{"id":11467,"date":"2018-03-06T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2018-03-06T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:38:50","slug":"before-the-open-mar-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11467","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Tuesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly up. Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Austria and Singapore all did very well; India and Indonesia were weak. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly up. Germany, Greece, South Africa, Norway, Hungary, Sweden, Austria and the Czech Republic are up more than 1%. 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;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> VIDEO: <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y64GCpz0jxc\">Long Term Trades for the Market&#8217;s Net Leg Up<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The dollar is down. Bitcoin is down. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are down. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM +1.23%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Citigroup with a price target of $49.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Bunge (BG +3.75%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Hold&#8217; at Citigroup with a price target of $89.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Target (TGT -0.01%) fell over 1% in pre-market trading after it reported Q4 adjusted EPS of $1.37, below consensus of $1.38.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Domino&#8217;s Pizza (DPZ -1.56%) was rated new &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Baird with a price target of $260.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Analogic (ALOG -0.12%) rose nearly 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q2 adjusted EPS of $1.27, well above consensus of 69 cents,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Nordstrom (JWN -2.15%) fell 2% in after-hour trading after its board rejected a $50 a share offer from the Nordstrom Family Group.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> G1 Therapeutics (GTHX +4.98%) lost more than 1% in after-hours trading after it announced that it had commenced an underwritten public offering of 3.0 million shares of its common stock.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Quidel (QDEL -1.26%) gained 5% in after-hours trading after it received FDA clearance to market its Sofia Lyme FIA to be used with the Sofia 2 Fluorescent Immunoassay to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Glycomimentrics (GLYC -5.90%) plunged 18% in after-hours trading when it announced it will launch its Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate its GMI-1271 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Freshpet (FRPT +1.58%) dropped 12% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 net sales of $40.7 million, weaker than consensus of $41.1 million, and said it sees 2018 adjusted Ebitda greater than $20 million, below consensus of $22.3 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Nautilus (NLS +0.40%) slid nearly 7% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $127.8 million, weaker than consensus of $128.6 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Syndax Pharmaceuticals (SNDX +0.71%) fell over 8% in after-hours trading after it reported a Q4 loss of -80 cents a share, wider than consensus of -77 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Fate Therapeutics (FATE +3.77%) dropped 5% in after-hours trading after it reported a Q4 loss of -29 cents a share, wider than consensus of -25 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Aduro Biotech (ADRO +4.65%) climbed nearly 6% in after-hours trading after it received a $3 million development milestone payment from Merck for initiating a Phase 1 clinical trial of it santi-CD27 antibody.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Tintri (TNTR +1.79%) jumped over 13% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $28.9 million, better than consensus of $26.3 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Factory Orders<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 7:00 PM Fed&#8217;s Reserve Gov. 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Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Austria and Singapore all did very well; India and Indonesia were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. Germany, Greece, South Africa, Norway, Hungary, Sweden, Austria and the Czech Republic are up more than [&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\/11467"}],"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=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}