{"id":11013,"date":"2017-11-28T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:41:23","slug":"before-the-open-nov-28-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11013","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Tuesday.<\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the downside but little changed. China, South Korea and Thailand moved up; Japan, India, New Zealand, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the upside. The UK, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Israel, Sweden and the Netherlands are up; Turkey and Hungary are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a positive open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is up. Oil and copper are down. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are flat. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Home Depot (HD +1.06%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at Atlantic Equities LLP with a price target of $197.<\/span>
\n Lowe’s (LOW +0.74%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Overweight’ at Atlantic Equities LLP.<\/span>
\n Hormel Foods (HRL -0.67%) may move higher this morning after it raised guidance for full-year 2018 EPS to $1.62 to $1.72 from a prior view of $1.60 to $1.70.<\/span>
\n Tech Data (TECD +0.85%) climbed almost 5% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 adjusted EPS of $2.00, stronger than consensus of $1.92, and then said it sees Q4 adjusted EPS of $3.35 to $3.65, higher than consensus of $3.32.<\/span>
\n UnitedHealth Group (UNH -0.05%) slid 1% in after-hours trading after it said it sees 2018 adjusted EPS of $10.55 to $10.85, the mid-point below consensus of $10.82.<\/span>
\n Thor Industries (THO -0.60%) rallied over 10% in after-hours trading after it reported Q1 EPS from continuing operations of $2.43, well above consensus of $1.86.<\/span>
\n MTS Systems (MTSC +0.36%) rose 1% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted EPS of 44 cents, higher than consensus of 35 cents.<\/span>
\n Medpace Holdings (MEDP -1.20%) lost nearly 2% in after-hours trading after it announced a proposed secondary offering of 4.0 million shares of its common stock by investment funds affiliated with Cinven Capital Management General Partner Limited.<\/span>
\n Dova Pharmaceuticals (DOVA -0.45%) gained over 1% in after-hours trading after its new drug application for avatrombopag was granted priority review by the FDA.<\/span>
\n Venator Materials PLC (VNTR -0.52%) slid over 1% in after-hours trading after it launched a secondary public offering of 18 million shares of its common stock by holder Huntsman Corporation.<\/span>
\n Aratana Therapeutics (PETX +2.99%) fell over 7% in after-hours trading after it announced that it had commenced an underwritten registered public offering of $35 million in shares of its common stock.<\/span>
\n Ardmore Shipping (ASC -1.12%) dropped 8% in after-hours trading after it announced a proposed secondary offering of 5.58 million shares of its common stock by holder GA Holdings LLC.<\/span>
\n Apollo Endosurgery (APEN -0.25%) surged over 20% in after-hours trading after it received FDA approval for its OverStitch Sx endoscopic suturing system.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 8:30 International trade in goods
\n 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales
\n 9:00 FHFA House Price Index
\n 9:00 S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index
\n 9:15 Fed’s Dudley: \u201cEvolving Structure of the U.S. Treasury Market\u201d
\n 10:00 Consumer Confidence
\n 10:00 Richmond Fed Mfg.
\n 10:00 State Street Investor Confidence Index
\n 10:00 Fed’s Powell speech
\n 1:00 PM Results of $28B, 7-Year Note Auction
\n 2:00 PM Gallup US ECI<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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 Tuesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the downside but little changed. China, South Korea and Thailand moved up; Japan, India, New Zealand, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the upside. The UK, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Israel, Sweden […]<\/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\/11013"}],"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=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}