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Pre-Market Stocks Highlights: CenterPoint Energy, (NYSE:CNP), Sanofi SA (NYSE:SNY), KaloBios Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KBIO), Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA)

On Monday, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CNP)’s shares inclined 0.26% to $19.17.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) declares the following webcast —

Date: August 10, 2015

Time: 11:30 AM ET

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company’s Electric Transmission & Distribution segment offers electric transmission and distribution services to retail electric providers, municipalities, electric cooperatives, and other distribution companies. A

Sanofi SA (ADR) (NYSE:SNY)’s shares gained 1.18% to $52.10.

Sanofi SA (ADR) (SNY) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. declared that the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended the approval of the investigational therapy Praluent® (alirocumab) Injection. The Committee voted 13 to 3 (with no abstentions) that Sanofi and Regeneron had sufficiently established that the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C, or bad cholesterol) lowering benefit of Praluent exceeds its risks to support approval in one or more patient populations.

The Committee’s recommendation was based on Praluent’s benefit-risk profile, following review of efficacy and safety data from more than 5,000 patients across 10 pivotal Phase 3 double-blind trials ranging from six months to two years. Clinical data from the ODYSSEY Phase 3 program show comprising, positive results in reducing LDL-C. Common adverse events that were more frequently stated in patients treated with Praluent than the control groups comprised of injection site reaction and pruritus (itching).

Sanofi researches, develops, and markets various therapeutic solutions. Its products comprise diabetes solutions, counting Lantus, Apidra, and Insuman that are human insulin analogs; Amaryl, an oral sulfonylurea; Lyxumia, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist; and Afrezza, an inhaled insulin to improve glycemic control, in addition to Toujeo, an insulin glargine.

At the end of Monday’s trade, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:KBIO)‘s shares surged 578.43% to $3.12.

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (KBIO), a monoclonal antibody company focused on developing innovative therapies to benefit patients with diseases of unmet medical need, with a focus on oncology, declared recently that it will effect a reverse stock split at a ratio of one share of newly issued common stock for each eight shares of issued and outstanding common stock. KaloBios anticipates that the reverse stock split will be effective at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 13, 2015, and that its common stock will commence trading on a split-adjusted basis as of the opening of trading on July 14, 2015.

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops monoclonal antibody therapeutics for the treatment of cancer in the United States. The company’s product candidates comprise KB004, which is in a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome and myelofibrosis; and KB003 that accomplished Phase II clinical trial to treat chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, an orphan oncology indication. KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Ambarella Inc (NASDAQ:AMBA), ended its Monday’s trading session with -0.46% loss, and closed at $99.15.

Ambarella, Inc. (AMBA), a leading developer of video compression and image processing semiconductors, recently declared the acquisition of VisLab S.r.l., a privately held Italian company based in Parma, Italy for $30 million in cash. VisLab, the Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Parma, is a pioneer in perception systems and autonomous vehicle research and was founded by Professor Alberto Broggi. The company has developed computer vision and intelligent control systems for automotive and other commercial applications, counting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and several generations of autonomous vehicle driving systems. These comprise “Porter,” an autonomous vehicle that made a 13,000 km autonomous trip from Italy to China in 2010.

As part of the acquisition, VisLab’s 27 researchers will join Ambarella’s advanced computer vision development team. This will enable extensive and robust computer vision support in future Ambarella solutions targeting Ambarella’s core markets counting automotive, IP security, wearable, and flying cameras.

Ambarella, Inc. develops semiconductor processing solutions for video that enable high-definition (HD) video capture, sharing, and display worldwide. The company’s system-on-a-chip designs integrated HD video processing, image processing, audio processing, and system functions onto a single chip for delivering video and image quality, differentiated functionality, and low power consumption. Its solutions enable the creation of video content for wearable sports cameras, automotive aftermarket cameras, professional and consumer Internet Protocol (IP) security cameras, telepresence cameras, and unmanned aerial vehicles in the camera market; and manage IP video traffic, broadcast encoding and transcoding, and IP video delivery applications in the infrastructure market.

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