by Alpha | Mar 23, 2018 | Pre-Market
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4. TNDM:$TNDM upgraded to Outperform at Baird. PT $7
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1. KR:A Kroger-Target deal? Fast Company reporting that there have been merger talks. $KR up 7% #premarket. $TGT up 2%.
3. AOI:$AOI up a good amount after hours. Revenue generating tobacco company w/ stakes in 2 Canadian LP’s and a TINY publi…
11. NOG:$NOG pulls its equity offering … tried to pull off an equity deal with a ~90% debt / EV ratio.
12. IVV:The normally invincible $IVV seeing $11b in outflows this week, that’s bloodbath level, here’s what it looks like v…
15. DXCM:$DXCM: Robert W. Baird ups to Outperform
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4. Trump threatens to veto omnibus spending bill over DACA and the border wall
by Alpha | Mar 22, 2018 | Pre-Market
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3. MESO:$MESO downgraded to Underperform at Credit Suisse. PT $6 from $11
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8. ABBV:$ABBV rova-T whiff
9. USDJPY:#USDJPY $USDJPY MSC Charts #WalgoriX #Forex #FX #Trading #JPY $JPY #USD $USD #All #Currency #Boj #Japan #FED #US…
11. DB:$DB is falling off the bottom of the charts just the 5th largest bank in the world if i was a large bank , i su…
13. ARRY:$ARRY Announces Publication of Detailed Phase 3 COLUMBUS Trial Data of Encorafenib and Binimetinib in Melanoma Pati…
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1. Best Buy cuts ties with China’s Huawei: source
Best Buy Co Inc, the largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer, will cut ties with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a person familiar with the matter said, amid heightened scrutiny on Chinese tech firms in the United States.
2. Facebook scandal could push other tech companies to tighten data…
Big internet companies and small software developers alike are likely to face scrutiny over how they share customer information in the wake of the scandal involving Facebook Inc and the British election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Educational Tips of the Day (SOURCE: NASDAQ.com):
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT): REITs invest in real estate or loans secured by real estate and issue shares in such investments. A REIT is similar to a closed-end mutual fund.
Junk bond: Bond with a speculative credit rating of BB (S&P) or Ba (Moody’s) or lower. Junk or high-yield bonds offer investors higher yields than bonds of financially sound companies. Two agencies, Standard & Poors and Moody’s Investor Services, provide the rating systems for companies’ credit
Quick ratio: Indicator of a company’s financial strength (or weakness). Calculated by taking current assets lessinventories, divided by current liabilities. This ratio provides information regarding the firm’s liquidity and ability to meet its obligations.
Short squeeze: When a lack of supply tends to force prices upward. In particular, when prices of a stock orcommodity futures contracts start to move up sharply and many traders with short positions are forced to buystocks or commodities in order to cover their positions and prevent (limit) losses. This sudden surge of buying leads to even higher prices, further aggravating the losses of short sellers who have not covered their positions.
Target Leverage Ratio: The ratio of the market value of debt to the total market value of the firm that management seeks to maintain.
Upsize option: An option in IPO to increase the size of offering when the demand is high.
Velocity of Money: Rate at which money is exchanged from one transaction to another. It also refers to how much a unit of currency is used in a given period of time. The rate at which people spend money. The velocity of money is usually measured as a ratio of gross national product (GNP) to a country’s total supply of money.
What are the implications of a high Federal Funds Rate?
A high federal funds rate discourages banks from borrowing from one another, which tightens the money supply. Raising the federal funds rate is one of the most common measures taken by the government to combat high inflation.
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by Alpha | Mar 21, 2018 | Pre-Market
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2. LOXO:$LOXO downgraded to Equalweight from Overweight at Morgan Stanley. PT raised to $130 from $103
3. SRPT:$SRPT downgraded to Equalweight from Overweight at Morgan Stanley. PT raised to $87 from $64
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Educational Tips of the Day (SOURCE: NASDAQ.com):
Inflation risk: Also called purchasing power risk, the risk that changes in the real return the investor will realize after adjusting for inflation will be negative.
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC): The body that is responsible for setting the interest rates and credit policies of the Federal Reserve System.
Stagflation: Period of slow economic growth and high unemployment with rising prices (inflation).
Trend Ratio Analysis: The comparison of the successive values of each ratio for a single firm over a number of years.
Bull spread: Spread strategy used in options and futures trading that is designed to capitalize on expected price appreciation. A bull spread using call options is created by buying a call option on an asset with a certain strike price and selling a call option on the same asset with a higher strike price (same expiration date). A bull spread with put options is created by buying a put option with a low strike and selling a put option with a high strike price (same expiration date). Less frequently, the bull spread is implemented by buying the nearby futures contract and selling the next out contract.
Bear spread: Strategy in the options or futures markets designed to take advantage of a fall in the price of a security or commodity. A bear spread with call options is created by buying a call option with a certain strike price and selling a call option on the same stock with a lower strike price (with the same expiration date). A bear spread with put options is where an investor buys a put with a high strike price and sells a put with a low strike price. With futures, the investor sells the nearby contract and purchases the next out contract. All of these strategies are designed to profit from a fall in the underlying asset’s price.
Butterfly Spread: Strategy that involves buying a call option with a relatively low strike price; buying a call option with a relatively high strike price; and selling two call options with an intermediate strike price. Essentially, this is a bear call spread stacked on top of a bull call spread. One can also do this with puts. The investor buys a put with a low strike, buys a put at high strike and sells two puts at intermediate strike price. The payoff diagram resembles the shape of a butterfly.
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4. DB:$DB DEUTSCHE BANK SHARES FALL 5%; SEES EU450M CIB HEADWIND IN 1Q
8. GIS:$GIS General Mills Q3 18 Earnings Results: – Adj EPS: $0.79 – Revenue: $3.88B
9. ARNA:$ARNA price target raised to $62 from $55 at Citi
11. USDCAD:$USDCAD is showing a clear bearish RSI divergence on the daily chart – a break of the bullish channel could expose…
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1. EU reveals a new digital tax plan that could hit the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook
Digital companies pay on average an effective tax rate of 9.5 percent — compared to 23.2 percent for traditional businesses.
2. Achaogen Announces Date of FDA Advisory Committee Meeting for Plazomicin
–Meeting planned for May 2, 2018–. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 21, 2018– Achaogen, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative antibacterials addressing multi-drug resistant …
by Alpha | Mar 20, 2018 | Pre-Market
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2. ARNA:$ARNA upgraded to Buy from Hold at Needham. PT $60
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Educational Tip of the Day (SOURCE: NASDAQ.com):
Narrowing the spread: Reducing the difference between the bid and ask prices of a security
Narrow market: An inactive market, which displays large fluctuations in prices due to a low volume of trading.
Odd lot: A trading order for less than 100 shares of stock.
Round lot: Trading order typically of 100 shares of a stock or some multiple of 100.
Odd-lot theory: Theory that profits can be made by making trades contrary to odd-lot trading patterns, since odd-lot investors have poor timing.
Odd-Lot Buy Back: An offer made by the corporation or its agent to purchase shares from odd-lot shareholders
Odd-lot dealer: A broker who combines odd lots of securities from multiple buy or sell orders into round lots and executes transactions in those round lots.
Odd-lot short-sale ratio: The percentage of total odd-lot sales that is composed of short sales.
Odd-Lot Resale: An offer made by the corporation or its agent to purchase shares from odd-lot shareholders and immediately resell them in the market, usually in round-lots to institutions, thus saving the corporation the expense of merely buying shares back.
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3. ORCL:ORACLE CORP : BMO CUTS TARGET PRICE TO $53 FROM $55; RATING OUTPERFORM $ORCL
4. AFMD:$AFMD full 3 month data from Phase 1b combination study of AFM13 by by mid-year 2018
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1. Facebook under pressure as U.S., EU urge probes of data practices
British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may have improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users, according to a Channel 4 television report.
2. How Facebook Made Its Cambridge Analytica Data Crisis Even Worse
Facebook Inc. tried to get ahead of its latest media firestorm. Instead, it helped create one.
3. Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores
Amazon.com Inc. has looked at the possibility of expanding its retail footprint by acquiring some locations from bankrupt Toys “R” Us Inc., according to people with knowledge of the situation.
4. Apple grabs two-year lead in 3D sensing race
Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and others on a technology that is set to be worth billions in revenue over the next few years.
5. Breakingviews – Facebook gives members one more reason to leave
(Reuters Breakingviews) – Mark Zuckerberg has handed users one more reason to quit Facebook. Newspaper reports that a UK political consultancy used millions of user profiles creates fresh risks at the social network he founded. People are already spending less time on Facebook. The danger is that members may unfriend it altogether.
by Alpha | Mar 19, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. AKCA:$AKCA downgraded to Perform from Outperform at Wells Fargo. PT $30
5. NVAX:$NVAX downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan
6. OTIC:$OTIC downgraded to Underweight at JPMorgan.
Educational Tip of the Day (SOURCE: NASDAQ.com):
Narrowing the spread: Reducing the difference between the bid and ask prices of a security
Narrow market: An inactive market, which displays large fluctuations in prices due to a low volume of trading.
Odd lot: A trading order for less than 100 shares of stock.
Round lot: Trading order typically of 100 shares of a stock or some multiple of 100.
Odd-lot theory: Theory that profits can be made by making trades contrary to odd-lot trading patterns, since odd-lot investors have poor timing.
Odd-Lot Buy Back: An offer made by the corporation or its agent to purchase shares from odd-lot shareholders
Odd-lot dealer: A broker who combines odd lots of securities from multiple buy or sell orders into round lots and executes transactions in those round lots.
Odd-lot short-sale ratio: The percentage of total odd-lot sales that is composed of short sales.
Odd-Lot Resale: An offer made by the corporation or its agent to purchase shares from odd-lot shareholders and immediately resell them in the market, usually in round-lots to institutions, thus saving the corporation the expense of merely buying shares back.
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2. ETH:OKEX $ETH Quarterly futures has liquidated a long position of 2704 contract at 515.231 – 2018-03-19 18:01:44
9. DPS:$DPS: RBC Capital Mkts ups to Outperform
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1. Amazon is hiring a former FDA official to work on its secretive health tech business
Amazon’s experimental lab, known internally as 1492 or Grand Challenge, has hired Taha Kass-Hout, former FDA Chief Health Informatics Officer.
2. EU Agrees on Brexit Transition Terms but Ireland Issue Remains
The European Union has agreed on the broad terms of Britain’s two-year transition deal after leaving the bloc in March 2019, according to an EU official familiar with the discussions, but Ireland remains “an issue.”
