Amazon, Crown Castle, Shopify and Roku rise premarket; Novo Nordisk falls

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Investing.com — U.S. futures edged lower Monday, as investors took profits given the strong gains this month to date ahead of the release of more important inflation data this week.

Here are some of the biggest premarket U.S. stock movers today:

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock rose 0.7% after the online retail giant reached an agreement with most of its workers in Spain on Monday, avoiding the full impact of a planned one-hour strike per shift on one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) stock rose 0.2% as Cyber Monday follows on from Black Friday, with this retail giant hoping to benefit from the largesse of shoppers.

Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) stock rose 4.3% following a report in the Wall Street Journal that activist investor Elliott Investment Management aims to advocate for changes at the wireless tower owner.

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) stock fell 0.9% after the drugmaker’s CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen said, in a report in the Financial Times, that the company is ready to be «flexible» on pricing schemes for its Wegovy weight-loss drug as it attempts to make it more widely available.

GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ:GEHC) stock fell 3.3% after UBS downgraded the medical devices maker to ‘sell’ from ‘neutral’, citing a combination of slower order momentum, tough comparables and a lack of pricing tailwinds.

Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) stock rose 1.1% after Cannonball Research upgraded the streaming device maker to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’, expecting more significant upward revisions to the fiscal 2024 consensus.

YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) stock rose 4.5% after Goldman Sachs upgraded the majority state-owned Argentine energy company to ‘neutral’ from ‘sell’, following the announcement by President-elect