The entertainment name is expected to post its first-quarter results after the close this eveningDave & Buster's Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) is in hot water ahead of its first-quarter earnings report, due out after the close this evening. The stock is down 15.02% at $14.71 this afternoon, pacing for its third consecutive win. On top of that, the equity is eyeing its first close south of the te...Read More
Attention will be focused on retail sales and weekly jobs dataThe economic calendar is looking somewhat bare next week, though investors will definitely have their eyes on another weekly employment update on Thursday, as well as retail data earlier in the week -- two indicators that have helped gauge the economic environment as lockdown measures continue to ease in the U.S. Elsewhere, the Organiza...Read More
Puts are double the usual volume in the options pitsLululemon Athletica Inc (NASDAQ:LULU) is set to enter the earnings confessional after the close today, June 11, posting its fiscal first-quarter results. The stock is down 3.6% ahead of the event, despite no fewer than five price target hikes this week, including from MKM Partners to $378 from $230.Despite the dip, LULU is still up 84.3% in the...Read More
A spike in coronavirus cases is sparking a selloff in the retail and airline sectorsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is down over 1,000 points at midday, as retail and flight stocks plummet amid a spike in coronavirus cases. While stay-at-home staples like Zoom (ZM) and Netflix (NFLX) are getting a boost on renewed anxieties surrounding thepandemic, it's not enough to help the tech-heavy...Read More
Liberty Steel plans to replace the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) at its Galati plant in Romania with two electric-arc furnaces (EAFs), with the aim of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, the company announced this week.Within the next three to five years Liberty also plans to install a 2.50 million tonnes-per-year direct reduced iron (DRI) module at the Galati plant, a Liberty Galati...Read More
The EU filed charges against Amazon regarding the company's treatment of third-party sellersThe European Union (EU) is filing formal antitrust charges against Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) alleging the e-commerce giant used data from third-party sellers to launch competing private-labels, according to Wall Street Journal sources. According to another report, if AMZN is found guilty, it could b...Read More
Just Eat Takeaway is planning on buying GrubHub in an all-stock dealIt was just announced that British-based food delivery name Just Eat Takeaway (JET) agreed to buy GrubHub Inc (NYSE:GRUB) in an all-stock deal worth $7.3 billion at JET's Tuesday closing price. Just Eat Takeaway beat out Uber Technologies (UBER) which was also vying for a deal with GrubHub. Meanwhile, GrubHub sent an email to empl...Read More
The most magical place on earth will reopen Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure on July 17The shares of Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) are down 3.6% at $117.68 this morning, after the so-called "most magical place on earth" announced it will reopen Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure on July 17, pending approval from local and state authorities. The California theme parks h...Read More
There's been a spike in coronavirus cases in California and TexasFutures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are down over 800 points this morning, as Wall Street gets rocked by fears of a potential second wave of coronavirus amid a spike in cases from states such as California and Texas. Accordingto Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 cases have crossed the 2 million mark, with over 112,000...Read More
By: Gary Savage Gold attacked last Friday, right on que. Gold is churning $1800 resistance zone. Banks still stuck in this huge short position:https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold is $20 from new close highs! Gold negated downtrend on Tuesday, Wednesday trying to build an uptrend. The $1733 area is support on the 18-dma:Read More
Gold is on the way to $1836.70. Comments by Federal Reserve chairman at the Federal Reserve meeting is the reason. Correction of gold price in US session will come only if US weekly jobless numbers beats street expectations by a big margin. Selling gold and silver on the basis of US May nonfarm payrolls has resulted in short covering yesterday post FOMC surprise. I was focused more on copper and...Read More
I am afraid I have got some bad news for all the Silver bugs out there, for the gold / silver ratio chart makes it crystal clear that Silver is NOT a safe haven precious metal. Yes you may still call it a precious metal but it is NOT GOLD! That's for sure! So come to terms with the fact that Silver given the facts on this chart is NOT a safe haven. For if Silver were a safe haven the Gold / Silver...Read More
Thesad truth is that few people really know very much about gold, especially whenit comes to investing in the metal. They don’t understand what makes it sovaluable and unique, and they know even less what moves its price. Since Idon’t want to spend an hour on why it is so precious, I’ll just try and sum itup in a sentence: Gold is extremely rare, beautiful, portable, transferable...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
Some might say “Silver’s performance over the past several weeks has been nothing short of phenomenal.” Others talk and act as if all of their wildly crazy price predictions have already come true.The chart (source) below is a one-year history of daily prices for SLV (Silver ETF)… As of this writing, SLV is up forty-eight percent since striking its most recent low of $10.8...Read More
The most recent U.S. jobs report, which he believes is bound for revision, has Michael Ballanger musing on how economic policies are reflected—or distorted—in the precious metals markets.I was sitting in my den looking out over the swamp—er—lake tonight when it appeared as though something was flailing around near the shoreline. So I threw on my deck shoes and went for a st...Read More
European producers of hot-rolled coil will announce domestic price increases in the middle of June despite low demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday June 11.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was calculated at ?,?396.70 ($450.74) per tonne on Thursday June 11, down by ?,?1.22 per tonne from ?,?397.92 per tonne on Wednesday June 10.The index w...Read More
All base metals lost ground during trading on Thursday June 11, with the London Metal Exchange three-month aluminium price falling by 2% to close at $1,601.50 per tonne.There were 15,086 lots of aluminium traded on Thursday, and the underlying aluminium price touched an intraday high of $1,629.50 per tonne, although that is still lower than Wednesday's closing price of $1,638 per tonne.LME alumini...Read More