{"id":10717,"date":"2017-09-05T07:32:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10717"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:32:50","slug":"before-the-open-sep-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10717","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good, long weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets traded quietly today. India, Taiwan and Singapore posted gains while Japan and New Zealand posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently little changed. Poland, Germany and Bulgaria are up; Turkey and the Czech Republic are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a gaps down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n VIDEO: <\/strong>There’s a Bull Market Somewhere<\/a>
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\nThe dollar is down a small amount. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Charter Communications (CHTR -1.52%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at Telsey Advisory Group.<\/span>
\n Viacom (VIAB -0.28%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at Wells Fargo Securities.<\/span>
\n Carters (CRI +2.44%) was initiated a new ‘Buy’ at Goldman Sachs with a price target of $105.<\/span>
\n Lowe’s (LOW +1.03%) was reinstated a ‘Buy’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $95.<\/span>
\n Allison Transmission Holdings (ALSN +0.89%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank.<\/span>
\n Home Depot (HD +0.61%) was reinstated a ‘Buy’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $170.<\/span>
\n Disney (DIS +0.30%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Wells Fargo Securities.<\/span>
\n U.S. Steel (X +1.43%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $31.<\/span>
\n Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII +0.50%) won a $2.8 billion contract from the U.S. Navy for overhauling the USS George Washington refueling complex in Newport News, Virginia that is expected to be completed by Aug, 2021.<\/span>
\n DowDuPont (DWDP +0.80%) was initiated with a ‘Buy’ at UBS with a 12-month target price of $75.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 7:30 Fed’s Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard speech
\n 10:00 Factory Orders
\n 12:30 PM TD Ameritrade IMX
\n 2:00 PM Gallup US ECI<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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, long weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets traded quietly today. India, Taiwan and Singapore posted gains while Japan and New Zealand posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently little changed. Poland, Germany and Bulgaria are up; Turkey and the Czech Republic are down. Futures in […]<\/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\/10717"}],"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=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}