Apple, Palo Alto, ExxonMobil rise premarket; Target falls By Investing.com

Investing.com — Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Monday, June 5th. Please refresh for updates.

• Apple (NASDAQ:) stock rose 0.8%, with the tech giant expected to unveil a new “mixed reality” headset at its developer conference in California, some new hardware that has been seven years in the making.

• Target (NYSE:) stock fell 0.7% after KeyBanc downgraded its stance on the retailer to ‘sector weight’ from ‘overweight’, citing increasing consumer headwinds over the next 12-18 months.

• ExxonMobil (NYSE:) stock rose 1.5% and Chevron (NYSE:) stock climbed 1.3% with these oil majors benefiting from the jump in the price of crude after Saudi Arabia announced plans to cut production from July.

• Palo Alto (NASDAQ:) stock rose 5.8% as the cybersecurity firm looks set to replace satellite network company Dish Network (NASDAQ:), down 4.1%, in the .

• UBS (NYSE:) stock rose 1.1% after the Swiss lender said it expected to complete its takeover of Credit Suisse “as early as June 12,” which will create a banking giant with a balance sheet of $1.6 trillion.

• Dollar General (NYSE:) stock fell 1.3% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the discount retailer to ‘equal-weight’ from ‘overweight’, saying the company has not been the defensive stock it expected.

• Estée Lauder (NYSE:) stock fell 1% after Oppenheimer cut its stance on the cosmetics giant to ‘perform’ from ‘outperform’, saying more gains will be harder to come by.

• CIRCOR International (NYSE:) stock soared 50% after the industrial machinery maker agreed to be acquired by KKR, in a cash deal valued at $1.6 billion.