Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Thursday, 2nd January.
- Airbus ADRs (OTC:EADSY) were set for a higher opening after the company’s shares in Paris rose 2.9% on a Reuters report saying that it will beat its target of 860 aircraft deliveries in 2019. That confirms Airbus’s dethronement of Boeing (NYSE:BA) as the world’s no. 1 maker of airplanes. Boeing had only delivered 345 planes in the 11 months through November. Its stock was up 0.7% in premarket.
- Network equipment maker Anixter International (NYSE:AXE) stock was in focus after the company said it had accepted an improved offer worth $93.50 a share from private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. That’s just over 1% above its last close.
- Industrial products distributor WESCO International Inc (NYSE:WCC), which had battled CD&R for control of Anixter, was also in the spotlight.
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co (NYSE:PCG) stock was up 0.3% after a court ruling that cut its obligations to bondholders.