{"id":12270,"date":"2018-10-01T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2018-10-01T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:49:04","slug":"before-the-open-oct-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12270","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Oct 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed. China and India did well; Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> lean to the upside. Denmark, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria are leading while Kenya, Hungary and Israel lag. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a relatively big gap up 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 BLOG: <\/strong>Stochastic \u2013 Everything You Need to Know<\/a>
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\n The dollar is up a small amount. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Tesla (TSLA -13.90%) jumped 16% in pre-market trading after the company settled a lawsuit brought by the SEC where Tesla will pay a $20 million penalty and CEO Musk will be removed as CEO for at least three years after Musk tweeted that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 a share.<\/span>
\n M&T Bank (MTB -0.64%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from \u2018In-line’ at Evercore ISI with a price target of $185.<\/span>
\n United Parcel Service (UPS +0.02%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at BMO Capital Markets with a price target of $128.<\/span>
\n Entegris (ENTG +0.87%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Deutsche Bank with a price target of $38.<\/span>
\n Biogen (BIIB -0.64%) was rated a new ‘Overweight’ at Cantor Fitzgerald with a price target of $400.<\/span>
\n Chevron (CVX -0.16%) was reinstated with an ‘Outperform’ at Wolfe Research with a price target of $146.<\/span>
\n Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX +1.58%) was rated a new ‘Overweight’ at Cantor Fitzgerald with a price target of $217.<\/span>
\n Intel (INTC +3.07%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Barclays with a price target of $38.<\/span>
\n Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG -2.34%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Oppenheimer with a price target of $400.<\/span>
\n Delph Technologies (DLPH -1.94%) was downgraded to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Neutral’ at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch.<\/span>
\n Gilead Sciences (GILD +0.82%) was rated a new ‘Overweight’ at Cantor Fitzgerald with a price target of $87.<\/span>
\n Tesaro (TSRO +1.56%) was rated a new ‘Overweight’ at Cantor Fitzgerald with a price target of $57.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 8:30 Chicago Fed National Activity Index<\/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. China and India did well; Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East lean to the upside. Denmark, Germany, the UAE, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria are leading while Kenya, Hungary and Israel lag. […]<\/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\/12270"}],"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=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}