{"id":11017,"date":"2017-11-29T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2017-11-29T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:40:39","slug":"before-the-open-nov-29-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11017","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed and little changed. Japan and Australia moved up; Hong Kong and the Philippines moved down. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the upside. Greece is up 2%; Kenya, Spain and Portugal are up more than 1%; France, Germany, South Africa, Finland and Italy are also doing well. Russia is down 1%; the UK, Poland and Hungary are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a positive open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->The dollar is up. Oil and copper are down.  Gold and silver are down. Bonds are down. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cyber Week Special&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Buy an annual subscription and get 3 free months. Email me at jason@leavittbrothers.com and I&#8217;ll take care of everything. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 GDP Q3<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Corporate profits<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Fed&#8217;s Dudley: \u201cProspects for the National and Regional Economy\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Pending Home Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Yellen testify before Congressional Joint Economic Committee<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 1:50 PM Fed&#8217;s Williams Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 2:00 PM Fed&#8217;s Beige Book<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\/investor\/calendars\/upgrades-downgrades\/\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/earnings\/earnings-calendar.aspx\">Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.econoday.com\/\">Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed and little changed. Japan and Australia moved up; Hong Kong and the Philippines moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the upside. Greece is up 2%; Kenya, Spain and Portugal are up more than 1%; France, Germany, South Africa, Finland and Italy [&hellip;]<\/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\/11017"}],"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=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}