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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) ADR (NYSE:TEVA) (MarketWatch)
Shares of Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. TEVA, +8.56% soared 8.5% active morning trade Thursday, after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. bkr disclosed that it bought a stake in the generic drugmaker. Volume of 19.1 million shares made the stock the second-most active on major U.S. exchanges, according to FactSet. Berkshire disclosed late Wednesday in a 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it owned 18,875,721 million Teva shares as of Dec. 31, which is about 1.9% of the shares outstanding, after owning no shares as of Sept. 31.

Aaron’s, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) (The Motley Fool)
What happened: Rent-to-own home furnishings specialist Aaron’s, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) saw its stock soar 19% in early Thursday trading, after reporting Q4 and full-year 2017 earnings. The stock is up 13.7% as of 10:55 a.m. EST, buoyed by news that Aaron’s beat Wall Street forecasts for both sales and earnings. Q4 sales came in at $884.6 million, ahead of Wall Street’s forecast $874.3 million. Pro forma profits were $0.65 per share, more than a dime better than the $0.54 that analysts had been looking for.

CAI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) (Benzinga)
CAI International Inc shares fell 21.1 percent to $21.06. CAI International reported upbeat Q4 earnings, while sales missed estimates.

salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM) (CNBC)
Salesforce.com’s “consistently strong” enterprise growth and customer demand will propel shares by more than 20 percent, according to one top Wall Street firm. Jefferies upgraded the enterprise software company’s stock to buy, saying it may benefit from less pressure from rivals as well as acceleration in its commercial customer segment. Shares of Salesforce rallied 3 percent Thursday morning; the stock is up 37 percent in the past 12 months.

Barrick Gold Corp (USA) (NYSE:ABX) (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Shares in Barrick Gold Corp. fell in early trading as investors digested the news that the gold miner is facing lower production and higher costs over the next few years. In a conference call with analysts on Thursday, Barrick’s chief operating officer Richard Williams said while the company had made solid strides in lowering costs over the past few years, it has fallen short of achieving the US$700 an ounce all-in sustaining costs it had been targeting. Last year, Barrick’s all-in sustaining costs, the industry benchmark for costs, were US$750 per ounce, an increase of three per cent compared to 2016.






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