Shares of Twitter hit a new all time low on February 11th, after reporting Q4 results that for the most part disappointed investors. Since then, shares have rallied roughly 30%. Despite the recent gains, the …
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Shares of Intel (INTC) are down 15% on the year and down about 17.5% from its 52 week high made in the last week of 2015. The stock declined 9% on January 15th following their …
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In general, I don’t highlight changes to Wall Street analyst ratings. That’s mostly due to the irrelevance of these ratings changes. There was a time when a large investment bank could cause major movement in …
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Earlier in my MorningWord (Seeing the Forest For the Trees) I tried to explain why the relative out-performance in defensive stocks and sectors like U.S. telco, utilities, consumer staples and sectors like energy and materials (that …
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Retail earnings for the holiday period have gotten underway in earnest this week, which for the most part were disappointing when you consider Walmart’s (WMT) guide down for the current year and Nordstrom’s (JWN) disaster this morning. …
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Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money we debated two important issues related to the bounce in U.S. equities in the last week. First, after more than a 6% rally in the S&P since last Thursday’s intra-day …
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The emerging market etf, EEM takes the prize for the single largest options trade in the market today. When EEM was trading $30.50, there was a buyer of 215,000 of the March 33 calls, paying …
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Event: Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials (AMAT) reports fiscal Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4.5% one day move tomorrow, which is rich to the 4 qtr one …
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There was a lot of noise made about Walmart’s (WMT) relative out-performance to the S&P 500 (SPX) in 2016. It up about 8% on yesterday’s close vs the SPX down about 6%. The out-performance was …
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There were a couple interesting rolls, one bullish and one bearish that caught my eye today in the options market. First in Twitter (TWTR). The stock has had a pretty healthy run since declining almost …
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