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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) Retreats On News- NOK, ESI, AAPL, LOGI, KMT

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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) stock declined 8.19% to $4.27 after the company posted its quarterly earnings results today. The company reported $0.06 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.06. The company had revenue of $8.04 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.55 billion.

Additionally, Standpoint Research cut shares of Nokia from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research note issued to investors yesterday.

ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE:ESI) shares dropped 16.06% to $12.02 in the early hour after the company reported a quarterly loss as it signed up fewer students and costs jumped 30%. The net loss for the quarter was $9.5 million, or 41 cents per share, compared with net profit of $76.0 million, or $2.87 per share, a year ago. Revenue fell 18% to $300.8 million.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares declined 10.22% to $461.65 in the morning hour after the company broke records for first quarterly sales and profit with $54.5 billion in sales and $13.1 billion in profit in the quarter ended Dec. 29. A year ago, Apple had sales of $46.3 billion and a profit of $13.1 billion in the first quarter.

Logitech International SA (USA) (NASDAQ:LOGI) shares decreased 10.12% to $6.84. The company announced financial results for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2013. Sales for third quarter 2013 were $615 million, down 14% from $715 million in the same quarter last year, with no material impact from exchange rates. Third quarter net loss was $195 million ($1.24 per share), as compared to net income of $55 million ($0.32 per share) in the year ago period.

Kennametal Inc. (NYSE:KMT) stock dropped 4.68% to $40.37 after the company announced that for fiscal 2013, it expects sales growth between negative 2% and negative 4% with organic sales ranging from negative 7% to negative 9%. Based on the revision for fiscal 2013, it expects EPS to range from $2.60 to $2.80, versus its previous expectation of $3.40 to $3.70. The Company reported revenue of $2.646 billion in fiscal 2012. Analysts on an average were expecting the Company to report revenue of $2.788 billion and EPS of $3.34 for fiscal 2013.

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Top 3 Gainers: Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Eros International (NYSE:EROS), Borqs Technologies’ (BRQS)

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Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is up 2.5% after Benchmark reiterated its Buy rating in a look-ahead at Q2 earnings. The firm’s expecting a beat and solid guidance for Q3, and it’s raising its guidance for the fiscal year.

Tailwinds from the pandemic won’t dissipate easily, Benchmark suggests, and the videogame maker’s acquisition of Peak (and with it new “forever franchises” in Toon Blast and Toy Blast) will drive audience, bookings, margins and free cash flow, it says. The firm has an $11 price target, now implying 14% upside.

Eros International (NYSE:EROS) is up 5.8% today, making up the last week’s lost ground, after news that its streaming service Eros Now is partnering with Sony India (SNE +2.3%).

That will mean Eros Now’s app is pre-installed on selected Sony smart televisions in India, along with availability on a large base of existing models (Bravia E series and newer).

The country over the past year has seen a 25% growth in demand for smart TVs, fueled by overall industry growth of 15%, to a record 15M units/year.

Borqs Technologies’ (BRQS) personal safety tracker sees strong market with increased orders from the electronics retail chain in the US.

The boost in product demand comes ahead coronavirus pandemic that provides company to expect delivery of 250K units this year. It reflects over 3x the volume delivered in 2019, the year of its launch.

Borqs’ mobile personal safety devices designed particularly for senior citizens come with panic button, location tracking, and fall detection.

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Biotech movers: Pfizer Inc. (PFE), Celgene Corporation (CELG)

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Pfizer Inc. (PFE) said on Thursday it received a request for documents as part of a U.S. investigation related to quality issues involving the manufacture of auto-injectors at its Meridian Medical Technologies site.

Pfizer, in a regulatory filing, said it would be producing records in response to the civil investigative demand from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

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Meridian, a unit of Pfizer that manufactures EpiPen injectors used to deliver an emergency allergy antidote, has been hit by a series of manufacturing problems in recent years. Mylan NV, which markets EpiPens, has recalled tens of thousands of the devices after complaints that some had failed to activate.

Bristol-Myers Squibb has been meeting with shareholders in Boston and New York over the last two weeks to try to salvage its $74 billion purchase of cancer drugmaker Celgene Corporation (CELG), the biggest acquisition announced so far this year.

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The deal, announced in January, was hard sell to Bristol shareholders from the start. The acquisition adds about $32 billion in fresh debt to Bristol’s balance sheet while assuming $20 billion in Celgene’s debt, the companies said at the time. After factoring in debt, the acquisition was the largest health-care deal on record, according to data compiled by Refinitiv.

Now, hedge funds Wellington Management and Starboard Value say the deal doesn’t sit well with them. Bristol has sent executives to New York to meet with institutional investors several times over the last two weeks and met with investors in Boston on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a person who briefed on the meetings.

Bristol-Myers declined to comment.

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Big Losers: Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (CRBP), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (PBR)

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Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (CRBP)’s shares slumped as much as 16% to $6.94 on huge volume. The stock has been showing intense sell off suddenly after a bearish article on seekingalph.com by Alpha Exposure.

The article stated that Corbus has ties to investors convicted of or alleged to have committed securities fraud. We believe lenabasum has failed its major trials in SSc and CF. Lenabasum was also denied Breakthrough Therapy Designation in SSc. We believe lenabasum will fail in its pivotal SSc and Phase 2b CF trials. We are short Corbus with a price target of $0.50.

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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (PBR) is expanding its ambitious divestment program and has “bold” plans for sales, the Brazilian state-run oil company’s chief executive said after the firm posted its first annual profit in five years.

On a conference call with analysts to discuss fourth-quarter results, CEO Roberto Castello Branco said selling non-core assets will be key to deleveraging.

Petrobras, as the company is known, can reduce its ratio of net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, to 1.5 or even to 1, he added.

The University of Chicago-educated CEO, who took the reins in early January, has long been vocal about the need to slim down the sprawling firm and focus on core activities such as exploration and production. Thursday’s comments were some of his most assertive on the matter.

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