{"id":11619,"date":"2018-04-03T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2018-04-03T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:40:26","slug":"before-the-open-apr-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11619","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Apr 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the downside. Hong Kong and India did well; China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the downside. Poland, Kenya, Norway and Hungary are up; France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Israel are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a relatively big gap up open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is down a small amount. Bitcoin is up. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Spotify Technology (SPOT) today is scheduled to hold an alternative IPO where the shares simply start trading publicly withoutthe traditional Wall Street bank managing an IPO process.<\/span>
\n At Tesla (TSLA -5.13%), CEO Elon Musk said he is personally taking charge of the Model 3 production line on order to fix production delays and meet the company’s aggressive production targets.<\/span>
\n Baker Hughes (BHGE) was upgraded to overweight from neutral and the price target was raised to $39 from $35 at Piper.<\/span>
\n Switch (SWCH -0.38%) fell sharply by -10% in after-hours trading after its 2018 Ebitda forecast missed the consensus.<\/span>
\n Viacom (VIAB -1.64%) fell sharply in after-hours trading on a report that CBS is preparing a below-market initial bid.<\/span>
\n Wyndham (WYN -2.92%) received a rating of Outperform in new coverage by Oppenheimer with a price target of $135.<\/span>
\n Monday’s Key Earnings<\/strong>
\n Cancer Genetics (NASDAQ:CGIX) -33.3% AH on Q4 earnings miss.
\n CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) +11% AH on Q4 earnings.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n Auto sales
\n 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<\/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 with a lean to the downside. Hong Kong and India did well; China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the downside. Poland, Kenya, Norway and Hungary are up; France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and […]<\/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\/11619"}],"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=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}