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20:02 EDT On The Fly: Top five weekend stock stories - Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S) jointly announced that they have ceased talks to merge as the companies were unable to find mutually agreeable terms. Meanwhile, Sprint and Altice USA (ATUS) announced a new multi-year strategic agreement. Under the terms of the agreement Altice USA will utilize Sprint's network to provide mobile voice and data services to its customers throughout the nation, and Sprint will leverage the Altice USA broadband platform to accelerate the densification of its network. SoftBank (SFTBF) also announced that it intends to increase its stake in Sprint through open market transactions or otherwise, subject to market conditions and other factors. 2. A gunman killed at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in southeast Texas on Sunday, according to Reuters, citing authorities. The gunman, described as a white man in his 20s, was fired on by a local resident, fled in his vehicle and was later found dead in neighboring Guadalupe County, the publication noted, adding that it was not immediately clear if the suspect killed himself or was hit by gunfire by the resident. 3. Artificial intelligence has been perceived to be a threat to Intel's (INTC) decades-long dominance in computer chips, but its shares are up 30% this year, maybe due to third quarter earnings or maybe due to its plans to release a new line of A.I. chips developed in collaboration with Facebook (FB), and as the company's purchase of Mobileye makes it an early leader in autonomous driving, Jack Hough wrote in this week's edition of Barron's, adding that he still sees more upside ahead. 4. Disney (DIS) and Marvel Studios' "Thor: Ragnarok" opened to $121M from 4,080 theaters in North America. Overseas, the threequel grossed $151.4M in its second weekend for a foreign tally of $306M. The pic with Chris Hemsworth returning in the titular role earned 93% from Rotten Tomatoes. 5. IBM (IBM), Alphabet (GOOG; GOOGL), AMD (AMD), Impinj (PI), Everspin Technologies (MRAM), Matel (MAT), Facebook, Cummins (CMI), United Technologies (UTX), Honeywell (HON), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), and Illinois Tool Works (ITW) saw positive mentions in Barron's, while Under Armour (UAA) was mentioned cautiously.

19:16 EDT Red Hat announces OpenStack Platform 12 - Red Hat (RHT) announced Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12, the latest version of Red Hat's massively scalable and agile cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Based on the OpenStack "Pike" release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 introduces containerized services, improving flexibility while decreasing complexity for faster application development. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 delivers many new enhancements, including upgraded DCI and improved security to help maintain data compliance and manage risk. Hundreds of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform to power their hybrid and private clouds for a variety of mission-critical deployments. Red Hat OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem of partners, including Cisco (CSCO), Dell EMC (DELL), Intel (INTC), Lenovo (LNVGY), Rackspace (RAX), and NetApp (NTAP) for enterprise businesses. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 is designed for private or public cloud infrastructure, built on the enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 is a tested, certified, and fully-supported version of OpenStack that provides the agility to scale and more quickly meet customer demand without compromising availability, performance, or IT security requirements. Red Hat OpenStack Platform also includes Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat's multi-cloud management platform, to provide operational visibility and policy-based management across the Red Hat OpenStack Platform infrastructure and workloads. Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 maintains tight integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage, a highly-scalable block, object, and file storage solution, designed for scale-out clouds.

17:34 EDT SoftBank announces intention to increase stake in Sprint - SoftBank (SFTBF) announced that it intends to increase its stake in Sprint (S) through open market transactions or otherwise, subject to market conditions and other factors. SBG does not intend to increase its ownership of Sprint outstanding common stock to 85% or more as a result of these purchases. Sprint announced yesterday that discussions regarding a potential merger with T-Mobile (TMUS) have ended without an agreement being reached.

17:19 EDT Southwest launches service to Turks and Caicos Islands - Southwest Airlines began operating new international service daily from Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Providenciales International Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the carrier's 11th country served. In addition, Southwest initiated new service between its South Florida gateway at FLL and both San Jose, Costa Rica, and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, giving Customers nonstop access from Fort Lauderdale to 10 destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

17:11 EDT Galapagos announces consistent safety findings in DARWIN 3 study - Galapagos NV announced additional long-term follow-up data for the investigational agent filgotinib in patients with moderate to severely active rheumatoid arthritis from the DARWIN 3 study. In this 84-week analysis of 560 patients representing 1,708 patient years of exposure, adverse events and treatment emergent lab abnormalities were consistent with prior safety results and filgotinib was shown to have durable activity; data are summarized in the abstract. These data and other filgotinib studies, as well as the Phase 1 First-in-Human results with Galapagos' investigational agent GLPG1972 in osteoarthritis, will be presented during the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting 2017 in San Diego, CA.

10:06 EDT Xencor presents final results from Phase 2 study of XmAb5871 - Xencor has announced the final results from a Phase 2 study of XmAb5871 in patients with active IgG4-RD. Data show that 12 of 15 patients completed the study, and all 12 achieved the primary endpoint of at least a two-point reduction in the IgG4-RD Responder Index on Day 169. None of the 12 required corticosteroids after month two. Eight patients achieved remission and the other four achieved IgG4-RD RI scores of less than or equal to4 at Day 169. Fourteen of 15 patients achieved a decrease of greater than or equal to 5 in the IgG4-RD RI. One patient had been on baseline CS for two years and was able to discontinue CS within two months. Four others received CS at the start of the trial and tapered off within two months. XmAb5871 was well tolerated. Three patients had minor, transient GI side-effects during the first infusion; all completed the study. Two serious adverse events unrelated to XmAb5871 were observed in one patient, pneumonia and recurrence of pneumonia due to non-compliance. Three patients discontinued the study, as disclosed previously. One discontinued patient was atypical with laryngeal involvement only who did not respond to XmAb5871 or to subsequent rituximab. A second patient responded, but flared at 12 weeks and did not respond to subsequent rituximab therapy. The third patient responded but developed infusion-related symptoms including transient rash and arthralgias following the fifth infusion. Plasmablasts were reduced 70%-80% from baseline and B cells were reduced 40-55% from baseline, with decreases occurring within the first two weeks.

09:48 EDT Spring, T-Mobile cease discussions to merge - T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S) jointly announced that they have ceased talks to merge as the companies were unable to find mutually agreeable terms. The latter's President and Softbank (SFTBF) Board member Marcelo Claure said: "While we couldn't reach an agreement to combine our companies, we certainly recognize the benefits of scale through a potential combination. However, we have agreed that it is best to move forward on our own. We know we have significant assets, including our rich spectrum holdings, and are accelerating significant investments in our network to ensure our continued growth. As convergence in the connectivity marketplace continues, we believe significant opportunities exist to establish strong partnerships across multiple industries. We are determined to continue our efforts to change the wireless industry and compete fiercely. We look forward to continuing to take the fight to the duopoly and newly emerging competitors." In a statement, John Legere, President and CEO of T-Mobile also said: "The prospect of combining with Sprint has been compelling for a variety of reasons, including the potential to create significant benefits for consumers and value for shareholders. However, we have been clear all along that a deal with anyone will have to result in superior long-term value for T-Mobile's shareholders compared to our outstanding stand-alone performance and track record." "Going forward, T-Mobile will continue disrupting this industry and bringing our proven Un-carrier strategy to more customers and new categories - ultimately redefining the mobile Internet as we know it. We've been out-growing this industry for the last 15 quarters, delivering outstanding value for shareholders, and driving significant change across wireless. We won't stop now," Legere added.