Weekly Market Recap: A Week of Highs, Lows, and IT Outages
Monday: The week started on a high note with anticipation of potential interest rate cuts this year, leading to gains across major indices. The Dow rose by 0.5%, the S&P 500 by 0.3%, and the Nasdaq by 0.4%. Tuesday: Sentiment was further boosted by strong earnings from Morgan Stanley and UnitedHealth, with the Dow jumping 1.9%, the S&P 500 [...]
How to Sell Covered Calls: Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Covered Calls
Of all the different ways you can make money trading options, selling covered calls is one of the most popular - and yet, one of the most complex and misunderstood stock investment strategies. While it offers substantial upside with fairly limited downside, actually selling covered calls involves many moving parts. That’s why we created this resource on how to sell [...]
CrowdStrike Outage Causes Worldwide Chaos, Shares Fall 9%: Should You Sell CRWD?
CrowdStrike (CRWD) is known as one of the leading cybersecurity companies in the world, tasked with safeguarding the likes of Microsoft Systems and many other massive businesses. Last night, though, the firm released an update that sent systems down around the world, leading to many flights being grounded. Windows PCs were stuck with the “blue screen of death”, or [...]
Dominos Drops 12% on Weak Revenue, Decreased Store Openings: Is it Time to Sell DPZ?
Domino’s Pizza inc. (DPZ) reported second-quarter earnings early Thursday morning. While the company’s profits surpassed analyst expectations, the focus was on a disappointing revenue miss. As a result, the stock is down more than 12% so far today. Here are the results: EPS: $4.03 per share compared to the $3.68 consensus Revenue: $1.098 billion compared to the $1.103 billion [...]
ASML’s Q2 Earnings and Sales Beat the Estimate, But the Stock is Down 10%: Should You Sell?
ASML (ASML) reported second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations on both the top and bottom lines and yet, the market responded by sending shares 10% lower. The Dutch semiconductor manufacturer saw a surge in demand for the quarter, beating its original forecast and culminating in the following results: Sales: $6.79 billion vs $6.53 billion consensus. Earnings: $4.36 a [...]
The Current Trends and Price Drivers of Crude Oil – and Their Economic Implications
At the time of writing, the crude oil market - like many other markets around it - is highly volatile thanks to the uncertain economic backdrop within which we currently live. At the moment, the world is characterized by a number of short term influences that are impacting the prices of many asset classes - oil being no exception. [...]
