Morning Coffee Pre-Market Wall Street News

Call of Duty: Black Ops II sales Top $1 billion. Activision Blizzard (ATVI) is reporting that sales of "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" topped $1billion in the first 15 days of its release. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said that the "Call of Duty" has now generated more revenues than cinema sales of the "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" series. Pre-Market: 11.25 +0.02 (0.18%)

Upgrades

Canadian Pacific (CP): Stifel Nicolaus raised their rating from Hold to Buy and placed a target price of $138.00 on the company. Pre-market: 57.12 -0.38 (-0.66%)

Chevron (CVX): Dahlman Rose raised their rating from Hold to Buy. Pre-market: 105.47 +0.30 (0.29%)

Starbucks (SBUX): Robert W. Baird raised their rating from Neutral to Outperform and raised their target price from $55.00 to $62.00. Pre-market: 51.50 +0.71 (1.40%)

Downgrades

AutoZone (AZO): Oppenheimer lowered their rating from Outperform to Perform and lowered their target price from $460.00 to $400.00.

Netflix (NFLX): Caris lowered their rating from Average to Below Average and placed a target price of $60.00 on the company. Pre-market: 81.90 -1.47 (-1.76%)

Earning Reports

Mens Warehouse (MW): Reported EPS of $0.95 missing estimates by -$0.03. Pre-market: 28.10 -3.25 (-10.37%)

Synopsys (SNPS): Reported EPS in-line with estimates.

H&R Block (HRB): Reported EPS of -0.37 beating estimates by +$0.03.

Smithfield Foods (SFD): Reported EPS of $0.61 beating estimates by +$0.18. Pre-market: 23.39 +0.49 (2.14%)

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD): Reported EPS of $1.83 beating estimates by +$0.01.

Markets: 
Futures at 8:00: Dow 0.00%. S&P -0.09%. Nasdaq -0.09%. Crude -0.41% to $87.52 Gold -0.04% to $1693.20.

Europe: London +0.35%. Paris +0.15%. Frankfurt +0.91%. 

Asia: Japan +0.81% to 9545. Hong Kong -0.09% to 22250. China -0.13% to 2029. India +0.49% to 19487.