{"id":2665,"date":"2010-02-10T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:25:51","slug":"before-the-open-feb-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2665","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Feb 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Wednesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed. Europe is currently mixed with an upside bias. Futures here in the States are flat. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yesterday the market gapped up and later went vertical for 50 min when news surfaced from Europe some sort of action would be taken to stem fears Greece would go bankrupt and pull Europe and the rest of the world down. <!--more-->But prices came down off their highs and closed approx. where they opened. Last week&#8217;s massive down day was in reaction to the exact same fears, so it&#8217;s safe to say no matter what the charts look like right now, until the situation in Greece is handled (along with Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal), the normal and natural forces of supply and demand will not be at work. A sudden move up or down can happen with no prior notice. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s the 30-min SPX with two upside levels that may bring some sellers to the market (1080 and 1100). Otherwise the index is range bound between the two most recent high and low. More after the open.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx021010.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">headlines at <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/apf\/archive.html\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.com\/Investor\/Public\/Calendars\/UpgradesDowngrades.htm\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2653\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2655\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\");\npageTracker._initData();\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed. Europe is currently mixed with an upside bias. Futures here in the States are flat. Yesterday the market gapped up and later went vertical for 50 min when news surfaced from Europe some sort of action would be taken to stem fears Greece would go bankrupt [&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\/2665"}],"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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}