$MicroStrategy (MSTR.US)$ shares took a roller-coaster ride Thursday, spurring increasing activities in the options market just after Bitcoin hit a new milestone, climbing above $100,000.
The software company, whose business strategy includes buying and holding Bitcoin, saw its shares jump as much as 9.6% to an intra-day record high of $444.94 after $Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$ soared past $103,000. That rally almost pushed the $45...

Happy trading, it is Tuesday, September 17th. The market climbed, and the S&P 500 hit an all-time Tuesday just past 10:45 am ET, one day before the most exciting FOMC monetary policy meetings for years, with investor hype expecting at least the first 25 bp rate cut -0.25%.
My name is Kevin Travers; here are stories about the U.S. stock market today.
$Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.US)$ rose 6%, the highest on the S&P 500 after Ban...

$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ is seeing heavy buying of call options that give the holders the right to buy the stock at $175 by Friday. That mirrors the rally in shares amid signs of continued strength among U.S. consumers, bolstering the investment appeal of the largest e-commerce platform.
As of 1:30 p.m. in New York, more than 42,990 of those $175 calls changed hands, exceeding open interest which totaled 26,840. Amazon's 3.6%...

$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ is seeing the heaviest volume in call options that give the holders the right to buy the stock at $160 after the share price fell below that strike price amid reports that the Department of Justice is considering seeking Google's breakup.  
The DOJ may seek to break up Google after a court found that the company monopolized the online search market, Bloomberg reported, citing people with kn...

Tesla has seen a more than 20% pullback since hitting its peak for the year in mid-July, leaving investors eager to know when the stock might recover. Let’s delve into Tesla’s fundamentals and hear from Wall Street analysts.
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$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ have seen significant volatility this year. The stock plunged more than 40% from the start of the year to mid-April. Following the first-quarter earnings repor...

$MARA Holdings (MARA.US)$ is seeing heavy selling of call options that give the holders the right to buy the bitcoin miner's shares at $16 each as the stock price tumbled below that strike price.
The sell-off seen in the call options market and the stock's 6.5% slump to $15.93 came after Marathon Digital on Monday announced plans to offer $250 million of convertible senior notes, and said it expects to grant the in...

Financial institutions are placing millions of dollars in bullish option positions in $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Broadcom (AVGO.US)$, $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ and $Arm Holdings (ARM.US)$ as capital spending on chips that power artificial intelligence applications remain strong.
The momentum that's pushing up demand for central processing units (CPU), graphic processing unit (GPUs) and networking chips used in artifi...