This company’s products save soldiers’ lives. Even a dove could buy this stock.
With the defense budget coming out soon, will President Obama bump up defense spending?
Boeing is seeing heavy options activity Tuesday, mostly on the call side. BA's 20-day average volume is 16,400 options daily, but this morning 26,000 contracts traded in the first 45 minutes alone. As the stock is up some 3 percent to about $40 at midday, calls outnumber puts by a margin of 15,000 to 11,900.
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Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Lockheed Martin and Saks popped while Alcoa dropped.
Q: On Fast Money’s trader radar we look at the stock that was lighting up screens across Wall Street. In 1912, the founder of this aerospace company achieved the world’s first major over-ocean flight in his hydroplane. In the 1990s, the firm suffered some bad press for building the bungled Hubble space telescope but today, the shares went to the moon after winning a NASA contract to build new weather satellites. Who is it?
Car sales are off a cliff, financials are drowning in red ink, and retailers are facing the worst holiday-shopping season in recent memory. So what isn't a disaster? Howard Rubel of Jefferies & Co. points investors toward defense companies.
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It sounds like the ultimate in defensive investing: Buying the stocks of defense contractors.
The first 100 days of any new administration brings about considerable change. But this time around, well, hold your hats.
AeroVironment could rally if the Democrats take the White House, Cramer says.
Corporations are required to fund these pension funds at certain levels, and a lower market may require them to put up more money to cover any shortfall between what is paid out and what is taken in.
Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Coach and 3M popped while Western Union and Freeport McMoRan dropped.
Any close that is near break even or positive would be a sign that stocks are discounting a lot of bad news.
Futures are down in reaction to the poor earnings guidance we have seen from Dupont, Texas Instruments, Sandisk and Sun Micro, among others, but the swing in the futures pre-open has been only 18 points, well below the 50-point spreads we have seen in the past few weeks.