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Retailers Crash as Unsold Merchandise Piles Up: Earnings This Week

Retailers Crash as Unsold Merchandise Piles Up: Earnings This Week

Retail earnings are off to a bearish start as unsold merchandise piles up and shopping centers go quiet. Macy's (M) started things on a bearish foot yesterday. Not only did profit, revenue and guidance miss estimates. The tone of its release was also dismal: "Rising...

The Yield Curve Inverted, and the Bears Are Going to Work

The Yield Curve Inverted, and the Bears Are Going to Work

The big story today is that weak economic numbers overseas caused the yield curve to invert. That means the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds fell below the two-year rate. Stocks, especially financials, are crashing as a result. The "inverted curve" is a potentially big...

Trader Fears Reversal In Key Gold Miner: Options Recap

Trader Fears Reversal In Key Gold Miner: Options Recap

Have gold miners gone from safe havens to risky stocks? One options trader seems to think so. Put volume is surging to a 4-1/2 year high in Newmont Mining (NEM), the world's biggest gold producer. Traders started buying the 23-August 37 puts shortly before lunch,...

Grains Crash with Corn Glut Expected to Worsen

Grains Crash with Corn Glut Expected to Worsen

Grains are crashing on signs of a worsening commodity glut. CBOT Corn Futures (@C) dropped more than 6 percent halfway through Monday's session. The last time it fell that much was April 1, 2013, according to TradeStation's historical data. Wheat (@W) is down a...

Roku Rockets as a New Generation of Tech Shoots Higher: Earnings This Week

Roku Rockets as a New Generation of Tech Shoots Higher: Earnings This Week

Last year was all about weakness in giant tech stocks. This year could be all about the next generation of high-flying growth names. The last week of earnings featured breakouts in two newer companies whose technology continues to win new users. First, Match (MTCH)...

Interest Rates Are Crashing. Here’s What You Need to Know

Interest Rates Are Crashing. Here’s What You Need to Know

Interest rates are nosediving around the world. Here's what you need to know as this becomes an increasingly mainstream story. First, the main reason is slower growth in the world's two biggest exporters: China and Germany. China has run into President Trump's tariffs...

Yesterday Was a Session for the Record Books

Yesterday Was a Session for the Record Books

Just like that, volatility returned to the stock market yesterday. The S&P was on pace for its best gain in almost two months, and then President Donald Trump began tweeting at 1:26 p.m. ET. "The U.S. will start, on September 1st, putting a small additional Tariff...

Apple Surges as Chips Falter: Earnings This Week

Apple Surges as Chips Falter: Earnings This Week

Investors face a mixed bag of results as we push through the busiest week of earnings season. Here are some key takeaways we'll explore in more detail below: Technology giant Apple (AAPL) is evolving past the iPhone.Reality catches up with chip stocks.Some newer tech...

Can This Transport Keep Trucking? Options Trader Thinks So

Can This Transport Keep Trucking? Options Trader Thinks So

Someone's looking for a major trucking stock to keep motoring higher. Check out Monday's activity in Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), the country's largest operator of tractor trailers: A block of 25,000 September 35 calls was bought for $3.36.A block of 25,000...