{"id":11005,"date":"2017-11-24T08:43:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:43:26","slug":"before-the-open-nov-24-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11005","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Friday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly up. Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore did the best; Thailand was weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly up. France, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Russia, Israel, Austria, Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic are leading; Poland is weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Johnson & Johnson (JNJ -0.76%) may move higher this morning after China announced that it will remove the tariff on diapers and some baby formula imports as of Dec 1.<\/span>
\n Bank of America (BAC -0.26%) was raised to A- from BBB+ by S&P with a stable outlook.<\/span>
\n Marriott International (MAR -0.96%) was reinstated with a ‘Buy’ at Canaccord Genuity.<\/span>
\n Kosmos Energy (KOS +1.52%) was initiated with an ‘Outperform’ at Exane BNP Paribas.<\/span>
\n Frontline Ltd (FRO -2.39%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Hold’ at ABG Sundal Collier.<\/span>
\n Vipshop Holdings ADRs ({=VIPS =}) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘buy’ at ICBC Research.<\/span>
\n SandRidge (SD +5.29%) climbed over 5% in after-hours trading after DJ reported that Carl Icahn bought a 13% stake in the company.<\/span>
\n DaVita (DVA +0.40%) gained over 2% in after-hours trading after Reuters reported the company is exploring the sale of its physician network business for as much as $4 billion.<\/span>
\n Variety reported that 21st Century Fox (FOXA -0.87%) is continuing to engage in preliminary discussions with Comcast, Disney and other potential suitors for the sale of some of its assets.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 9:45 PMI Composite Flash
\n 4:30 PM Money Supply
\n 4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet<\/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 Friday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up. Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore did the best; Thailand was weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. France, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Russia, Israel, Austria, Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic are leading; Poland 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\/11005"}],"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=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}