{"id":517723,"date":"2010-04-06T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:419240"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:18:00","slug":"april-6-markets-loonie-energy-u-s-homes-disney-%e2%80%94-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517723","title":{"rendered":"April 6 markets, loonie, energy, U.S. homes, Disney \u2014 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 5 points in pre-opening trade. Futures are responding to strength in the U.S. Dollar.&nbsp; Commodities priced in U.S. Dollars including gold, silver, copper and crude oil are trading lower. <\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Dollar briefly touched \u201cpar\u201d with the U.S. Dollar early this morning, but was unable to sustain that level when the U.S. Dollar strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>Massey Energy fell 6% following news that an explosion at one of its coal mines killed 25 workers. <\/p>\n<p>JP Morgan and Raymond James launched coverage on the oil services sector. Both gave a favourable rating on Schlumberger and Halliburton. In addition, Raymond James initiated Weatherford with a Strong Buy rating. <\/p>\n<p>Pulte Homes and KB Homes fell 3% after Credit Suisse downgraded several stocks in the U.S. home building industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cree Inc. was initiated with an Outperform rating by JMP Securities.<\/p>\n<p>Disney was upgraded from Hold to Buy by Soleil. Target was raised from $30 to $42. \u2018Tis the season for Disney to move higher!<\/p>\n<p><i>Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free<br \/>\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and<br \/>\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/\" >Don Vialoux&#39;s Web site<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=419240\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 5 points in pre-opening trade. Futures are responding to strength in the U.S. Dollar.&nbsp; Commodities priced in U.S. Dollars including gold, silver, copper and crude oil are trading lower. The Canadian Dollar briefly touched \u201cpar\u201d with the U.S. Dollar early this morning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}