Good morning. Happy Thursday.
The Asian/Pacific markets leaned to the upside. Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines led while Japan was weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. Poland, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, South Africa, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Israel and Austria are doing well while Greece lags. Futures in the States point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market.
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The dollar is down. Oil is down; copper is up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are down.
Overnight Stock Movers from barchart.com…
(not posted yet)
Wednesday’s Key Earnings
AIG (NYSE:AIG) -0.9% AH on another ugly quarter.
Allstate (NYSE:ALL) -3.2% AH missing profit estimates.
Annaly Capital (NYSE:NLY) +0.1% AH with Q3 earnings beat.
Enterprise Products (NYSE:EPD) +1.2% amid strong volumes.
Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) +9.5% AH seeing double-digit gains.
General Motors (NYSE:GM) +9.1% smashing expectations.
Realty Income (NYSE:O) +1.9% AH beating forecasts.
Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) +3.5% confirming a return to growth.
Sprint (NYSE:S) +7.8% on higher net subscriber adds.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) +4.6% on strong Taco Bell sales.
Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) -3.3% AH posting weaker user numbers.
Today’s Economic Calendar
7:30 Challenger Job-Cut Report
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
8:30 Productivity and Costs
9:45 PMI Manufacturing Index
10:00 ISM Manufacturing Index
10:00 Construction Spending
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
4:30 PM Money Supply
4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
Other…
today’s upgrades/downgrades from briefing.com
this week’s Earnings from Morningstar
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