Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture offers up his suggested reading list here...
Buybacks higher than capes… The Daily Shot
The chart from the Wall Street Journal’s The Daily Shot shows us capex and stock buybacks on the same chart... The link is here...
A difficult OPEC meeting.. WSJ
Next week’s OPEC meeting should be an interesting one... Here is the oil price chart with implied volatility from barchart.com: Benoit Faucon
Blockchain platform goes live… Reuters
Here are some highlights from Reuters... ”Blockchain, the platform behind cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is viewed by many as a solution to trade and
U of Illinois buys puts…
on tuition from Chinese students: “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in
Russian Natural Gas Industry Booms… WSJ
Georgi Kantchev, Wall Street Journal, explains what’s been going on in the Russian gas industry, here... “Directly squaring off against U.S. shale
Gasoline/diesel margins… EIA
The EIA’s Today in Energy, here, highlights a tale of two petroleum products: ”Flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United
Oil’s Huge Drop… WSJ
Stephanie Yang and Amrith Ramkumar, Wall Street Journal, do an excellent job writing about the collapse in crude oil prices, here... "As economic
Options skew is bearish… Bloomberg…
Alex Longley, Bloomberg, has a nice chart showing the degree to which out of the money put options are in demand relative to out of the money calls...