{"id":11545,"date":"2017-09-19T07:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11545"},"modified":"2017-09-19T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:44:55","slug":"before-the-open-sep-19-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11545","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Tuesday.<\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. Japan gained more than 1%, but China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore posted losses. The Philippines dropped more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are mixed. The UK, Switzerland and Spain are up; Russia, Hungary and Saudi Arabia are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a slightly up open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n45-Minute WEBINAR (today): <\/strong>The Real Keys to Surviving and Making Solid Profits in the Market<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Michael Kors (KORS -0.60%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Oppenheimer with a price target of $55.<\/span>
\n Tesla (TSLA +1.37%) slid over 1% in pre-market trading after it was initiated with an ‘Underperform’ at Jeffries with a price target of $280.<\/span>
\n Nike (NKE -0.69%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Positive’ at Susquehanna.<\/span>
\n Acacia Communications (ACIA +2.57%) was initiated a new ‘Buy’ at MKM Partners with a 12-month price target of $64.<\/span>
\n Walgreens Boots Alliance ({=WBA =}) was initiated a new ‘Outperform’ at RBC Capital Markets with a 12-month price target of $96<\/span>
\n Quintiles IMS Holdings (Q +0.64%) was initiated a new ‘Outperform’ at RBC Capital Markets with a 12-month price target of $116.<\/span>
\n Total System Services (TSS -0.49%) was downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ at Stifel.<\/span>
\n Watts Water (WTS +4.53%) was initiated a new ‘Buy’ at Oppenheimer with a 12-month price target of $72.<\/span>
\n Quality Systems (QSII -0.88%) was initiated a new ‘Underperform’ at RBC Capital Markets with a price target of $12.<\/span>
\n Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN +1.15%) slid almost 5% in after-hours trading after it announced an underwritten public offering of $300 million in shares of its common stock.<\/span>
\n Mirati Therapeutics (MRTX -3.57%) gained almost 1% in after-hours trading after it was initiated a new ‘Outperform’ at Oppenheimer with an 18-month price target of $18.<\/span>
\n Steelcase (SCS +0.70%) rose almost 4% in after-hours trading after it reported Q2 revenue of $775.6 million, better than consensus of $758.3 million.<\/span>
\n Aldeyra Therapeutics (ALDX +2.25%) dropped 12% in after-hours trading after it announced an underwritten public offering of 2.7 million shares of common stock.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n FOMC meeting begins
\n 8:30 Housing Starts
\n 8:30 Current Account
\n 8:30 Import\/Export Prices
\n 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<\/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 Tuesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down. Japan gained more than 1%, but China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore posted losses. The Philippines dropped more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are mixed. The UK, Switzerland and Spain are up; Russia, Hungary and Saudi Arabia are down. Futures in […]<\/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\/11545"}],"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=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}