Investing.com - Stocks in focus in premarket trading on Monday:
• Tiffany & Co (NYSE:TIF) stock surged 33% in premarket trade by 8:20 AM ET (11:20 GMT) after LVMH (OTC:LVMUY) made an unsolicited offer of $120 per share for the luxury jewelry retailer, which would give it a vale of about $14.5 billion.
•AT&T (NYSE:T) stock rose 1.5% after its earnings came in fractionally higher than expected, while revenue was lower than estimates. The company also announced a 3-year action plan, backed by activist investor Elliot Management, the highlight of which was a promise to pay off debt from its acquisition of Time Warner by 2022.
• Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) stock gained 8.6% after the music streaming company's earnings came in a little better than expected. In a separate statement, it said chief financial officer Barry McCarthy is to retire in January.
• Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock was up 2.6% after it beat out Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) in getting a $10 billion cloud computing contract from the Pentagon.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) stock inched up 0.5% after the drug store retailer beat on its bottom and top line, and raised its cost-saving target to more than $1.8 billion by fiscal year 2022, from a prior goal of more than $1.5 billion.
• HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) stock tumbled 4% after the bank cut its 2020 profit target and its earnings came in far below forecasts.