WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House advisers on Tuesday are set to recommend that U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned U.S. Space Command develop ways for the military to operate in outer space, according to two administration officials briefed on the plans.The National Space Council, a White House advisory panel, will also recommend a review of existing treaty issues, and will unveil propos...Read More
Near-term HRL options are pricing in low volatility expectations at the momentSpam producer Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) fell 5% in immediate aftermath of its late-August quarterly report, but quickly pivoted that same day and went on to gain more than 10% over the next few weeks. The stock is up 14.8% in 2018 and 36% year-over-year, with a recent pullback contained by its 40-day moving average. With t...Read More
The stock market opened with a resounding thud on Tuesday morning, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.99% , at one point, had shed more than 500 points. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.66% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.63% endured even harder hits, down more than 2% each. Read: Dow plunges amid corporate outlook, China selloff So, you must positioning yourself for that tasty bounc...Read More
Could this biotech bet bank you 1,700% profit?Contributed by Raging BullBig pharma isn't what it use to be and investors are wondering what the future holds for the Goliaths of the industry.Kyle Dennis, one of the most well known up and coming traders, saw this shift happening when others didn't. Years ago, he began to place a heavy emphasis on small-cap biotech stocks he saw enormous upside for a...Read More
Short-term options premiums are relatively rich at the moment, thoughThe shares of Cronos Group Inc (NASDAQ:CRON) topped out at a record high of $15.30 on Sept. 19, as the cannabis craze gripped Wall Street. The weed stock has since retreated from this milestone, and following a quick pop higher last week ahead of Canada's legalization of recreational marijuana, is down 8.2% today to trade at $7.8...Read More
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shares rose 6 percent on Tuesday, after long-time critic and short-seller Citron Research had a change of heart on the company’s outlook, praising the success of the electric carmaker’s mass market Model 3 sedan.The firm lauded Tesla’s Model 3 in a research note, saying the sedan is a proven hit and many of the warning signs around the company have...Read More
Barrick Gold Corp. favors taking back control of its separately listed Tanzanian assets after completing its takeover of Africa-focused rival Randgold Resources Ltd., according to people familiar with the situation.Barrick spun off those assets in 2010 into a company now called Acacia Mining Plc. That unit - listed in London but majority owned by Barrick - has been dogged by operational setbacks...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell on Tuesday after Wall Street opened lower, spurring a risk-off move that benefited the safe-haven Japanese yen and Swiss franc against the greenback.The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI, the S&P 500 .SPX and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC were all around 2 percent lower at mid-morning, dragged down by disappointing earnings from industrial bellwether...Read More
(Reuters) - A group of former executives from Autodesk Inc and Flex Ltd has raised $179 million in venture capital for a manufacturing startup that aims to use a combination of robots and new software to remove much of the manual labor from manufacturing electronic devices.San Francisco-based Bright Machines focuses on two areas. One is “micro-factories” made up of robot cells it says...Read More
Gold Gold prices have surged on Tuesday morning and reached the upper trend line of a dominant ascending pattern near the 1,235.00 level. If the commodity price breaks the resistance of the trend line, the metal is set to surge at least up to the 1,240.00 mark. Meanwhile, a bounce off from the resistance and a following decline would reach back down to the pivot point at the 1,227.30 l...Read More
(Kitco News)- Safe-haven demand is once again boosting gold prices as U.S.equity markets drop 2% across the board.“Gold’s safe-haven allure is back,” said Phillip Streible, seniormarket strategist at RJO Futures. “Equities are doing down sharply andinvestors don’t know what to do, so they are turning to gold.”Safe-haven demand pushed gold prices to its highest l...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold prices are still holding decent gains of around $10.00 an ounceafter hitting a nearly three-month high of $1,243.00, basis December Comex futures, in early U.S. trading Tuesday.However, the safe-haven metal has backed down from session highs as the U.S.stock indexes have moved up from their session lows, but are still tradingsolidly lower on the day. December gold was last up...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone consumer sentiment rose slightly in October, against expectations of a decline, according to figures released on Tuesday.The European Commission said a flash estimate showed euro zone consumer morale increased to -2.7 points in October from -2.9 points in September. Economists polled by Reuters had on average expected a decline to -3.2 points.In the European Union as...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions targeting Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency on Tuesday, designating eight people including two Iranians linked to Tehran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, according to the department's website.The individuals, which include two Pakistanis and four Afghanis, were identified as global terrorists by the Treasury Department, an act...Read More
SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's federally appointed financial oversight board on Tuesday unanimously approved a revised fiscal reform plan meant to put the bankrupt island on a path toward solvency, but faced opposition from the elected government for being too strict.The vote by the seven members of the board was unanimous even though some raised concerns about the plan's ultimate viability to...Read More
(Reuters) - Wall Street sank more than 1 percent on Tuesday as disappointing forecasts from industrial bellwethers Caterpillar and 3M piled on to concerns over Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic isolation, Italy’s finances and trade-war fears.All the three major Wall Street indexes were trading below their 200-day moving averages, a key technical indicator of long-term momentum and all 11 major...Read More
What the recent spike in put buying could mean for the S&PAs Schaeffer's Senior V.P. of Research Todd Salamone pointed out in this week's Monday Morning Outlook, equity option buyers have soured on the market amid the latest post-rate-hike hangover for stocks. In reaction to the recent sell-off on Wall Street, "this group was buying equity put options relative to call options at a rate similar to...Read More
eBay reports earnings next weekeBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) keeps sinking to new lows and analysts continue to cut their outlooks on the stock. Since yesterday's close, EBAY has been hit with no fewer than eight bear notes, including a downgrade to "sector perform" from "outperform" at RBC, which lowered its price target by $13 to $34. Meanwhile, Susquehanna, Raymond James, SunTrust Robinson, and Jeffer...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ENERGY CORP. L53-DD1 THAILAND OIL DISCOVERYPan Orient Energy Corp.'s L53-DD1 exploration well has encountered an interpreted and combined 26 metres of net oil pay within three separate sandstone reservoirs between a true vertical depth of 960 metres to 1,125 metres. This interpretation was based on conventional open-hole wireline logs and hydrocarbon indication...Read More
(Reuters) - United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its full-year profit forecast on Tuesday as it benefited from higher sales of aircraft parts, driven by record production at planemakers Boeing and Airbus.A boom in air travel on the back of an improving global economy has boosted profits at major suppliers United Tech and Honeywell (HON.N).Uni...Read More