Plus, Cloudflare options are affordably priced at the momentThe shares of Cloudflare Inc (NYSE:NET) are down 1.1% to trade at $29.10 at last check, taking an extended breather from their May 15 all-time high of $30.78. In fact, NET has taken a 3.7% haircut in the last five trading days. The good news is that this pullback has brought the I.T. stock within a historically bullish trendline.Accordin...Read More
Calls are booming for the popular space tourism stockListed below are 20 stocks that have attracted the highest weekly options volume over the last 10 trading days thanks to data courtesy of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White -- who also highlighted new entrants in yellow. Standing out this week is Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE), a company that investors have kept a cl...Read More
The Dow is up over 290 points middayStock's are extending their morning gains into midday, looking to piggyback off of last week's wild rally. The Dow JonesIndustrial Average (DJI) is up over 290 points, while the S&P500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) are also trading well above breakeven at the halfway point. Optimism over the economy's reopening remains strong, with airline and ret...Read More
MIK received a price-target hike from Credit Suisse, tooThe shares of craft retailer Michaels Companies Inc (NASDAQ:MIK) are up 35.9% at $7.49 at last check --one of the best stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) so far today -- fighting further out of the penny stock range. Today's rise comes after J.P. Morgan added MIK to its analyst focus list, upgrading it to "overweight" from "neutral...Read More
Mark Zuckerberg said he would explore ideas to advance racial justice and voter engagement on the platformThe shares of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) are down 0.05% at $229.62 this morning, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday he would review the social platform's content policies and explore ideas to advance racial justice and voter engagement. Until then, Zuckerberg had maintained he woul...Read More
Thor Industries' third-quarter profits and revenue were better than Wall Street expectedThor Industries, Inc. (NYSE:THO) stepped up to the earnings plate this morning and knocked it out of the park, reporting fiscal third-quarter profits of 43 cents on revenue of $1.68 billion, both of which came in higher than Wall Street's estimates. Additionally, the recreational vehicle manufacturer said it w...Read More
The equity hit a record high atop the $331 level last weekApple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock is taking a step back from Friday's all-time highs atop the $331 level, off 0.2% at $330.70 at last check. This move comes amid news that users of the tech giant's Apple Card will soon be able to pay for some of its products, including iPads and AirPods, in monthly, interest-free increments. Users with an Appl...Read More
Dow futures are up over 200 points this morningFutures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are up over 200 points above fair value this morning, bolstered by continued economic reopenings across the U.S. S&P 500 Index (SPX) futures are inching higherwhile Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) futures struggle for direction, as optimism carries over from Friday's record-breaking highs in the wake of an u...Read More
The gold miners’ stocksjust rolled over into a correction, raising concerns about the staying power oftheir massive post-panic upleg. Thesehigher prevailing gold prices have driven very-strong fundamentals at the goldminers. But they are entering the seasonally-weaksummer doldrums. And current sentimentand technicals play major roles in governing when uplegs remain healthy...Read More
As Great Lockdown was positive for the gold prices, the Great Unlock will be bad, right? We invite you to read our today’s article about the Great Unlock and find out whether it really must be negative for the gold prices. It’s all government’s fault, right? After all, the Great Lockdown was introduced by the federal and state governments introduced, wasn’t? Well, not quite...Read More
The NFTRH plan is and has been that the gold mining sector, due to the fundamentals implied by the handy graphic below, could eventually lead a world full of inflatables higher. The miners, leveraging gold’s out performance to most everything else during liquidity crises and even deflation, move first and draw in the inflationist bugs later. If the macro goes inflationary the miners will lik...Read More
Workers at Italian flat steel producer ArcelorMittal Italia will go on strike on Tuesday June 9 to protest job cuts, presented as part of new industrial plan, Italian trade unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm said on June 6. ArcelorMittal presented a new industrial plan to the Italian authorities last week that included 5,000 job cuts, market sources told Fastmarkets. In early March this year, before the Co...Read More
Honda and Nissan will restart operations at their respective UK facilities today following pandemic related shutdowns, the companies said on Monday June 8. Honda will restart production at its Swindon site over the week commencing June 8, where there will be a staggered return with all shifts returning. New safety measures will be introduced, including temperature checks, staggering of shifts and...Read More
Reviewed safeguard measures proposed by the European Commission (EC) disregard the sharp drop in European steel demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic, putting the industry at further risk, the chief executive officers of the EU steel industry and European steel association Eurofer said in a joint statement on Monday June 8."The European steel industry's survival is at further, serious risk because t...Read More
Workers at Italian flat steel producer ArcelorMittal Italia will go on strike on Tuesday June 9 to protest job cuts, presented as part of new industrial plan, Italian trade unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm said on June 6. ArcelorMittal presented a new industrial plan to the Italian authorities last week that included 5,000 job cuts, market sources told Fastmarkets. In early March this year, before the Co...Read More
Honda and Nissan will restart operations at their respective UK facilities today following pandemic related shutdowns, the companies said on Monday June 8. Honda will restart production at its Swindon site over the week commencing June 8, where there will be a staggered return with all shifts returning. New safety measures will be introduced, including temperature checks, staggering of shifts and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday June 8 that are worth another look.Workers at Italian flat steel producer ArcelorMittal Italia will go on strike on Tuesday June 9 to protest job cuts, presented as part of new industrial plan, Italian trade unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm said on June 6.The main workers' union representing employees of Cobre Panam??, Utramipa, is pressur...Read More
China is leading the world in a V-shaped recovery from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, with other countries slower to recover but showing signs of green shoots, according to the chief financial officer of Alcoa. William Oplinger told the 11th annual Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Materials summit that China's industrial production, vehicle production, commercial starts and food and d...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Europe continued to slide during the week to Friday June 5 amid low demand.Fastmarkets' daily steel HRC index, domestic, exw Northern Europe was calculated at ?,?398.75 ($450.26) per tonne on Friday, down by ?,?1.96 per tonne week on week and by ?,?24.25 per tonne month on month.Friday's index was calculated based on deals and workable prices heard at ?,...Read More
Reviewed safeguard measures proposed by the European Commission (EC) disregard the sharp drop in European steel demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic, putting the industry at further risk, the chief executive officers of the EU steel industry and European steel association Eurofer said in a joint statement on Monday June 8."The European steel industry's survival is at further, serious risk because t...Read More