{"id":11417,"date":"2018-02-21T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11417"},"modified":"2018-02-21T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:37:26","slug":"11417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11417","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Feb 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly up. Hong Kong and Taiwan rallied more than 2%; South Korea, New Zealand and Singapore did better than 1%. The Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the downside. Turkey is up more than 2%, and Russia and South Africa are also doing well. Poland, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy and Israel are weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a flat open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n Podcast: <\/strong>with Chat With Traders<\/a>
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\n The dollar is up. Bitcoin is down. Oil is down; copper is down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are up.<\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN -2.74%) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ at Canaccord Genuity.<\/span>
\n Mosaic (MOS +5.23%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at JPMorgan Chase.<\/span>
\n Verisk Analytics (VRSK -1.77%) rose 3% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted Ebitda from continuing operations of $275.7 million, above consensus of $272.0 million.<\/span>
\n Texas Roadhouse (TXRH -1.85%) slid almost 4% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $545.1 million, right on consensus.<\/span>
\n Fluor (FLR +0.71%) may move higher this morning when it reported after the close Tuesday that it sees full-year EPS of $3.10 to $3.50, well above consensus of $2.76.<\/span>
\n Boyd Gaming (BYD +0.70%) dropped almost 7% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted EPS of 22 cents, weaker than consensus of 27 cents.<\/span>
\n Aimmune Therapeutics (AIMT -6.02%) fell over 2% in after-hours trading after it announced that it had commenced an underwritten public offering of up to $150 million of shares of its common stock.<\/span>
\n La-Z-Boy (LZB -0.69%) may move higher this morning when it reported after the close Tuesday that its Q3 sales were $413.6 million, better than consensus of $401.3 million.<\/span>
\n Cardtronics PLC (CATM -2.33%) tumbled 10% in after-hours trading after it said it sees 2018 adjusted EPS between $1.35 to $1.55, well below consensus of $2.07.<\/span>
\n Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO -0.32%) gained nearly 3% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 EPS of 85 cents, better than consensus of 75 cents.<\/span>
\n LivePerson (LPSN +5.22%) rallied over 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $57.4 million, better than consensus of $56.5 million, and said it sees Q1 revenue of $56.8 million to $57.8 million, above consensus of $55.5 million.<\/span>
\n Cyberoptics (CYBE +5.61%) climbed 5% in after-hours trading after it reported an unexpected Q4 EPS profit of 7 cents, higher than consensus of a -4 cent loss.<\/span>
\n LendingClub (LC +4.56%) dropped nearly 9% in after-hours trading after it said it sees Q1 net revenue of $145 million to $155 million, weaker than consensus of $161 million.<\/span>
\n Tuesday’s Key Earnings<\/strong>
\n Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) -1.3% with forecasts dented by tax reform.
\n Home Depot (NYSE:HD) flat despite shining comparable sales.
\n Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) -2.1% after profit margins declined.
\n Walmart (NYSE:WMT) -10.2% on slowing e-commerce growth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 1:00 PM Results of $28B, 2-Year Note Auction<\/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 Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up. Hong Kong and Taiwan rallied more than 2%; South Korea, New Zealand and Singapore did better than 1%. The Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the downside. Turkey is up more than 2%, and Russia and South Africa are […]<\/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\/11417"}],"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=11417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}