Before the Open (May 7)

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend.
The Asian/Pacific markets closed mostly up. China and Indonesia rallied more than 1%; Hong Kong, India and Taiwan also did well. South Korea and Malaysia dropped. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. The UK, Germany, Denmark, Finalnd, Switzerland, Norway, Portugal, Austria and the Czech Republic are leading; Turkey and Greece are down. Futures in the States point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market.
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The dollar is up. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are flat.
Stock headlines from barchart.com…
Deere & Co (DE +0.31%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘In-Line’ at Evercore ISI with a price target of $187.
Illumina (ILMN +2.04%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Barclays with a price target of $300.
CVR Refining LP (CVRR -1.42%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Goldman Sachs with a price target of $25.
FirstEnergy (FE +0.68%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Mizuho Securities USA with a price target of $36.50.
Eaton Corp (ETN +2.46%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Barclays with a price target of $71.
Mastercard (MA +0.91%) was downgraded to ‘Equal-Weight’ from ‘Overweight’ at Renaissance Macro Research LLC.
LendingTree (TREE +0.33%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at UBS.
Shake Shack (SHAK +18.01%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at JPMorgan Chase on valuation.
BWX Technologies (BWXT +0.29%) may open lower this morning after it forecast after-hours Friday full-year adjusted EPS of $2.45 to $2.55, the midpoint below consensus of $2.51.
Wells Fargo (WFC +1.69%) will pay $480 million to settle a securities fraud class action suit in California that alleged misstatements and omissions related to sales practices.
Fitch Ratings put Community Health System’s (CYH +0.63%) CCC issuer default rating on rating watch negative, saying the company’s offer to exchange three series of notes is a distressed exchange.
Today’s Economic Calendar
12:30 PM TD Ameritrade IMX
3:00 PM Consumer Credit
3:30 PM Fed’s Evans: “Machines Learning Finance. Will they Change the Game?”
Other…
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this week’s Earnings from Morningstar
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