Before the Bell: Twitter Now a Brand, Not a Company; Plus, Cannabis Capers

 Before the Bell: Twitter Now a Brand, Not a Company; Plus, Cannabis Capers

U.S. markets closed mixed on Monday and were trading slightly in the green in Tuesday’s premarket, no thanks to an announced acquisition in the cannabis industry.

Premarket action on Tuesday had the three major U.S. indexes trading slightly higher. The Dow Jones industrials were up 0.1%, the S&P 500 up 0.16% and the Nasdaq 0.15% higher.
Six of 11 market s…