Jefferies thinks the stock's risk/reward is fair at current levelsJefferies downgraded Papa John's International, Inc. (NASDAQ:PZZA) to "hold" from "buy," but left its $58 price target intact. The brokerage firm said "material upside" to sales seem unlikely given increased competition in the pizza delivery space, and believes that while same-store sales will improve in coming quarters, this is alr...Read More

CEO Steve Easterbrook was ousted after the board deemed a consensual relationship he was having with an employee inappropriate The shares of McDonald's Corp (NYSE:MCD) stock are trading lower this morning after the company fired its Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook for a consensual relationship with another employee that the board deemed inappropriate. Easterbrook in an email said the rel...Read More

OKE is still 8% off its mid-September peakNatural gas specialist ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE:OKE) is moving higher in today's trading, last seen up 1.1% at $71.05. The equity is enjoying an upgrade to "buy" from "neutral" and an $81 price target at Goldman Sachs. Coming on the heels of a respectable third-quarter report last week, analyst Michael Lapides said his outlook for 2020 through 2022 represents a...Read More

The chip stock has found support at its 10-day moving averageThe shares of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) are up 2% to trade at $206.61 today, enjoying a price-target hike to $200 from $165 at Craig-Hallum. That's two bull notes in as many weeks for the chip stock, and has NVDA already erasing last week's 1% decline. Nvidia stock took a nice bounce off the $170 region in late September, and ha...Read More

Hopes that U.S. companies will soon be able to sell to Huawei is sending stocks higher this morning Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are signaling a record high today, up more than 100 points in pre-market trading after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Sunday confirmed that U.S. companies would be granted licenses to do business with Huawei in the near future. The S&P 500 Index (SPX)...Read More

The U.S. Justice Department and SEC are investigating Under ArmourUnder Armour Inc (NYSE:UAA) stock is sinking in electronic trading -- down 13.4%, at last check -- on news the athletic apparel retailer is being investigated by U.S. federal regulators over possible accounting fraud. The Wall Street Journal initially reported on the probe, which is being conducted by the Justice Department and the...Read More

Allogene Therapeutics has received many bull notes since going public last yearCAR-T therapy has been the big thing in oncology in recent years, and one name at the forefront of the immuno-oncology movement is Allogene Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ALLO). In fact, Canaccord Genuity came out with a note this morning praising the company, saying its allogeneic CAR-Ts could be a market leader in the allog...Read More

Potential support resides at prior highs, which coincided with previous Fed rate cuts"A couple of factors that could be supportive of stocks in the weeks ahead is the contrarian implications of low earnings expectations as we move into earnings season. And, since late April, when the SPX was trading around 2,950, short interest on SPX component stocks is up nearly 11%..."-- Monday Morning Outlook,...Read More

Tightness was beginning to show in the European market for ferro-silicon in the week ended Friday November 1, but prices in China held steady despite lower interest among potential buyers, and the US market remained flat. European market steady but some sources start to notice tightness Chinese domestic alloy prices steady amid lower availability Chinese export market flat on reduced inquiries US...Read More

Ukraine's sole flat steel producer Metinvest significantly increased slab sales in the third quarter of 2019, helped by the commissioning of a new continuous casting machine at its Illych Iron & Steel Works earlier this year. Slab sales to third parties soared by 50,87% year on year, to 519,000 tonnes, compared with 344,000 tonnes in July-September 2018, the company said on November 1.The Illych w...Read More

Export prices for hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil from the Commonwealth of Independent States stabilized during the week ended Monday November 4, although demand was too weak to support mills' attempts to increase prices.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel HRC, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $360-375 per tonne on November 4, unchanged week on week.Offers of Russia-origin HRC were heard at $38...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAIn our most recent editorial we concluded by observing a few positives in the gold and silver stocks. W concluded with: "Their performance over the weeks ahead could give us an early hint as to how much longer the correction will last."Fast forward another week and a few positives has morphed into a handful of positives. First let's look at GDX. In the chart below we p...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 2.61 percent, followed closely by palladium, up 2.39 percent. Both platinum and palladium experienced strong demand as hedge funds pushed their net-long positions to five and three-week highs, respectively. Gold traders and analysts were mostly bullish in the weekly Bloomberg survey due to renewed concerns over a trade deal between...Read More

RambusI've been holding off on writing this Weekend Report for the US stock markets until I got just a little more confirmation that the next impulse move higher is underway. Last weeks price action is strongly suggesting that the nearly 2 year consolidation phase is drawing to a close. Lets say I'm seeing some green shoots sprouting up in many different areas of the markets.Most investors rely...Read More

What are we to make of Wall Street's exuberance on Friday over news concerning a U.S. economic expansion that refuses to die? Employers are hiring, consumers are spending and business is humming despite a dramatic economic slowdown in Asia, Europe, South America and elsewhere. Perhaps America really is an economic island, one blessed with unstinting support from a central bank that has finally s...Read More

The London Metal Exchange three-month aluminium price closed at $1,815 per tonne on Monday November 4, its highest price since September following 13-month-high daily trading volumes. More than 23,350 lots of aluminium were traded by the close on Monday - the most since October 2018. Supporting higher price action, LME aluminium stocks remain on a downtrend after edging higher in early-October, wi...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday November 4 that are worth another look.AM Investco, the consortium led by ArcelorMittal that was put together to purchase Italian steelmaker Ilva, is pulling out of the deal, ArcelorMittal said on November 4.Shanghai-bonded copper stocks continued to fall in October, but the decline was slower than in September due to the re...Read More

Sideways period might have been the calm before the storm.Weekly and daily charts are slightly bullish.Commitment of Traders Report remains very negative.Sentiment has cooled down in recent weeks.Seasonality is very promising until end of February.Since 3rd of September, gold and the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD) have been consolidating for nearly two months and now seem to be getting ready f...Read More

Eldorado Gold reported its Q3 results this week, and continues to track near its 2019 guidance provided in February.The Lamaque Mine PEA is due later this year, with the potential for a slight expansion in annual production.The company is on track to deliver on guidance, but it remains inferior to its peers fundamentally given its operations in mostly tier-3 jurisdictions, and high costs.It's been...Read More

Gold closing above $1500 to $1503 is extremely bullish.Inflation, debt and rising consumer prices may cause and explosion in the metals, especially gold.The daily signals average is $1509, while the S1 target that was activated is $1523.$1523 is the beginning of distribution of supply for the daily and weekly numbers. Commodity Inflation May Trigger a Gold Rush Although the government disagrees, i...Read More