In my MorningWord earlier (Vol Around the World) I highlighted the potential for the growing global uneasiness to weigh on U.S. multi-nationals earnings at a time where it seems that the global economy is on fragile …
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There are a couple large options trades in the oil patch that caught our eye. Both trades suggest that oil prices could be near an inflection point, possibly by September expiration. What is interesting about …
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I don’t spend a lot of time on mid to small cap biotech stocks for one simple reason – because I don’t know the what, when or why. Throughout my career, I have seen a very small group trade/invest …
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We have pointed out on more than one occasion of late that healthy bounces off of the May lows of hard hit high valuation stocks have been few and far between (NFLX & Z), with far many more within …
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QIHU, the Chinese internet security and search company reports their Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 6.5% one day move tomorrow which is inline with the 4 qtr …
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China, China, China… U.S. equity investors have a love/hate relationship with the country as the emerging middle class consumer offers a massive opportunity for U.S. multinationals while on the flip-side the cooling economic growth rate and …
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In case you missed it over the weekend, Alibaba wrote on its corporate blog that it was starting the process to offer its shares in an IPO on an American exchange. Yahoo, which owns 24% …
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I’ll make this easy for all of you traders out there just dying to pick a spot and step in on the long side of TWTR. I wouldn’t touch it prior to their Q4 earnings …
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MorningWord 12/10/13: TOL reported fiscal Q4 results that were better than expected and offered a mixed tone about the existing environment in their earnings release: “In our fourth quarter, the impact of those price increases, …
Continue readingLast night on Fast Money on CNBC we opened up the show with a discussion (below) about the massive year to date gains in stocks like TSLA, and the questioned posed to the esteemed panel …
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