Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed up 10% in 2016, gaining a little more than $60 billion in market capitalization in a year that saw their first year over year decline in earnings and sales since …
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In case you missed it, the Fed speak over the last week, and the Minutes of the the FOMC’s April meeting put to be bed the debate whether or not their June FOMC get together is a “live” …
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Yesterday, we detailed the use of calendars into the ADBE earnings event where you sell the event month options and buy a farther month at a much lower volatility. In doing so you target the …
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Earlier, Dan previewed Adobe’s (ADBE) Q1 earnings due after the bell. Like I did last week with ORCL and ratio spreads versus long stock, I want to use ADBE’s earnings event as an educational look into another …
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This morning we previewed Apple’s (AAPL) earnings due after the bell today. Do read the whole thing, but for now, here were some closing thoughts: So for now, I suspect that at current levels a Q1 …
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This morning’s better than expected January jobs print and the the upward revision to December, coupled with a slight pickup in wages reinforce bullish themes about the pace of the U.S. recovery. This, coupled with the January …
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We’ve received several questions in the past week asking for our thoughts on Google. The company’s developers conference (Google I/O 2014) kicks off today (CNBC’s live blog of the event is here). The options market is …
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Ford and GM have had a disappointing start to 2014, after a strong run in 2013 that had attracted a good amount of attention. Well known investors like Warren Buffett, David Einhorn, and Kyle Bass …
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Ok here is my trade, it is the Punt of All Punts, the Mother of all Punts…….. I think there is a high probability that the company beats Q1 and offers decent guidance and in that case …
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