By Sean Brodrick On August 12, 202010:52 AM Eastern
Gold fell hard yesterday due to news that Russia approved a COVID-19 vaccine and a bounce in a very oversold U.S. dollar.
Gold is trying to rally this morning. In the short term, it could go...
By David Dittman On August 11, 202004:42 PM Eastern
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He’s been a professor of history at Harvard, New York University and at the University of Oxford. His books...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 202003:06 PM Eastern
Stocks largely advanced Tuesday, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index pushing toward record highs as investors continue to anticipate lawmakers in Washington unleashing more fiscal stimulus to...
By Sean Brodrick On August 11, 202002:03 PM Eastern
Gold and silver fell out of bed this morning, pushed by news that Russia approved a COVID-19 “vaccine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters the vaccine was given to one of his...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 202011:30 AM Eastern
The digital and physical world collided Monday. For once, brick and mortar won out.
The headline story was a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Simon Property Group...
In our issue from Friday, Aug. 7, we intended for you to buy to open a Sept. 18, 2020 General Mills (GIS) put option with a strike price of $55 (GIS200918P00055000).
We correctly identified this...
By Mike Larson On August 11, 202008:00 AM Eastern
It’s a “Big Tech World” and we’re just living in it. Given the radical shift to work-from-home and shop-online behavior because of COVID-19, that’s true in real life. And given the incredible...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 202006:28 AM Eastern
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Note: I might take one or two days off this week — possibly Wednesday and Friday. Don’t be alarmed if there is no letter those days.
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Stocks spun around like pinwheels in a heavy...
By Jon D. Markman On August 10, 202003:05 PM Eastern
Stocks are swirling in several directions today as investors wait for a restart of fiscal stimulus negotiations while expressing some hope that industrial and financial companies have seen the...
Shares of State Street (NYSE: STT, Rated “C”) have continued to rally in the short term. Earlier today, in fact, they tagged the $70 strike price on your August STT calls (STT200821C00070000).
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