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| |  Good morning.. Credit where credit is due: Tesla Motors did a great job with a surprise earnings beat. The company also built a Gigafactory in China in around six months, an incredible accomplishment.
But in the glass-half-empty column, consumers may sour on electric vehicles, particularly in California. The Golden State is dealing with rolling power outages as utility PG&E flirts with bankruptcy, and many are rethinking the reliability of an all-electric vehicle in a location without the infrastructure to provide for recharging when needed.
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 | DOW 26,805.06 | -0.11% | | |
 | S&P 3,010.18 | +0.19% | | |
| NASDAQ 8,185.80 | +0.81% | | |
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| • | Stocks closed mixed, as the busiest week of earnings season continued to deliver mixed results. | | | • | Oil rallied 0.4 percent, to $56.20 per barrel. | | | • | Gold advanced 0.6 percent, to $1,505 per ounce. | | | • | Cryptocurrencies were slightly up on average, with Bitcoin rising 0.03 percent to $7,520. | | |
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| Three Warren Buffett Holdings Worth Buying Now | |
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While investors often follow Warren Buffett into new holdings that his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) discloses, astute investors can get better returns than the Oracle of Omaha with a little patience.
That's because the market doesn't move in a straight line—and by buying stocks in the Buffett portfolio that are out of favor, or even lower than where Buffett bought, smart investors can get better returns going forward. We've found three holdings worth buying now.
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| Insider Activity: Retractable Technologies (RVP) | |
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Thomas Shaw, President and CEO of Retractable Technologies (RVP), added 1,500 shares to his stake recently. Shaw owns over 18.7 million shares of the company, making the increase in his total holdings a modest one.
Shaw is a frequent buyer of shares in small lots—likely just enough to ensure the small-cap company's shares don't move wildly, and he has been buying shares as they have continued to move higher in the past few months.
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| Unusual Options Activity: Twitter (TWTR) | |
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A variety of put options on Twitter (TWTR) saw soaring volume following the company's massive earnings miss, which sent shares down by twenty percent. Of the numerous contracts with heavy volume, the December 20th $26 put options saw a 40-fold increase, from 101 contracts to over 3,900.
The option, with a cost of just $0.23, is a bet that would move in-the-money in the 56 days until expiration if shares fell another 18 percent—a little bit less than the post-earnings drop.
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| TOP | | | ALGN | 14.699% | | | | LRCX | 13.903% | | | | ORLY | 9.18% | | | | AMAT | 8.985% | | | | ALLE | 8.901% | | | | BOTTOM | | | TWTR | 20.809% | | | | ADS | 13.526% | | | | FTI | 11.775% | | | | BAX | 10.085% | | | | EBAY | 9.133% | | | |
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| Strong signaling from Fed leadership indicates that the modest trade war de-escalation since September has not deterred them from completing a 75bp, 1990s-style 'mid-cycle adjustment'… we expect a slightly hawkish tone, with Powell alluding to a baseline of unchanged policy but emphasizing data-dependence and the ability to respond quickly if the outlook deteriorates. |
- Goldman Sachs economist Spencer Hill on why the Fed is likely to cut interest rates one more time by year-end, but will likely slow or stop after that.  |
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