From the fou tour. Two owe posing ways to play the semisector and how to keep digging when at the end of a mine its time to risk less to make more options action starts now. As we just mentioned. Interest in options trading seems to keep growing by the day. So bob has at least part of the reason why good to see you options trading has become the new Sports Betting millions staying at home have discovered Sports Betting and it has created options trading. Trading in equity options hit new highs in november continuing a trend that began earlier in the year equity options trading is 50 above last years level yeartodate on all of the options platforms. Much of the activity has occurred in out of the money call options with much of it in day trading. Buying in the morning and getting out in the afternoon analysts say that might make some sense if you only have a limited amount of money to invest, buying options at 1 or 2 may make more sense than buying a tesla or amazon or apple if the stoc
Highs. Coming up a busy news day, and a series of big interviews as well. The ceo of gap, jonah snngal, her first interview since taking the job in march talking about the post covid lavin escape and the partnership with kanye west. Plus we have patrick frisk with his partnership with steph curry. We will discuss the fierce competent anything footwear. And salesforces deal to buy slack is expected to be announced today after the bell we should get those details. And sales details also out after the close. Looking forward to that. Slack up a little bit today. Lets get to the Market Action mike santoli is tracking it. As stocks moving higher but off the highs of the session. For three weeks they have been mostly sideways around the recent highs right now we are a little less than 1 above the intraday high from november 9th. Est that was the day the election was called. Then you had the vaccine from pfizer that was right in here intraday high. At a record. 67 above the march 23rd low righ
Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
Leaders say theyre still battling the advance on the capital. And as Police Across size for violently clearing out a migrant camp in paris, french m. P. s give initial approval to a bill restricting the publication of images of the police. Joe biden is forging ahead with his preparations to take over as president as his margin of victory keeps growing is just formally unveiled some of his top teen while pennsylvania and nevada have become the latest states to certify him as the winner in the past hour. The president elect was joined by the men and women. Hes picked to be his Foreign Policy and National Security chiefs. Its a team he says is ready to lead the world. It comes after President Trump began to give way, allowing the official federal transition to begin with government funding and classified intelligence briefings. Its a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world, not retreat f
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