Since we added AT&T to our investment portfolio about a month ago, the stock has held the $32 support level against which we put on the trade, and today it finally looked like the stock …
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The Nasdaq Composite is trading back at levels it has not seen since the year 2000, just before the index was about to enter a very dark period where it would lose almost 80% from …
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Below is a list of some of the more interesting options blocks that traded today: 1. PFE – the Big Pharma company takes the prize for the single largest block of single stock options that traded …
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Below is a list of some of the more interesting options blocks that traded today: 1. DOW – with the stock at new multi-year highs &activists on its heels, calls getting busy. 40,000 Jan15 50 calls are bought for $2.78 to …
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Here’s our next addition to our investment portfolio:
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The CBOE composite put/call ratio hit its lowest level since mid-January, closing at 0.69. Facebook calls were by far the most active lines in single stock options. 1. FB – The March 70 calls traded over …
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Earlier today in the MorningWord I laid out a thesis where bond proxies may once again become attractive to investors in a slow growth environment after last years dramatic equity returns and price action in …
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For those of you M&A watchers, telecom ruled in 2013, in large part to VZ’s purchase of Vodafone’s 45% stake in VZ wireless for $130 billion, but let’s not forget all of the horse trading …
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Exactly one month ago I initiated this long call position with the thought that high dividend paying stocks that had gotten hit as rates rose over the last month would possibly come back in vogue …
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Verizon’s monster deal to buy the rest of Verizon Wireless from Vodafone is one of the largest acquisitions in the past 10 years. The potential $130 billion deal is about half cash and half stock. …
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