A simple scan of Barchart screeners has helped unearth a couple of interesting options spreads with unusual activity in Electronic Arts and Marvell Technology.
Live cattle futures are down $3.35 to $4.25 so far at midday. Cash trade settled in at $240 across most of the country last week. Feeder cattle futures are down $4.47 to $5.50. The CME Feeder Cattle Index...
The wheat complex is down across most contracts on Monday. Chicago SRW futures are down 10 to 13 cents. KC HRW futures are 2 to 4 cents in the red. MPLS spring wheat is fractionally mixed at midday. Crude...
Lean hog futures are 65 cents to $1.425 in the red at midday. USDA’s national base hog price was not reported on Monday morning due to low volume. The CME Lean Hog Index was 19 cents higher on March...
Cotton futures are up 15 to 51 points across most contracts. Crude oil is up just $3.97 at midday and nearly $25 from the overnight highs. The US dollar index is back up $0.116 at $99.095. CFTC reported...
Soybeans are down 5 to 7 cents at Monday’s midday, more than 35 cents off the overnight highs. Open interest was up 16,951 contracts on Friday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price is down...
Corn futures are down 3 to 7 cents across most contracts, falling from the overnight highs. There were 241 deliveries issued against March corn on Friday night. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn...
May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) is up +0.47 (+3.33%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) is up +5.70 (+1.38%). Sugar prices continued higher today on the fresh surge in oil prices seen after Israel...
Just how much will surging crude oil prices cost investors – and the global economy? Let’s try to tally up the costs so far...and explore what might happen next.
Defense stocks like RTX Corp, parent of Raytheon, Collins, and Pratt & Whitney, look attractive to value buyers. Short sellers are selling out-of-the-money RTX puts and calls, as they have high premiums....
