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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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