Systems Division, said, "The recapitalization of strategic weapon systems is providing our business numerous large opportunities, and our current opportunity pipeline is extremely sound and growing, including new large programs of record. These recent contract awards are representative of our unique capabilities to support leading C5ISR programs for our customers."

08:06 EDT Soliton reports clinical trial results for scar volume reduction treatment - Soliton released interim clinical trial results presented at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Annual Meeting. During the keloid and hypertrophic scar proof-of-concept trial, Soliton treated 10 people, each of whom received just a single 6-minute treatment with our Rapid Acoustic Pulse device. There was an average reduction in volume of over 27%, and a reduction in height of almost 17% for the nine patients. There were no treatment-related adverse events of any kind and patients reported little pain from the treatment, so with the primary endpoint of this study being to establish safety and tolerability of RAP for this indication, Soliton believes tey are on their way to meeting that endpoint. Grand View Research estimates the global market for keloid and hypertrophic scars may reach $10.2B by 2025. There are few treatment options available for fibrotic scars.t be a permanent solution.

08:04 EDT Silicon Motion announces annual cash dividend boost of 17% to $1.40 per ADS - Silicon Motion Technology announces its annual cash dividend of $1.40 per ADS, a 17% increase from the $1.20 per ADS declared last year.

08:01 EDT Akamai names Anthony Williams as Chief Human Resources Officer - Akamai announces a planned leadership transition within the company's human resources organization. Anthony Williams, current vice president of global talent acquisition and diversity, will succeed James Gemmell as chief human resources officer, effective January 1, 2020. After a successful 35-year career and nearly seven years at Akamai, Gemmell has decided to retire.

07:34 EDT MacroGenics says first patient dosed in study of margetuximab in gastric cancer - MacroGenics announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase 2/3 MAHOGANY clinical trial of margetuximab, an investigational, Fc-optimized monoclonal antibody targeting HER2, in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor, with or without chemotherapy, as a potential first-line treatment for patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer, GC, or gastroesophageal junction, GEJ, cancer. "The MAHOGANY study for patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer is designed to support registration of margetuximab and is a part of our strategy to advance margetuximab in HER2-positive cancers," said Scott Koenig, M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of MacroGenics. "The combination of margetuximab and a checkpoint inhibitor could potentially provide a chemotherapy-free option as a first-line treatment for patients whose tumors are positive for both HER2 and PD-L1 or be used with chemotherapy in a broader HER2-positive population to improve the clinical activity of existing standard of care."

07:20 EDT FDA clears NuCana's IND for study of Acelarin in combination with cisplatin - NuCana announced that the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has cleared the Investigational New Drug Application or IND, for its Phase III study, NuTide:121, of the investigational drug Acelarin in combination with cisplatin for patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer. "We are pleased to have received clearance of our IND from the FDA," said Hugh S. Griffith, NuCana's Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "We are also excited by NuTide:121's potential, if successful, to support both accelerated and full approval. Regulatory clearance to begin the study in other countries has also been received and we look forward to enrolling the first patients in the coming weeks." Griffith continued: "We believe our investigational drug product Acelarin in combination with cisplatin has the potential to significantly improve the survival outcomes of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer. In the Phase Ib ABC-08 study, we observed an approximate doubling of the response rate with Acelarin plus cisplatin compared to previously reported data for gemcitabine plus cisplatin. Our goal is to establish Acelarin in combination with cisplatin as the global standard of care for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer, if Acelarin is approved for marketing."

07:10 EDT Flushing Financial to acquire Empire Bancorp for $111.6M - Flushing Financial Corporation and Empire Bancorp announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for Flushing to acquire Empire in a transaction valued at an estimated $111.6M, based on Flushing's closing stock price on October 24, 2019. Under the terms of the merger agreement, each share of Empire common stock will be exchanged for either 0.6548 shares of Flushing common stock or $14.04 in cash, based upon the election of each Empire shareholder, subject to the election and proration procedures specified in the merger agreement. In connection with the transaction, Empire National Bank will merge with and into Flushing Bank, with Flushing Bank as the surviving entity. The transaction value represents 1.4x Empire's tangible book value and a 3.6% deposit premium based on June 30, 2019 financial information. On a combined basis, the transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings by 19% in 2021, but will be dilutive to tangible book value by 7.0% at closing with a projected earn-back period of 3.2 years using the cross-over method. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals and the approval of Empire's shareholders. The combined company at close is expected to have approximately $8B in assets, $6.3B in loans, $5.8B in deposits, and 23 branches in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and on Long Island.

07:07 EDT Verizon reports Q3 retail postpaid net adds of 601K - Reports 601,000 retail postpaid net additions, including 444,000 phone net additions, an increase from 295,000 phone net additions in third-quarter 2018, and 615,000 postpaid smartphone net additions, an increase from 510,000 postpaid smartphone net additions in third-quarter 2018. This growth was driven by a 10 percent year over year increase in phone gross additions. Total retail postpaid churn of 1.09 percent, and retail postpaid phone churn of 0.82 percent. Reports 36,000 Fios Internet net additions; Fios total revenue growth of 2.3 percent year over year.

07:05 EDT Choom Holdings names Corey Gillon as CEO - Choom (CHOOF) is very pleased to announce the appointment of Corey Gillon as the company's new CEO effective Monday, December 1, and subject to provincial regulatory approvals. In addition to his executive management role, Corey will be appointed to the Board of Directors effective December 1. Chris Bogart, Choom's current CEO, will assume the role of President. The strengthening of Choom's senior management team is a major component of the company's strategic initiative to become a nation-wide cannabis retail organization. Gillon has held executive leadership roles with world class retailers where he established and implemented customer-focused corporate strategies. During Gillon's 18-year tenure at Walmart (WMT), he held senior leadership roles both domestically and internationally, and led multi-billion dollar business units of over 100 stores and up to 22,000 associates.

07:03 EDT Charter reports Q3 total residential and SMB customer relationships up 310,000 - Third quarter total residential and SMB customer relationships increased 310,000, compared to 234,000 during the third quarter of 2018. As of September 30, 2019, Charter had 29.0 million total customer relationships, and added over 1.1M net new customer relationships over the last twelve months. During the third quarter, Charter generated residential and SMB Internet net additions of 380,000, video net losses of 75,000 and wireline voice net losses of 190,000. Charter added 276,000 mobile lines in the third quarter, compared to 208,000 mobile line net additions in the second quarter of 2019. As of September 30, Charter served a total of 794,000 mobile lines.

07:01 EDT Intel approves $20B increase in stock repurchase program - Last night, with its earnings report, Intel announced its board of directors has approved a $20B increase in its stock repurchase program authorization. In the third quarter, the company generated approximately $10.7B in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.4B and used $4.5B to repurchase 92M shares of stock.

06:57 EDT VF Corp. raises quarterly dividend 12% to 48c per share - The dividend will be payable on December 20 to shareholders of record on December 10.

06:46 EDT Gorman-Rupp increases quarterly cash dividend 7.4% to 14.5c - Gorman-Rupp has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 14.5c per share on the common stock of the company, payable December 10 to shareholders of record November 15. The cash dividend will represent a 7.4% increase over the 13.5c dividend paid in the previous quarter.

06:37 EDT AB InBev continues to see 'strong' revenue growth in FY19 - AB InBev said: "In FY19, we continue to expect to deliver strong revenue growth, driven by the solid performance of our brand portfolio and strong commercial plans. In markets with softer macroeconomic conditions, we are accelerating our smart affordability efforts with initiatives that have lower revenue per hl but offer incremental profit. As a result, FY19 revenue per hl growth should now be slightly below inflation. We continue to expect a more balanced top-line growth between volumes and revenue per hl and for our total costs to grow below inflation. Overall, we remain confident in our strategy and the fundamental strength of our business, though we now expect moderate EBITDA growth in FY19 given the additional headwinds faced in 3Q19 which we anticipate will continue into 4Q19. We continue to expect CoS per hl to increase by mid-single digits, with currency and commodity headwinds to be offset by cost management initiatives. We have completed our 3.2 billion USD synergy and cost savings program on a constant currency basis as of August 2016. We expect the normalized ETR in FY19 to be in the range of 25% to 27%, excluding any gains and losses relating to the hedging of our share-based payment programs. We expect net capital expenditure of between 4.0 and 4.5 billion USD in FY19. We expect dividends to be a growing flow over time, although growth in the short term is expected to be modest given our deleveraging commitments."

06:12 EDT Ron Baron says he's sold none of his Tesla position - Founder of Baron Capital Ron Baron is speaking on CNBC.

05:50 EDT Boeing issues statement on Lion Air Flight 610 investigation final report - Boeing issued the following statement regarding the release today of the final investigation report of Lion Air Flight 610 by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, or KNKT: "On behalf of everyone at Boeing, I want to convey our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in these accidents. We mourn with Lion Air, and we would like to express our deepest sympathies to the Lion Air family," said Boeing President & CEO Dennis Muilenburg. "These tragic events have deeply affected us all and we will always remember what happened. We commend Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee for its extensive efforts to determine the facts of this accident, the contributing factors to its cause and recommendations aimed toward our common goal that this never happens again. We are addressing the KNKT's safety recommendations, and taking actions to enhance the safety of the 737 MAX to prevent the flight control conditions that occurred in this accident from ever happening again. Safety is an enduring value for everyone at Boeing and the safety of the flying public, our customers, and the crews aboard our airplanes is always our top priority. We value our long-standing partnership with Lion Air and we look forward to continuing to work together in the future. Boeing experts, working as technical advisors to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, have supported the KNKT over the course of the investigation. The company's engineers have been working with the US Federal Aviation Administration and other global regulators to make software updates and other changes, taking into account the information from the KNKT's investigation. Since this accident, the 737 MAX and its software are undergoing an unprecedented level of global regulatory oversight, testing and analysis. This includes hundreds of simulator sessions and test flights, regulatory analysis of thousands of documents, reviews by regulators and independent experts and extensive certification requirements. Over the past several months Boeing has been making changes to the 737 MAX. Most significantly, Boeing has redesigned the way Angle of Attack, or AoA, sensors work with a feature of the flight control software known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS. Going forward, MCAS will compare information from both AoA sensors before activating, adding a new layer of protection. In addition, MCAS will now only turn on if both AoA sensors agree, will only activate once in response to erroneous AOA, and will always be subject to a maximum limit that can be overridden with the control column. These software changes will prevent the flight control conditions that occurred in this accident from ever happening again. In addition, Boeing is updating crew manuals and pilot training, designed to ensure every pilot has all of the information they need to fly the 737 MAX safely. Boeing continues to work with the FAA and other regulatory agencies worldwide on the certification of the software update and training program to safely return the 737 MAX to service."