{"id":12450,"date":"2018-11-29T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12450"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:49:02","slug":"before-the-open-nov-29-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12450","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Thursday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets leaned to the upside. India, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia led while China and Hong Kong lagged. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly up. The UK, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden and Saudi Arabia are doing well; the UAE and South Africa are weak. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a gap down open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> VIDEO: <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ft4MuxdMG9Q\">Do The Indicators Suggest the Market Has Bottomed<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The dollar is down slightly. Oil is up; copper is down. Gold is up; silver is down. Bonds are up. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Ellie Mae (ELLI +2.31%) was rated a new &#8216;Negative&#8217; at Susquehanna Financial with a price target of $53.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Booking Holdings (BKNG +2.46%) was rated a new &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Telsey Advisory Group with a price target of $2,100.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Veeva Systems (VEEV +8.91%) climbed more than 6% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 adjusted EPS of 45 cents, above consensus of 38 cents, and then forecast full-year adjusted EPS of $1.58, higher than consensus of $1.48.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Atmos Energy (ATO -0.80%) lost more than 2% in after-hours trading after it announced that it plans to make a public offering of $650 million of shares of its common stock.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Pluralsight (PS +9.22%) was rated a new &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Baird with a price target of $28.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Match Group (MTCH +4.94%) was rated a new &#8216;Outperform&#8217; at Macquarie with a price target of $52.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> La-Z-Boy (LZB +3.59%) rallied 9% in after-hours trading after it reported Q2 sales of $439.3 million, better than consensus of $434.3 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Williams Cos (WMB +1.40%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Mizuho Securities USA with a price target of $32.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Guess? (GES +1.86%) dropped 8% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 adjusted EPS of 13 cents, weaker than consensus of 16 cents, and then forecast full-year adjusted EPS of 96 cents to $1.03, the midpoint below consensus of $1.02.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Tilly&#8217;s (TLYS +2.07%) slumped more than 13% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 net sales of $146.8 million, weaker than consensus of $149.7 million, and then forecast Q4 EPS of 22 cents to 26 cents, below consensus of 27 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Box Inc (BOX +4.48%) gained 2% in after-hours trading after it reported Q3 revenue of $155.9 million, higher than consensus of $154.8 million, and then forecast full-year revenue of $608.2 million to $609.2 million, above consensus of $607.5 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Noodles &amp; Co (NDLS +1.42%) fell nearly 3% in after-hours trading after it announced a secondary underwritten public offering of 5.58 million shares of its common stock via Morgan Stanley.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Falcon Minerals (FLMN +1.86%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Citigroup with a price target of $11.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> ShiftPixy (PIXY +1.84%) jumped 10% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 gross billing more than doubled to $73.4 million from $33.1 million y\/y and rose +21.9% from Q3.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Wednesday&#8217;s Key Earnings<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Box (NYSE:BOX) +6.8% AH topping expectations.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) +2.6% on improving margins.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> J.M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) -7.2% lowering profit guidance.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Tiffany &amp; Co (NYSE:TIF) -11.8% after a same-store sales miss.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Initial Jobless Claims<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Personal Income and Outlays<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Pending Home Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 2:00 PM Fed&#8217;s Mester Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 2:00 PM Fed&#8217;s Evans Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 2:00 PM FOMC minutes<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 1:00 PM Fed&#8217;s Kaplan Speech<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 3:00 Farm Prices<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Money Supply<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\/investor\/calendars\/upgrades-downgrades\/\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/earnings\/earnings-calendar.aspx\">Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.econoday.com\/\">Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Thursday. The Asian\/Pacific markets leaned to the upside. India, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia led while China and Hong Kong lagged. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. The UK, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden and Saudi Arabia are doing well; the UAE and South Africa are [&hellip;]<\/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\/12450"}],"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=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}