Corporate Actions
IPOs on deck for This Week: 5 IPOs for this week
IPOs on deck for Today: Tradeweb Markets (TW) , NGM Pharmaceuticals (NGM), Silk Road Medical (SILK) and Replay Acquisition (RPLAU)of note.
Secondaries on deck: QTT EVOP TCDA AVEO DBVT NSPR PULM of note.
Notes Priced: Tencent (TCEHY) prices $6 billion of notes. INFO.
IPO Filings Announced After The Close: None filed today to go public.
Announcements For Secondary Filings & Financings: AVEO SGMO DBVT common stock offering. files mixed shelf offering. BZUN files convertible offering.
Earnings After The Close
Beat: None of note.
Missed: RECN (0.02), LNDC (0.01).
News After The Close
Options and futures activity at the CBOE Global Markets (CBOE) for March was higher by 16.4% from February to 148.75 million contracts and futures rose 39.6% to 5.34 million.
Bloomberg notes U.S. & China deal would give China until 2025 to meet certain commitments.
Thestreet.com (TST) declares a one time dividend of $1.77 a share or $94.3 million and the Board approves a 1 for 10 reverse split effective 4/26.
Red Robin Gourmet Burger (RRGB) announces retirement of CEO Denny Marie Post. Board Chairman Pattye Moore to serve as Interim CEO.
Enersys (ENS) awarded a $420 million Defense Logistics Agency contract.
Stock Repurchase:
10K Delays:
Hourly Action This Past Week:
The only negative period for the week is 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. EDT.
Courtesy of Quantitative Partners, Inc.
What’s Happening This Morning: Futures on the S&P 500 rose until 10:00 p.m. EDT and have been slipping since. That said , the range is rather narrow, 7 points.
U.S. futures: S&P -2, Dow Jones -2, NDX -16 and Russell 2000 -2 with fair values LOWER HELPING THE OPEN. Asia mixed and Europe lower, click through for details by country.
Gold, silver and copper lower. WTI Crude and Brent Oil Futures higher. Natural Gas is flat. $ is higher vs Euro, higher vs. Pound and lower vs. Yen. US 10 year Treasury price $123.64 from $123.477 with yields higher since Wednesday morning with the yield at 2.503% from 2.517%. Prices as of 8:15 a.m. EDT.
Top Sectors Wednesday: Technology, Services and Financials.
Weakest Sectors Wednesday: Conglomerates, Industrials and Materials.
One Month Winners: Technology, Consumer Goods, Services, Materials and Utilities.
Three Month Winners: Conglomerates, Industrials, Technology and Services.
Six Month Winners: Utilities, Conglomerates and Technology.
Twelve Month Winners: Healthcare, Services, Utilities, Conglomerates and Industrials.
Year to Date: All higher led by Conglomerates, Industrials, Technology, Services, Materials and Consumer Goods.
Upcoming Earnings Of Note (sorted by market cap, highest to lowest)
Today After The Close: DLTH.
Friday Before The Open: GBX.
Earnings This Morning Of Note
Beat Estimates:
Missed Estimates:
Still to Report:
Rags & Mags: Highlighted Stories may be clicked through to the original story.
Top Story: Ethiopian pilots followed protocol which puts more pressure on Boeing (BA). (CNN)
5 Things You Need To Know To Start Your Day. (Bloomberg)
J.P. Morgan’s (JPM) Jamie Dimon sees volatility as a harbinger of things to come. (Bloomberg)
Tesla (TSLA) Q1 deliveries are light and stock is under pressure. (CNBC)
Apple (AAPL) may not be able to roll out 5G phones this year due to relationship with Intel (INTC). (Fast Company)
U.K. Parliament passes bill to delay Brexit. (FT)
Data Points
We are changing the comments on the various moving averages to a table. The only negative moving average now is the Russell’s 200 day moving average.
Yesterday saw 1674 stocks rise and 1187 fall on the NYSE. NASDAQ saw 1810 rise and 1270 fall.
The QPI10 Day Moving Average of Breadth (10DMA) is invested on the open from cash Friday morning 3/22. For a move to cash from buy, the 10DMA needed to have two days in row above +200. We remain with a buy as our 10 day moving average remains above -200.
Courtesy of Quantitative Partners, Inc.
YTD 80% (+3% week over week) of stocks are higher and 20% are lower. Updated 3/29/19 close with next update on 4/5/19 close.
Courtesy of Phil Erlanger Research, Inc.
Algo/HFT Trading Levels:
The Erlanger Value Lines track the intraday range of resistance, pivot and support used by Algo/HFT Traders. Each day we show where we closed within the range. This week has all indexes average resistance to pivot, a good week.
Courtesy of Phil Erlanger Research
The Value Lines may be accessed via Bloomberg. For a free trial if you are a Bloomberg user go to APPS CS:ERLA <GO>
Economic & Related:
Weekly Jobless Claims are due out at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
Weekly Natural Gas Inventories are due out at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Geopolitical
President Trump meets with the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council at 11:30 a.m. EDT and then with the Chinese Vice Premier Liu at 4:30 p.m. EDT.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu begins day two of trade talks.
Conferences & Analyst Meetings
Analyst Meetings/Notable Conference Call: RMD (investor day). SNAP (SNAP Summit). F (Q1 Sales Call). NMR (investor day)
Sellside Conferences: BMO Cannabis Conference. William Blair Late Stage Therapeutics Conference. Deutsche Bank dbAccess Shipping Summit.
Industry Conferences: None of note.
M&A Activity
Snap on Tools (SNA) buys Hawk Industries for $8 million.
Constellation Brands (STZ) to sell 30 brands to E.J. Gallo for $1.7 billion.
Glacier Bancorp (GBCI) to buy Heritage Bancorp for $240.7 million.
Upgrades & Downgrades
Pre-Market Movers:
Winners: REPH +23%, TST +11%, CBLK +7%.
Losers: AVEO -27%, LNDC -15%, RECN -13%, SGMO -8%, TSLA -8%, DBVT -5%,