Below are the top 20 members of the SPX by weight. The top 10 make up ~20% of the entire index, while the 11-20 make up ~12%, so a combined ~32%. -With the SPX up …
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KO ($74.05) reports it’s fiscal Q2 earnings before the opening on Apr 17th. The options market isn’t implying much of a move (~1.25%), because generally the stock doesn’t move that much (~1.25% over the last 8 qtrs).
Continue readingUpdate: Overnight AAPL announced that it would report it’s fiscal Q2 earnings on April 24th as estimated by many news sources. I guess the options market had it right, but a good discussion none the …
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CNBC On the economic front, the government will release factory orders for February at 10 a.m. ET. Economists in a Reuters survey expect a gain of 1.5 percent, compared with a January decrease of 1.0 …
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MorningWord: 4/3/12: At this point, most market participants who are waiting and hoping for a re-tracement of a portion of the SPX’s ytd gain of nearly 13% are most likely losing their will. But that …
Continue readingTrade Update Apr 2nd, 2012: The trade below has taken a bit of management, but I think definitely worth the time going through it’s different iterations and why we did what we did. Prior to CSCO‘s …
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AAPL is expected to release their Q2 results in late April. There isn’t a specific date given yet but the options market’s skew seems to be pointing towards a release during the last week of …
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CNBC U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open for Wall Street on Monday as a European manufacturing data showed the slowdown spreading to the core of the euro zone sending European stocks lower. …
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MorningWord: 4/2/12: Here on a fancy Street called Wall we have many odd habits, none sillier than going on and on about things like gdp’s, pmi’s and ism’s. The fumiest thing about those little 3 letter zingers …
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