Options action starts now. Lets get to it. Next week kicks off another round of earnings with beyond meat, uber, and General Motors on deck. Carter worth said there may be some opportunity lurking in the payment space as paypal gears up to report. So, carter, what are you seeing in the charts . You bet. A couple of charts first, the set up is paypal for a breakout to new highs. Its right at the set up is perfect. The first chart, take a look at the symmetry of this circumstance you have a 23 , 23day plunge, a 23day ricochet. You start at 124, you drop to 82, you go right back to 124, so again, a 35 decline, which you can see there, 51 rally, all very symmetric in terms of price and time and here we are right back at the time look at the second chart, this pulls it back a bit longer. Look at the authority of this level the stock has approached this and re approached this, and this is a perfect kind of set up for a news related break out earnings and earnings are coming next week. The ot
Another beyond meat and uber on deck what are you seeing in the which thes you bet. A couple of charts first, the set up is paypal for a breakout to new highs. Its right at the set up is perfect. The first chart, take a look at the symmetry of this circumstance you have a 23 , 23day plunge, a 23day ricochet. You start at 124, you drop to 82, you go right back to 124, so again, a 35 decline, which you can see there, 51 rally, all very symmetric in terms of price and time and here we are right back at the time look at the second chart, this pulls it back a bit longer. Look at the authority of this level the stock has approached this and re approached this, and this is a perfect kind of set up for a news related break out earnings and earnings are coming next week. The other thing i would point out of course is how its relative performance is done the next chart is a twopanel chart and this also is important. Pay pal, you can see on the bottom panel, its relative performance has already b
Reports out of earnings. Some ceos talking about china being slow to recover, for example. Seeing the pace picked up at a very slow rate. We also have the Economic Data this morning, personal spending down 7. 5 in the united states. Compoundingdp data yesterday. That said, the 10 year yield us to let 60 basis points the fed and the ecb are doing all they could possibly do to keep the Financial Markets working. To point out. Ocks tesla up 4. 3 , just one exhibit 11 Earnings Report investors were cheered by, even though there are plenty of challenges facing tesla ahead. Twitter reported advertising revenue down about 1 4, and even though monthly and daily subscribers are up, the advertising revenue is very concerning to investors. That stock down more than 5 . Lets talk more about the ecb. The central bank is absently front and center. The data out of the euro zone today, 3. 8 in the First Quarter, the fastest contraction we have ever seen. The ecb now seeing a series of longterm loans f
What they are seeing this quarter and where demand might go. He said the last part of march and the first part of april were very depressed and then we saw a pickup relative to that period in the second half of april. We are not projecting what we will do this quarter because of the lack of certainty and visibility that weve got. Apple not giving a forecast for the quarter or the year, but cook sounding fairly optimistic there. Amazon earnings also out this hour. Amazon shares down after the bell. I want to bring in taylor riggs who has been following all of this. In that interview with tim cook, he told me he believed this pickup in april was driven by some of the new products they have launched over the past few weeks including the cheaper iphone, a macbook air, and ipad pro. As well as stimulus from the federal government and people getting used to, we are in the middle of a pandemic and this is the way things will be for a little while. What is your take . Taylor great interview be
Look, any way you take it, employment in april was a disaster. We are looking at an Unemployment Rate that is likely approaching 20 . We get those numbers, the unemployment numbers for the whole country, next friday. However, got to tell you the backtowork movement is really gathering steam. States across the nation are modifying their stayathome rules. Businesses are reopening. Oklahoma reopens some businesses tomorrow. California will allow some elective surgery. This, however, is receiving mixed messages. President trump says georgia is reopening too soon. He says he strongly disagrees with georgias decision. However, he will still leave it up to the states. Heres a positive. The Field Hospital built specially for virus patients in houston, texas, may be dismantled, not needed, underused. Lets get to the markets. First im dealing with oil. Look at this. Moving back up again in price. 16. 71 is the production price right now, but production is being scaled back very very sharply. Sup