Be in the know. 8 key reads for Monday…

  1. Analysts: These Beat-Up Stocks Will Gush Big Gains In 2020 (Investor’s Business Daily)
  2. China boosts lending to small businesses despite risk (Financial Times)
  3. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Applied Materials, Boeing, Travelers And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  4. US Goods Trade Deficit Shrinks To 27 Month Low (ZeroHedge)
  5. The 10 Stocks With the Biggest Comebacks of 2019 (Barron’s)
  6. IBM Bet Everything on an Acquisition in 2019. Now They Need To Grow Again. (Barron’s)
  7. Is QE4 Underway? One Veteran Banking Analyst Says ‘Yes’ (Street Insider)
  8. The Best—and Worst—Company Stocks in the Dow This Year (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Sunday…

  1. For Energy, Poor People Deserve To Be Rich (Forbes)
  2. These biomedical breakthroughs of the decade saved lives and reduced suffering (CNBC)
  3. Prescription for Disaster ()
  4. The Work Week, Episode 4: Is The Unemployment Rate Broken? (NPR Planet Money)
  5. Why Economists Still Don’t Understand Money (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  6. Musk’s Boring Co. Vegas Tunnel ‘Hopefully’ Operational in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  7. Eddie Murphy’s Return to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Made For the Best Episode in Years (Maxim)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Biotech Is Market Front-Runner Heading Into Election Year (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Tom Steyer, Daniel Och, Netflix Inc (NFLX), Antares Pharma Inc (ATRS), and More ()
  3. Oil Posts Longest Run of Weekly Gains Since April on Crude Draw (Bloomberg)
  4. The best investment of the decade turned $1 into $90,000 ()
  5. Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2020 (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Stock Market Forecast 2020: Clear Skies From Fed, China Trade, But Election Clouds Loom (Investor’s Business Daily)
  7. The 25 Most Popular Robb Report Stories of 2019 (Robb Report)
  8. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  9. 4 Dirty Little Secrets You Need To Know About Successful People (Forbes)
  10. US Oil Rig Count Falls In Last Week Of 2019 (Yahoo! Finance)

Unusual Options Activity – Briggs & Stratton Corporation (BGG)

Data Source: barchart

Today some institution/fund purchased 614 contracts of July $7.50 strike calls (or the right to buy 61,400 shares of Briggs & Stratton Corporation (BGG) at $7.50). The open interest was just 231 prior to this purchase.

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