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Larry Berman: Speculation in call volume hits all-time extremes VIDEO SIGN OUT
With options expiring this week, we wanted to have a look at the impact itâs having on markets. Itâs huge. In the past week we have seen all-time call volume records challenged (viewers can follow the CBOE data here). It seems the new stimulus cheques are finding their way into Tesla Inc. call options and others. Speculators have had a voracious appetite (call it FOMO plus leverage) and they have been using call spreads and other speculative strategies to add huge leverage. This effect gets magnified around options expiry dates.
POLITICAL SCENE: Where do we go from here? My parents are pretty pleased. They re psyched, Harvard University senior
Gina Raimondo told The Journal in 1992 after learning she had been named a Rhodes Scholar and handed a golden ticket to study at Oxford.
She appeared similarly pumped and, unusually for her, perhaps a little nervous last week as she told her family s story, and that of her father s doomed Bulova watch factory, while being introduced as the country s next commerce secretary. I am excited to get to work on a national scale . to help more hardworking families in every community write the next chapter in their own American stories, she said.
PROVIDENCE What next?
Rhode Island pols have started to queue up for potential appointment by Lieutenant Gov. Dan McKee of his own replacement, when Governor Gina Raimondo s anticipated mid- after resignation elevates him to the top spot.
On Thursday, President-elect Joseph Biden announced his choice of Raimondo for his commerce secretary, subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
By Friday morning, Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, former state Sen. Donna Nesselbush and Lisa Ranglin, the head of the R.I. Black Business Association, had added their names to a mix of candidates for lieutenant governor that already included Sen. Louis DiPalma and former Central Falls Mayor James Diossa.