Good morning!
Yesterday saw the first bit of market concern in weeks and resulted in a move lower of more than 1.6% in the SPY. That was more than the expected move for the entire week and therefore woke up option prices a bit as well, with the VIX nearly touching 20 intraday before closing just below 19. The worries yesterday were twofold, renewed concern about the regional/mid-sized banks following First Republic’s earnings and some indications from other companies on earnings that the economy may be slowing. Those worries will likely remain the backdrop for a bit. FRC is lower again this morning. However, the regional bank index ETF is not, it’s slightly in the green as it tries to recover a bit of yesterday’s move.
And earnings continue against this backdrop and last night we got some big ones. Microsoft and Alphabet are both higher pre-market, although it’s Microsoft (up +8% pre-market) that’s powering the QQQ futures higher. Both company’s earnings calls heavily featured talk of AI and as has been the case lately, the assumption is that MSFT is a bit ahead of GOOGL in the game thus far. The stocks’ moves this morning may be a proxy battle on that front.
Boeing (BA) is also higher on earnings. META is up next after the close, with options pricing about an 8% move.
Pre-Market Movers:
- First Republic Bank (FRC) -14.81%
- Marathon Digital Hldgs Inc (MARA) +13.68%
- Microsoft Corp (MSFT) +8.34%
- Pacwest Bancorp (PACW) +12.90%
- Tesla Inc (TSLA) +0.37%
- Alphabet Cl A (GOOGL) +1.00%
- Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) +2.80%
- Doordash Inc Cl A (DASH) +1.55%
- Alphabet Cl C (GOOG) +0.76%
- Apple Inc (AAPL) +0.04%
- Adv Micro Devices (AMD) +2.48%
- Snap Inc (SNAP) +1.87%
- Nvidia Corp (NVDA) +2.51%
- Meta Platforms Inc (META) +1.88%
- Paypal Holdings (PYPL) +0.58%
Today’s Earnings Highlights:
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Expected Move: 7.81%
- The Boeing Company (BA) Expected Move: 3.88%
- ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW) Expected Move: 6.10%
Full list here: Options AI Earnings Calendar.
Economic Calendar:
- At 08:30 AM (EST) Durable Goods Orders MoM (Mar) Estimates: 0.7%, Prior: -1.2%
- At 07:00 AM (EST) MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate (Apr/21) Impact: Medium
Options AI Scanner Highlights:
Based on the prior day’s trading action.
- Overbought (RSI): PEP (99)
- Oversold (RSI): DOCU (0)
- Unusual Options Volume: INVZ (+2355%), FRC (+1600%), UPS (+1361%), RIO (+1358%), SPOT (+1333%), TXN (+1131%), CRWD (+1084%), MSFT (+1032%), SNOW (+983%), ABBV (+959%), GSK (+947%), XLV (+946%), GOOGL (+933%), SBUX (+882%), KSS (+790%), ADBE (+746%), VXX (+743%), UVXY (+729%), JWN (+682%), NVDA (+654%)
Full lists here: Options AI Free Tools.
Chart of the Day:
META options are pricing about a 7.8% move, it’s last report saw a move of 23%.
That’s all for now. Have a great day!
The Options AI Team
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