{"id":11539,"date":"2018-03-19T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2018-03-19T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:36:32","slug":"before-the-open-mar-19-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets leaned to the downside. Japan, South Korea, India and Thailand closed down the most. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean down too. Turkey and Hungary are down more than 1%; the UK, Poland, Germany, Israel and Sweden are also weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n VIDEO: <\/strong>State of the Market<\/a>
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\nThe dollar is down. Bitcoin is up. Oil and copper are down. Gold and silver are flat. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Tesla (TSLA -1.31%) slid nearly 2% in pre-market trading after Goldman Sachs said the company’s Model 3 deliveries will fall “well short” of consensus expectations<\/span>
\n GrubHub (GRUB -0.32%) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ at Stifel.<\/span>
\n Zoetis (ZTS -0.11%) was downgraded to ‘Equal-Weight’ from ‘Overweight’ at Morgan Stanley.<\/span>
\n Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC (JAZZ +3.62%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $183.<\/span>
\n Amdocs Ltd (DOX +0.50%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Jeffries.<\/span>
\n Newell Brands (NWL -0.80%) gained over 2% in after-hours trading after activist investor Carl Icahn reported a 6.86% stake in the company.<\/span>
\n A10 Networks (ATEN +0.46%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at D.A. Davidson & Co.<\/span>
\n Nobility Homes (NOBH -17.35%) may move higher this morning after Gamco Investors reported a 12.68% stake in the company.<\/span>
\n Liberty Media (FWONA -0.39%) may move higher this morning after Gamco Investors reported a 10.96% stake in the company.<\/span>
\n Moneygram International (MGI -5.08%) may move higher this morning after it reported Q4 revenue of $408.2 million, better than consensus of $303.8 million.<\/span>
\n Geron (GERN -3.16%) slid 3% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 revenue of $0.19 million, weaker than consensus of $0.41 million.<\/span>
\n Thursday’s Key Earnings<\/strong>
\n Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) +3.8% AH on strong subscriber growth.
\n Broadcom (AVGO) -1.8% AH despite FQ1 beat, Brocade buy.
\n Dollar General (NYSE:DG) +4.8% posting a solid holiday quarter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n none<\/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 leaned to the downside. Japan, South Korea, India and Thailand closed down the most. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean down too. Turkey and Hungary are down more than 1%; the UK, Poland, Germany, Israel and Sweden are also weak. […]<\/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\/11539"}],"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=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}