- Oracle Is Turning Into a Cloud Giant. Why Its Stock Is a Buy. (Barron’s)
- Asset managers rush to shore up portfolios against inflation (Financial Times)
- Top 100 places to eat in the US in 2021, according to Yelp (USA Today)
- Some Covid-19 Vaccines Are Effective After One Dose, Can Be Stored in Normal Freezers, Data Show (Wall Street Journal)
- JPMorgan still thinks the S&P 500 can rally another 12% this year as US consumer spending explodes for these 7 reasons (Business Insider)
- ‘Green bubble’ warnings grow as money pours into renewable stocks (Financial Times)
- Why This Bull Market Shows No Sign of Ending Soon (Barron’s)
- Warren Buffett’s Letter to Shareholders Is Coming. What Investors Want to See. (Barron’s)
- BDCs Yield Around 9%, but Their Quality Varies. Here’s How to Judge Them. (Barron’s)
- What Gene Editing Can Do for Humankind (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. stock-market investors are already betting on an infrastructure spending spree (MarketWatch)
- Yes, Rates Are Rising. But Equity Investors Don’t Seem to Care. (Barron’s)
- Tech Valuations Are Getting Scary. Here’s How We Know. (Barron’s)
- Bank Stocks Are Getting Hot. They Still Have Room to Run. (Barron’s)
- The Doves Are in Charge Again. What That Means for Interest Rates (Barron’s)
- The Argument for the Reborn Chesapeake Energy (Barron’s)
- Carl Icahn Charges Up FirstEnergy Stock (Barron’s)
- Biden Says He’s Open to Making His $1.9 Trillion Aid Plan ‘Cheaper’ (Barron’s)
- Texas Looks to Rebuild. Here Are 6 Stocks That Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
- ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry says ‘prepare for inflation’ – and warns bitcoin and gold might be at risk (Business Insider)
- How Carl Icahn could create value with this health company, which has many valuable businesses (CNBC)
- Katie Haun on the Dark Web, Gangs, Investigating Bitcoin, and The New Magic of “Nifties” (NFTs) (#499) (Tim Ferriss)
- Investors, Don’t Succumb To The Fear Of Missing Out (Forbes)
- What Gene Editing Can Do for Humankind (Wall Street Journal)
- Why Your Wild Trading Ideas Feel So Right (Wall Street Journal)
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Where is money flowing today?
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen makes push for major stimulus, sees bigger risk in not doing enough (CNBC)
- We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April (Wall Street Journal)
- Why 5 Buy-Rated Energy Stocks May Have Much Higher Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
- FirstEnergy says activist investor Carl Icahn looking to buy stake (Yahoo! Finance)
- Millennium emerges as top hedge fund investor in Spacs (Financial Times)
- Single Dose of Pfizer Vaccine Is 85% Effective, Study Shows (Barron’s)
- Novavax Unveils Potentially Huge Deal to Supply Vaccines (Barron’s)
- The Big Oil Stocks That Goldman Says Have up to 50% Upside Ahead of a Global Recovery (Barron’s)
- Hedge funds on the lookout: ‘they don’t want to get burned’, says analyst as GameStop-style short interest falls (MarketWatch)
- Fluor Is Engineering a Turnaround. Its Stock Could Soar 80%. (Barron’s)
- ‘I am not a cat’: GameStop hearing provides drama and humor (USA Today)
- Pfizer says vaccine can be stored in normal freezer temperatures: Latest COVID-19 updates (USA Today)
- Can Allbirds Live Up to Its $1 Billion Valuation? (Bloomberg)
- Billionaire Peterffy Says N.Y. Rich in Florida Are There to Stay (Bloomberg)
- Billionaire investor Bill Gross made $10 million betting against GameStop — after he was down $15 million at one point (Business Insider)
- Walgreens to start receiving 480,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a week (MarketWatch)
- How Redditors Find the Next GameStop Stock (Wall Street Journal)
- Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces: The New Way to Play, Network and Escape Video Calls (Wall Street Journal)
- Leon Cooperman Calls for Reinstating the Uptick Rule (Bloomberg)
- Shipping Container Shortage Gives Commodity Prices Extra Boost (Wall Street Journal)
Technology Earnings Estimates/Revisions
In the spreadsheet above I have tracked the earnings estimates for the Technology Sector ETF (XLK) top 30 weighted stocks. Continue reading “Technology Earnings Estimates/Revisions”
Unusual Options Activity – Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
Data Source: barchart
Today some institution/fund purchased 3,222 contracts of Sept $42 strike calls (or the right to buy 322,200 shares of Pfizer Inc. (PFE) at $42). The open interest was 1,604 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – Pfizer Inc. (PFE)”