Feel like a coin toss? Take any bank and call heads or tails. According to a study by McKinsey, over half the world's banks are undercapitalized and likely to fail in the next crisis.
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| |  Good morning.. Economic uncertainty continues to be the name of the day. October consumer confidence levels showed the lowest levels since March, and expectations came in at their weakest levels since January.
On the flip side, however, declining mortgage rates led to a 6.3 percent increase in home sales after a few months of slowing activity. The gain is the largest since August 2015, over four years ago. With this conflicting data in hand, it's truly appropriate for today's holiday. Happy Halloween!
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 | DOW 27,186.69 | +0.43% | | |
| S&P 3,046.77 | +0.33% | | |
| NASDAQ 8,303.98 | +0.33% | | |
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| • | Stocks traded flat ahead of the Fed yesterday, then soared after the central banks cut rates. | | | • | Oil declined 1.2 percent, to $54.90per barrel. | | | • | Gold rose 0.4 percent, to $1,497 per ounce. | | | • | Cryptocurrencies generally dropped, with Bitcoin sliding 2.3 percent to $9,200. | | |
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| Three Commodity Trends To Play Now | |
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Commodities—goods as diverse as oil, timber, silver, nickel, and corn, among dozens of others—have been a quiet place to trade lately. With most investors looking at a stock market near all-time highs, commodities may provide investors with some different ways to make money.
Even better, looking at commodity trends, investors can find stocks capable of moving up or down more rapidly than traditional companies. We've identified three different commodities going through different trends, all where investors can profit.
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| Insider Activity: Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) | |
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Richard Kinder, the billionaire founder and Executive Chairman of Kinder Morgan (KMI), recently bought 300,000 shares. At a cost of just over $6 million, the buy only increases his stake by about 0.1 percent.
Insider data for the company as a whole shows major regular buys from Kinder, but more mixed results from other executives, including a few sales in the past year. On total share count, however, insiders are buyers far more than sellers
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| Unusual Options Activity: Marathon Oil (MRO) | |
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Over 4,000 contracts traded on the April 17th, 2020 $10 put options on Marathon Oil (MRO). The option had a prior open interest of just 175 trades, making for a 23-fold rise in volume on the option.
With a current price around $11.50, shares would need to drop 15 percent for the option trade to move in-the-money. For a company in the energy space, that kind of move in six months is easily achievable.
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| TOP | | | GE | 11.466% | | | | GRMN | 9.601% | | | | CNC | 8.275% | | | | IPGP | 7.32% | | | | FMC | 7.137% | | | | BOTTOM | | | CHRW | 14.848% | | | | MCK | 8.44% | | | | YUM | 5.815% | | | | DVN | 5.374% | | | | JWN | 5.12% | | | |
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| The Fed wants to be patient but act as appropriate, as necessary. It's a combination of the two. They're not saying they're on hold, but they aren't trying to guide the market into not expecting a December cut if the data doesn't hold up. It's definitely a communications challenge |
- Jon Hill, interest rate strategist at BMO, on the issues the Federal Reserve has with explaining the Wednesday rate cut.  |
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