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These AI Stocks Could Be Active With Nvidia Earnings Later Today
Nvidia releases earnings today, and it could impact other stocks in the AI space. While per-share earnings are expected to increase about 8 percent from the previous quarter, attention could focus on demand trends. Some investors have worried that the planned launch...
Can This Social Media Stock Double in the Next Year?
A social-media stalwart got hammered yesterday, and someone positioned for a major rebound. Twitter (TWTR) fell almost 9 percent about halfway through the morning. As it clawed its way back to cut those losses, a trader amassed about 80,000 January 2020 70 calls for...
Is the Nightmare Over? Options Trader Sees Huge Rebound
October was a painful month, but now a big options trader is looking for the entire selloff to reverse. Here's a breakdown of the massive call volume detected yesterday morning in the market-tracking SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY): A block of 75,000 December 288 calls was...
Popular Chip Stock Holds Key Level Into G20
One of the most heavily traded names in the chip space is holding a potentially key level. Micron Technology (MU) dropped 38 percent from the start of June through yesterday. But now the giant producer of memory circuits is holding its ground above $36.50, an old peak...
Bullish Chart Patterns Across Big Pharma
Everyone's been focused on the selloff in tech, but something more bullish may be happening in a forgotten corner of the market. Large pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer (PFE), Merck (MRK) and Amgen (AMGN) have formed triangles in recent weeks. The...
Cloud Giant Rips on Blowout Quarter
A cloud-computing giant was highlighted on Market Action this week. It's posed to open higher today after a blowout quarter. Salesforce.com (CRM) reported earnings of $0.61 a share in the third quarter. With the Street expecting earnings of $0.50 per share, up from...
This Forgotten Industry Is Quietly Shining
Remember solar stocks? They're quietly screaming higher. PowerShares Solar Energy exchange-traded fund (TAN) is up 14 percent since the end of October. That outpaces every other major portfolio on our Market Action dashboard and puts the industry on pace for its best...
Technology & Communication
FANG 2.0? A New Generation of Tech Stocks Is Breaking Out
The stock market has yet to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but a new generation of technology stocks has already broken out. Software companies like Twilio (TWLO), Okta (OKTA) and Datadog (DDOG) hit new record highs last month. Service providers like Zoom...