Deere, Biontech and Foot Locker Rise Premarket By Investing.com

By Peter Nurse

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• Tesla (NASDAQ 🙂 stock rose 0.8% after its share price closed above $ 2,000 for the first time prior to its stock split. Shareholders of record on Closing Friday will receive four additional shares for each share they hold, distributed after the close of trading on August 28th.

• Call (NASDAQ 🙂 stock rose 0.2% after the tech giant closed Thursday with a market capitalization above $ 2 trillion, with its share price doubling since its low point in March when the coronavirus pandemic swept the markets.

• Deere (NYSE 🙂 share up 2.5% after the agricultural and construction equipment maker reported better-than-expected third-quarter fiscal figures, while providing a somewhat upbeat outlook.

• Pfizer (NYSE 🙂 stock rose 0.7% a Biontech (NASDAQ 🙂 won 5.8% after companies said the Covid-19 vaccine candidate, being developed together, was on track to be submitted for regulatory review as early as October.

• Johnson and Johnson (NYSE 🙂 stock rose 0.2% after the pharmaceutical giant said it planned to test its experimental Covid-19 drug on 60,000 people in a Phase 3 trial in September.

• Ross Stores (NASDAQ 🙂 share rose 0.6% after the discount trade posted a staggering profit in the first quarter and in hours Thursday hours better than expected earnings.

• Foot Locker (NYSE 🙂 stock rose 4.1% after the retailer reported a similar increase in retail sales of around 18% for the second quarter.

• Delta Air Lines (NYSE 🙂 the stock market fell 1.3% after starting allocating middle seats for most passengers through Jan. 6. That will limit capacity through a period that handles the busiest holiday travel season.

• Pinduoduo (NASDAQ 🙂 stock fell 10% after the Chinese e-commerce platform reported quarterly earnings that were about 5% below expectations. It is also involved in a public outcry with Tesla over a discount-bought Model 3 group purchase.