Good morning. Even though interest rates are at zero percent, the stock market still wants to see..
It's the monthly jobs numbers today and they're not going to be pretty and will be possibly the tip of the iceberg as we head into May.
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| | | | DOW 28,195.42 | -1.448% | | | | S&P 3,426.92 | -1.63% | | | | NASDAQ 11,478.88 | -1.65% | | | | *As of market close | | • | Stocks gave up early morning gains, with all indices closing near lows of the day. | | • | Oil dropped 0.5 percent, closing at $40.68 per barrel. | | • | Gold traded flat, right around $1,906 per ounce. | | • | Cryptocurrencies generally rose, with Bitcoin topping $11,707. | | | | | | | | One Contrarian Fund Bets Big on This Bank | | | | Banks are an out of favor part of the market right now. With interest rates back at zero, the profits from lending are lower as well. And while some big banks have reported solid earnings thanks to trading and investment banking, that can be an inconsistent source of revenue. Nevertheless, one fund that describes itself as contrarian recently added shares of a big bank to their holdings, after taking profits in gold mining companies.
» FULL STORY | | | | | | Insider Trading Report: Citigroup (C) | | | | Lew Jacobs, a director at Citigroup (C), recently added 10,000 shares. The buy came to just over $440,000, and increased the director's stake by 77 percent. He now owns over 22,900 shares. The trade marks the first move by insiders since August 2019. Insiders have mostly been sellers in the past two years, but have been inactive for a prolonged time. The last sales were at prices 30-37 percent higher than where shares currently trade. » FULL STORY | | | | | | Unusual Options Activity: Nvidia (NVDA) | | | | One of the top performing stocks of the past year, at least one trader sees a drop ahead for Nvidia (NVDA). That's evidenced by the January 2022 $450 puts. Over 1,060 contracts traded hands, a 6-fold rise over the 180 contracts with open interest. Expiring in 458 days, the bet would move in-the-money if shares dropped 18 percent from their current price around $548 per share. The trader paid about $58.50 per contract on average.
» FULL STORY | | | | | | | TOP | | WDC | 7.855% | | | UAL | 3.923% | | | TPR | 2.714% | | | UA | 2.301% | | | UAA | 2% | | | BOTTOM | | IT | 4.405% | | | ROST | 4.373% | | | VFC | 4.326% | | | FANG | 4.268% | | | VNO | 4.175% | | | | | | | | | The many cross-currents we have been fretting over in recent weeks remain omnipresent…The US elections are close at hand, fiscal stimulus remains a key near-term potential catalyst, and developments on the virus front remain critical to the longer-term outlook. A lot is very likely to happen over the next several weeks, and the broader macro picture could thus change pretty massively depending on developments along all of those fronts | | - Sherif Hamid, a strategist at Jefferies, outlining the challenges the stock market is facing in the next few weeks, and why investors would be wise to be cautious here. | | |
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