Earlier this week GM announced their Sept sales that were far worse than expected, and showed relative weakness to the better than expected results by F and Chrysler. Almost a month ago I bought …
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Monthly auto sales figures were released yesterday, and the two long-time stalwarts in the American car market went in totally opposite directions. Monthly sales figures vs. September 2012: Ford: +5.8% Chrysler: +0.7% GM: -11% September …
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Single stock options volumes were quite low yesterday despite the intraday volatility. FB – Call to put ratio once again above 2, at 2.5 by the close (has averaged 2.3 for the past month). Oct19th 52.5 …
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MorningWord 9/30/13: We have spent a good bit of time in 2013 writing and talking about the phenomena that has centered around TSLA, its Founder/CEO and the company’s product. After growing up in this …
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Last Friday, on CNBC’s Options Action, my friend Carter Worth from Oppenheimer made the case why Auto stocks could follow the year to date under-performance of homebuilder stocks, specifically he focused on F, and made …
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Q2 earnings season as a whole was a fairly mixed bag, with the latter part marred by downbeat results and visibility from consumer facing companies like ANF, COH, RL, M, TGT & PNRA, which caused …
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General Motors is one of the better earnings reports to read given their far-reaching global operations. Sales for GM are about 60% in North America, 15% in Europe, 15% in emerging markets (mostly China), and …
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AAPL Fiscal Q2 Earnings Preview Event: AAPL reports Q2 earning tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 7%*which is inline to the 4 qtr average move of about 7%. * the Apil …
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Low volumes in both stock and options today, so fewer standout trades as well. MSFT – Stock was up 3.5% on its largest volume since Jan 2012. A lot of May call buying, led by the …
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally remarked yesterday in a Bloomberg TV interview about his concern regarding the recent depreciation of the Japanese Yen. I’ve been watching Ford’s stock, considering a long entry for some time, but …
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