{"id":12478,"date":"2018-11-23T08:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2018-11-23T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:57:48","slug":"before-the-open-nov-23-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12478","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Friday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed with a lean to the downside. Japan, Thailand and the Philippines did well; China, South Korea and India were weak. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> currently lean down. Greece and Saudi Arabia are up; Poland, Russia, South Africa, Norway, Israel and Austria are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a moderate gap down open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong> BLOG: <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;\" href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/business-poker-trading-2\/\">Business, Poker &amp; Trading<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The dollar is up. Oil is getting crushed. Copper is 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;\"> Tocagen (TOCA +2.83%) may open lower initially this morning after it filed to sell $30 million of its common stock via Citigroup.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Rexnord (RXN +0.80%) was rated a new &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Credit Suisse with a price target of $31.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Fox Factory Holding (FOXF +0.66%) was downgraded to &#8216;Neutral&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Bank of America\/Merrill Lynch.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Autodesk (ADSK +9.74%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Hold&#8217; at Argus Research with a price target of $160.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Unifi Inc (UFI +1.35%) may open higher initially this morning after holder ValueAct Holdings LP increased its stake in the company to 6.10% from 5.81%.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> LexinFintech Holdings Ltd (LX +1.15%) rose 2% in after-hours trading after it was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Goldman Sachs with a price target of $14.10.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 9:45 PMI Composite Flash<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><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 Friday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the downside. Japan, Thailand and the Philippines did well; China, South Korea and India were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East currently lean down. Greece and Saudi Arabia are up; Poland, Russia, South Africa, Norway, Israel and Austria are down. Futures in [&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\/12478"}],"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=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}