- Guy Fieri’s Bacon-Wrapped Danger Dogs Are a Ticket to Flavortown (Bloomberg)
- Manchin warns Dems about going it alone on Biden’s spending plan (Fox Business)
- Investors Need to Watch the Labor Shortage. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
- Tiger Cubs: How Julian Robertson built a hedge fund dynasty (Financial Times)
- Lumber Prices Slump As Historic Boom Hits A Wall (ZeroHedge)
- The Best Investment of All: The People You Love the Most (New York Times)
- Fund Managers Are Ignoring Meme Stocks. That’s a Good Thing. (Barron’s)
- Brinker Stock Looks Set to Soar on Chili’s Comeback (Barron’s)
- Hedge fund stars shy away from the limelight (Financial Times)
- Banks Need Loan Growth to Keep Rallying. These Stocks Already Have It. (Barron’s)
- Why Boeing Could Fly High Again (Barron’s)
- Charlie Munger’s Book Recommendation List (CMQ)
- Driving the undriveable Ferrari (Financial Times)
- Payne: When I was a kid, getting a job was like winning the lottery (Fox Business)
- 4 Undervalued Stocks With Momentum (Morningstar)
- Dividends Are the Next Oil Catalyst. Here Are the Stocks that Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
- Natural-Gas Prices Stir Heading Into Summer (Barron’s)
- Peter Lynch on Common Investor Mistakes (Novel Investor)
- One stunning chart shows just how much faster the US labor market is recovering now compared to the financial crisis (Business Insider)
- A Wave of Global Spending Is Great News for Humanity (and Investors) (Barron’s)
- The Stock Market’s Long Run of Nothing Continued Last Week. What to Know. (Barron’s)
- Solar Power’s Land Grab Hits a Snag: Environmentalists (Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook’s Marketplace Faces Antitrust Probes in EU, U.K. (Wall Street Journal)
- iPhone? AirPods? MacBook? You Live in Apple’s World. Here’s What You Are Missing. (Wall Street Journal)
- Why Does Anyone Care About a Superyacht? (Wall Street Journal)
- Bill Gates, Warren Buffett building nuclear reactor in coal-rich Wyoming (New York Post)
- G-7 Strikes Historic Deal to Revamp Global Tax on Tech Firms (Bloomberg)
- How Ronald Read managed to accumulate a dividend portfolio worth $8 million (DGI)
- Emerging-Market Stocks in Pole Position to Gain as World Reopens (Bloomberg)
- Rosneft Warns of ‘Severe’ Oil Shortage Amid Hasty Energy Shift (Bloomberg)
- Bonds Aren’t Freaking Out About Inflation (Bloomberg)
- S.-China Trade Relationship Significantly Imbalanced, Tai Says (Bloomberg)
- Crypto investor Vignesh Sundaresan: ‘It’s the NFT that changed the world’ (Financial Times)
- Royal Caribbean sets 2021 cruises in Florida, Texas and Alaska (CNBC)
- Interactive Brokers founder says problem with AMC Entertainment memes: ‘People…will lose a very substantial amount of money’ (MarketWatch)
- Pete Najarian Sees Unusual Options Activity In Tapestry And IQIYI (Benzinga)
- Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape (Futurism)
- Bill Ackman’s SPAC Is in Talks to Buy a Stake in Universal Music —But So Far It’s Not Music to Investors’ Ears (Institutional Investor)
- The Pied Piper of SPACs (New Yorker)
- Lots of Liquidity (Yardeni)
Tom Hayes – The Claman Countdown – Fox Business Appearance – 6/4/2021
Where is money flowing today?
Hedge Fund Tips with Tom Hayes – VideoCast – Episode 85
Be in the know. 25 key reads for Friday…
- FDA’s Call on Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Is Coming Soon (Barron’s)
- Viva Las Vegas: Sin City Presses Its Luck in the Postpandemic Era (Barron’s)
- May’s Employment Report Is Another Disappointment (Barron’s)
- Buy Take-Two Interactive Because a Whole Lot of Videogames Are in the Works (Barron’s)
- Alibaba, Alphabet, and Amazon Stock Are Bargains, This Value Manager Says (Barron’s)
- How Pitchers Are Conquering Baseball’s Home Run Revolution (Wall Street Journal)
- Ant to Change How It Makes Loans With New Consumer-Finance Company (Wall Street Journal)
- Services Boom? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (Wall Street Journal)
- Biden Narrows Infrastructure Request, but Hurdles Remain for Bipartisan Deal (New York Times)
- The Momentum Is With Active Fund Managers for Now (Bloomberg)
- Texas Rising: Hedge Funds, Big Tech Drive Lone Star Wealth Boom (Bloomberg)
- Palantir gets aggressive in SPAC investments, backing digital health, aviation and robot companies (CNBC)
- Billionaire hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson endorses high-flying US tech stocks — and says their valuations aren’t lofty (Business Insider)
- Apple’s Big Show May Not Be Enough (Wall Street Journal)
- Cloud Software’s Low-Hanging Fruit Is a Tempting Target (Wall Street Journal)
- Apple stock on track for longest weekly losing streak in more than 2 1/2 years (MarketWatch)
- Is the Fed ‘tightening cycle’ already happening? (MarketWatch)
- Italian Artist Sells Invisible Sculpture For $18,000 (ZeroHedge)
- Strong Inflows to Cash Continue, Largest Selling of Tech Stocks Since December 2018 – BofA’s Flow Show (Street Insider)
- Northrop Grumman (NOC) Upgraded to ‘Buy’ at Stifel on Compelling Valuation (Street Insider)
- Apple’s (AAPL) WWDC Unlikely to Blunt the Deceleration Narrative – Wolfe Research (Street Insider)
- Biden open to dropping corporation tax rise in infrastructure talks (Financial Times)
- UK approves Pfizer jab for younger adolescents (Financial Times)
- Tiger’s Julian Robertson bets big tech stocks will keep marching higher (Finaicial Times)
- Washington to bar US investors from 59 Chinese companies (Financial Times)
Hedge Fund Tips with Tom Hayes – Podcast – Episode 75
Unusual Options Activity – JD.com, Inc. (JD)
Data Source: barchart
Today some institution/fund purchased 18,260 contracts of Sept. $77.5 strike calls (or the right to buy 1,826,000 shares of JD.com, Inc. (JD) at $77.5). The open interest was just 1,592 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – JD.com, Inc. (JD)”
Insider Buying in Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR)
Tom Hayes – Quoted in Reuters article – 6/3/2021
Thanks to Herb Lash for including me in his article on Reuters today. You can find it here: