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Great news! You should have had no trouble grabbing a nice income payday on your April JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM, Rated “B-”) put spread with a price range of $135-$120.
I estimate you got...
By Sean Brodrick On April 16, 202112:00 PM Eastern
In the mid-month update, we discussed positions that should do well after President Joe Biden gets his $2.25 trillion infrastructure bill through Congress. To be sure, Biden’s plan is just a plan...
By Jon D. Markman On April 16, 202106:58 AM Eastern
Stocks surged on Thursday to record closing levels across the board. There is a theme at work: We are in a runaway bull market and all pullbacks are being bought.
There are still plenty of...
By Jon D. Markman On April 16, 202106:28 AM Eastern
Stocks stormed Thursday to fresh record highs. The Dow Jones topped 34000 for the first time and the S&P 500 jumped to 4,170, a gain of 1.1%.
As we expected, tech stocks paced the rally, an...
By Tony Sagami On April 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Everybody knows what an initial public offering (IPO) is. Heck, you may have bought a few IPOs yourself. Perhaps you even hit a home run with one. The appeal of an IPO has been the ability to...
By Jon D. Markman On April 15, 202102:50 PM Eastern
Stocks rose while government bond yields declined after a stronger-than-expected jump in retail sales in March coincided with a drop in jobless claims to the lowest in a year and as first-quarter...
By Jon D. Markman On April 15, 202106:28 AM Eastern
Stocks soared and swirled and swooned and basically made a hodgepodge Wednesday. Cyclical sectors like banks, industrials, metals, and energy pushed higher, while technology stocks were mostly...
By Kelly Green On April 15, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Hot-shot tech stocks may have been Wall Street darlings recently … but energy still makes the world go round.
And although the landscape of how we source that energy is changing, we’re not...
By Jon D. Markman On April 14, 202102:40 PM Eastern
Stocks came off early highs in midday trading on Wednesday as top banks kicked off quarterly reports with rising profits on the back of a recovering U.S. economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial...
By Sean Brodrick On April 14, 202112:11 PM Eastern
Let’s grab two quick rounds of gains, then add a new pick in cybersecurity.
First, it’s time to sell Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (NYSE: SQM). This lithium mining stock is trending...