Yesterday’s option volume was extremely light but we did see some Jan puts trade... Here is a summary from the CME... Note the low volume, under
Goldman, election concerns, options’ skew… Bloomberg
Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg, has a nice piece on the put (over calls) skew in equity markets for 2020, here...
Record low Euro Vol… Bloomberg
Here is the link... Here is the vol chart:
Japan’s GDP adjusted for population… WSJ
Not too bad... The link is here...
Ethanol has Forsaken Us… The Atlantic
Mario Loyola makes his case against the corn-ethanol program at The Atlantic, here... “Renewable biofuels are not necessarily doomed. If advanced
Some good OPEC chat from Julian Lee, Bloomberg
Julian Lee has a good piece on the upcoming OPEC meeting, here... The opening paragraph sums it up nicely: ”In less than two weeks, OPEC and its
Updated vol chart, WTI…
Option volume in WTI options (LO) is down sharply from last year, averaging 129,509, -22.9%, through October... Friday's volume was only 52,087 as we
Hedge fund assets decline… Bloomberg
In a story that highlights the closing of another hedge fund run by Louis Bacon, Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg, summarizes the industry, here: ”In total,
Fracking share of US production… WSJ
My “go to” chartbook called The Daily Shot, put out by the Wall Street Journal, here, has a nice chart illustrating the importance of fracking to US