{"id":12237,"date":"2018-09-24T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:48:30","slug":"before-the-open-sep-24-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12237","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed with big movers in both directions. Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan moved up while Hong Kong, India and Indonesia moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mixed. Poland, South Africa, Norway and Israel are up; Greece, Kenya, Spain and Italy are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards 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 BLOG: <\/strong>RSI \u2013 Everything You Need to Know<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil is up; copper is flat. Gold is up; silver is down. Bonds are down.<\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Nike (NKE +0.21%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Outperform’ at MainFirst Bank AG with a price target of $80.<\/span>
\n Chuy’s Holdings (CHUY -2.33%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at BMO Capital Markets with a price target of $23.<\/span>
\n Praxair (PX +0.17%) was rated a new ‘Underperform’ at Bernstein with a price target of $132.<\/span>
\n Darden Restaurants (DRI -3.06%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at BMO Capital Markets with a price target of $96.<\/span>
\n Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG +0.32%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at B Riley FBR with a price target of $60.<\/span>
\n Applied Genetic Technologies (AGTC unch) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Wells Fargo Securities with a price target of $20.<\/span>
\n Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA -0.36%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Stifel with a price target of $28.<\/span>
\n Texas Roadhouse (TXRH -0.77%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at BMO Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Caesars Entertainment (CZR -1.37%) was rated a new ‘Sell’ at UBS with a price target of $9.<\/span>
\n Generac (GNRC -0.09%) may move higher initially this morning after its board announced after the close of trading Friday that it had authorized a $250 million stock buyback program.<\/span>
\n Harris Corp (HRS +1.00%) won a 7-year contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency valued at up to $255.4 million for B-52 and C-130 Special Operation Forces aircraft parts.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 8:30 Chicago Fed National Activity Index
\n 10:30 Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey
\n 1:00 PM Results of $37B, 2-Year Note Auction<\/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 closed mixed with big movers in both directions. Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan moved up while Hong Kong, India and Indonesia moved down. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mixed. Poland, South Africa, Norway and Israel are up; Greece, […]<\/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\/12237"}],"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=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}