{"id":2754,"date":"2010-03-03T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2010-03-03T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:22:50","slug":"before-the-open-mar-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Wednesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The small caps continue to lead the market higher. Here&#8217;s the Russell 2000 daily. It&#8217;s the only index to have completely recaptured its Jan and early Feb losses.<!--more--><\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/rut030310-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Backing up, current resistance at 650 was support in mid 2008, so the level is significant. If it&#8217;s taken out, the next stop is 700 &#8211; a whole number plus it was support in Sept 08.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/rut030310-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Backing up one more time, here&#8217;s the monthly. Things only get tougher here &#8211; big block of potential resistance just overhead. How many investors out there have been waiting to get out even?<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/rut030310-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Nas is doing well&#8230;the S&amp;P and Dow are lagging because the banks are lagging. Also some tech stocks (INTC, MSFT, IBM, HPQ) were noticeably weak yesterday. Something has to give. More after the open.<\/span><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=2735\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2737\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.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[\n  var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The small caps continue to lead the market higher. Here&#8217;s the Russell 2000 daily. It&#8217;s the only index to have completely recaptured its Jan and early Feb losses.<\/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\/2754"}],"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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}