Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Thursday, 3rd January.
Tesla (NASDAQ:) stock rose 1.7% after the company reported it shipped a record 112,000 vehicles in the three months through December, 6,000 more than Wall Street forecasts. As such, it delivered roughly 367,500 cars last year, a 50% increase from 2018.
Incyte (NASDAQ:) stock fell 10.4% after the biopharma company said after the bell on Thursday that its itacitinib drug had failed a late-stage clinical trial. The drug was intended for use in combination with corticosteroids to treat patients whose bodies reject transplanted bone marrow or stem cells.
- Newmont Goldcorp (NYSE:) stock rose 1.8%, shadowing the rally in the precious metal after a U.S. airstrike killed an Iranian general, triggering a flight to haven assets in markets worldwide.
Oil producers broadly rose in reaction to the spike in crude prices after the U.S. airstrike. Devon Energy (NYSE:) rose 3.0%, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:) rose 2.7%, ConocoPhillips (NYSE:) rose 1.6% and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) rose 1.0%. Chevron (NYSE:) rose 0.7%.
- Arista Networks (NYSE:) fell 1.4% after it announced the departure of its chief customer officer late on Thursday.
British American Tobacco (LON:) ADRs rose 2.2% after the company said it will file applications for regulatory approval of all its vaping products by the FDA’s May 12 deadline.