Western Digital (WDC) is up 1% today, a day after acquiring private Flash Storage maker Virident for $685 in cash placing the hard disk drive maker in clear competition with established storage vendors EMC and …
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Event: CSCO reports their fiscal Q3 earnings tonight after the close. The options market is implying a one-day move of ~6.5% vs the 4 quarter average move of ~7% and the 8 quarter average move of ~7.8%. …
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We have gotten a few questions of late on EMC, and frankly it is not a name we have done a lot of work on, or kept a close eye on since I had some …
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BBRY – Call activity was rampant on the afternoon rally after the announcement of the 1m unit Z10 sale to a partner. The weekly 15 and 14 calls traded 26k and 21k, respectively. CSCO – The …
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Event: IBM reports their Q4 earnings this evening after the close. The options market is implying about a 3.3% move vs the 4 qtr avg move of about 4.15%. BLOOMBERG DATA PREVIEW: By Beth …
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MorningWord 1/10/13: Comments from Warren Buffet regarding U.S. banks are getting a bit of play this morning as quotes from a recent Bloomberg News interview clearly reinforce his bullish stance on a sector from which he has received his …
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MorningWord 1/09/13: At RiskReversal, we pride ourselves in giving our readers the straight talk, in fact one of the reasons for the existence of this site is our disdain for the financial double talk that …
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MorningWord 1/08/13: Much like Vegas Bookies do their best to handicap the outcome of ballgames, options traders spend a good bit of their time four times a year (earnings season) focused on making wagers around the market’s perceived implied move …
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MorningWord 1/07/13: AAPL is trading down 1% in the pre-market as Barclays is the latest bulge bracket brokerage firm to lower out quarter estimates and their price target on AAPL despite slightly raising their Dec quarter which …
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MorningWord 1/04/13: The all important and much anticipated December Jobs report is out and……its basically in line to expectations and the unemployment rate remains unchanged, phewwww. The S&P futures don’t really know what to do (down 3 pts …
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