{"id":11503,"date":"2018-03-14T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:54:24","slug":"before-the-open-mar-14-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11503","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. Japan, China, New Zealand, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines all posted moderate-to-big losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mixed. Switzerland, Kenya and Sweden are up the most; Greece, Russia and South Africa are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is flat. Bitcoin is down. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are flat. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Caleres (CAL +2.43%) jumped over 10% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 net sales of $702.5 million, better than consensus of $695.8 million.<\/span>
\n Ford Motor (F -0.28%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Underweight’ at Morgan Stanley.<\/span>
\n RH (RH -0.67%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Raymond James with a price target of $95.<\/span>
\n Sunoco (SUN unch) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Neutral’ at Goldman Sachs.<\/span>
\n B&G Foods (BGS +1.52%) authorized a $50 million stock buyback program.<\/span>
\n Tyler Technologies (TYL +0.42%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Baird with a price target of $240.<\/span>
\n Lockheed Martin (LMT +0.11%) received a $1.46 billion contract from the Department of Defense for modification of 145 F-35 Lightning II air systems.<\/span>
\n Golden Entertainment (GDEN +1.83%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Telsey Advisory Group with A price target OF $32.<\/span>
\n MongoDB (MDB -4.15%) rose 4% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted gross margin of 73%, higher than consensus of 71.6%<\/span>
\n Patterson Cos (PDCO -1.28%) authorized a new $500 million share buyback program.<\/span>
\n First Hawaiian (FHB -0.59%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods with a price target of $34.<\/span>
\n Heritage Commerce (HTBK +0.84%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods with a price target of $19.<\/span>
\n RadNet (RDNT +2.02%) was rated a ‘Strong Buy’ at Raymond James with a price target of $15.<\/span>
\n Aratana Therapeutics (PETX +0.23%) gained almost 2% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $10.5 million, better than consensus of $6.8 million.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
\n 8:30 Producer Price Index
\n 8:30 Retail Sales
\n 10:00 Atlanta Fed’s Business Inflation Expectations
\n 10:00 Business Inventories
\n 10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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 Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down. Japan, China, New Zealand, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines all posted moderate-to-big losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mixed. Switzerland, Kenya and Sweden are up the most; Greece, Russia and South Africa are down. Futures in the States point towards […]<\/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\/11503"}],"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=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}