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17:47 EST Lockheed Martin awarded $138.49M Navy contract modification for AEGIS option - Lockheed Martin was awarded a $138.49M cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise options for AEGIS combat system engineering agent, or CSEA, efforts for the design, development, integration, test and delivery of Advanced Capability Build, or ACB 20. Under this contract, the AEGIS CSEA develops, integrates, tests and delivers computer program baseline advanced capability builds; supports technology insertions, or TI; develops engineering products to support ship integration; supports developmental test/operational test events; develops training and logistics products and provides field technical support for designated AEGIS baselines. The systems engineering, development and integration work under this contract begins with ACB 16 and TI 16, and continues with a future ACB/TI through the period of performance of the contract. This specific contract action provides for the development, integration, test and delivery of the AEGIS ACB 20 integrated combat system. Work will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey, and is expected to be completed by December 2020. FY14 shipbuilding and conversion, FY15 shipbuilding and conversion, FY17 shipbuilding and conversion, FY20 operation and maintenance, FY20 other procurement and FY20 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $46.64M will be obligated at time of award and funding in the amount of $707,302 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity.

17:38 EST Lockheed Martin awarded $1.93B Navy contract - Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.93B cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost reimbursable contract. This contract procures recurring logistics services for delivered F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter air systems in support of the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense, or DOD, participants and foreign military sales, or FMS, customers. Services to be provided include ground maintenance activities, action request resolution, depot activation activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability and health management implementation and support, supply chain management and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training. Work is expected to be completed in December 2020. FY20 operation and maintenance, non-DOD participant and FMS funds in the amount of $1.01B will be obligated at time of award, $671.02M of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchase for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-DoD participants and FMS customers. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity.

17:36 EST Lockheed Martin awarded $138.49M government contract - Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems was awarded a $138,494,206 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-5116) to exercise options for AEGIS Combat System Engineering Agent (CSEA) efforts for the design, development, integration, test and delivery of Advanced Capability Build (ACB) 20. Under this contract, the AEGIS CSEA develops, integrates, tests and delivers computer program baseline Advanced Capability Builds; supports Technology Insertions (TI) (a replacement and/or upgrade of combat system computing hardware and associated middleware/firmware-design development); develops engineering products to support ship integration; supports developmental test/operational test events; develops training and logistics products; and provides field technical support for designated AEGIS baselines. The systems engineering, development and integration work under this contract begins with ACB 16 and TI 16, and continues with a future ACB/TI through the period of performance of the contract. This specific contract action provides for the development, integration, test and delivery of the AEGIS ACB 20 integrated combat system. Work will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey, and is expected to be completed by December 2020. Fiscal 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy; 4.3%), fiscal 2015 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy; 70.4%), fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy; 4.2%), fiscal 2020 operation and maintenance (Navy; 1.5%), fiscal 2020 other procurement (Navy; 1.6%), and fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy; 18%) funding in the amount of $46,641,364 will be obligated at time of award, and funding in the amount of $707,302 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity. Awarded Dec. 30, 2019.

17:35 EST Lockheed Martin awarded $1.93B government contract - Lockheed Martin Aeronautics was awarded a $1,926,811,724 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost reimbursable contract. This contract procures recurring logistics services for delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Air Systems in support of the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense (DOD) participants and foreign military sales (FMS) customers. Services to be provided include ground maintenance activities, action request resolution, depot activation activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability and health management implementation and support, supply chain management and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (61%); Orlando, Florida (25%); Greenville, South Carolina (5%); Warton, United Kingdom (6%) and Redondo Beach, California (3%); and is expected to be completed in December 2020. Fiscal 2020 operation and maintenance (Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy), non-DOD participant and FMS funds in the amount of $1,014,338,012 will be obligated at time of award, $671,022,784 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchase for the Air Force ($392,321,076; 38%), Marine Corps ($191,048,520; 19%), Navy ($87,653,188; 9%), non-DoD participants ($231,962,860; 23%) and FMS customers ($111,352,368; 11%). This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-20-C-0006). Awarded Dec. 30, 2019.

17:21 EST Westamerica names Jesse Leavitt as new CFO - Effective January 1, 2020, Westamerica has appointed Mr. Jesse Leavitt as CFO. Mr. Leavitt is a California licensed certified public accountant who during the past five years has served as Controller for the company, as Assistant Controller for a $12 billion financial institution, and as a bank examiner with a federal financial regulatory agency.

17:12 EST Aimco CEO sells 100K shares of common stock - In a regulatory filing, Aimco disclosed that its CEO Terry Considine sold 100K shares of common stock on December 27th-30th. The total transaction size was $5.1M.

17:06 EST TiVo board approves departure of CFO Peter Halt - According to a regulatory filing, following the recently announced agreement to combine with Xperi Corporation (XPER), on December 27, 2019, the Board of Directors of TiVo Corporation (TIVO) approved the departure of Mr. Peter Halt as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective December 30, 2019, for reasons unrelated to TiVo's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures. Halt will be engaged in an advisory role from January 2, 2020 through March 31, 2020 to facilitate a smooth transition of duties, and he will be paid $50,000 per month for his work in such role. On December 27, 2019, the company's Board of Directors approved the appointment of Wesley Gutierrez, the company's Chief Accounting Officer as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective December 30, 2019. In this role, Gutierrez will serve as the company's principal financial and accounting officer until the earlier of his cessation of employment or the Board's appointment of his successor.

16:38 EST Raging Capital lowers activist Tidewater stake to 4.9% from 6.0% - Raging Capital disclosed a 4.9% activist stake in Tidewater, which represents over 1.93M shares of common stock. The holding is down from 6.0% reported on August 12th.

16:21 EST Cassava Sciences Chairman Remi Barbier buys $553K in company shares - Cassava Sciences Chairman Remi Barbier disclosed in a filing that he had purchased 100,000 shares of company stock at an average price of $5.53 per share on December 31. The total transaction value of the purchase was $553,000.

15:49 EST Ayrton Capital reports 9.99% passive stake in ToughBuilt - In a regulatory filing, Ayrton Capital disclosed a 9.99% stake in ToughBuilt, which represents about 3.24M shares. The filing does not allow for activism.

13:45 EST Cannabis firms rise following period of underperformance - A number of cannabis companies are trading sharply higher on the last day of 2019 following a period of underperformance for equities in the space. PRICE ACTION: In afternoon trading, Tilray (TLRY) rose 9.8%, Cronos Group (CRON) was up 17.2%, Aurora Cannabis (ACB) rose 12.6% and Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC) was up 12%.

13:20 EST Core Laboratories drops 22% after guidance cut, oil field peers under pressure - Shares of companies in the oilfield services space are under pressure after peer Core Laboratories (CLB), which offers services to enhance output from oilfields, cut its guidance for the fourth quarter, reduced its initial first quarter 2020 guidance, and lowered its future quarterly dividend. On Monday evening, Core Labs indicated in a statement that the decline in U.S. onshore activity has proven to be more pronounced than originally forecast in late October. The U.S. rig count quarter-to-date is down approximately 11%, with U.S. completion activity tracking downward over 20%, primarily affecting Core's Production Enhancement. Moreover, client discussions required to advance large international and offshore projects have progressed slower than expected. These developments have negatively impacted Q4 financial results for Core's Reservoir Description segment. ANALYST VIEWS: JP Morgan analyst Sean Meakim believes a downside surprise in NAM onshore was "more than discounted by the market" and that the weak Q1 outlook shouldn't impact the stock too much. However, he also believes the dividend cut has negative implications for the shares today and in the coming weeks as he views that cut as "a significant acknowledgment that (for now) in the current cycle 'what you see is what you get'." Additionally, Cowen analyst Marc Bianchi lowered his price target on Core Laboratories to $39 and kept his Market Perform rating after its below-consensus Q4 pre-announcement and a 50% dividend cut. The analyst cited the "20% sequential completions decline" in the U.S. disclosed by the company along with the slower than anticipated progress for large international and offshore projects. PRICE ACTION: Shares of Core Laboratories are down over 22% to $36.97 in afternoon trading. OTHERS TO WATCH: Other oil field service names are also under pressure, including Halliburton (HAL), Helix Energy (HLX), Oceaneering (OII), and Schlumberger (SLB).

13:03 EST Future FinTech granted extension of time to regains Nasdaq compliance - Future FinTech Group announced that on December 17, 2019, the Company received a notification letter from NASDAQ Listing Qualification Staff stating that Staff has determined to grant the Company an extension of time to regain compliance with the NASDAQ Listing Rule. As previously disclosed, on September 4, 2019, the Company received written notice from the Staff stating that the Company did not meet the requirement of maintaining a minimum of $2,500,000 in stockholders' equity for continued listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, as set forth in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), the Company also did not meet the alternative of market value of listed securities of $35M under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) or net income from continuing operations of $500,000 in the most recently completed fiscal year or in two of the last three most recently completed fiscal years under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(3), and the Company is no longer in compliance with the NASDAQ Listing Rules. The NASDAQ notification letter provided the Company until September 18, 2019 to submit a plan to regain compliance. If the plan is accepted, NASDAQ can grant the Company an extension up to 180 calendar days from the date of NASDAQ letter to demonstrate compliance. The Company submitted its plan of compliance on September 18, 2019 and supplemental documents to the plan of compliance on November 11 and December 12, 2019. As detailed in the submission, the Company signed a share transfer agreement, to sell its fruit juice business and related subsidiaries of HeDeTang Holdings and will submit the transaction for shareholders approval at a special shareholders meeting. The proposed sale is expected to divest approximately $148 million in asset impairment charges, which contributed to its stockholders equity' deficit of $86.7M, as of December 31, 2018. Based on the review of the materials submitted by the Company, Staff has determined to grant the Company an extension until February 28, 2020 to regain compliance with the Rule. The Company intends to fully comply with the exception granted by the Staff and to complete the sale transaction on or before February 28, 2020.

12:10 EST Twitter moves lower, goes negative as Josh Brown discusses selling out of stock - Josh Brown, the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and contributor to CNBC, is on the business news network discussing his rationale for having sold-out of his long held position in Twitter. Near noon, Twitter shares have moved from being up fractionally to being down fractionally to trade at $32.02 per share.

12:02 EST AbbVie treatment of pediatric ulcerative colitis granted FDA orphan status - AbbVie's treatment of pediatric ulcerative colitis was granted FDA orphan status, according to a post to the agency's website. Reference Link

12:00 EST Sunnova Energy falls -5.9% - Sunnova Energy is down -5.9%, or -70c to $11.20.

12:00 EST Canopy Growth rises 11.3% - Canopy Growth is up 11.3%, or $2.12 to $20.91.

12:00 EST NIO Inc. rises 13.7% - NIO Inc. is up 13.7%, or 51c to $4.23.

10:50 EST Enzo Biochem appoints Rebecca Fischer to board, Gregory Bortz retires from board - Enzo Biochem announced it has appointed "industry healthcare veteran and leader" Rebecca Fischer to its board of directors. "Her appointment as a new independent director is effective immediately and follows a search process conducted as part of Enzo's ongoing focus on Board composition, refreshment and diversity. As part of our evaluation, the company as a significant provider of Women's health products and services, believes the representation of such a highly qualified woman on the Board would be a valuable contribution to it. Ms. Fischer takes the place of Gregory M. Bortz who has retired from the Board. The Board had requested Mr. Bortz to remain on the Board for a period of time to help complete the design and execution of the Company's strategic plan of which Greg was a key contributor. Upon implementation of the strategy, it was understood that Mr. Bortz would step down. Dov Perlysky, a member of the Board since 2012, will replace Mr. Bortz as Lead Independent Director of the company," Enzo stated.

10:00 EST Cango falls -6.8% - Cango is down -6.8%, or -60c to $8.20.

10:00 EST CNFinance rises 6.0% - CNFinance is up 6.0%, or 27c to $4.80.

10:00 EST Meritor rises 11.2% - Meritor is up 11.2%, or $2.62 to $25.94.

09:50 EST Evolent Health closes on acquisition of Passport - In a regulatory filing earlier this morning, Evolent Health noted that on December 30, University Health Care, Inc., d/b/a Passport Health Plan, Passport Health Solutions, Evolent Health, and Justify Holdings, entered into an amendment to their asset purchase agreement, dated May 28, 2019. Also on December 30, the company consummated the transactions contemplated by the amended asset purchase agreement and acquired substantially all of the assets of Passport related to its Medicaid business for $70.0M in cash, a portion of which was placed into escrow, and the issuance of a 30% equity interest in the buyer to the current owners of Passport. "The consideration was determined on an arms-length basis, taking into account market-based comparable transactions...Passport has been one of the company's largest partners, representing 16.4% and 17.5% of the company's total revenue, respectively, and 2.8% and 6.9% of the company's accounts receivable as of September 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, respectively," the filing noted.

09:47 EST Meritor rises 14.8% - Meritor is up 14.8%, or $3.45 to $26.77.

09:01 EST Fly Intel: Pre-market Movers - HIGHER: Tencent Music (TME), up 1% after proposing to join a consortium led by Tencent Holdings to acquire a 10% equity stake in Universal Music Group from its parent company, Vivendi (VIVHY), at an enterprise value of EUR30B. TME proposed to invest up to a 10% equity interest in the consortium... Seadrill (SDRL), up 18% after securing a three year contract for each of the AOD II and AOD III in the Middle East, in direct continuation of their current contracts... FuelCell (FCEL), up 24% after beginning commercial operation of the 2.8 megawatt fuel cell project located at the city of Tulare, California's waste water treatment facility. LOWER: Savara (SVRA), down 2% to give back a small part of the big gains seen yesterday after the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for Molgradex... Core Laboratories (CLB), down 19% after slashing Q4 guidance, guiding below consensus for Q1 and reducing its quarterly dividend... McDermott (MDR), down another 12% after The Wall Street Journal reported late in yesterday's trading that the company is in discussions with lenders to file for bankruptcy within weeks.

08:46 EST StoneMor Partners completes C-Corporation conversion - StoneMor Partners announced the completion of the previously announced conversion of GP from a Delaware limited liability company into a Delaware corporation named StoneMor and the merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of GP with and into the Partnership, with the Partnership continuing as the surviving entity and a subsidiary of the Company. At the effective time of the Merger, each Partnership common unit and preferred unit was converted into the right to receive one share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share of the Company. Based on the Partnership common units and preferred units outstanding, the Company issued approximately 94.4M Company Shares to Partnership unitholders in connection with the Merger. The Company Shares will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "STON" when the market opens on January 2, 2020. In addition, StoneMor Partners L.P.'s common units will no longer trade on the NYSE. Effective upon the closing of the Merger, the current members of the GP Board joined the Board of Directors of the Company.

08:36 EST Taoping Alliance welcomes 31 new members - Taoping announced that 31 companies have joined the Taoping Alliance to operate Taoping new media in 31 cities as its city partners. As of now, Taoping Alliance has 196 domestic members operating in 196 cities across 26 provinces out of 34 provincial level administrative units in China as well as three overseas members. The 31 new members are Tongcheng Taoping, Jinzhai Taoping, Nanling Taoping, Fanchang Taoping, and Wuhu Taoping, in Anhui Province, Mile Taoping, Luxi Taoping, Jianshui Taoping, Gejiu Taoping, Hekou Taoping, Wuding Taoping, Lufeng Taoping, Yuanmou Taoping, and Qiubei Taoping in Yunnan Province, Lichuan Taoping and Huangpi Taoping in Hubei Province, Chaling Taoping, Changning Taoping, and Hengshan Taoping in Hunan Province, Wuxi Taoping, Huaian Taoping, and Rudong Taoping in Jiangsu Province, Dongming Taoping, Dong'e Taoping, and Ningyang Taoping in Shandong Province, Tongzi Taoping, Zhenning Taoping, Xingyi Taoping, Rongjiang Taoping, Panzhou Taoping, and Shuicheng Taoping in Guizhou Province. The 31 companies are purchasing smart display screens from TAOP and are responsible for new media operations at Tongcheng County, Jinzhai County, Nanling County, Fanchang County, Wuhu County, Mile County, Luxi County, Jianshui County, Gejiu County, Hekou County, Wuding County, Lufeng County, Yuanmou County, Qiubei County, Lichuan County, Huangpi District, Chaling County, Changning County, Hengshan County, Wuxi City, Huai'an Prefecture, Rudong County, Dongming County, Dong'e County, Ningyang County, Tongzi County, Zhenning County, Xingyi County Rongjiang County, Panzhou County and Shuicheng County respectively.

08:33 EST Inpixon CEO says 2020 focus will be 'continuing to innovate with indoor data' - Inpixon provided the following business update from the company's CEO Nadir Ali: "As we close out both a very busy 2019 and a decade of innovation, I'd like to reflect on the past year and also take this opportunity to share my vision for the future at Inpixon, especially given all the positive developments. The year 2019 was full of achievements for our team. In February, we were pleased to be named by Gartner, a highly respected technology analyst, in their Magic Quadrant for indoor location services, worldwide. This is a significant recognition of our platform and enhancements, as this past year we focused on interoperability and integration, embracing the power and flexibility offered by open and agnostic systems. This shift further enhanced our ability to ingest data from a variety of different sources, such as point-of-sale systems. This commitment to open architectures and interoperability has also meant that our ecosystem of partners and distributors has grown significantly in the last year, expanding globally across verticals. Most notably, we also made several strategic acquisitions this year enabling us to build out our technology portfolio, securing new customers and opening up new entry points to our business. In the spring, we acquired Locality Systems, a video analytics technology company whose offering complemented Inpixon's existing solutions. This addition allows us to offer what we believe is one of the indoor positioning market's most comprehensive product lines for visitor analytics and physical cyber security. Shortly after, we acquired a GPS technology portfolio, to integrate outdoor GPS with our indoor positioning system. At the end of the summer, we once again expanded our portfolio, this time by acquiring industry-leading indoor mapping company, Jibestream. Many of the use cases we aim to address require geospatial context for location-based services, and dynamic maps are the most intuitive interfaces to achieve these outcomes and make indoor spaces digitally addressable...Moving forward into a new decade, a big focus of ours will be on continuing to innovate with indoor data to expand value for our customers by leveraging artificial intelligence and big data. Our engineering team is exploring how we can expand our capacity in these areas to allow customers to take advantage of their indoor data in ways that were previously unfathomable. We also recently announced our plans for an Ultra-Wideband module to deliver centimeters-level positional accuracy for people and assets.We intend to focus on unifying and branding our expanding portfolio of offerings. As we start the new year, you'll notice some changes to our website as we update it to better reflect the new full scope of our solutions. I hope you'll join the conversation with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook as we help organizations uncover what's possible with indoor intelligence. Inpixon remains fully committed to building shareholder value, and we believe the foundation we've built in 2019, plus our improved cash position due to the $6.5M we raised this quarter through our ATM facility, will set the stage for a very positive year in 2020 and beyond. We deeply appreciate the support of all of our stakeholders and look forward to the new year."

08:19 EST Churchill Downs announces launch of online BetAmerica Sportsbook in Indiana - Churchill Downs announced the launch of its online BetAmerica Sportsbook in Indiana. The retail BetAmerica Sportsbook opened in November at Rising Star Casino Resort in Rising Sun, Indiana. "We are excited to offer our online BetAmerica Sportsbook to sports betting fans throughout Indiana. Indiana sports enthusiasts can now enjoy placing bets, including in-game betting and super odds boosts, through the online BetAmerica Sportsbook," said BetAmerica President Ian Williams.

08:04 EST IMAC CEO says 2020 plans expand on geographic footprint, therapy development - IMAC Holdings announced CEO Jeff Ervin, issued a Letter to Shareholders. The letter read in part: "We are poised to begin 2020 with strong accomplishments this year that serve as a foundation for continued success in the new year. We enter 2020 having concentrated our efforts through several complementary paths, each of which differentiates us from competitive rehabilitation centers. It is our delivery of superior care without the use of surgery or opioids, our commitment to innovations that halt the progression of movement restricting disease, ensuring that our customers get better, and that we do better by our communities, including veterans of our Armed Services. For all of the successes we have achieved this year and over the last quarter in particular, we have been equally successful in carefully managing our costs while creating new revenue streams with minimal or no outlay of capital. We stand at the forefront of our industry and our plans for 2020 expand on our vision, geographic footprint, and development of new therapies that we believe will radically transform the landscape of regenerative medicine and treatment outcomes, all while staying true to our mission and vision. These are exciting times for your company and our future. From the technological perspective, we are pleased to have announced the sale of our BioFirma subsidiary assets to Self Care Regeneration LLC for proceeds to the Company of $320,800, plus reimbursement of certain expenses. The transaction closes as of this day, and what makes it central to our business is that IMAC now has a long-term supply agreement with the ability to purchase regenerative medicine products at deep discounts for use in our roster of rehabilitation clinics without assuming operating risk of maintaining the production side of the business. Continued proprietary advancements are expected to be announced soon...Our recently implemented membership program begins January 1, 2020, on a subscription basis for all current and future patients. IMAC will start the membership with more than 300 enrollees. We offer online enrollment through the IMAC websites for one of three membership plans. The Flex Plan will require a $10 membership fee and $50 monthly fee which will include a consultation from a company medical practitioner and will offer members four chiropractic adjustments per month. The Plus Plan consists of a $50 membership fee and a $95 monthly fee for all Flex Plan benefits, four decompression visits per month, and one platelet-rich plasma treatment per year. Finally, the Regen Plan, which requires a $100 membership fee and a $300 monthly fee, will include one yearly medical evaluation and one yearly cellular therapy treatment, two platelet rich plasma treatments per year, and access to a 20% discount on additional proprietary regenerative medicine treatments found at the IMAC clinics. These plans provide our patients with significant savings and encourage guests to explore some of the proprietary treatment modalities that we believe set us apart in the market, while providing additional revenue streams and potential new visitors to our regenerative rehabilitation centers without any capital outlay...From a strictly administrative perspective, we are also pleased to announce that our annual audit is now well under way and we expect to meet SEC mandated timelines. In addition, based on our successful growth over the course of 2019, we look forward to initiating quarterly conference calls to provide all of our stakeholders with greater transparency and more interactive discussion around our quarterly execution."

07:30 EST Noble Energy announces first gas from Leviathan field - Noble Energy announced the commencement of natural gas production from the Leviathan field, "the largest natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean." David Stover, Noble Energy's Chairman and CEO, stated, "This is a historic day for Noble Energy. The safe and successful execution of the initial phase of Leviathan development has been world-class, continuing our exceptional track record of major project delivery. First gas is online less than three years from project sanction and capital expenditures were $150M under budget. Combined with Tamar, our Israel assets provide a differential production profile and cash flow outlook for Noble Energy far into the future."

07:11 EST Green Thumb Industries to open Rise Lakewood store in Ohio - Green Thumb Industries announced it will open its 39th location, Rise Lakewood, on December 31. This is the fourth Rise store in Ohio, Lakewood's first cannabis retail store, and the fifth store GTI will open in December.

07:08 EST Seadrill announces contract extension for AOD II and AOD III - Seadrill Limited announced last night that it has secured a three year contract for each of the AOD II and AOD III in the Middle East, in direct continuation of their current contracts. Total contract value is expected to be approximately $98M and $101M, respectively, the company stated.

07:06 EST Just Energy announces sale of Georgia assets for approx. $3.4M - Just Energy Group announces that it has sold all of its customer contracts and natural gas in storage in the State of Georgia to Infinite Energy for approximately $3.4M, subject to customary adjustments. The Georgia market has limited growth possibility and was sub-scale for Just Energy. In addition, the Company has closed the previously announced sale of its Irish operations to Flogas Natural Gas Limited for approximately EUR700K, subject to customary adjustments.

07:01 EST Neovasc submits premarket approval application to FDA for Neovasc Reducer - Neovasc announced the submission of a Premarket Approval application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Neovasc Reducer medical device for the treatment of refractory angina. The submission also includes a request for an Advisory Panel meeting. The PMA for Reducer includes clinical data from the COSIRA 104 patient randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial, the ongoing REDUCER-I European Post-Market study, with over 200 patients currently enrolled with up to 5 years of follow-up, and supportive clinical evidence from multiple peer reviewed publications on Reducer.

05:28 EST Sina announces $500M share repurchase program - Sina announced that its board has authorized a share repurchase program under which the company may repurchase up to $500M of its ordinary shares over the next 12 months.

05:24 EST Tencent Music, consortium to acquire 10% equity stake in Universal Music Group -