{"id":12214,"date":"2018-09-17T07:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2018-09-17T07:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:43:51","slug":"before-the-open-sep-17-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12214","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets leaned to the downside. Japan and Malaysia did well; China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia and India were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the downside. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Israel and Saudi Arabia are up while Denmark, Poland, Turkey, the UAE, South Africa, Switzerland and Hungary are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n BLOG: <\/strong>RSI \u2013 Everything You Need to Know<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Sensata Technologies Holding PLC (ST +1.31%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $47.<\/span>
\n Hormel Foods (HRL -0.66%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at BMO Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Wells Fargo (WFC -0.49%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Edward Jones.<\/span>
\n Broadcom (AVGO +0.39%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Nomura with a price target of $300.<\/span>
\n Lululemon Athletica (LULU -0.58%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Wells Fargo Securities with a price target of $200.<\/span>
\n Malibu Boats (MBUU +1.55%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at B Riley FBR with a price target of $60.<\/span>
\n American Express (AXP +0.83%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Stephens<\/span>
\n Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO -0.83%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at Goldman Sachs.<\/span>
\n Aramark (ARMK +0.50%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Bernstein with a price target of $52.<\/span>
\n UnitedHealth (UNH -0.07%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Cowen with a price target of $308.<\/span>
\n Bovie Medical (BVX +11.73%) rose 3% in after-hours trading as it extended Friday’s 12% rally after it was rated a new ‘Buy’ at Dougherty & Company LLC.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 8:30 Empire State Mfg Survey<\/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. Japan and Malaysia did well; China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia and India were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the downside. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Israel and Saudi Arabia are up while Denmark, Poland, […]<\/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\/12214"}],"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=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}