{"id":11463,"date":"2018-03-05T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2018-03-05T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:36:27","slug":"before-the-open-mar-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11463","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. Hong Kong, South Korea, India and Singapore each dropped more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> lean to the upside. Germany, Finland, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Czech Republic are doing well; Greece, Italy and Israel are weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point a down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n VIDEO: <\/strong>Long Term Trades for the Market’s Net Leg Up<\/a>
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\n The dollar is up. Bitcoin is up. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver lean up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n VMware (VMW -5.92%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Long-term Buy’ at Hilliard Lyons.<\/span>
\n Monster Beverage (MNST -0.11%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank with a price target of $63.<\/span>
\n Park Hotels (PK -5.82%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Neutral’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $22.<\/span>
\n H&R Block (HRB -1.75%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Northcoast Research.<\/span>
\n Finisar (FNSR +1.91%) was downgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Strong Buy’ at Raymond James.<\/span>
\n Teradata (TDC +2.75%) may open higher this morning after it was upgraded to ‘Market-perform’ from ‘Underperform’ at Bernstein.<\/span>
\n Vornado (VNO +0.14%) said after the market closed Friday that it sees a Q1 charge of 11 cents on New York City property transfer taxes.<\/span>
\n IPG Photonics (IPGP +0.34%) will replace Scripps Networks in the S&P 500 prior to the open of trading on Wednesday, March 7.<\/span>
\n New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT +1.99%) will replace ALLETE in the S&P SmallCap 600 prior to the open of trading on Wednesday, March 7.<\/span>
\n ALLETE (ALE -0.03%) will replace IPG Photonics in the S&P MidCap 400 prior to the open of trading on Wednesday, March 7.<\/span>
\n Clearside Biomedical (CLSD +11.24%) gained nearly 3% in after-hours trading after it said it will release results on Monday before the market opens from its Phase 3 clinical trial of its suprachhoroidal CLS-TA in patients with macular edema.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 9:45 PMI Services Index
\n 10:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Index
\n 12:30 PM TD Ameritrade IMX<\/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 Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down. Hong Kong, South Korea, India and Singapore each dropped more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East lean to the upside. Germany, Finland, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Czech Republic are doing well; Greece, […]<\/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\/11463"}],"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=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}