Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Monday, 9th December.
- Marijuana products group Canopy Growth Corp (NYSE:CGC) rose 5.9% after saying it has hired David Klein to be its new CEO. Klein is currently chief financial officer at brewer Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ), whose stock was unchanged on the news.
- U.K. supermarket chain Tesco (OTC:TSCDY) (LON:TSCO) rose 5.2% after confirming that it’s considering a sale of its remaining Asian businesses, estimated by analysts to be worth around $9 billion.
- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) edged down 0.3% after a report that China is accelerating efforts to remove U.S. computers and software from government offices and public institutions.