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When Chicken Soup For The Soul Entrtnmnt Inc CSSE 6.78%IPO'd earlier this month, some were confused by the timing and even the decision to go public itself: Link

United Technologies Corporation UTX 0.92% will acquire Rockwell Collins, Inc. COL 0.06% in a deal worth $30 billion, forging an aerospace behemoth producing virtually all types of avionics systems for commercial and defense aircraft: Link

Wall Street Journal

Senate GOP leaders signaled Tuesday they will tie an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit to an aid package for victims of Tropical Storm Harvey, a move that could boost the debt-limit legislation’s chances of passage ahead of a deadline this month: Link

For retailers, the robot apocalypse isn’t a science-fiction movie. As digital giants swallow a growing share of shoppers’ spending, thousands of stores have closed and tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs: Link

Reuters

Advanced hackers have targeted United States and European energy companies in a cyber espionage campaign that has in some cases successfully broken into the core systems that control the companies’ operations, according to researchers at the security firm Symantec SYMC 0.2%: Link

Regulators must do more to help mom-and-pop investors better understand the potential risks posed by cyber crime and new technologies used to commit fraud, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said on Tuesday: Link

Bloomberg

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm to form in the open Atlantic Ocean, made landfall in the Caribbean early Wednesday and barreled toward Puerto Rico on a path that may bring it ashore in Florida and destroy so much property that damages may surpass Hurricane Katrina: Link

At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they're more isolated than ever before: Link

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ECONOMIC DATA

• MBA Weekly Mortgage Applications Up 3.3%
• Redbook Reports US Retail Sales During First Week Of Sept. Up 0.3% MoM, Up 4.4% YoY
• US Services Purchasing Managers' Index for August will be released at 9:45 a.m. ET.
• The ISM non-manufacturing report for August is schedule for release at 10:00 a.m. ET.
• The Federal Open Market Committee will release its latest Beige Book report at 2:00 p.m. ET.

ANALYST RATINGS

• Citi upgraded Omnicom OMC 1.12% from Sell to Neutral
• JP Morgan upgraded Biocryst BCRX 4.01% from Neutral to Overweight
• Bank of America upgraded Novo Nordisk NVO 1.84% from Underperfrom to Neutral
• Wells Fargo downgraded Marathon Petroleum MPC 0.41% from Outperform to Market Perform
• Cowen downgraded United Technologies UTX 0.92% from Outperform to Market Perform
• JP Morgan downgraded Banco De Chile BCH 0.57% from Overweight to Neutral

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