{"id":10895,"date":"2017-10-23T07:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2017-10-23T07:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:51:04","slug":"before-the-open-oct-23-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10895","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Oct 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed. Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia and Thailand posted gains; Hong Kong and the Philippines posted losses. Europe, Asia and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the downside. Greece and Saudi Arabia are down more than 1%; Turkey, Kenya, Spain and the Czech Republic are also down. Poland, France and Finland are up. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a slight positive open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is up. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Illumina (ILMN +2.29%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank with a price target of $250.<\/span>
\n Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (DPS -0.31%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Wells Fargo Securities with a price target of $98.<\/span>
\n General Electric (GE +1.06%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $22.<\/span>
\n JB Hunt Transport Services (JBHT +1.71%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at UBS with a price target of $126.<\/span>
\n Biogen (BIIB -1.26%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at Citigroup.<\/span>
\n Science Applications International (SAIC +1.49%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Citigroup with a price target of $82.<\/span>
\n Equifax (EFX -0.49%) was downgraded to ‘Sector Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at RBC Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Southern Copper (SCCO -0.37%) was downgraded to ‘Sector Underperform’ from ‘Sector Perform’ at Scotiabank with a price target of $41.<\/span>
\n Schmitt Industries (SMIT -0.55%) may move higher this morning after GAMCO Investors reported an 8.26% stake in the company, making it the third-largest equity holder.<\/span>
\n Johnson & Johnson (JNJ +0.25%) said its Janssen Biotech company received FDA approval for its SIMPONI ARIA drug for the treatment of adults with active psoriatic arthritis or active ankylosing spondylitis.<\/span>
\n DBV Technologies SA (DBVT +1.95%) plunged 50% in after-hours trading after its peanut-allergy patch failed to reach a primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial. Competitor Aimmune Therapeutics (AIMT -0.23%) surged 60% in after-hours trading on the news.<\/span>
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\ntoday’s upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span>
\nthis week’s Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar
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Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed. Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia and Thailand posted gains; Hong Kong and the Philippines posted losses. Europe, Asia and the Middle East currently lean to the downside. Greece and Saudi Arabia are down more than 1%; Turkey, Kenya, Spain and […]<\/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\/10895"}],"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=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}