{"id":525909,"date":"2010-04-13T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:422372"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:11:00","slug":"trade-deficit-alcoa-energy-stocks-banks-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525909","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficit, Alcoa, energy stocks, banks \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity markets are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 1 point in pre-opening trade. <\/p>\n<p>Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the February U.S. trade deficit report. Consensus was $39.0 billion versus $37.3 billion in January. Actual was $39.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Alcoa slipped 1% after UBS downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral. After the close yesterday, Alcoa reported adjusted first quarter earnings in line with consensus at $0.10 per share. However, revenues were less than consensus. <\/p>\n<p>Selected energy stocks are trading higher this morning following analyst upgrades. Royal Dutch Shell added 1% after UBS upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy. ConocoPhillips gained 1% after Oppenheimer upgraded the stock from Perform to Outperform. Late yesterday ConocoPhillips announced sale of its 9% interest in Syncrude for $4.65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Selected regional bank stocks are slightly lower after UBS downgraded the sector. <\/p>\n<p>Thomson Creek Metals slipped 1% after UBS downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Expedia gained 5% after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to Conviction Buy. Target price is $31.<\/p>\n<p>Harley Davidson eased 2% after Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold.<\/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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=422372\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity markets are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 1 point in pre-opening trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the February U.S. trade deficit report. Consensus was $39.0 billion versus $37.3 billion in January. Actual was $39.7 billion. Alcoa slipped 1% after UBS downgraded the stock from Buy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525909","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\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}