{"id":12471,"date":"2018-12-10T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2018-12-10T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:41:47","slug":"before-the-open-dec-10-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12471","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Dec 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets got hit hard. Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines all suffered big losses. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly down. Hungary is up, but Poland, France, Turkey, Germany, the UAE, Russia, Greece, South Africa, Finland, Norway and Austria are down a bunch. Futures in <strong>States<\/strong> were down big overnight but are now pointing at a positive open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> List of Indexes and ETFs &#8211; <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/etf\/\"> here<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The dollar is up. Oil and copper are down. Gold and silver are down. Bonds are mixed. <\/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;\"> Facebook (FB -1.58%) gained more than 1% in after-hours trading when it announced a new $9 billion stock buyback program.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Papa John&#8217;s (PZZA -1.62%) may see support after an SEC filing released after the close Friday showed founder John Schnatter engaged a financial adviser Nov 30 to &#8220;assist him in reviewing the financial prospects of the company and in assessing alternatives for increasing shareholder value,&#8221; including merger or other corporate transactions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Fluor (FLR -2.17%) won a $145.7 million contract from the U.S. Army for the building of a weapons storage and maintenance facility in Laramie, WY.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Hillenbrand (HI -2.70%) may move higher initially this morning after its board authorized a new $200 million stock buyback program.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 10:00 Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 12:30 PM TD Ameritrade IMX<\/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 Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets got hit hard. Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines all suffered big losses. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly down. Hungary is up, but Poland, France, Turkey, Germany, the [&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\/12471"}],"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=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}