Tag: StockMarket

Be in the know. 19 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Presidential Betting Markets Are Tightening. Is It Time to Hedge? (Barron’s)
  2. After Conoco’s Huge Purchase, Are 2 Top Permian Stocks Also Takeover Targets? (24/7 Wall Street)
  3. Covid-19 Vaccines Could Take a Critical Next Step in November (Barron’s)
  4. 10-year Treasury yield hits mid-June high after Pelosi boosts fiscal stimulus hopes (MarketWatch)
  5. Western Digital Stock Spikes 10% on Intel’s Plan to Sell Memory Chip Unit (Barron’s)
  6. Philip Morris Stock Got Crushed After Earnings. Why the Market Got It Wrong. (Barron’s)
  7. Defense Stocks Have a Joe Biden Problem (Barron’s)
  8. Home Builders Keep Building New Houses, Latest Data Show. Why They Won’t Stop. (Barron’s)
  9. Google Up Against Laws That Thwarted Microsoft (and Others Since 1890) (New York Times)
  10. Travelers Is Ready for Post-Pandemic Journey (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Antero Midstream upgraded to Outperform on lower perceived risk at Raymond James (TheFly)
  12. Coronavirus deal could come in next 48 hours: White House (FoxBusiness)
  13. The World Shut Down. This Is Who Hedge Funds Called. (Institutional Investor)
  14. Fed’s Brainard calls for more stimulus from Congress amid ‘highly uneven’ recovery (CNBC)
  15. JPMorgan Chase takes on Square and PayPal with smartphone card reader, faster deposits for merchants (CNBC)
  16. People earning a lot of money think differently: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  17. Here’s How Much Investing $1,000 In Wells Fargo At Great Recession Lows Would Be Worth Today (Benzinga)
  18. Lockheed Martin Plans to Deliver New Presidential Helicopter Next Year (Wall Street Journal)
  19. How Next-Door Neighbors With Opposing Political Views Stayed Friends (Wall Street Journal)

 

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Gilead Defends Its Covid Treatment After WHO Study Finds It Ineffective (Barron’s)
  2. 3 Unloved Bank Stocks That May Be Worth Buying (Barron’s)
  3. Warren Buffett may have slashed his Wells Fargo stake because the bank ignored his advice and hired a Wall Street CEO (Business Insider)
  4. Technology stocks may be about to drown in their own greatness, says JPMorgan (MarketWatch)
  5. GE Stock Is in a Stealth Bull Market. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  6. Halliburton’s Cost-Cuts Boost the Bottom Line (Barron’s)
  7. Want to Buy Mortgage REITs? Here’s How to Pick Them. (Barron’s)
  8. NY, NJ could see taxes increase over 58 percent under Joe Biden: analysis (New York Post)
  9. With NYC Influx, Greenwich Area Home Prices Rise Fastest in U.S. (Bloomberg)
  10. An Obscure American Automaker Now Has the World’s Fastest Car (Bloomberg)
  11. Pelosi and Mnuchin make progress in stimulus talks, plan to speak again Tuesday (CNBC)
  12. HAMM: The 2020 election question: Are you ready for $6 a gallon gas? (Fox Business)
  13. Top Fed Official Says Policy Response Could Speed Faster Recovery (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Pioneer Natural Resources Is in Talks to Buy Parsley Energy (Wall Street Journal)
  15. DOJ to File Google Antitrust Lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)

Unusual Options Activity – Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY)

Data Source: barchart

Today some institution/fund purchased 25,091 contracts of Jan $18 strike calls (or the right to buy 2,509,100 shares of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) at $18). The open interest was just 2,012 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY)”

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Monday…

  1. China Economy Grows 4.9% In Q3, Extending Virus Recovery (Barron’s)
  2. Big Contrarian Investor Sells AT&T and Gold Stocks. They Bought Wells Fargo. (Barron’s)
  3. Speculators Reverse Big Nasdaq Short (Bloomberg)
  4. Conoco to Buy Concho for $9.7 Billion to Create Shale Giant (Bloomberg)
  5. Pelosi gives White House 48 hours to reach coronavirus stimulus deal before election (CNBC)
  6. U.S. Army Medical Research and Development (USAMRDC) Develops COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate (SpFN) Now in Clinical Trials (TrialSiteNews)
  7. Stalemate. The Energy Report 10/19/2020 (Phil Flynn)
  8. Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine rolls off production line amid hopes for emergency approval (New York Post)
  2. Will New York Go for Another Wall Streeter as Mayor? (New York Times)
  3. Waiting to pass stimulus until after the election is a mistake, says economist Mark Zandi (Fortune)
  4. This year’s ‘October surprise’ could impact your portfolio for years to come (Fortune)
  5. Amazon Pays Big Bucks For Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ (Maxim)
  6. A suspected-banksy with a hula-hooping girl appears in Nottingham (designboom)
  7. Valuing Exxon (Insider Monkey)
  8. The ‘I’m An Accountant’ Stock Market, And Sentiment Results (SeekingAlpha)
  9. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (AdvisorPerspectives)
  10. ‘How are you going to learn properly?’: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns over increasing negatives of working from home (fn London)
  11. The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents (The Atlantic)
  12. COVID & Global Valuations (Verdad)
  13. The Master Plan: Biotech player turned Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk faces off against COVID-19 (Financial Post)
  14. Don’t Fight T-Fed (Yardeni)
  15. The Phil Flynn Energy Report Riding the waves (futuresmag)

Be in the know. 35 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Breaking Big Tech (Advisor Perspectives)
  2. U.S. Money Managers Like the Outlook for Stocks, According to Barron’s Poll (Barron’s)
  3. GE’s stock gets a big boost after news that Boeing’s 737 MAX could fly again this year (MarketWatch)
  4. Bill Miller 3Q 2020 Market Letter (Miller Value)
  5. Why Read? Advice From Harold Bloom (Farnam Street)
  6. The 2020 Aston Martin Vantage Coupe is the Entry Level to the James Bond Fantasy Life (Barron’s)
  7. Look Who’s Really Chasing Hot Stocks Like Zoom (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Forget the Rent, Collect the Yield: Why Investors Looking to Retire Early Should Consider REITs (Barron’s)
  9. Here are Wall Street’s favorite stocks for an election-relief rally (MarketWatch)
  10. Looking for Yield? Mortgage REITs Offer Double-Digit Returns. (Barron’s)
  11. Pfizer says earliest U.S. filing for COVID-19 vaccine would be late November (Reuters)
  12. Trump says: ‘I’m ready to sign a big, beautiful stimulus’ — but many Americans are not banking on it (MarketWatch)
  13. Google now lets you search for a song by humming or singing its tune (New York Post)
  14. Warren Buffett plowed $5 billion into Bank of America during the debt crisis. Here’s the story of how the investor helped the bank and made a fortune in the process. (Business Insider)
  15. The wealthiest 1% of Americans will drive positive household demand for stocks in 2021, Goldman Sachs says (Business Insider)
  16. Mark Cuban on stalled stimulus negotiations: All of Congress is ‘complicit in the problem’ (CNBC)
  17. In Reversal, Twitter Is No Longer Blocking New York Post Article (New York Times)
  18. Stock-market bulls are counting on the consumer staying strong — should they? (MarketWatch)
  19. Behind the Stability in China’s Currency: Beijing’s Hidden Hand (Barron’s)
  20. An Analyst Plays Matchmaker With Chevron and Exxon (Barron’s)
  21. Walgreens Beats Estimates in Fiscal Q4, Returns to Profit (equities)
  22. Natural gas generators make up largest share of U.S. electricity generation capacity (eia)
  23. Boris Johnson throws down ‘no deal’ gauntlet to EU (Financial Times)
  24. Federal Reserve debates tougher regulation to prevent asset bubbles (Financial Times)
  25. ‘Value drought’ claims latest victim as growth stocks power on (Financial Times)
  26. The new Porsche Targa: is this the greatest 911 yet? (Financial Times)
  27. Will Value Stocks Overtake Growth Shares After The Election? (Investing.com)
  28. There’s More to Value Investing Than Low Prices (Morningstar)
  29. Buffett’s Disciples Should Pray for a Bond Bust (Bloomberg)
  30. Tale of Two Economies: Housing-Related Boom vs Pandemic-Challenged-Services Bust (Yardeni)
  31. Charlie Munger’s 10 Rules for Investment Success (DGS)
  32. Margin of Safety Still Matters (value stock geek)
  33. How to play on market’s reversion to the mean: Tobias Carlisle offers a few tips
    (Economic Times)
  34. Coming into Focus (Howard Marks)
  35. Elections and Markets (Investor Amnesia)