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] fell by triple digits on Tuesday, led lower by financials, as worries about further losses stemming from the mortgage crisis moved back into the spotlight.
JPMORGAN, GOLDMAN WERE BEST IN 'BREED'
The news: Word that JPMorgan Chase [JPM
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Goldman Sachs [GS
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] shares also weighed on the financial sector after a number of analysts, including Oppenheimer & Co's Meredith Whitney and Deutsche Bank's Michael Mayo, cut their earnings estimates for the investment bank. The KBW index of bank shares [BKX
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The plays: Wait for Goldman to hit $150, counsels Jeff Macke. At that level it’s a buy.
I think the trade in Goldman is ahead of their earnings, adds Guy Adami. But I don’t think it shakes out as a trade until September 10th or so. They report on the 18th.
The JP Morgan write-down didn’t seem that big to me, says Karen Finerman, but it made me think now everyone else has to re-price. On a related note Finerman is short banks, but doesn’t plan to cover those trades, at least not yet.
Fundamentally, I think many of the bank stocks are ahead of themselves, muses Pete Najarian. Look at the run in the Financial Select Sector SPDR [XLF
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OIL HITS 14-WEEK LOW
The news: Oil [US@CL.1
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] fell to a 14-week low on Tuesday after government data showed the steepest decline in U.S. crude demand in 26 years, adding to mounting concerns about global consumption.
The plays: I think we’re getting close from a bounce back perspective, says Jeff Macke. You can trade these things like the other broken trend trades; from the long side. But in the end I think oil will go quite low because it’s unwinding a lot of speculative bets.
The airlines are scorching higher right now, says Pete Najarian, but I wouldn’t trade them. However if oil spikes and the airlines dip, I think airlines are a buy for a trade.
I think both Lockheed [LMT
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GOLD CRUSH CONTINUES
The news: Gold tumbled to its weakest levels in almost eight months in volatile trade on Tuesday, losing its safe-haven appeal as investors shifted some of their money back to the U.S. dollar while oil further retreated from record highs.
The plays: The gold chart is horrifying. I’d rather be long the dollar, says Jeff Macke.
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AFTER HOURS ACTION: APPLIED MATERIALS
The news: Applied Materials [AMAT
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] the No. 1 computer-chip equipment maker, posted a lower quarterly profit as revenue slid 28 percent. Applied, along with others in the chip equipment industry, have suffered from a glut of manufacturing capacity in the memory chip market.
New orders of $2.03 billion in the third quarter were down 11 percent from a year ago and decreased 16 percent from the second quarter, Applied said But the backlog at the end of the quarter was $4.74 billion, up from $4.59 billion at the end of the previous quarter.
The plays: I wouldn’t rush in, says Pete Najarian. But Applied Materials has exposure in the solar space which I like.
If AMAT switches their business around it could get interesting, says Guy Adami.
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AFTER HOURS ACTION: NVIDIA
The news: Graphics chip maker Nvidia [NVDA
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] posted a second-quarter loss on Tuesday as a slump in global desktop PC sales hurt its business.
The plays: I wouldn’t rush in on the news, says Pete Najarian.
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IS BIG PHARMA FINALLY BACK?
The news: Drugs have suffered the past year on generic competition and a slowing pipeline. But on Fast Money Eli Lilly [LLY
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The plays: I think the trade is Amylin