Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Options traders are positioning for a significant move in Nike ( NKE ) shares following the company’s earnings report after Tuesday's market close, with the bulk of speculative interest skewed toward the upside. The April 2 weekly options chain is pricing in roughly an 8% to 9% post-earnings swing, translating to about $4.30 in either direction from cur...
Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Options traders are positioning for a significant move in Nike ( NKE ) shares following the company’s earnings report after Tuesday's market close, with the bulk of speculative interest skewed toward the upside. The April 2 weekly options chain is pricing in roughly an 8% to 9% post-earnings swing, translating to about $4.30 in either direction from current levels. Based on near-the-money straddles in the 50 to 52 range, the market is effectively valuing NKE in the low $51s as of Monday's close, implying a potential earnings-driven range from around $47 on the downside to roughly $55.50 on the upside. What stands out is the heavy call concentration above the current stock price. The largest call open interest sits at the 54 strike with 6,050 contracts, followed by the 55 strike at 5,186 contracts and the 60 strike at 3,988 contracts. Monday’s trading volume reinforced this pattern, with particularly active buying in the 54, 55, and 56 calls. Overall, call volume and open interest ran well ahead of puts, suggesting traders are leaning more heavily into upside participation than pure downside protection. On the put side, the primary hedge zone appears concentrated around the 49 to 50 strikes. The 50 put carries the largest put open interest at 4,487 contracts, while some traders maintain tail protection at the 45 strike with 2,626 contracts open. The positioning suggests the options market sees the real battleground in the low-to-mid $50s rather than anticipating a deep selloff, though traders remain braced for a sizable move in either direction. Nike ( NKE ) advanced 1.8% to $52.17 a share in Tuesday morning trading. The stock closed at $51.24 on Monday. Key themes investors will be focused on include the update from Nike ( NKE ) on current demand trends, especially in China, and the outlook for margins amid new headwinds. In addition, management commentary on product innovation, inventory discipline, and collaborations wi...
Gas prices in the US keep surging. The nationwide average has now topped $4 a gallon for the first time since August 2022 due to the war with Iran. Bloomberg's Julian Lee reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Gas prices in the US keep surging. The nationwide average has now topped $4 a gallon for the first time since August 2022 due to the war with Iran. Bloomberg's Julian Lee reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
hapabapa WeRide ( WRD ) launched fully driverless robotaxi service in Dubai through the Uber ( UBER ) app as part of the first batch of Level 4 robotaxis to enter commercial service in the city. Service began today in Umm Suqeim and Jumeirah districts, two of Dubai’s most popular tourist destinations. Riders can be matched with a WeRide ( WRD ) robotaxi through the ‘autonomous’ option on the Uber ...
hapabapa WeRide ( WRD ) launched fully driverless robotaxi service in Dubai through the Uber ( UBER ) app as part of the first batch of Level 4 robotaxis to enter commercial service in the city. Service began today in Umm Suqeim and Jumeirah districts, two of Dubai’s most popular tourist destinations. Riders can be matched with a WeRide ( WRD ) robotaxi through the ‘autonomous’ option on the Uber ( UBER ) app. In February of this year, WeRide ( WRD ) and Uber ( UBER ) committed to deploying at least 1,200 robotaxis across the Middle East, spanning Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh with 200 currently in service. The Dubai deployment comes on the heels of Uber’s ( UBER ) recent disclosure that it had acquired a 5.8% passive stake in WeRide ( WRD ). The investment is part of a strategic partnership between the two to expand WeRide ( WRD ) robotaxis to 15 cities over five years. Building on gains tied to the Uber ( UBER ) investment, WeRide ( WRD ) shares are up another 13% Tuesday, bringing its two-day gain to 17%. More on WeRide WeRide Inc. (WRD) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript WeRide Q4: Fantastic Effort From The Team, But I'm Not Converted Just Yet WeRide Inc. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Uber confirms holding a 5.8% passive stake in WeRide WeRide Non-GAAP EPADS of -$0.24, revenue of $44.9M beats by $5.64M
Justin Sullivan Meta Platforms ( META ) on Tuesday shared several updates for its wearables, including a new line of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, starting at $499, that allows users to add most kinds of prescription lenses to their pair. The glasses will be available for pre-order in the U.S. beginning today on the Meta and Ray-Ban websites and available at optical retailers in the U.S. and select intern...
Justin Sullivan Meta Platforms ( META ) on Tuesday shared several updates for its wearables, including a new line of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, starting at $499, that allows users to add most kinds of prescription lenses to their pair. The glasses will be available for pre-order in the U.S. beginning today on the Meta and Ray-Ban websites and available at optical retailers in the U.S. and select international markets starting April 14. "Today, we’re rolling out an optical-forward pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses that support nearly all prescriptions. These are also the most comfortable glasses we’ve ever designed," Meta said in its blog. The company is expanding its offerings for Oakley Meta Vanguard and HSTN, with new combinations of colors and lenses, and releasing three new limited-time-only seasonal colors for Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2. Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses are also coming to new international markets in the coming months, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, the company said. On the software side of things, the company is adding a nutrition tracking feature; introducing hands-free WhatsApp summaries and recall into its early access program; and releasing live translation across 20 languages. For Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, new features like scrolling Instagram Reels, shortcuts for Spotify, glanceable widgets, new games, and the ability to record both the display and a user's point-of-view video at the same time are rolling out. The neural handwriting feature is also expected in the coming weeks, Meta said. Source: Blog More on Meta Meta: Why I'm Waiting For $450 Meta: A Deeper Look At Its Capex Burdens Meta: I'm More Than Willing To Catch The Falling Knife Now Trump tax cuts deliver $65B in savings for big businesses: report Australia weighs legal action against Meta, Snapchat, others over teen ban breaches
Justin Sullivan Meta Platforms ( META ) on Tuesday shared several updates for its wearables, including a new line of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, starting at $499, that allows users to add most kinds of prescription lenses to their pair. The glasses will be available for pre-order in the U.S. beginning today on the Meta and Ray-Ban websites and available at optical retailers in the U.S. and select intern...
Justin Sullivan Meta Platforms ( META ) on Tuesday shared several updates for its wearables, including a new line of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, starting at $499, that allows users to add most kinds of prescription lenses to their pair. The glasses will be available for pre-order in the U.S. beginning today on the Meta and Ray-Ban websites and available at optical retailers in the U.S. and select international markets starting April 14. "Today, we’re rolling out an optical-forward pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses that support nearly all prescriptions. These are also the most comfortable glasses we’ve ever designed," Meta said in its blog. The company is expanding its offerings for Oakley Meta Vanguard and HSTN, with new combinations of colors and lenses, and releasing three new limited-time-only seasonal colors for Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2. Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses are also coming to new international markets in the coming months, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, the company said. On the software side of things, the company is adding a nutrition tracking feature; introducing hands-free WhatsApp summaries and recall into its early access program; and releasing live translation across 20 languages. For Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, new features like scrolling Instagram Reels, shortcuts for Spotify, glanceable widgets, new games, and the ability to record both the display and a user's point-of-view video at the same time are rolling out. The neural handwriting feature is also expected in the coming weeks, Meta said. Source: Blog More on Meta Meta: Why I'm Waiting For $450 Meta: A Deeper Look At Its Capex Burdens Meta: I'm More Than Willing To Catch The Falling Knife Now Trump tax cuts deliver $65B in savings for big businesses: report Australia weighs legal action against Meta, Snapchat, others over teen ban breaches
Unilever agreed to combine its food business with spice maker McCormick & Co. in a $44.8 billion deal. Under the agreement, McCormick will pay $15.7 billion and the equivalent of $29.1 billion McCormick shares for most of Unilever’s food business. Crystal Tse has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)
Unilever agreed to combine its food business with spice maker McCormick & Co. in a $44.8 billion deal. Under the agreement, McCormick will pay $15.7 billion and the equivalent of $29.1 billion McCormick shares for most of Unilever’s food business. Crystal Tse has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)
ARKO Petroleum Corp. ( APC ) declares $0.26/share quarterly dividend . Forward yield 5.86% Payable April 21; for shareholders of record April 10; ex-div April 10. See APC Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on ARKO Petroleum Corp. ARKO Petroleum: Not Fueling Up The Tank Here Arko Petroleum prices IPO at $18 per share Arko Petroleum plans to raise $200M in IPO Historical earnin...
ARKO Petroleum Corp. ( APC ) declares $0.26/share quarterly dividend . Forward yield 5.86% Payable April 21; for shareholders of record April 10; ex-div April 10. See APC Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on ARKO Petroleum Corp. ARKO Petroleum: Not Fueling Up The Tank Here Arko Petroleum prices IPO at $18 per share Arko Petroleum plans to raise $200M in IPO Historical earnings data for ARKO Petroleum Corp. Financial information for ARKO Petroleum Corp.
First Mining Gold press release ( FF:CA ): Q4 As of December 31, 2025, the company's cash and current investments balance was C$45.3M, and the equity interest in PC Gold Inc. (Pickle Crow Project) was C$21.5M. On March 10, 2026, the Company announced it had closed its previously announced sale of the Cameron Gold Project to Seva Mining Corp. ("Seva") in November 2025. First Mining received C$5,000...
First Mining Gold press release ( FF:CA ): Q4 As of December 31, 2025, the company's cash and current investments balance was C$45.3M, and the equity interest in PC Gold Inc. (Pickle Crow Project) was C$21.5M. On March 10, 2026, the Company announced it had closed its previously announced sale of the Cameron Gold Project to Seva Mining Corp. ("Seva") in November 2025. First Mining received C$5,000,000 in cash and 80,000,000 common shares of Seva representing approximately 48% of the common shares outstanding. More on First Mining Gold Historical earnings data for First Mining Gold Financial information for First Mining Gold
No THAC0 Tuesday By Michael Every of Rabobank No TACO And No THAC0 The Global Daily yesterday noted lots of reasons to worry about this Gulf War 3 - today there are far more. However, as made clear since the start of this crisis, there is no way to say, “This is silly,” or to ‘go home’ and return to ‘normality’. Everyone in the war except the US *is* at home. Israel is targeting Iran’s leaders and...
No THAC0 Tuesday By Michael Every of Rabobank No TACO And No THAC0 The Global Daily yesterday noted lots of reasons to worry about this Gulf War 3 - today there are far more. However, as made clear since the start of this crisis, there is no way to say, “This is silly,” or to ‘go home’ and return to ‘normality’. Everyone in the war except the US *is* at home. Israel is targeting Iran’s leaders and PM Netanyahu says the country is only “over halfway” to its war goals, with no timeline for ending the conflict. Key Gulf states are urging Trump to intensify the war, even as Trump may bill them for it. Iran’s parliament just passed a bill imposing tolls on Hormuz, seizing that key waterway, and is pressing Yemen’s Houthis to renew attacks on Red Sea shipping, which would massively exacerbate this crisis - Bloomberg warns of $140 oil if so; a disavowed report just said Egypt, who wants the war to end, warned the Houthis it would then attack them. The Iranian ambassador refused to leave Lebanon when ordered to by its government; and Iran just struck Israel’s oil refinery in Haifa, and a fully laden oil Kuwaiti oil tanker in Dubai. In short, the Middle East has its own agency. The implications for the US in this war are also far beyond oil prices and the mid-terms: Trump’s ‘ reverse perestroika ’ and 21st century US hegemony may pivot on who wins. If the US wins, it de facto controls Middle East energy and can build a new architecture there. Yet financial press op-eds arguing for a ‘blueprint for Chinese global leadership’ could be right if the US loses - in which case everyone clinging to the flotsam and jetsam of the ‘rules-based order’ loses too. Only if one starts with that strategic geopolitical imperative is Trump’s potential willingness to climb the escalatory ladder predictable, as is that there can’t be the ‘TACO’ markets want. That thinking underlines our geopolitical base case this war is largely over in 2-3 weeks, on favourable terms to the US – which is what Se...
TD SYNNEX ( SNX ) declares $0.48/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 1.23% Payable April 29; for shareholders of record April 15; ex-div April 15. See SNX Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on TD SYNNEX TD SYNNEX: Undervalued With Strong Total Return Potential TD Synnex: Setup Remains Very Attractive TD SYNNEX Corporation 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnin...
TD SYNNEX ( SNX ) declares $0.48/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 1.23% Payable April 29; for shareholders of record April 15; ex-div April 15. See SNX Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on TD SYNNEX TD SYNNEX: Undervalued With Strong Total Return Potential TD Synnex: Setup Remains Very Attractive TD SYNNEX Corporation 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation TD SYNNEX beats top-line and bottom-line estimates; gives Q2 outlook TD SYNNEX Q1 2026 Earnings Preview
FactoryTh/iStock via Getty Images Westwater Resources ( WWR ) up 4.5% in early trading Tuesday after saying its Coosa graphite deposit in Alabama has been designated as a “covered project” under FAST-41 and added to the U.S. federal permitting dashboard. Designation as a FAST-41 covered project supports a more coordinated and transparent federal permitting process, including a publicly available p...
FactoryTh/iStock via Getty Images Westwater Resources ( WWR ) up 4.5% in early trading Tuesday after saying its Coosa graphite deposit in Alabama has been designated as a “covered project” under FAST-41 and added to the U.S. federal permitting dashboard. Designation as a FAST-41 covered project supports a more coordinated and transparent federal permitting process, including a publicly available permitting timetable, and is designed to improve visibility and coordination as agencies advance environmental review and permitting activities for Coosa, the company explained . Westwater ( WWR ) said the Coosa graphite deposit, which covers 41,965 acres, is the largest natural flake graphite deposit in the contiguous U.S., and its addition to the FAST-41 dashboard reflects its important role in building a domestic supply of graphite, a critical mineral used in batteries, energy storage, and industrial applications. More on Westwater Resources Westwater Resources Q4 2025 Earnings Call Presentation Westwater Resources Faces Heightened Execution And Financing Risks Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating on Westwater Resources