{"id":12491,"date":"2018-12-11T08:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2018-12-11T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:51:30","slug":"before-the-open-dec-11-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Dec 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Good morning. Happy Tuesday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The <strong>Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mixed. China, India, Taiwan, Australia and the Philippines did well; Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand were weak. <strong>Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly posting solid gains. The UK, Denmark, France, Germany, South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland are up more than 1%; Kenya and the Czech Republic are down. Futures in the <strong>States<\/strong> point towards a relatively big gap up 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\/iOA9VurIKK8\">How the AD Line Progresses at Market Bottoms<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> The dollar is down. Oil and copper are up. Gold and silver are p. 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;\"> Palo Alto Networks (PANW +2.37%) was reinstated with a &#8216;Buy&#8217; rating at Guggenheim Securities with a price target of $256.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> AT&amp;T (T -0.76%) was upgraded to &#8216;Buy&#8217; from &#8216;Neutral&#8217; at Citigroup with a price target of $34.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Eastman Chemical (EMN -0.66%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Stifel with a price target of $95.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> CyberArk Software Ltd. (CYBR +1.62%) was rated a new &#8216;Buy&#8217; at Guggenheim Securities with a price target of $86.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Autoliv (ALV -3.13%) was rated a new &#8216;Overweight&#8217; at KeyBanc Capital Markets with a price target of $105.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Casey&#8217;s General Stores (CASY -1.48%) lost almost 4% in after-hours trading after it reported Q2 same-store grocery sales rose +2.7%, less than consensus of +3.1%.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> NetApp (NTAP +1.93%) was rated a new &#8216;Underperform&#8217; at Cowen with a price target of $53.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Stitch Fix (SFIX -1.48%) dropped 7% in after-hours trading after it forecast Q2 adjusted Ebitda of $8 million to $12 million, weaker than consensus of $12.8 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> CalAmp (CAMP -1.28%) slid 5% in after-hours trading after it cut its Q3 adjusted EPS forecast to 23 cents to 25 cents from a Sep 27 estimate of 29 cents to 35 cents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Quanex Building Products (NX -0.64%) fell 5% in after-hours trading after it reported Q4 net sales of $244.1 million, weaker than consensus of $248 million, and then forecast full-year adjusted Ebitda of $97 million to $107 million, the midpoint below consensus of $106.7 million.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Delphi Technologies Plc (DLPH -3.13%) was rated a new &#8216;Underweight&#8217; at KeyBanc Capital Markets with a price target of $13.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Ra Pharmaceuticals (RARX +7.05%) lost 3% in after-hours trading after it announced that it intends to offer $100 million of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Adient Plc (ADNT -5.19%) was rated a new &#8216;Underweight&#8217; at KeyBanc Capital Markets with a price target of $18.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <strong>Today&#8217;s Economic Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 6:00 NFIB Small Business Optimism Index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:30 Producer Price Index<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> 1:00 PM Results of $38B, 3-Year Note Auction<\/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 Tuesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed. China, India, Taiwan, Australia and the Philippines did well; Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly posting solid gains. The UK, Denmark, France, Germany, South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland [&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\/12491"}],"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=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}