new england patriots cornerback stephon gilmore 24 stretches during the new england patriots practice session in foxborough ma on oct 22 2020 check out the companies making headlines in midday trading energy stocks – oil stocks rose again monday as futures for west texas intermediate crude traded above 81 per barrel shares of diamondback energy rose 3 while halliburton climbed 49 solar stocks also moved higher with sunrun and enphase energy jumping more than 6 freeportmcmoran – shares surged 6 and were among the biggest gainers in the sp 500 the stocks jump comes amid a rally in the energy and industrials sector and a pop in copper prices retailers – apparel makers shares fell after cotton prices hit a 10year high friday of 116 per pound gap fell 34 and levi strauss lost 2 ralph lauren shares also slipped charter comcast – both cable stocks fell monday after raymond james downgraded them to market perform comcast lost more than 25 and charter slipped less than 1 sofi technologies shares of the online personal finance company surged more than 10 after morgan stanley initiated coverage with an overweight rating the wall street firm is bullish on sofis student loan refinancing business and said the potential approval of sofis bank charter application is another possible catalyst for a boost aspen technology the industrial software makers stock jumped 9 after it announced a deal with emerson electric to merge with two of its software businesses the cashandstock deal is valued at about 160 per share clevelandcliffs shares of clevelandcliffs gained more than 5 after the steel producer announced it would acquire ferrous processing and trading a scrap metal company the acquisition will mark clevelandcliffs entrance into the scrap business draftkings shares of the sporting betting company popped nearly 4 after citi initiated coverage with a buy rating the wall street firm said the company is the market leader in betting southwest airlines the air carriers stock price slid more than 1 after it canceled more than 2000 flights over the weekend blaming air traffic control issues bad weather and its own staffing shortage coinbase the cryptocurrency exchange saw its shares fall jump more than 5 as bitcoin extended a twoweek rally toward an alltime high coinbases stock tends to trade in tandem with cryptocurrency prices because most of its revenue is derived from trading fees