{"id":12039,"date":"2018-07-30T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12039"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:47:58","slug":"before-the-open-jul-30-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12039","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jul 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets leaned to the downside. India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand are up; Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand are down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mixed and little changed. Poland, the UAE and Israel are up. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a flat open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\nThe dollar is down. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver are mixed and little changed. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Colgate-Palmolive (CL -0.42%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Outperform’ at Macquarie with a price target of $65.<\/span>
\n Juniper (JNPR -7.33%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank with a price target of $32.<\/span>
\n Crane (CR -0.18%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at UBS with a price target of $100.<\/span>
\n Ally Financial (ALLY -0.55%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch with a price target of $35.<\/span>
\n Cooper Cos (COO -0.60%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Sector Weight’ at KeyBanc Capital Markets with a price target of $298.<\/span>
\n Helmerich & Payne (HP +1.74%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Stephens with a price target of $85.<\/span>
\n CBS (CBS -6.12%) CEO Leslie Moonves was accused of sexual harassment by several women according to any article in the New Yorker and the CBS Board will meet on the matter on Monday.<\/span>
\n Alphabet (GOOG -2.35%) is reasonably valued, according to a weekend article by Barron\u2019s<\/span>
\n Facebook (FB -0.78%) is a bargain after last week’s plunge, according to a weekend article in Barron\u2019s<\/span>
\n Fiat Chrysler (FCAU +0.96%) may provide a buying opportunity after weak 2Q results and the death of Sergio Marchionne, according to a weekend article by Barron\u2019s<\/span>
\n Papa John\u2019s (PZZA -2.99%) appointed Olivia Kirtley as the new chair of the company\u2019s board of directors<\/span>
\n Sprint’s (S +0.18%) chairman said the company is expanding into 700 Walmart stores with its partnership<\/span>
\n Walmart (WMT -0.11%) is working on potential subscription video streaming service, according to a WSJ report<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 10:00 Pending Home Sales
\n 10:30 Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey
\n 3:00 PM Farm Prices<\/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 Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets leaned to the downside. India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand are up; Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand are down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mixed and little changed. Poland, the UAE and Israel are […]<\/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\/12039"}],"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=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}