Good morning. Philadelphia Federal Reserve president Patrick Harker became the..
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 31,041.13 | +0.69% | | | | S&P 3,803.79 | +1.48% | | | | NASDAQ 13,067.48 | +2.56% | | | | *As of market close | | • | Stocks closed higher on Thursday, with all indices hitting record highs. | | • | Gold rose 0.3 percent, with the metal closing at $1,915. | | • | Oil prices rose 0.7 percent, closing the day at $50.96 per barrel. | | • | Cryptocurrencies surged, with Bitcoin hitting $40,000 before pulling back to $39,000. | | | | | | | | | Opportunities in Retail Remain as Ecommerce Sales Slow | | | | Early sales numbers for the last quarter of 2020 are starting to come in. There's some good news and some bad news. The good news is that sales are rising. The bad news? The rate of the rise is slowing down. That's understandable. Many major retailers were able to see sales rise thanks to increased ecommerce trends. As customers have completed that shift, the rate is starting to stabilize. However, there's still some trading opportunities as a result.
» FULL STORY | | | | | | Insider Trading Report: Foot Locker (FL) | | | | Vesa Equity Investment, a major holder in Foot Locker (FL), recently bought another 8,581 shares coming at a total cost of $334,000, the buy increased the fund's holdings by 0.07 percent. The fund has been a sizeable buyer over the past two months, picking up nearly 2 million shares in that timeframe, at prices as much as 15 percent below where shares currently trade. Corporate executives have generally been sellers of shares in the past year. » FULL STORY | | | | | | Unusual Options Activity: Wells Fargo (WFC) | | | | Shares of banks are stabilizing after a jump on Wednesday, but at least one trader sees a further move higher in Wells Fargo (WFC). That's based on the February 5th $36 call option. Expiring in 28 days, the option saw over 15,700 contracts trade, a 60-fold rise in volume from the prior open interest of 260. The buyer paid $0.81 for the contract. Shares currently trade at $34, so the trader expects another $2 move higher in shares.
» FULL STORY | | | | | | | TOP | | DXC | 9.301% | | | NTES | 7.992% | | | TSLA | 7.945% | | | INCY | 6.808% | | | EOG | 6.466% | | | BOTTOM | | CAG | 5.458% | | | CNP | 4.875% | | | OMC | 4.48% | | | ATO | 4.205% | | | FOX | 3.91% | | | | | | | | | We have stumbled into very unhealthy codependences; codependences between central banks and investors, between central banks and debt issuers which are governments and companies, and between central banks and politicians. They are all in this unhealthy codependency. It's like a bad marriage: They've ended up relying on each other, and they just don't know how to get out of it. Every time the central banks have tried to get out of it, the markets were at risk of becoming disorderly. | | - Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz, on why central banks and investors are locked into a spiral likely to fuel a bubble in stocks in 2021. | | |
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