Crimea – totemic, strategically essential, Putin’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” – is starting to look unseaworthy. There are four main arteries supplying it. To the east, the Kerch road and rail bridge and two ferries. To the north, partly in response to previous attacks, a rail route. There are normal roads there as well, but they […]
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A surge of trading in some short-dated GameStop options contracts on Wednesday suggested to some market participants that Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, may have sold some of his recently-disclosed options position in the company. Gill, who helped launch the meme-stock phenomenon in […]
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A surge of trading in some short-dated GameStop options contracts on Wednesday suggested to some market participants that Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, may have sold some of his recently-disclosed options position in the company. Gill, who helped launch the meme-stock phenomenon in […]
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A surge of trading in some short-dated GameStop options contracts on Wednesday suggested to some market participants that Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, may have sold some of his recently-disclosed options position in the company. Gill, who helped launch the meme-stock phenomenon in […]
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A surge of trading in some short-dated GameStop options contracts on Wednesday suggested to some market participants that Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, may have sold some of his recently-disclosed options position in the company. Gill, who helped launch the meme-stock phenomenon in […]
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – The dollar’s relentless strength in the recent past will make way for minor weakness over the next 12 months, according to FX strategists in a Reuters poll, who generally agreed the dollar was overvalued. Analysts have been predicting dollar weakness just around the corner for months. But the greenback […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Parscale was the digital guru behind Donald Trump‘s surprise victory in the 2016 election and was promoted to manage the 2020 campaign. But he didn’t last long on that job: His personal life unraveled in public and he later texted a friend that he felt “guilty” for helping Trump […]
Neither political party is in a hurry to lower budget deficits. That has big implications for the bond market. – Getty Images The Treasury on Wednesday is due to make its quarterly refunding announcement, its sometimes market-moving plan on how to finance its needs for what will be $243 billion this quarter. Most Read from […]
(Bloomberg) — Exposure to stocks is now so high that any weakness is likely to set off a bigger slump once investors start to cut back on their long positions, according to top Wall Street strategists. Most Read from Bloomberg A survey from Bank of America Corp. found that investor allocation to equities is at […]
(Bloomberg) — The combination of strong US growth and sticky inflation is raising the odds the Federal Reserve hikes rather than cuts interest rates, bringing borrowing costs to as high as 6.5% next year, according to UBS Group AG strategists. Most Read from Bloomberg While the bank’s base case is for two rate cuts this […]
Stocks ripped higher in the first three months of the year amid investor bets that the US economy remains on solid footing. Now, the key debate on Wall Street entering the second quarter is whether the S&P 500 (^GSPC) has any more room to run after its best start to a year since 2019. The market rally has broadened […]
A second term for Joe Biden? Why he may surprise the polls. – Getty Images The wait for Nvidia earnings is nearly over, but with the results not coming until after the closing bell, a jittery Wall Street seems set to stretch losses to three straight losing sessions. Fed minutes are also en route. Most […]