Investors eyeing a purchase of Starwood Property Trust Inc. (Symbol: STWD) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $20.39/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in p
AMD stock has had a large number of in-the-money put options traded today along with a large call option tranche. This could be from bullish investors hedging their bets on their AMD shares.
Midday cotton futures are working a point to 15 points in the red. The March contract has stayed within a penny range from -27 to +66 points. The FOMC will release their interest rates decision this afternoon, with no change in short term rates expected. Hints or inferences about potential...
The midweek session is driving wheat back lower by another double digit drop. Chicago is currently 16 to 15 cents with 2.8% losses. KC HRW futures are trading with losses of as much 3.7% at midday. Spring wheat futures are 15 cents lower with 2% losses. Japan is tendering for...
Soy futures are trading lower for the midweek session, led by soymeal. Soymeal futures are down by 1.7% with $7 losses so far. Soybean Oil futures are also more than a percent in the red, with 50 to 62 point losses. The soybean market is down 9 ½ to 19...
Front month lean hog futures are currently 10 to 57 cents in the red for Wednesday. USDA’s National Average Base Hog price dropped by 11 cents to $49.79 on Wednesday morning. The CME Lean Hog Index was 83 cents lower on 12/08 to $67.93. USDA’s National Pork Carcass Cutout Value...
Front month cattle futures are trading 62 to 87 cents lower at midday. Feeders are trading $1.10 to $1.75 in the red. USDA again had limited cash activity on Tuesday, with limited $168 deals; but still not enough for a market test. Last week’s sales were mainly near $171. The...
Front month corn futures are trading with midday losses of as much as a nickel. The March contract is sitting 3c off the session low. December futures expire tomorrow. Weekly EIA data showed 1.074 million barrels of ethanol were produced daily during the week that ended 12/08. That was a...
Investors eyeing a purchase of Par Technology Corp. (Symbol: PAR) stock, but tentative about paying the going market price of $38.34/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particula
Investors eyeing a purchase of Cencora Inc (Symbol: COR) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $205.00/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the
Farfetch (NYSE: FTCH) stock is seeing big gains in Wednesday's trading. The company's share price was up 14.3% as of 2:15 p.m. ET, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Symbol: VRTX), where a total of 17,634 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.8 million underlying shares. That amounts
(RTTNews) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX) announced positive results from its Phase 2 dose-ranging study of the selective NaV1.8 inhibitor VX-548 in people with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy or DPN.
(RTTNews) - Medical technology firm Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. (IART) announced Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Acclarent, Inc. from Ethicon, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson MedTech company, for $275 million in cash at closing. This is subj
Seniors are often advised to wait until full retirement age (FRA) to sign up for Social Security. That age is based on your year of birth, and it's 67 for anyone born in 1960 or later.
(RTTNews) - Shattuck Labs, Inc. (STTK) reported initial topline dose-expansion data from ongoing Phase 1A/B clinical trial of SL-172154 in combination with azacitidine in frontline Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and TP53 mutant Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients. The company
SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) has been one of the best performing stocks of 2023. Despite the overall financial sector dramatically underperforming the S&P 500 index, SoFi's stock is up by 72% for the year as of Dec. 12.
After a rocky couple of years, the stock market has been surging in recent weeks. The S&P 500 is up by more than 12% since late October alone, and it's soared by just over 20% since the beginning of the year.
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