Tag: StockMarket

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. 21 Cheap Stocks With Above-Average Growth Prospects (Barron’s)
  2. Global Stocks Advance on Signs of Slowing Virus as Powell Interview Adds Cheer (Barron’s)
  3. Moderna Reports Positive Vaccine News (Barron’s)
  4. Fed’s Powell tells ‘60 Minutes’ he’s not out of ammunition to fight the recession (MarketWatch)
  5. Work-from-home productivity pickup has tech CEOs predicting many employees will never come back to the office (MarketWatch)
  6. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Cisco, Gilead, Netflix, Wayfair And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. Hertz appoints new CEO to lead car rental giant (Fox Business)
  8. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson ‘very proud’ of his daughter joining WWE New York Post)
  9. Dan Bilzerian Pushes Party Brand From a Social Distance (Bloomberg)
  10. Brent at one-month high, U.S. oil tops $31 as restrictions ease (Street Insider)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. 5 COVID-19 Casualty Stocks to Buy With Big-Time Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
  2. Retest Possible, But Bottom Likely In as Jobless Claims Trend Lower (Almanac Trader)
  3. Oil Futures Pricing in Tighter Supplies (Futures Mag)
  4. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Barry Rosenstein, Jim Simons, Marshall Wace LLP, Selwood Asset Management, Pantera Capital, Vivint Smart Home Inc (VVNT), Penn National Gaming, Inc (PENN), and More (InsiderMonkey)
  5. Space Force unveils flag; Trump touts ‘super-duper missile’ (AP)
  6. President Trump unveils new vaccine effort ‘Operation Warp Speed’ (OANN)
  7. This Art Installation Of A Giant Wave In South Korea Is Honestly Pretty Chill (digg)
  8. Saudi wealth fund boosts U.S. holdings with stakes in Citi, Boeing, Facebook (OANN)
  9. Brabham Automotive Unleashes BT62 Race Car (Maxim)
  10. Seth Klarman: Top 10 Holdings (Q1 2020) (The Acquirers Multiple)
  11. Rethinking Fear (Farnam Street)
  12. 2020 Ferrari F8 Tributo review: Somehow, it got better (cnet)
  13. A Strategy for Reopening New York City’s Economy (Manhattan Institute)
  14. Reopening Sports: Does MMA Point The Way? (NPR Planet Money)
  15. Young Bulls and Old Bears (The Irrelevant Investor)
  16. Major tax benefits for Tesla if Elon Musk moves production from California (Fox Business)
  17. Maximilian Schneider Designs a 21st Century Batmobile Dubbed The Koenigsegg Konigsei Concept (Luxuo)
  18. Your Ultimate Grill Buying Guide—Tested and Approved (Popular Mechanics)
  19. “Poison Pills” Make Comeback at Hollywood Firms Bracing for Hostile Takeovers (Hollywood Reporter)
  20. Stock Market Keeping Score in the Three-Front War Against the Virus (Yardeni)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Newly Flush PNC Could Kick Off the Next Round of Bank M&A (Barron’s)
  2. Oil Market Dazzled With a Swift Delivery of Supply Cuts (Bloomberg)
  3. Slash tax rate in half for corporations returning to US, White House adviser suggests (New York Post)
  4. McConnell says next stimulus must have coronavirus liability protections (New York Post)
  5. Appaloosa buys Twitter, Netflix stakes, exits Caesars, cuts Facebook position (TheFly)
  6. TSA Preparing to Check Passenger Temperatures at Airports Amid Coronavirus Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Wells Fargo Has Lost $220 Billion in Market Value Under Fed Cap (Bloomberg)
  8. Inside the Science and Companies Racing to Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine (Barron’s)
  9. John Malone Has a Great Investing Record. Here’s How to Play Along. (Barron’s)
  10. How Investors Should Evaluate Energy Bonds — And the Funds That Own Them (Barron’s)
  11. This Economist Sees a ‘Regime Change’ Favoring Stockpickers (Barron’s)
  12. Assessing the stock market after one of the fastest declines and subsequent comebacks in history (CNBC)
  13. On Furlough From the Kingdom, Disney Workers Try to Keep the Magic Alive (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Michael Jordan Didn’t Manage People, He Lit Them on Fire (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Car Makers See Chinese Market Picking Up (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Bill Murray drinks, jokes with Guy Fieri on Nacho Showdown: ‘Truth is, he’s a redhead’ (USA Today)
  17. Google Antitrust Lawsuit Being Drafted by U.S Justice Department (Bloomberg)
  18. Next coronavirus aid package expected to become reality ‘in June at the earliest,’ as House passes its bill (MarketWatch)
  19. Is this the pullback you’ve been waiting for? (QuantifiableEdges)
  20. JPMorgan Bets on a Dash for the Suburbs (Institutional Investor)
  21. What Happens to Stocks After a Big Up Month? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  22. Bill Miller doesn’t see market as ‘dramatically overvalued,’ says Amazon could double in 3 years (CNBC)
  23. Loeb’s Third Point Builds Stake in Disney, Exits Campbell Soup (Bloomberg)
  24. Saudi wealth fund snaps up $7.7bn of blue-chip stocks (Financial Times)
  25. How bank hedging jolted investors into talk of negative rates (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Value Stocks Look Cheaper Than Ever. How to Play a Rebound. (Barron’s)
  2. ‘Stealth Bailout’ Shovels Millions of Dollars to Oil Companies (Bloomberg)
  3. TikTok Raises Profile As Digital Ad Rival To Snap, Facebook, Google (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. The Oil Market Is Changing Its Tune (Barron’s)
  5. GE Stock Dropped Again. Here’s What’s Going Right. (Barron’s)
  6. Factory Output in China Surged in April (Barron’s)
  7. NYSE Will Partially Reopen Its Trading Floor (Barron’s)
  8. Meet the trikini, beach fashion’s answer to coronavirus (New York Post)
  9. McDonald’s Details What Dining In Will Look Like (New York Times)
  10. Elon Musk’s Boring Company completes second tunnel in Las Vegas (USA Today)
  11. Wealthy Travelers Are Starting to Book Year-End Vacations (Bloomberg)
  12. Are We Asking Too Much of Testing? (Bloomberg)
  13. Drive-in theaters have become a safe haven for moviegoers. Here’s what it’s like to visit one (CNBC)
  14. Who’s on The Hook for Skipped Mortgage Payments? (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Economic Shock of Virus Hit Lower-Income Households Harder, Fed Finds (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Time for GE to Bring Good Things Back to Life (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Oil back at early April highs as demand shows signs of picking up (Street Insider)
  18. PPP Loans Under $2 Million Get A Significant Waiver From SBA (Yahoo! Finance)
  19. Ross to Bartiromo: Taiwan manufacturer hopes to bring supply chain to this state (Fox Business)
  20. Investors warn Covid-19 crisis is paving the way for inflation (Financial Times)

Unusual Options Activity – Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)

Data Source: barchart

Today some institution/fund purchased 1,422 contracts of Jan 2021 $17.50 strike calls (or the right to buy 142,200 shares of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) at $17.50). The open interest was just 285 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)”