Bullish Anadarko options bets soar on settlement news
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors who loaded up on bullish options bets in Anadarko Petroleum earlier in the week made some hefty potential profits on Thursday when the global energy...
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Big bets on Green Mountain ahead of Coke stake raise eyebrows
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A surge in bets that shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters would rise sharply by the end of the week has raised suspicions, coming as it...
Analysis: A trader’s earnings season as stocks swing wildly on results
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Popular stocks like Amazon, Facebook and Best Buy surprised investors with huge post-earnings swings this quarter - and some of them headed south fast - a...
Demand for protection against U.S. equity selloff soars to record
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demand for protection against a U.S. stock-market selloff soared on Friday as traders scooped up call options in CBOE Volatility index VIX , Wall Street's favorite...
Wall Street falls on first trading day of 2014
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on their first day of trading in 2014 as investors booked profits in the wake of the S&P; 500's best yearly advance since...
Debt ceiling worries spill into U.S. options market
(Reuters) - With the U.S. government in Washington partially shut down, some options investors are starting to pay more for protection against market turmoil on worries that the current budget...
China, U.S. companies’ great hope, now a drag
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's official. China's slowdown is starting to hurt corporate America. As the world's second-largest economy - and still growing - China is seen as a primary...
Wall Street posts first weekly loss since mid-April on Fed angst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P; 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern...
S&P 500 posts biggest monthly gain since October 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks edged lower on Thursday on caution ahead of Friday's all-important jobs report, but the S&P; 500 still posted its best monthly gain since October 2011....
U.S. stocks seen nearing all-time high in 2013: Reuters poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P; 500 may end 2013 within a stone's throw of its all-time intraday high hit in 2007 on the back of an improved outlook for...