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Retail stocks have been a big story in the market and on RiskReversal over the past year. We’ve written a lot about the challenges brick and mortar retailers face in the age of Amazon. And …

CC just alerted me to this Tweet: Fed agents and IRS agents outside @CaterpillarInc world HQ. Some type of an operation. Wearing flak jackets; police jackets @pjstarpic.twitter.com/XQNm7lIyOX — Andy Kravetz (@andykravetz) March 2, 2017 Here …

It’s been a weird couple of weeks for shares of Kraft Heinz (KHC). The stock closed down 4.2% on Feb 16th, the day following fiscal Q4 results that on the surface appeared good, but as …

Event: Pepsico (PEP) is scheduled to report fQ4 results tomorrow morning before the open. The options market is implying a one day post earnings move of about 1.7%, which is rich to the average one day …

Is There Enough Economic Growth to Push Stock Prices Higher? For stock to continue to rise, we think the economy needs to accelerate to drive earnings growth and/or interest rates need to fall. Since we …

Humana (HUM) will report Q4 results tomorrow before the open, the options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is rich to its 4 quarter one day post earnings move of 1.25% …

Shares of Twitter (TWTR) are actually up on the year, basically inline with the Nasdaq’s 5% gains. That has not been a common occurrence since the stock IPO’d in late 2014. Aside from the goofiness in …

Later this week, two of the largest, and sometimes most controversial stocks in the entire stock market, Amazon and Facebook, report Q4 earnings (FB tomorrow, AMZN Thursday). The two companies have a combined market capitalization …