1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Highlights and Takeaways From General Motors’ Strong First Quarter
Highlights and Takeaways From General Motors’ Strong First Quarter
Don’t tell General Motors (NYSE: GM) that sales are plateauing and this is as good as it gets, because its first quarter just annihilated Wall Street expectations. With consumers increasingly opting for larger and much more profitable SUVs and trucks instead of passenger cars, the stage was set for a boom in profits. But is there more at play here? Let’s take a look at some highlights from GM’s strong first quarter and discuss a couple of takeaways from its massive earnings beat.
1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on BlackRock CEO Fink suggests Trump’s personality could be an economic risk
BlackRock CEO Fink suggests Trump’s personality could be an economic risk
Larry Fink, the chief executive officer of asset management behemoth BlackRock Inc., on Friday struck a cautious tone about President Donald Trump, noting that while Trump’s anticipated economic policies represented a “bucket list of things we’d like to see done,” the president was also the cause of market uncertainty and a threat to industries and growth engines.
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1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Handling Bull-Put / Bear-Call assignments
Handling Bull-Put / Bear-Call assignments
Hi,
I have been buying bull-puts for stocks trending down and bear-calls for stocks trending up at 1.2 SD with > 30 days expiry. Some of them have been assigned. These stocks have reasonable liquidity.
What is the best strategy to handle the assignments?
a) Close them out and take an immediate loss.
b) Close them out by writing ATM calls for long assignments and puts for short assignments in the next expiry date.
c) Continue believing in mean reversion principles and write covered calls…
1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on White House expects vote on health-care bill this week
White House expects vote on health-care bill this week
Top White House officials said they expect a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to pass Republicans’ latest plan to overhaul the nation’s health-care system.
1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How to land the best deal on summer airfares
How to land the best deal on summer airfares
Hipmunk says the best time to book your summer airfares is the first week of May.
1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Need system back-tester?
Need system back-tester?
My system for the past year is unusual and complicated. It is a big spreadsheet with columns deriving from various aspects of the equity price histories, arbitrary weights as to the importance of those columns, and quantified entry/exit “instructions”. I make decisions manually by reading from the spreadsheet and inserting judgment. I now want to automate in order to back-test and optimize, but doing so is beyond me. For one thing, two of the columns measure constructs which I draw on the…
1 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Affiliated Managers Group Suffers Outflows but Boosts Earnings
Affiliated Managers Group Suffers Outflows but Boosts Earnings
The stock market has done well so far in 2017, and investors in asset managers like Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG) have hoped that favorable trends would lead to boosted performance. Yet one issue that some companies in the finance business have had to struggle with is the idea that their traditional businesses don’t add as much value as clients want to see.