{"id":12228,"date":"2018-09-19T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:39:22","slug":"before-the-open-sep-19-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12228","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with solid gains. Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore all did very well; India and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently little changed. Turkey, Greece and Saudi Arabia are up; South Africa is down. Futures in the States<\/strong> points to a down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n BLOG: <\/strong>MACD \u2013 Everything You Need to Know<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down slightly. Oil is flat; copper is down. Gold and silver are up. Bonds are up.<\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB -1.31%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at JP Morgan Chase with a price target of $95.<\/span>
\n Juniper (JNPR +2.11%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Nomura Instinet with a price target of $34.<\/span>
\n Tilray (TLRY +28.95%) climbed almost 5% in after-hours trading after the company received approval from the DEA to import cannabis into the U.S. for medical research.<\/span>
\n Kaman (KAMN +1.17%) was rated a new ‘Overweight’ at Alembic Global Advisors with a price target of $80.<\/span>
\n Evo Payments (EVOP -1.61%) fell almost 4% in after-hours trading after it announced a proposed underwritten offering of 6.0 million shares of its Class A common stock.<\/span>
\n The oilfield services sector was raised to ‘Attractive’ from ‘In-Line’ at Morgan Stanley with ‘Overweight’ ratings on Baker Hughes a GE Co (BHGE +2.02%) , Halliburton (HAL +1.16%) , Cactus (WHD +3.58%) and Transocean Ltd (RIG +2.93%) .<\/span>
\n ProQR Therapeutics NV (PRQR -6.48%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Evercore ISI with a price target of $35.<\/span>
\n Surface Oncology (SURF +2.54%) rose nearly 3% in after-hours trading after it was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Baird with a price target of $23.<\/span>
\n Internap (INAP -2.67%) was rated a ‘Buy’ at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey with a price target of $22.<\/span>
\n Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO +3.12%) was rated a new ‘Underweight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $15.<\/span>
\n Resolute Forest Products (RFP +0.34%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Outperform’ at CIBC Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Trivago NV (TRVG +5.54%) rallied more than 5% in after-hours trading after PAR Investment Partners reported a 34.5% stake in the company.<\/span>
\n Monday’s Key Earnings<\/strong>
\n FedEx (NYSE:FDX) -2.8% AH following a sharp earnings miss.
\n Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) -4.6% AH on soft Q2 revenue guidance.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
\n 7:00 Housing Starts
\n 7:00 Current Account
\n 10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories<\/span><\/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 Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed with solid gains. Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore all did very well; India and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently little changed. Turkey, Greece and Saudi Arabia are up; South Africa is down. Futures in the States points […]<\/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\/12228"}],"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=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}