“Make all the trades through the dark pools so it masks what we’re doing. That way we’ll preserve our head start, which will not be a long one.” This is how Bobby Axelrod instructs his traders to get rid of his natural gas positions in the latest episode of the Read more…
How does the Delta of a lookback option behave? What is Cross-Gamma? Is the Vega of a digital option ever negative? And furthermore, how do these exotic greeks (“greexotics) evolve as time passes and implied volatility changes? In this series of articles, we would like to give the reader a Read more…
Carel Industries S.p.A. [BIT: CRL] – Market Cap as of 08/04/2019: €1.05bn Introduction On Monday 11th of June 2018, Carel Industries S.p.A., a global player in the dehumidification and refrigeration sector, started trading on the MTA of Borsa Italiana. The initial price was €7.2 per share, but strong demand quickly Read more…
Mellanox Technologies Ltd [MLNX: NASDAQ] – Market Cap as of 03/04/2019 $6.46bn NVIDIA Corporation [NVDA: NASDAQ] – Market Cap as of 03/04/2019 $114.25bn Introduction On Monday 11 March 2019 NVIDIA announced an all-cash acquisition of Mellanox Technologies at $125 per share, implying a total EV of $6.9bn. NVIDIA, whose share price had previously come under pressure due to Read more…
Lyft inc. [LYFT: NASDAQ] – Market Cap as of 5/4/2019 $21.28bn Introduction On March 29, Lyft – a leading US ride-hailing company – went public on the Nasdaq. Its IPO price settled at the top end of the pricing range, with shares at $72 a piece valuing the company at Read more…
US With the beginning of the earnings season this week FactSet reported that in the first quarter analyst lowered earnings-per-share estimates by 7.2%, the largest decline since 2016 Q1. One of their main fears is that the record rise in wages which has outpaced the PCE for the previous quarters, Read more…
In this article we will skip the introduction of the very fundamental characteristics of ETFs and focus on the more advanced mechanics, here meaning the different replication methods accompanied by a glance at current developments in the respective section. With an understanding of these more advanced mechanics, we will then Read more…
In this article we analyze how to set up trading strategies on listed football clubs exploiting the peculiar behaviour of returns and implied volatility in correspondence to UEFA Champions League matches. In particular, this article is structured in four parts. In the first part, we briefly introduce the link between Read more…
Saudi Basic Industries Corp [SABIC:AB] – Market Cap as of 05/04/2019 $381.6bn Introduction On March 27th 2019, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), signed a share purchase agreement to acquire a 70% majority stake in Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) Read more…
Levi Strauss & Co. [NYSE: LEVI] – Market Cap as of 30/03/2019: $9.21bn Introduction On 21 March 2019, jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. made a comeback to the stock market in style after more than three decades since the company was taken private. The public offering raised $623m through Read more…
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: BAM) – market cap as of 01/04/2019: USD 46.83bn Oaktree Capital Management (NYSE: OAK) – market cap as of 01/04/2019: USD7.82bn Intro On March 13th, the Canadian alternative asset manager titan Brookfield Asset Management and the California-based alternative asset manager Oaktree Capital Group announced an Read more…
US S&P closed the week at 2,834, up 0.7% during the day and marks its best performing quarter in the last 10 years being up 14% from December. On Friday, DJIA closed 0.8% higher at 25,929. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.8% to close at 7,729. 10-year Treasuries ended the week Read more…
History of Turkey’s crisis Over the course of its history, Turkey has been continuously striving towards beneficial economic relations with Europe. Turkey became an associate member of the European Economic Community in 1963, and later joined the Customs Union in 1995. As a result of a period of very high Read more…
As one may have noticed, over the not so recent past the German benchmark index DAX has trailed its major European country equity indices. An investor who invested four years ago in the DAX would have lost about 4% while the French CAC 40 returned 21%. With Germany as so Read more…
Introduction When talking about M&A one can assume two different perspectives: that of the investment bank and that of the acquirer. The bank deems a deal successful right after it is concluded, when it gets paid the fees. The reality is quite different for the company, as it might take Read more…