{"id":11991,"date":"2018-07-10T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2018-07-10T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:50:09","slug":"before-the-open-jul-10-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=11991","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jul 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Tuesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly up. Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines did the best; New Zealand and Australia posted losses. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently doing very well. Denmark, Poland, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Finland, Norway, Austria, Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic are leading; Turkey is down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a positive open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->The dollar is up. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are mixed. <\/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;\"> Weight Watchers International (WTW -4.49%) was rated a new &#8216;Overweight&#8217; at KeyBanc Capital Markets with a price target of $115.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> JPMorgan Chase (JPM +3.09%) was upgraded to &#8216;Strong Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Vining Sparks with a price target of $125.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Carnival (CCL +0.68%) fell 2% in pre-market trading after Goldman Sachs cut the company&#8217;s earnings estimates citing &#8220;incremental fuel\/FX headwinds offsetting ongoing demand strength.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Wynn Resorts Ltd (WYNN +2.08%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Hold&#8217; at Stifel with a price target of $207.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Cboe Global Markets (CBOE +2.40%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Compass Point with a price target of $115.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Cerner (CERN +1.19%) was downgraded to &#8216;Underperform&#8217; from &#8216;In-line&#8217; at Evercore ISI with a price target of $55.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Northern Trust (NTRS +2.92%) was upgraded to &#8216;Strong Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Vining Sparks with a price target of $125.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Inspire Medical Systems (INSP -0.38%) jumped 7% in after-hours trading after it said Aetna will provide coverage for its Inspire therapy for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, effective immediately.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Cactus (WHD +4.46%) fell 4% in after-hours trading after it filed to sell 10 million shares of its stock via Citigroup and Credit Suisse.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Southern Co (SO -2.91%) was rated &#8216;Overweight&#8217; at Barclays with a price target of $51.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Capstead Mortgage (CMO -0.32%) was downgraded to &#8216;Market Perform&#8217; from &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Keefe, Bruyette &amp; Woods with a price target of $9.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> American Renal Associates Holdings (ARA +2.61%) gained more than 3% in after-hours trading after it reached a settlement with and will enter into a 3-year network agreement with UnitedHealthcare effective August 1, 2018.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Spero Therapeutics (SPRO +2.96%) fell more than 4% in after-hours trading after it announced that it had commenced an underwritten public offering of 4.5 million shares of its common stock.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> OncoCyte (OCX +3.39%) soared more than 55% in after-hours trading after it reported the company&#8217;s most recent study of clinical samples in the development of its DertermaVu, its lung cancer diagnostic blood test, has produced encouraging results.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 6:00 NFIB Small Business Optimism Index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Labor market condition index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 1:00 PM Results of $33B, 3-Year Note Auction<\/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 Tuesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up. Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines did the best; New Zealand and Australia posted losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently doing very well. Denmark, Poland, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Finland, Norway, Austria, Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic [&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\/11991"}],"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=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}