{"id":11963,"date":"2018-06-27T07:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2018-06-27T07:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:39:06","slug":"before-the-open-jun-27-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11963","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jun 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly down. The Philippines did well. China, Hong Kong and India suffered stiff losses, and Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore also did poorly. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly up. The UK, France, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Norway, the Netherlands and Italy are doing well while Poland, the UAE and the Czech Republic are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a slight down 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\/9OZlq48tLJs\">Bull Markets Are Everywhere<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>VIDEO: <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R3Zvhdr2kg8\">Is Market Concentration An Issue<\/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 down. 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;\"> Post Holdings (POST -0.11%) was downgraded to &#8216;Hold&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Vertical Group.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Twilio (TWLO +5.20%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Rosenblatt Securities with a price target of $70.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE +0.24%) jumped 8% in after-hours trading after it reached 5-year agreements with USA Network and Fox Sports for U.S. distribution of its Raw and SmackDown programs<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Aerovironment (AVAV +6.83%) slid more than 6% in after-hours trading after it forecast full-year revenue of $290 million to $310 million, below consensus of $336.8 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Sonic (SONC +1.77%) fell 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 franchise comparable sales fell -0.2%, weaker than expectations of unchanged.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Allegheny Technologies (ATI +1.33%) was rated a new &#8216;Overweight&#8217; at Stephens with a price target of $36.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK +0.18%) lost 1% in after-hours trading after it announced the launch of an underwritten public offering of 4.0 million shares of its common stock by certain selling stockholders.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Crestwood Equity Partners LP (CEQP +2.06%) was downgraded to &#8216;Neutral&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Goldman Sachs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Amicus Therapeutics (@symbolPercentChange((FOLD +0.85%) dropped 6% in after-hours trading after it failed to get CMA application approval for a study of Pompe disease.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK +1.22%) fell nearly 7% in after-hours trading after holder Oaktree Capital Management is said to offer 5 million shares of its Star Bulk Carrier holdings via Morgan Stanley.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> EuroDry (EDRY -3.28%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Noble Capital with a price target of $12.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Durable Goods<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 International trade in goods<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Retail Inventories (Advance)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Wholesale Inventories (Advance)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Pending Home Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 11:00 Randal Quarles Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 11:30 Results of $16B, 2-Year FRN Auction<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 12:15 PM Fed&#8217;s Rosengren Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 1:00 PM Results of $36B, 5-Year Note Auction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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 Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down. The Philippines did well. China, Hong Kong and India suffered stiff losses, and Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore also did poorly. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. The UK, France, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Norway, the Netherlands and Italy are doing well while [&hellip;]<\/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\/11963"}],"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=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}