{"id":11905,"date":"2018-06-14T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11905"},"modified":"2018-06-14T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:37:23","slug":"before-the-open-jun-14-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11905","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jun 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Thursday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines posted the biggest losses. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently split. France, Turkey and Greece are up; South Africa, Russia and the Czech Republic are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> VIDEO: <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E0HXsOLIbw0\">Why You Need to Look at Multiple Time Frames<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The dollar is up. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Oracle (ORCL -0.37%) was downgraded to &#8216;Neutral&#8217; from &#8216;Overweight&#8217; at JPMorgan Chase.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Michaels (MIK +0.87%) may open to the downside this morning after it reported Q1 comparable sales rose +0.4%, weaker than consensus of +0.8%, and then forecast Q2 adjusted EPS of 12 cents to 14 cents, below consensus of 19 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Terex (TEX -1.30%) was downgraded to &#8216;Sell&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Goldman Sachs with a price target of $34.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Capital One Financial (COF -0.27%) was upgraded to &#8216;Overweight&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Piper Jaffray with a price target of $116.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Wyndham Destinations (WYND -0.60%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey with a price target of $69.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Twenty-First Century Fox (FOX +7.48%) rose 1% in after-hours trading after Comcast offered $65 billion for the company.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Mylan NV (MYL -0.45%) fell 4% in after-hours trading after the FDA said it found &#8220;minor deficiencies&#8221; in Mylan&#8217;s application for its generic drug Advair Diskus.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Tailored Brands (TLRD -2.76%) sank more than 20% in after-hours trading after it reported Q1 consolidated gross margins decreased -0.30% to 42.2% and after it forecast full-year adjusted EPS of $2.35 to $2.50, the midpoint well below consensus of $2.49.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Culp (CULP -0.49%) plunged 15% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 adjusted EPS of 37 cents, weaker than consensus of 43 cents, and said it expects Q1 sales to fall about 10% y\/y.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Teligent (TLGT unch) jumped 10% in after-hours trading after the FDA approved Teligent&#8217;s Diflorasone Diacetate ointment 0.05%.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Aqua Metals (AQMS -3.98%) dropped almost 8% in after-hours trading after it announced that it intends to sell $20 million in shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Initial Jobless Claims<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Import\/Export Prices<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Retail Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Business Inventories<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Money Supply<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\/investor\/calendars\/upgrades-downgrades\/\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/earnings\/earnings-calendar.aspx\">Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.econoday.com\/\">Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Thursday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down. Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines posted the biggest losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently split. France, Turkey and Greece are up; South Africa, Russia and the Czech Republic are down. 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