Pre-Market Gappers

Gapping Up:

IFO +14% (Kaufman upgrade, $12 tgt), LBIX +4.1% (extends momentum, stock +124% in one month), LVLT +2.7% (Needham upgrade), AAPL +2.2% (mentioned positively in Barron's), MCD +2.2% (guides above consensus on strong Jun same store sales), QCOM +1.7% (UBS upgrade), HDI +1.6% (reports Q2 in-line, beats on revs), SNDK +1.5% (introduces new product)... Mining stocks are strong driven by escalalting violence in Mideast: PAAS +4.7%, N +2.7%, RGLD +2.3%, EZM +1%.