Tag: StockMarket

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. 4 Things to Look for in Friday’s Jobs Report (Barron’s)
  2. Amazon Stock Has Had a Tough Year. Why J.P. Morgan Sees Big Gains Ahead. (Barron’s)
  3. How Tesla Avoided the Chip Problems That Hit GM and Other Car Makers (Barron’s)
  4. A Lyme Disease Vaccine From Pfizer and Valneva Will Have to Avoid the Pitfalls of the Past (Barron’s)
  5. Dow Has Big Plans for Zero-Carbon Growth. What Investors Need to Know. (Barron’s)
  6. Teens Are Buying More Clothes. Nike Remains the Top Brand (Barron’s)
  7. Palantir Stock Is Surging on a Big Army Contract Win (Barron’s)
  8. Energy commodities have been the best-performing asset against inflation, research finds. Here’s what else works. (MarketWatch)
  9. Facebook Is Not a Teen Favorite, Survey Says. These Social Media Sites Are. (Barron’s)
  10. Carl Icahn Holds Significant Stake in Southwest Gas, Opposes Planned Deal (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Isolated China Becomes Last Country Still Chasing Covid Zero (Bloomberg)
  12. Amazon CEO Says Video Games Could Become the Largest Entertainment Business (Bloomberg)
  13. Biden Says He and China’s Xi Will Stick to ‘Taiwan Agreement’ (Bloomberg)
  14. Uber can now track your flight so a ride home is ready when you land (CNBC)
  15. Companies hired at a brisk pace in September despite fears about Covid and the economy, ADP says (CNBC)
  16. Turbulent market is fueling a never-before-seen trend between energy and S&P 500, Bespoke’s Paul Hickey finds (CNBC)
  17. The 4 catalysts that could drive Amazon 29% higher in the next year, according to JPMorgan (Business Insider)
  18. Is This the Real Turning Point for Aviation Stocks? (Wall Street Journal)
  19. OPEC Says Gas Crisis Shows Energy Transition Is Being Botched (Bloomberg)
  20. Theaters Are Counting on James Bond’s Heroics (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. 9 Stocks That Could Be Good Deals as Interest Rates Climb (Barron’s)
  2. BofA Securities Is Out With Its Top 10 Stock Picks for Q4 (247wallst)
  3. S. and Chinese Top Officials to Meet This Week, SCMP Says (Bloomberg)
  4. AstraZeneca Submits Covid Antibody Drug for U.S. Emergency Authorization (Barron’s)
  5. 10 Quality Stocks Ready to Bounce Back After September’s Selloff (Barron’s)
  6. Mark Cuban explains how ‘not all crypto is the same’ (foxbusiness)
  7. How green is your electric vehicle? (Financial Times)
  8. Seven Year High. The Energy Report 10/05/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  9. J&J amends FDA EUA submission for COVID-19 booster with data showing 94% protection against moderate to severe illness (marketwatch)
  10. Why a sudden spike in 10-year Treasury yields to around 1.5% shouldn’t spook investors, says BlackRock (marketwatch)
  11. Rate fears just another ‘white knuckle moment’ for tech stocks, says this analyst who’s forecasting rebound of at least 10% (marketwatch)
  12. OPEC+ Didn’t Need to Open the Spigots Yet (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Fed’s Evans: high inflation to fall as supply bottlenecks addressed (Reuters)
  14. These Assets Are Most Exposed to Commodity-Fueled Inflation (Bloomberg)
  15. Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin slams crypto as a ‘jihadist call’ against the dollar — and says regulation will oust those looking to make a quick buck (businessinsider)
  16. Warren Buffett warned Congress that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be an epic mistake – and called for the limit to be eliminated (businessinsider)
  17. S. faces a recession if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit within 2 weeks, Yellen says (CNBC)
  18. Unemployment recipients fell by more than half after Labor Day cliff (CNBC)
  19. Mastercard Stock Could Soon Perk Up (Barron’s)
  20. Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered How Our Bodies Feel Heat and Touch (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Monday…

  1. Bull Markets Usually Don’t End With a Bang (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Higher Yields Should Help Stocks Like Industrials and Materials. Why They Haven’t. (Barron’s)
  3. 4 Things to Look for in Friday’s Jobs Report (Barron’s)
  4. A Vote on Biden’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Was Delayed. Watch These Stocks. (Barron’s)
  5. 4 Dividend Stocks for Some Inflation Protection (Barron’s)
  6. Record Chinese Aircraft Sorties Near Taiwan Prompt U.S. Warning (Wall Street Journal)
  7. China Evergrande to raise $5 billion from property unit sale – Global Times (Yahoo! Finance)
  8. White House announces new trade regulations on China (Fox Business)
  9. India’s $1 Trillion Opportunity (institutionalinvestor)
  10. At Uber and Lyft, Ride-Price Inflation Is Here to Stay (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Biden’s new China trade plan echoes Trump’s, but assumes Beijing won’t change (Reuters)
  12. The bull case for investing in China (Financial Times)
  13. OPEC World. The Energy Report 10/04/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  14. OPEC+ Agrees to Continue Gradual Monthly Supply Hikes; Oil Jumps (Bloomberg)
  15. Wall Street Mourns Chief Citi Stock Strategist Levkovich (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Sunday…

  1. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (advisorperspectives)
  2. China Tech Investor: Evergrande: How we got here, and what it means, with Ming Zhao (technode)
  3. Xi Jinping’s clampdowns herald a tense political year in China (economist)
  4. China sends 77 warplanes into Taiwan defense zone over two days, Taipei says (cnn)
  5. Best Luxury Dude Ranches to Explore North America’s Wide, Open Spaces (mensjournal)
  6. Big Tech’s Stock Market Leadership Is Threatened By Rising Rates (bloomberg)
  7. Iran Told U.S. to Unblock $10 Billion to Start Nuclear Talks (bloomberg)
  8. The End of China’s Rise (foreignaffairs)
  9. This Is What the Pandemic Did to the U.S. Rail System (Bloomberg)
  10. Amazon’s $30B+ ad business, explained (thehustle)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Democrats Try to Push Through Biggest Healthcare Overhaul Since Obamacare (Barron’s)
  2. For the Stock Market, Taxes Trump Stimulus (Barron’s)
  3. 10 Undervalued Wide-Moat Stocks (Morningstar)
  4. Airlines May Get a Business-Travel Boost. (Barrons)
  5. The Milken Way (neckar)
  6. Chemicals Firms See Large Stock Buys (Barron’s)
  7. Jack Ma: Overcoming Failures & Rejections (acquirersmultiple)
  8. Meritor’s Truck Parts Are Geared Toward an Electric Vehicle Future. Its Stock Could Double. (Barron’s)
  9. Online traders see 76% likelihood that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will stay for a second term (MarketWatch)
  10. The Colorado River Is in Crisis. The Walton Family Is Pushing a Solution. (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Merck Pill Intended to Treat Covid-19 Succeeds in Key Study (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Billionaire Charlie Munger’s Timely Apartment Bet Began With Hebrew Bible (Bloomberg)
  13. Warren Buffett dubbed his private jet ‘The Indefensible’ — then renamed it ‘The Indispensable’ after realizing it was worth the money (Business Insider)
  14. Energy rally has more room to run and these four stocks should benefit, Piper Sandler says (CNBC)
  15. Leon Cooperman: Conditions for a large market decline are not present (cnbc)
  16. Why a pill you take at home could change the direction of the pandemic (MarketWatch)
  17. Will the next web be built on ethereum? (Financial Times)
  18. How telehealth could become a $175 billion market in the next 5 years (MarketWatch)
  19. Merck COVID news could ‘ignite’ health care sector: Art Hogan (Fox Business)
  20. Low-wage workers are getting ‘eye-popping’ pay raises, Goldman Sachs says (CNN)
  21. Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years (Futurism)
  22. Michael Dell, Founder of Dell — How to Play Nice But Win (#534) (Tim Ferriss)
  23. 5 Lessons Evergrande Taught Us About The Chinese Economy (npr)
  24. Think Different | Sam Zell (youtube)
  25. Berkshire shares are below Buffett’s late-spring repurchase prices (cnbc)

Unusual Options Activity – Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)

Data Source: barchart

Today some institution/fund purchased 15,918 contracts of Jan 2022 $150 strike calls (or the right to buy 1,591,800 shares of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) at $150). The open interest was 5,046 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)”