22 Stocks Moving In Tuesday's Pre-Market Session

Gainers

• First NBC Bank Holding Company FNBC rose 15.1 percent to $8.40 in pre-market trading. First NBC agreed to sell nine branches, and certain assets and liabilities to Whitney Bank. First NBC Bank also appointed Crowe Horwath LLP as its new independent auditor for the year ended December 31, 2016.
• Abraxas Petroleum Corp. AXAS rose 14.4 percent to $2.94 in pre-market trading after dropping 2.65 percent on Friday.
• Trina Solar Limited (ADR) TSL shares rose 10.8 percent to $10.30 in pre-market trading after gaining 0.43 percent on Friday.
• Alon USA Energy, Inc. ALJ rose 10.5 percent to $12.57 in pre-market trading. Delek US Holdings, Inc. DK agreed to acquire remaining outstanding shares of Alon USA.
• Marinus Pharmaceuticals Inc MRNS rose 10 percent to $1.11 in pre-market trading after surging 20.96 percent on Friday. Marinus Pharma disclosed that it has received the FDA Orphan Drug designation for ganaxolone.
• Depomed Inc DEPO rose 9.3 percent to $19.69 in pre-market trading. KKR & Co. L.P. KKR is said to still be interested in acquiring Depomed and would combine it with Arbor Pharmaceuticals, according to sources as reported by the New York Post on Friday. Depomed has set Wednesday as the deadline for final bids, the sources said.
• Xerox Corp XRX shares rose 8.9 percent to $6.26 in pre-market trading. Conduent Inc CNDT completed its separation from Xerox. Credit Suisse upgraded Xerox from Neutral to Outperform.
• Pro-Dex Inc PDEX shares rose 8.6 percent to $5.05 in pre-market trading.
• Protalix Biotherapeutics Inc PLX shares rose 7.9 percent to $0.480 in pre-market trading after reporting positive results from Phase II clinical trial of alidornase alfa.
• Kopin Corporation KOPN rose 7.4 percent to $3.05 in pre-market trading after falling 3.07 percent on Friday.
• Seadrill Ltd SDRL rose 7 percent to $3.65 in pre-market trading after declining 3.12 percent on Friday.
• Sprint Corp S shares rose 6.7 percent to $8.98 in pre-market trading after dropping 4.43 percent on Friday.
• Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV FCAU shares rose 6.3 percent to $9.69 in pre-market trading. Fiat Chrysler and Alphabet Inc GOOGL announced a collaboration on Uconnect system concept powered by Android at the CES 2017.
• Sohu.com Inc SOHU rose 6 percent to $35.89 in pre-market trading after declining 0.99 percent on Monday.
• Groupon Inc GRPN rose 3 percent to $3.42 in pre-market trading. RBC Capital upgraded Groupon from Underperform to Sector Perform.
• RedHill Biopharma Ltd - ADR RDHL shares rose around 2.5 percent to $10.72 in pre-market trading after the company reported an exclusive U.S. co-promotion agreement with Concordia International Corp CXRX for Donnatal.

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Losers

• Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp ITEK fell 60.7 percent to $2.40 in pre-market trading after the company disclosed that it did not achieve its primary endpoint in first Phase 3 trial of trabodenoson for glaucoma.
• Cesca Therapeutics Inc KOOL shares fell around 5.8 percent to $3.25 in pre-market trading after dropping 7.75 percent on Friday. Cesca will be presenting at the 9th Annual Biotech Showcase, on January 9-11, 2017.
• Interpace Diagnostics Group Inc IDXG fell 5.7 percent to $4.15 in pre-market trading after dropping 20.00 percent on Friday.
• China Online Education Group - ADR COE shares fell 5.5 percent to $14.70 in pre-market trading after rising 19.62 percent on Friday.
• Intevac, Inc. IVAC shares fell 4.7 percent to $8.15 in pre-market trading after gaining 2.40 percent on Friday.
• Mimecast Ltd MIME shares fell around 4 percent to $17.20 in pre-market trading after gaining 2.34 percent on Friday.