{"id":11021,"date":"2017-11-30T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:40:54","slug":"before-the-open-nov-30-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11021","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Thursday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/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 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/index.cfm\">LeavittBrothers.com<\/a> or any report at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.net\/\">LeavittBrothers.net<\/a> and get 3 months free. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. Japan and New Zealand moved up, but China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Australia and Indonesia were weak. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are mixed. Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Kenya, Italy, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic are up while the UK, Greece, South Africa, Russia and Hungary are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Boston Scientific (BSX -1.67%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at BTIG LLC with a 12-month target price of $31.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Synopsys (SNPS -3.37%) jumped 9% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted EPS of 69 cents, above consensus of 57 cents, and then said it sees Q1 adjusted EPS of 98 cents to $1.02, better than consensus of 84 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Jack in the Box (JACK -0.22%) dropped nearly 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted operating EPS of 73 cents, well below consensus of 89 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> PVH Corp. (PVH -0.31%) slid 2% in after-hours trading after it said it sees Q4 adjusted EPS of $1.42 to $1.44, below consensus of $1.46.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Guidewire Software (GWRE -5.58%) fell 5% in after-hours trading after it said it sees Q2 adjusted EPS of 17 cents to 21 cents, weaker than consensus of 24 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Semtech (SMTC -5.68%) dropped 11% in after-hours trading after it said it sees Q4 adjusted EPS of 40 cents to 42 cents, below consensus of 47 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Juniper Networks (JNPR +5.04%) surged over 15% in after-hours trading after CNBC reported that Nokia is in talks to buy Juniper in a deal valued around $16 billion.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> At Home Group (HOME +5.84%) climbed over 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 adjusted proforma of 7 cents, above consensus of 4 cents, and then said it sees full-year adjusted proforma of 77 cents to 79 cents, higher than consensus of 75 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> La-Z-Boy (LZB +1.03%) slid 3% in after-hours trading after it reported Q2 operating margin of 8.7% versus 9.0% y\/y.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Box Inc. (BOX -3.73%) lost nearly 6% in after-hours trading after it said it sees full-year revenue of $505 million to $506 million, the mid-point below consensus of $505.6 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Tilly&#8217;s (TLYS -0.38%) jumped almost 8% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 EPS of 30 cents, better than consensus of 21 cents, and then said it sees Q4 EPS of 22 cents to 26 cents, the mid-point above consensus of 23 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> TherapeuticsMD (TXMD +0.83%) rose 4% in after-hours trading after it resubmitted its application of NDA for TX-004hr with the FDA for the treatment of vaginal pain.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Limelight Networks (LLNW -6.30%) fell over 7% in after-hours trading after it announced the launch of an underwritten public offering of 10 million shares of its common stock by certain selling stockholders.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Wednesday&#8217;s Key Earnings<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Box (NYSE:BOX) -5.3% AH hit by a widening loss in Q3.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Workday (NYSE:WDAY) -5.2% AH despite adding subscribers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Initial Jobless Claims<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Personal Income and Outlays<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Fed&#8217;s Mester speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 9:45 Chicago PMI<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 3:00 Farm Prices<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Money Supply<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet<\/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 Thursday. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Cyber Week Special&#8230; Buy an annual subscription to LeavittBrothers.com or any report at LeavittBrothers.net and get 3 months free. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/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\/11021"}],"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=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}