{"id":10967,"date":"2017-11-13T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2017-11-13T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:50:40","slug":"before-the-open-nov-13-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10967","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the downside. China posted a gain, but Japan, South Korea, India and the Philippines posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly down. Greece, Denmark and Portugal are down more than 1%; France, Poland, Germany, Finland, Norway, Italy, Austria and Sweden are also weak. Hungary is up. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is flat. Oil is up; copper is flat. Gold and silver are up slightly. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n General Electric (GE +2.50%) said it will cut its quarterly dividend by 50% to 12 cents a share from 24 cents a share.<\/span>
\n Equifax (EFX -0.19%) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ at Stifel.<\/span>
\n Time Warner (TWX +4.08%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Rosenblatt Securities with a price target of $103.<\/span>
\n MercadoLibre (MELI +1.67%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Fairly Valued’ at Nau Securities with a price target of $240.<\/span>
\n TD Ameritrade (AMTD +0.99%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank.<\/span>
\n Nvidia (NVDA +5.27%) was upgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Underperform’ at BMO Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Autodesk (ADSK +0.58%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Guggenheim Securities with a price target of $150.<\/span>
\n Exact Sciences (EXAS +2.01%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Outperform’ with a price target of $56.<\/span>
\n JM Smucker (SJM +1.48%) was upgraded to ‘Positive’ from ‘Neutral’ at Susquehanna Financial with a price target of $127.<\/span>
\n Mattel (MAT +4.95%) surged over 20% in pre-market trading after the WSJ reported Hasbro has discussed an acquisition of Mattel. Hasbro (HAS +3.11%) moved up nearly 3% on the news.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 2:00 PM Treasury Budget<\/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 with a lean to the downside. China posted a gain, but Japan, South Korea, India and the Philippines posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly down. Greece, Denmark and Portugal are down more than 1%; France, Poland, […]<\/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\/10967"}],"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=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}