{"id":12535,"date":"2019-01-02T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2019-01-02T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:46:38","slug":"before-the-open-jan-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=12535","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jan 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. Happy New Year. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets are mostly down. China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Australia and Malaysia are each down more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly down. Denmark and Hungary are up while the UK, France, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Israel and Sweden are down. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a big gap down open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n List of Indexes and ETFs – <\/strong> here<\/a>
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\n The dollar is up. Oil and copper are down. Gold is up; silver is down. Bonds are up. <\/span>
\n Overnight Stock Movers<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Boeing (BA -0.24%) was awarded a $400 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for B-1 and B-2 bomber engineering services.<\/span>
\n iStar Financial (STAR +0.33%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at JMP Securities with a price target of $11.50.<\/span>
\n CRIPR Therapeutics AG (CRSP +1.29%) rose almost 3% on after-hours trading after Vertex, the company’s second-largest shareholder, raised its stake in the company to 10.4%.<\/span>
\n Ocular Therapeutics (OCUL +6.72%) may initially open lower this morning after it filed a $200 million mixed securities shelf.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales
\n 9:45 PMI Manufacturing Index<\/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 Wednesday. Happy New Year. The Asian\/Pacific markets are mostly down. China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Australia and Malaysia are each down more than 1%. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly down. Denmark and Hungary are up while the UK, France, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands, […]<\/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\/12535"}],"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=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}