CAPIS Morning Note – 3/31/21: Futures Up Modestly & ADP Rises 517,000

Breaking News: Earnings Out After The Close Of Note: Beats:  HYFM +0.36, CHWY +0.20, LULU +0.09 Flat: BB +0.00 Misses: PHAT (0.65), IGMS (0.05), PHR (0.03), PVH (0.01) Capital Raises: IPOs Priced or News: Achilles Therapeutics priced at $18 a share. New SPACs launched: Secondaries Priced:  HGEN PRQR of note. Notes Priced of note: None of note….

Breaking News:

Earnings Out After The Close Of Note:

Beats:  HYFM +0.36, CHWY +0.20, LULU +0.09

Flat: BB +0.00

Misses: PHAT (0.65), IGMS (0.05), PHR (0.03), PVH (0.01)

Capital Raises:

IPOs Priced or News: Achilles Therapeutics priced at $18 a share.

New SPACs launched:

Secondaries Priced:  HGEN PRQR of note.

Notes Priced of note: None of note.

Common Stock filings: PRQR UDR BOMN 0f note.

Selling Shareholders of note: SKYW QCOM BOMN of note.

Private Placement of Public Entity (PIPE):  

Mixed Shelf Offerings: BOMN NCTY of note.

Convertible Offering & Notes Filed: None of note.

Note Offerings Filed: None of note.

Capital Raise Summary From The TradeXchange ,bringing traders and investors real time news and Squawk Box, and other sources.

News After The Close:

U.S. Silica (SLCA) raises prices on industrial and specialty products.

U.S. states that China committed ethnic cleansing against the Uyghurs.

Bell Textron (TXT) wins $290 million Army contract.

Lockheed Artin (LMT)  wins $280 million Army contract.

Blackberry (BB) sells part of the patent portfolio.

Boeing (BA) gets aircraft purchase from Alaska Air (ALK).

Dividend Raises: 

Split Announcement:

Raises Guidance: 

Lowers Guidance: PVH

Buyback Announcements: 

What’s Happening This Morning: Futures value reflects the change with fair value. We will still indicate the fair value direction.

S&P 500 +6 Dow Jones Industrial Average -12 NASDAQ  +88 Russell 2000 +16  Fair values are mixed. Asia and Europe lower. VIX is at 20.75 this morning in futures. VIX closed at 19.61.

Gold and silver lower with copper higher. WTI Crude Oil higher and Brent Oil Futures lower. Natural Gas is higher. $ is lower vs Euro, lower vs Pound and higher vs Yen. US 10 year Treasury price is at $131.75 from $132.19 with the yield at 1.721%.  Bitcoin $53,323 @ $1260  +2.40%.

Positive Sectors On Tuesday: Consumer Cyclical, Industrials and Financials.

Negative Sectors On Tuesday: Consumer Defensive , Utilities and Energy of note.

One Month Winners: Energy, Financials and Communication Services of note.

Three Month Winners: Materials, Industrials and Financials of note.

Six Month Winners: Energy, Financials and Materials of note.

Twelve Month Winners:  Consumer Cyclical, Technology and Materials of note.

Year to Date: Energy, Communication Services, Financials and Materials of note.

Upcoming Earnings Of: (sorted by market cap, highest to lowest with most visible names)

Today After the Close: MU, VRNT, PLAY, GES, SPWH of note.

Thursday Before the Open: KMX, JKS of note

Earnings This Morning Of Note:

Beats: CONN +0.67, WBA +0.28

Flat: none

Misses: none

Still to Report: AYI

Erlanger Research Advance/Decline Chart/Table –Updated through 3/30.  

Gap Ups & Down In Early Pre-Market:

Gap up: CHWY +9% CLF +8%

Gap down: RMO -13%BB -7%

Economic:

March ADP Employment Index is due out at 8:15 a.m. EDT and is expected to rise to 525,000 from 117,000.

March Chicago PMI is due out at 9:45 a.m. EDT and is expected to rise to 60 from 59.50.

February Pending Home Sales are due out at 10:00 a.m. EDT and is expected to improve to -2.6% from -2.8%.

Weekly Crude Oil inventories are due out at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

Meeting & Conferences of Note:

ARES INSW DSSI (Conference Call)

Sellside Conferences:

Industry Conferences:

M&A Activity