HIGHER: Circor (CIR), up 51% to $46.35 after Crane (CR) announced that it has submitted a proposal to the board of Circor to acquire the company for $45 per share in cash… Boeing (BA), up 2% after the Wall Street Journal reported U.S. aviation authorities regard a collision with one or more birds as the most likely reason for trouble with an “angle of attack” sensor that ultimately caused the Ethiopian Airlines crash of a 737 MAX jet. UP AFTER EARNINGS: AutoZone (AZO), up 2%… 360 Finance (QFIN), up 8%. DOWN AFTER EARNINGS: Home Depot (HD), down 1%… Kohl’s (KSS), down 10%… J.C. Penney (JCP), down 11%… Nordson (NDSN), down 3%. LOWER: BioCryst (BCRX), down 47% after announcing results from Phase 3 APeX-2 trial.