SFIX earnings are due after Monday's closeOptions volume is running hot on Stitch Fix Inc (NASDAQ:SFIX), as the retailer prepares to report earnings after the stock market closes next Monday, Dec. 9. With a little under two hours left in today's trading, around 7,000 puts and 5,400 calls have changed hands on SFIX -- three times what's typically seen at this point, and volume pacing in the 92nd an...Read More
MGM has been holding near its 52-week peak from NovemberMGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM) hit an annual high of $32.24 back on Nov. 27, and was last seen holding just below this milestone after finding support in recent sessions near the 20-day moving average, checking in at $32.12. On the day, MGM stock is up 0.6%, even after SunTrust Robinson began coverage on the casino owner with a "hold" r...Read More
The Dow made outsized moves in both directions this weekThe first week of December was a wild one on Wall Street, with the Dow making triple-digit moves on four separate occasions. Ahead of the Dec. 15 deadline for the U.S. add tariffs on more Chinese goods, investors reacted to a wide range of trade rhetoric from both sides. Stocks took a hit early in the week after President Donald Trump suggest...Read More
Oil is getting a boost on an OPEC agreementStocks continue to climb after this morning's impressive jobs report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) sporting a more than 300-point lead at the halfway point. Positive China buzz and rising oil prices are only adding to the bullish bias, after Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members agreed on even deeper production c...Read More
Trade Desk stock has more than doubled in 2019Digital advertising firm Trade Desk Inc (NASDAQ:TTD) is moving higher this morning, following an upgrade to "buy" from "hold" at Needham. The brokerage firm said the company's top line should get a boost as demand for ads rise ahead of next year's U.S. presidential election. From a broader perspective, six of the 13 following analysts held a "buy" or...Read More
All other ATNX analysts are bullishAthenex Inc (NASDAQ:ATNX) yesterday touched its highest point since August, testing the site of a massive bear gap from that time, recently enjoying support from the 10-day moving average. Thursday's price action came as a result of news of a $60 million private stock offering with a group of institutional investors, and the shares are up another 1% today at $16....Read More
Cassava announced promising results for a mid-stage study of its lead Alzheimer's drug The shares of Cassava Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:SAVA) are having another blowout day of trading, already up 24.4% at $2.24, and earlier touched a fresh annual high of $2.31. Now pacing for their highest close in over a year, the stock's surge comes after the drugmaker's lead Alzheimer's treatment, PTI-125, showed eff...Read More
Call traders are targeting weeklies that expire later todayA big earnings winner to close out the week is Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA), after the cosmetics retailer reported adjusted third-quarter earnings of $2.25 per share, easily toppling the $2.13 estimates. Revenue and same-store sales met expectations, with the company touting its higher-end cosmetics products. No fewer than five brokera...Read More
China said it will some tariffs on U.S. soybean and pork importsStock futures are pointed confidently higher to end the week, as Wall Street reacts to a blowout jobs report. The Labor Department said the U.S. added 266,000 jobs in November -- handily toppling estimates for 187,000 new positions -- while the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures, which were in...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 346,52555,82093,891203,920526,707644,336676,418 Change from Prior Reporting Period 21,2392,16836912,37229,69233,98032,229 Traders 20552745053280158 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 56,68024,598701,016 -2,232-48131,748 non reportable positionsChang...Read More
Gold has been correcting following last summer's powerful bull-breakout upleg. Since peaking, gold has inexorably drifted lower in a well-defined downtrend. Traders are wondering when this necessary and healthy sentiment-rebalancing selloff will bottom, paving the way for gold's next upleg. But this correction still has a ways to run, according to speculators' gold-futures positioning wh...Read More
- Gary SavageGold market update: Signs of a similar H1-2019 pattern? Similar pattern emerging to earlier this year with gold now reversing higher with higher lows and higher highs -- we are starting to stair-step up. Banks going to get stuck in another short squeeze? All the poor saps who sold out at the intermediate bottom..December 5th video update.Gary Savagehttp://blog.smartmoney...Read More
Gary TanashianWe all know that the gold and silver Commitments of Traders are very extended and at levels of commercial net shorts and large spec net longs that tend to be in place at tops in the metals. Well, the metals topped in the summer, so what does that tell us?For one thing it tells us that bull market rules are different from bear market rules as per this post from August as gold was to...Read More
Originally published on Sat Nov 30 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net: I want to take you back a bit in time so you can develop the appropriate perspective of a bottoming process in the metals market. - Avi GilburtFor those of you that were with us back towards the end of 2015, you may remember that I was being quite vocal of the fact that I was heavily buying mining stocks. In fact,...Read More
After today's US November nonfarm payrolls, traders will take positions for next week's FOMC meet. NFP will give hint on next week's FOMC meet. Look into US economy and global economy in totality and not just from interest rate perspective. UK election and December 15 deadline for US-China trade deal will also be under close scrutiny by traders and investors alike. US president Trump and his imp...Read More
A few weeks ago we noted the bullish setup for 2020. Macro developments, one way or another will tend to favor Gold. There isn’t a realistic scenario that isn’t Gold bullish. Note the comments from various Fed-heads last week. They are laying the groundwork to target higher than 2% inflation and won’t consider raising rates anytime soon. And if they have to resume cutting rates G...Read More
Brazil's domestic rebar price was unchanged in December while market participants braced for an upcoming hike in January amid higher demand.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic monthly, delivered Brazil at 2,220-2,320 Reais ($528-552) per tonne on Friday December 6, unchanged from the previous month but up by 1.7% from 2,165-2,300 Reais per...Read More
You may think (or hope) that in your daily life you don’t need to worry about unknowingly eating or otherwise ingesting crude oil or any of its many, many petrochemical byproducts. But you would be wrong. And not just a little wrong--very, very wrong. Petroleum-based substances are in all kinds of innocuous-seeming things that we willingly put into our bodies. Even though petrochemicals are...Read More
Sir Brian Bender has seen three London Metal Exchange chief executive officers, the sale to Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing and a great number of other changes over more than nine years as the exchange's chairman, he told Fastmarkets in an interview, but the open outcry system will remain for as long as members support it. Bender was on holiday in Australia when a headhunter emailed to ask whether...Read More
Gold prices pushed sharply higher on Tuesday but have stalled ever since. Has the recovery rally completed? I think it has.Leave it to Trump to go and say something that causes the equity markets to print a two-day drop that wipes out more than a week of gains. But the tone in the markets might be changing.The US president went from saying that the trade deal might get delayed until after the elec...Read More