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Intel Corp. shares rose 1.4% in premarket trade Tuesday, after J.P. Morgan placed a bullish rating on the chipmaker, saying strength in its data center and Internet of Things businesses should offset continued lackluster PC demand. Analyst Harlan Sur moved to an overweight rating from a “not rated” designation, and placed a price target of $40 on the stock, which is 25% above Monday’s closing price of $32.06. Sur said he believes the enterprise storage market is an “underappreciated growth engine” for Intel, as the company holds the No. 1 market share position in the $6 billion market. Sur is also confident that Intel’s data center business will see strong revenue growth through the cloud, virtualization and high-performance computing markets. And while the PC business should remain weak during the first half of this year, Sur sees potential upside in the second half on improved demand from businesses and gaming. The stock has slipped 0.5% over the past three months through Monday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost 4.3%.

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Horizon Pharma PLC’s stock surged 3.9% in premarket trade Tuesday, after the drug maker raised its 2016 sales outlook, as a result of the expected close of the Crealta Holdings acquisition this week. Sales are now expected to be in the range of $1.025 billion to $1.05 billion, up from a previous outlook of $950 million to $975 million. The FactSet sales consensus was $987.3 million. The outlook for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) was boosted to $505 million to $520 million from $460 million to $475 million. The stock has lost 5.4% over the past three months through Monday, while the S&P 500 has declined 4.7%.

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to actress and model Jerry Hall, via a listing in the Births, Marriages and Deaths section of his Times of London newspaper Tuesday. It will be the fourth marriage for 84-year-old Murdoch and the first for 59-year-old Hall, who was the partner of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger for more than 20 years. Murdoch is the executive chairman of News Corp. , the owner of MarketWatch parent Dow Jones.

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An explosion in a historic part of Istanbul popular with tourists has left several people dead and wounded, media reports said Tuesday. The blast happened at about 10:20 a.m. local time in Sultanahmet Square, near the Topkapi palace and the Hagia Sophia attractions. The number of casualties is unclear, but some media outlets have reported the Governor’s Office of Istanbul as saying 10 are dead and 15 injured. There has been no official statement on the cause of the explosion from Turkish authorities, who have put a broadcast ban on news about the blast, the Guardian reported. Despite this, local television stations have shown images of emergency responders taking victims from the square to hospital.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. energy sector will see more “bankruptcies, mergers and restructurings” this year given the outlook for continued low oil prices, said Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan on Monday. “The overall tone in the oil and gas sector has soured, as expectations have decidedly shifted to an ‘even lower for even longer’ price outlook” in the wake of the December OPEC meeting, Kaplan said in a speech in Dallas. Economists at the Dallas Fed forecast that global excess inventories aren’t likely to begin falling until 2017, and there is a risk that it will take longer, he said. “Given the various cross-currents, the ultimate timing of reaching market production/consumption balance remains uncertain,” he added. Kaplan is not a voting member of the Fed policy committee this year. He said he was in favor of the December interest-rate increase, the first since 2006.

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