{"id":10470,"date":"2017-06-06T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2017-06-06T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:52:51","slug":"before-the-open-jun-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10470","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jun 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Tuesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the downside. Japan, India, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines were weak. <strong>Europe<\/strong> is currently mostly down. France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary and Belgium are weakest. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap down open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> SUBSCRIBE to LB Weekly &#8211; <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.net\/\">it&#8217;s only $12.40\/month when you sub for a year.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The dollar is down. Oil is down a small amount; copper is down. Gold and silver are up solidly. Bonds are up. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Yesterday the small and mid caps posted moderate losses while the S&amp;P traded in a super small range. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> In the near term there&#8217;s lots of potential market-moving news pending. James Comey will be testifying. British election and ECB meeting this week. Next week there&#8217;s an FOMC meeting and options expire. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The overall trend is up, and those who&#8217;ve simply stayed in that direction have been richly rewarded. Yes there will be disruptions along the way, but your odds of success are significantly higher if you align yourself with the overall trend. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Premarket movers<\/strong> from thestockmarketwatch.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/premarket060617.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Cognizant (CTSH +0.13%) was downgraded to &#8216;Hold&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Societe Generale.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> ITT Inc (ITT -0.62%) was downgraded to &#8216;Neutral&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Goldman Sachs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL +1.22%) was upgraded to &#8216;Neutral&#8217; from &#8216;Underperform&#8217; at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $96.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Thor Industries (THO +1.12%) climbed almost 5% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 EPS from continuing operations of $2.11, better than consensus of $1.87.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> MRC Global (MRC +1.51%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Stifel with a price target of $22.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Casey\u2019s General Stores (CASY +0.11%) fell 4% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 EPS of 76 cents, below consensus of 85 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Signet Jewelers Ltd (SIG -0.26%) dropped nearly 4% in after-hours trading after COO Bryan Morgan resigned on Jun 2 due to violations of company policy unrelated to financial matters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Resolute Energy (REN -1.50%) rose almost 5% in after-hours trading after it said it began a registered-exchange offer to exchange up to $125 million its outstanding 8.5% senior notes due 2020.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Alere (ALR -0.49%) moved up over 2% in after-hours trading after it filed a 10-K for 2016 after months of delay and reported Q4 revenue of $597 million, right on consensus.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Coupa Software (COUP -0.44%) gained over 2% in after-hours trading after it reported Q1 revenue of $41.1 million, above consensus of $38.33 million, and then raised its view for full-year revenue to $172 million-$175 million, better than consensus of $168.71 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Acorda Therapeutics (ACOR +0.66%) jumped over 6% in after-hours trading after it hit its goal and showed statistically significant improvement in motor function versus a placebo in a Phase 3 trial of CVT-301 on patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Gallup US ECI<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\/investor\/calendars\/upgrades-downgrades\/\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/earnings\/earnings-calendar.aspx\">Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.econoday.com\/\">Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Tuesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the downside. Japan, India, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines were weak. Europe is currently mostly down. France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary and Belgium are weakest. Futures in the States point towards a moderate gap down open for the cash market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}