{"id":10637,"date":"2017-08-21T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:42:37","slug":"before-the-open-aug-21-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10637","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Aug 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed. China and Japan moved up; India, Indonesia and the Philippines moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the upside. Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Russia and Switzerland are up the most; Kenya is weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point to a mixed and flat open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n Podcast: <\/strong>with Chat With Traders<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down slightly. Oil is flat; copper is up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Foot Locker (FL -27.92%) fell 1% in pre-market trading after it was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at UBS.<\/span>
\n Finish Line (FINL -8.17%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Neutral’ at UBS with a price target of $9.<\/span>
\n Nike (NKE -4.37%) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ at Jeffries.<\/span>
\n Advanced Auto Parts (AAP +0.44%) was upgraded to ‘Equal-Weight’ from ‘Underweight’ at Barclays.<\/span>
\n Lululemon (LULU -1.41%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Underperform’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $70.<\/span>
\n Snap-On (SNA -0.58%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at Longbow Research.<\/span>
\n Sturm Ruger (RGR +1.13%) was initiated a new ‘Buy’ at Aegis with a price target of $67.<\/span>
\n Calpine (CPN +10.52%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at Guggenheim Securities.<\/span>
\n Flex Ltd (FLEX -1.83%) gained over 1% in after-hours trading after the company received shareholder approval to purchase up to 20% of its outstanding shares.<\/span>
\n LendingClub (LC +2.23%) rose almost 2% in after-hours trading after Director Ciporin disclosed a 10,000-share purchase of LendingClub’s stock.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n8:30 Chicago Fed National Activity Index<\/span><\/span>
\nOther<\/strong>…<\/span>
\ntoday’s upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span>
\nthis week’s Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar
\nthis week’s Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed. China and Japan moved up; India, Indonesia and the Philippines moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the upside. Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Russia and Switzerland are up the most; Kenya is weak. Futures in the States […]<\/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\/10637"}],"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=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}