Record VIX Bets Keep Surging Amid Wall Street Mixed Signals by Joseph Ciolli & Inyoung Hwang Open interest on VIX call options highest since September 2014 Long-VIX securities have absorbed $3.2 billion over nine weeks One thing’s certain about the market for equity volatility — it’s jumping. Why that’s happening is a source of debate on Wall Street. Going long...
Record VIX Bets Keep Surging Amid Wall Street Mixed Signals by Joseph Ciolli & Inyoung Hwang Open interest on VIX call options highest since September 2014 Long-VIX securities have absorbed $3.2 billion over nine weeks One thing’s certain about the market for equity volatility — it’s jumping. Why that’s happening is a source of debate on Wall Street. Going...
With Everyone Selling Stocks, Who Is Buying? Goldman Explains by ZeroHedge There has been some confusion in recent weeks about one unexplained aspect of the rising market: just who is buying? The reason for the confusion is not only the previously documented buyer strike by the smart money (hedge funds, institutions and private clients), which as we reported a few days have sold stocks for...
10 stocks that Morgan Stanley says you should buy ahead of earnings season by Sue Chang While companies have been preparing investors for a downbeat earnings season, there are still a handful of stocks that promise to deliver above and beyond Wall Street’s expectations. Leading that short list of potential overachievers are Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Fitbit...
Traders are starting to bet big on emerging markets by Leanne Miller If you're following the money, it looks like emerging markets are back. Since early March, net flows into the popular iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) have topped $4.6 billion. "We continue to see flow moving out of developed markets" and into emerging markets, Stacey Gilbert of Susquehanna...
Man who called oil's fall now sees this by Stephanie Landsman When oil (USO) was trading for about $74 a barrel in late 2014, oil analyst Tom Kloza made what seemed like a crazy call: Oil would fall to $35 in the next year. Thirteen months later, his prediction came true. Now, with oil rallying nearly 60 percent off its...
Everyone Worries Too Much About 'Black Swans' by Noah Smith In his 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” finance writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb attempted to educate the public about the danger of rare, unusual events. This is obviously important in the world of finance — asset market crashes come infrequently, but have an enormous impact...
Wall Street's Oil Crash, a story told in charts by Asjylyn Loder Big banks (KRE) (XLF) add $2 billion for energy loan losses in 1Q Oil woes at JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo This is what it looks like on the down side of the biggest oil boom in U.S. history. JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM)., Wells Fargo &...
The $1 Trillion Short Underlying Stocks' Spring Awakening by Dani Burger Short interest reaches highest level since 2008 despite gains Level is contrarian bullish, sets up powerful rally, says BofA Skepticism is one thing this rally hasn’t lacked. Amid its biggest about-face in nine decades, a funny thing has happened in the U.S. stock market, where rather than loosen their...
Analysts Project 10% Price Increase for S&P 500 by John Butters, Senior Earnings Analyst After hitting the bottom value for the year of on February 11 (1829.08), the S&P 500 index (SPX) (SPY) recorded an increase in value of 12.6% during the remainder of the quarter to finish the first quarter at 2059.74. Where do analysts believe the price will go from...
