Stocks Aim to Snap 2024 Losing Streak 📈

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It's Chris from Elite Trade Club, here to give you this morning's premarket trading news.

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Markets 📈

Stocks continued their downturn on Wednesday. Tech stocks and small-caps underperformed and dragged the Nasdaq and Russell 2K to steep losses.

Futures are clinging to thin gains, with S&P 500 contracts currently up by less than 0.1%. Dow contracts are faring slightly better with a 0.2% gain.

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Premarket Highlights 🔎

📉 Ford Slashes MSRP on F-150 Lightning

Ford Motor Company [F] just announced a price cut on 2024 F-150 Lightning models, a move that highlights the headwinds facing EV producers in 2024.

The entry-level Pro model will start at $54,995 and the high-end Platinum Black trim will go for $92,995. In 2023, model prices ranged from $49,995 to $97,995.

💸 Cutting the Cost of Luxury
The Platinum and Platinum Black models, known for their advanced technologies and luxury features, have seen significant price reductions of $5,000 and $7,000, respectively.

Ford hopes the move will help attract customers to the new vehicle, while maintaining acceptable profit margins.

📉 Production Cutbacks
Ford’s strategy also includes cutting the planned production of the F-150 Lightning by about half for this year, a notable shift from its earlier expansion of production capacity in 2023.

Despite this reduction, Ford emphasizes the continued growth in demand for the F-150 Lightning, which remains America's best-selling electric pickup. (Although I am not aware of any others with such mainstream visibility.)

📈 Sales & Tax Credits 
The F-150 Lightning has seen a steady rise in sales in 2023, with a record of approximately 4,400 sold in November.

However, total sales for the year through November were only 20,365, a 54% increase from the previous year.

Notably, the F-150 Lightning qualifies for a $7,500 federal tax credit under new, more stringent requirements effective from January 1, which could be a tailwind for the struggling electric pickup in 2024.

What to Watch Today 👀

ADP Jobs
Today’s ADP jobs report will shed some light on the state of the U.S. job market in the final month of 2023. With the prospect of rate cuts on the horizon, worse-than-expected job market metrics could actually give the market a boost this week. Pay close attention to this report because it will give you an idea of what to expect when the big dog BLS Jobs Report drops on Friday.

Featured Earnings 💲

• Walgreens Boots Alliance [WBA] ... AM

• Lamb Weston [LW] ... AM

• Conagra Brands [CAG] ... AM

• RPM International [RPM] ... AM

• Simply Good Foods [SMPL] ... AM

• Lindsay [LNN] ... AM

• Schnitzer Steel Industries [RDUS] ... AM

• Kura Sushi [KRUS] ... PM

• Franklin Covey [FC] ... PM

Economy 🏗

• ADP employment [Dec] ... 8:15a

• Initial jobless claims [Dec.30] ... 8:30a

• S&P final U.S. services PMI [Dec] ... 9:45a

Gainers

• ATIF Holdings [ATIF] >> +33.6%

• Smart For Life [SMFL] >> +19.6%

• Kintara Therapeutics [KTRA] >> +11.0%

Decliners

• Sellas Life Sciences [SLS] >> (32.2%)

• Mobileye Global [MBLY] >> (30.2%)

• Opko Health [OPK] >> (17.3%)

Omega Therapeutics [OMGA] - Last Close: $2.73

The red-hot firm behind blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy, Novo Nordisk, just announced a research collaboration with this tiny biotech firm.

Novo Nordisk said it entered into research partnerships with both Omega Therapeutics and privately-held Cellarity Inc.

Under the terms of the two separate deals, Novo will reimburse R&D costs, and each contract could pay out as much as $532 million.

OMGA is up 95.9% on more than 10 million shares traded.

Minim [MINM] - Last Close: $1.71

Recent regulatory filings show the “Smart Money” is moving into this internet hardware company.

A Form SC 13D/A filing dated Jan. 2nd showed private investor Jeremy Hitchcock has amassed a 55.2% stake in the company.

The news was greeted with a 10% sell-off on Wednesday, but the move is reversing course in today’s pre-bell session.

MINM is this morning’s top stock, with a 199.4% gain on nearly 8 million shares traded in the premarket..

Rapid Micro Biosystems [RPID] - Last Close: $0.90

Samsung’s Biologics unit has tapped this overlooked life science company to as its primary supplier of critical microbiology quality control testing.

The tech giant said Rapid Micro’s Growth Direct platform will provide “increased efficiency, more robust data integrity and scalable quality control operations.”

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

RPID is a hot mover with a 23.3% gain on almost 4 million shares traded.

Jeff Brands [JFBR] - Last Close: $0.1407

This tiny eCommerce stock is breaking out in the premarket despite lacking an obviously discernible catalyst.

Jeff Brands’ last press release dropped on Dec. 20th, and it announced the company’s investment into remote wireless power transmission technology.

Shares have performed poorly since the announcement. JFBR has fallen by 12.5% over the past 10 days, but shares are rebounding today.

JFBR is a top mover with a 31.4% gain, and it’s one of this morning most active stocks, with nearly 3 million shares changing hands in the premarket.

That's it for today! Thanks for reading, and good luck out there!

Best Regards,

— Chris D.
Elite Trade Club

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