Deals and More Deals

Good morning Wake-up Watchlisters! While you’re sipping coffee you’ll see stock futures were up on Friday after a three-day selloff in what’s been a rough week for the markets. Investors had to bear acceptance of higher-for-longer interest rates after applications for US employment benefits fell to their lowest level since January last week.

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Here’s a look at the top-moving stocks this morning.

Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI)

Activision Blizzard is up 1.81% premarket after British regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The competition and Markets Authority said revamped proposal “substantially addresses previous concerns” about stifling competition in a fast-growing cloud gaming market.

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA)

Alibaba Group is up 4.32% premarket after a report saying that the government is considering easing restrictions on foreign ownership of domestically listed companies.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK)

Splunk is up 0.08% premarket after reports the company will be purchased by Cisco pending a $28 billion acquisition. The deal would create one of the world’s largest software companies. Its stock jumped as high as 20% in after-hours trading yesterday.

Gold remains a popular play

As inflation numbers continue to weigh on Americans, over 100,000 investors are buying up gold at a price not seen in years. Gold has outpaced some of the world’s best assets like stocks, bonds and real estate.

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Those are the biggest stock movers for today.

Happy trading!

The Wake-Up Watchlist Research Team

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