{"id":11623,"date":"2018-04-04T07:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2018-04-04T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:41:50","slug":"before-the-open-apr-4-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11623","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Apr 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> market suffered some big losses. Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand all dropped at least 1%. Europe, African and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly down. Poland, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, South Africa, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Israel, Austria and Sweden are down 1 or 2%. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a huge gap down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is flat. Bitcoin is down. Oil and copper are down. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\n Stock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Boeing (BA +2.60%) is sharply lower in pre-market trading after China said it would slap a 25% tariff on U.S. products including aircraft.<\/span>
\n Dave & Buster’s (PLAY +1.50%) fell 3% in after-hours trading after issuing guidance for fiscal year revenue that was about 2% below the consensus.<\/span>
\n Cloudera’s (CLDR +4.76%) plunged 18% in after-hours trading after its annual revenue forecast was 4% below the consensus.<\/span>
\n Aehr Test Systems (AEHR +1.34%) rallied 15% in after-hours trading on larger-than-expected Q3 revenue and news of a follow-on order.<\/span>
\n Landec’s (LNDC +1.53%) fiscal Q3 EPS report of 58 cents easily beat the consensus of 9 cents.<\/span>
\n Viacom (VIAB -3.70%) fell marginally in after-hours trading after a report that CBS submitted its bid for Viacom, signaling the beginning of deal talks.<\/span>
\n PTC Therapeutics (PTCT +0.58%) fell 4% in after-hours trading after a ratings downgrade from Barclays due to a lack of revenue upside.<\/span>
\n Tuesday’s Key Earnings<\/strong>
\n Cloudera (NYSE:CLDR) -29% AH after Q4 beats, mixed guidance.
\n Dave & Buster’s Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) -6.4% AH on below consensus guidance.
\n Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR) +6.2% AH on Q4 earnings beat.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
\n 8:15 ADP Jobs Report
\n 9:45 PMI Services Index
\n 10:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Index
\n 10:00 Factory Orders
\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 market suffered some big losses. Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand all dropped at least 1%. Europe, African and the Middle East are currently mostly down. Poland, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, South Africa, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Israel, Austria and Sweden are down 1 or […]<\/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\/11623"}],"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=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}