The markets opened sharply higher with the Dow soaring 163 points to 18,059 as the nation added an impressive 287,000 jobs in June. Nasdaq leaped 50 points to 4,927.
On the upside
Shares of wearable camera maker Digital Ally (Nasdaq: DGLY) rose after five Dallas police officers were killed.
Eleven Biotherapeutics (Nasdaq: EBIO) will receive a $22.5 million milestone payment from F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Hoffman-La Roche after the company's Investigational New Drug application for EBI-031 became effective.
Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) terminated its merger agreement with Mitel Networks (Nasdaq: MITL) in order to be acquired by private equity firm Siris Capital.
On the downside
The Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on Juno Therapeutics' (Nasdaq: JUNO) Phase II study of the leukemia treatment JCAR015.
Kite Pharma (Nasdaq: KITE) completed enrollment of all patients in the Phase 2 study of ZUMA-1.
Investors locked in profits on SemiLEDs (Nasdaq: LEDS).
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of more than 7 to 1 on the NYSE and by more than 4 to 1 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 climbed 20 point to 2,118. Bitcoin soared $21 to $642.
