By Jon D. Markman On April 15, 202006:28 AM Eastern
Stocks were back on the march higher on Tuesday as investors celebrated fresh signs that the U.S. economy is on track to reopen over the next six weeks and fretted about an International Monetary...
By Jon D. Markman On April 14, 202003:05 PM Eastern
Stocks are on the march higher Tuesday with investors looking for further word on plans to reopen the U.S. economy as the International Monetary Fund forecast a global contraction this year...
By Sean Brodrick On April 14, 202011:05 AM Eastern
If you acted on my recommendation to buy those June Barrick call options, and then sold the second half like I recommended last week, you banked up to 42.96%. That’s on top of the 40.85% on the...
By Jon D. Markman On April 14, 202006:28 AM Eastern
Stocks pulled back Monday following two weeks of pure strength as investors returned from a three-day weekend to ponder the potential of reopened businesses and the looming earnings season.
The...
By Jon D. Markman On April 13, 202003:13 PM Eastern
Stocks are pulling back today following two weeks of pure strength as investors returned from a three-day weekend to more talk from the White House about re-opening businesses while they braced...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On April 13, 202011:51 AM Eastern
The Fed seems to think that the $2.3 trillion in extra save-the-world money it announced on Thursday will do the trick.
And for now, at least, Wall Street seems to agree.
Well, I have news for...
The stock market bounced strongly last week, aided and abetted by even more aggressive stimulus announcements from the Federal Reserve. In fact, the S&P 500 jumped around 12% — its best week since...
By Sean Brodrick On April 13, 202011:15 AM Eastern
Let’s grab gains on HALF the June 19 Abbott Labs (ABT) call option with a strike price of $90 (ABT200619C00090000).
They’re bidding at $3.00 this morning, which is up nicely from our tracked...
By Jon D. Markman On April 13, 202006:28 AM Eastern
Stocks ripped higher Thursday after the Federal Reserve pledged to pump more funds into the financial system just as 16 million out-of-work Americans seek aid because of the virus crisis.
The...
By Mike Larson On April 10, 202012:00 PM Eastern
Thomas Paine’s words “These are the times that try men’s souls” referenced the American Revolution. But given the challenges our economy and markets face due to the coronavirus, they certainly...