(RTTNews) - European stocks closed broadly higher on Friday with stocks from several sectors finding fairly good support ahead of quarterly earnings updates due from early next week. Although higher oil prices weighed a bit, easing concerns about interest rates and AI-related inv
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Amazon.com Inc (Symbol: AMZN), where a total volume of 436,402 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximatel
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Alphabet Inc (Symbol: GOOGL), where a total of 300,231 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 30.0 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 115.
The AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 496,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 42,000. Shares of DWSH were down about 0.2% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest vol
(RTTNews) - Friday, ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. (XOM) announced a preliminary statement that higher refining margins boosted its third-quarter earnings by an estimated $4.5 billion.
As of 11:37 AM ET, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) is down 0.34% to 7,718, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) has fallen 1.09% to 26,419, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) is up 0.29% to 52,327 as investors rotate out of tech stocks into defensive secto
Key PointsHome Depot is expanding with professional customers through its SRS and GMS acquisitions, and it expects fiscal 2026 comparable sales growth of approximately flat to 2.0%.