{"id":12427,"date":"2018-11-19T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2018-11-19T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:55:21","slug":"before-the-open-nov-19-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12427","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the upside. Japan, China, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines did well; Australia and Singapore were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean to the upside. Denmark, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, Italy and Saudi Arabia are doing the best; Greece is weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n BLOG: <\/strong>Business, Poker & Trading<\/a>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil and copper are down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are mixed. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n PNC Financial Services Group (PNC -0.22%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at BMO Capital Markets with a price target of $139.<\/span>
\n Charles Schwab (SCHW -0.76%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Buy’ at UBS with a price target of $51.<\/span>
\n CarGurus (CARG +0.88%) was rated a new ‘Buy’ at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey with a price target of $49.<\/span>
\n Delta Air Lines (DAL -0.36%) was rated a new ‘Outperform’ at Credit Suisse with a price target of $71.<\/span>
\n Globant (GLOB +0.76%) was rated a new ‘Buy’ at Goldman Sachs with a price target of $65.<\/span>
\n Re\/Max Holdings (RMAX -0.72%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $36.<\/span>
\n Big Lots (BIG -1.31%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at Piper Jaffray with a price target of $53.<\/span>
\n ICU Medical (ICUI -0.60%) may initially open lower this morning after Pfizer, ICU Medical’s largest shareholder, sold its entire stake in the company on Nov 13.<\/span>
\n Novartis (NVS +0.58%) rallied more 2% in after-hours trading after it was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Neutral’ at Goldman Sachs.<\/span>
\n Coty (COTY +4.36%) rose more than 3% in after-hours trading on signs of insider buying after CEO Pierre Laubies bought 2.31 million shares of the company stock on Wednesday.<\/span>
\n Aquestive Therapeutics (AQST +0.30%) dropped almost 6% in after-hours trading after the FDA failed to approve the company’s Tadalafil Oral Film and requested more data from healthy volunteers.<\/span>
\n Cidara Therapeutics (CDTX unch) may initially open lower this morning after it entered into an accord to sell up to $35 million of its common stock.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 9:40 Fed’s Williams Speech
\n 10:00 NAHB Housing Market Index
\n 10:00 E-Commerce Retail Sales
\n 10:45 Fed’s Williams Speech
\n 3:15 PM Fed’s Williams Speech<\/span><\/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 Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the upside. Japan, China, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines did well; Australia and Singapore were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean to the upside. Denmark, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, Italy and Saudi Arabia […]<\/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\/12427"}],"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=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}