{"id":12176,"date":"2018-09-04T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:58:10","slug":"before-the-open-sep-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12176","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Hope you had a good, long weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets leaned to the upside. China, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Philippines did well; India and Indonesia were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly down. Denmark, Poland, France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Switzerland and Kenya are down more than 1%. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\nBlog: <\/strong>Advice from Warren Buffett<\/a>
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\n The dollar is up. Oil is up $1.50; copper is down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH +1.34%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Buy’ as Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch who lowered their price target on the stock to $81 from $91.<\/span>
\n Signet Jewelers Ltd (SIG -5.14%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Neutral’ at Citigroup with a price target of $52.<\/span>
\n Zumiez (ZUMZ +4.36%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Pivotal Research Group LLC with a price target of $36.<\/span>
\n FifthThird Bancorp (FITB +0.51%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Neutral’ at Wedbush with a price target of $34.<\/span>
\n Albemarle (ALB +0.49%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey with a price target of $115.<\/span>
\n Crispr Therapeutics Files (CRSP +6.00%) fell -1% in after-hours trading on Friday after news that it will offer up to $125 million in new shares.<\/span>
\n Burlington Stores (BURL +1.93%) was rated at Neutral at Goldman with a price target of $179.<\/span>
\n Ross Stores (ROST +0.92%) was rated Neutral at Goldman with a price target of $104.<\/span>
\n Macy’s (M +1.61%) was rated as a Sell at Goldman with a price target of $33<\/span>
\n Kohl’s (KSS +1.06%) was trading as a Buy at Goldman with a price target of $91.<\/span>
\n Nordstrom (JWN +0.96%) was rated as a Buy at Goldman with a price target of $73.<\/span>
\n Dollar Tree (DLTR +0.92%) was downgraded to neutral at JPMorgan with price target of $90.<\/span>
\n Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX +11.96%) rallied 4% in after-hours trading.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 9:45 PMI Manufacturing Index
\n 10:00 ISM Manufacturing Index
\n 10:00 Construction Spending<\/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 Tuesday. Hope you had a good, long weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets leaned to the upside. China, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Philippines did well; India and Indonesia were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly down. Denmark, Poland, France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Switzerland and Kenya are down more […]<\/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\/12176"}],"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=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}