Apple shares are at all-time highs, but if you missed out on the rally there might be a way to play the mega-cap tech name for less. On CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Tuesday, Dan Nathan of RiskReversal.com offered a stock replacement strategy on the stock. “You may want to consider a defined risk strategy, and that’s buying a call. One trade Nathan said investors can do is buy the May 145-strike call for a total of $3.75, expiring May 19. The trade’s breakeven point is at $148.75, meaning that if Apple

Commodities like oil and copper are down in the past month, and that could be a warning sign for equities going forward. The prices of crude and copper having “stalled” recently suggests that at a “very minimum, you’re going to have some sort of correction,” Boris Schlossberg, managing director of foreign exchange strategy at BK Asset Management, said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” Oil has plummeted more than 10 percent in the last month, while copper futures are down 2 percent. “We’ve had

Health insurance premiums saw a huge spike in 2016, rising an average of 22 percent. Trump hopes it’s the former, and that rising premiums will turn people against Obamacare. The government’s reinsurance program, put in place to help cover costs during the first few uncertain years of Obamacare, has recently expired. Trump could help alleviate rising premiums by backing a measure similar to either of the above. Or he can let premiums run their own course, without government cost assistance, and

If you’re looking for an ideal place to retire, you may want to stay clear of the Sunbelt. Those are the findings from Bankrate’s recent analysis of the best states in which to spend your golden years. The personal finance website studied all 50 states and ranked them on such criteria as tax rates, crime statistics, weather and quality of health care. “It’s not a place where you’re going on vacation,” he said. Florida, for instance, ranked 17th, as crime was a bigger issue there than in other lo

Housing industry veteran Gene Myers says he could be adding 50 percent more homes if he just had the people to build them. Thousands of construction workers left the industry during the recession, many of them heading to the energy sector. More Americans are going to college now, and so they are less likely to pursue a career in construction. “These jobs, Americans don’t want,” Myers said. “We have a hard-working Hispanic labor force here in Denver that really is the foundation for the construct

U.S. government debt prices were higher on Wednesday as investors digested fresh economic data while digesting the formal start to Brexit. Britain’s ambassador to the European Union (EU), Tim Barrow, has handed the official letter triggering Article 50 to Donald Tusk, president of the European Council. The Treasury Department auctioned $28 billion in 7-year notes at a high yield of 2.215 percent. The yield on the 7-year bond was 2.215 percent after the sale. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Tr

The Stoxx 600 ended 0.33 percent higher with most sectors and major bourses in positive territory. The German DAX touched a new multi-year high on Wednesday as it hit 12,326 for the first time since April 2015. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 and French CAC also moved higher and were both more than 0.41 percent up at the close. Its shares moved 2.7 percent higher. At around 1.40 p.m Brussels time, he said “after nine months, the U.K. has delivered Brexit” and was pictured with the signed letter from May.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 30 points, with UnitedHealth contributing the most losses. “We might be seeing a bit of buyer’s remorse from yesterday,” said Mike Bailey, director of research at FBB Capital Partners. The S&P 500 held marginally higher, with energy rising 1 percent. The sector popped after weekly data from the Energy Information Administration showed a smaller-than-expected crude inventory build. U.S. equities rallied on Tuesday, on the back of strong consumer confide

Investors should buy Amazon shares because the company’s earnings this year will come in significantly above expectations, according to Barclays, which initiated coverage on the company with an overweight rating. “AMZN is on the winning side of the biggest TAMs [total addressable markets] & lowest penetration shifts in consumer internet & enterprise (e-commerce, cloud & new areas like video, IoT [internet of things], AI), and has more runway than just about any other company,” analyst Ross Sandl

Investors should shed shares of Dunkin’ Brands due to lackluster growth and the increasingly promotional environment, according to Goldman Sachs, which downgraded the Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins parent to sell from neutral. “We believe top-line risks at US DD (both comps and unit growth) present downside risk to a stock trading at the high end of its valuation range,” analyst Karen Holthouse wrote in a note to clients Wednesday. Holthouse lowered her 2017 comparable sales growth forecast f

If you’re in the market for an iPad, now is the time to wait 3 Hours Ago | 00:39If you’re itching to buy a new iPad Pro right now — hold off. It’s cheaper and offers more features than the older iPad Air 2 that it replaces, and doesn’t cost as much as the more powerful 9.7-inch iPad Pro. That means two new iPads are still expected, and those are the Pro models you’ll want to hold out for. The two new devices reportedly include a refresh of Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, likely with a new processor

We briefly checked out Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ and think they’re likely going to be huge hits. Samsung just needs to avoid the same battery problems that plagued the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7. The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ are easily the best-looking smartphones of the year so far, thanks to what Samsung is billing as an “Infinity Display” that runs side to side and almost top to bottom. The two phones are identical except for size: The S8 display measures 5.8 inches diagonally while

Samsung is known for having some of the best displays in the business. It steps up the game this year with a new display that runs almost the full length of the smartphone. The company calls this an “Infinity Display” and indeed believes it will usher in a new era of “Infinity smartphones.” It supports the latest video standards that have so far only been limited to televisions, including HDR, for a more accurate picture. This serves as the actual home button, returning users to the main screen

Wednesday marked a historic day as British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty had been signed, commencing the formal process for Britain to withdraw from the European Union. Britain is the first country in the EU in more than 60 years to seek a divorce from the union. In her address to Parliament on Wednesday, May said, “There is no turning back.” Outside Parliament, mixed reactions marked the day as pro-EU protesters gathered and the world tries to figure

While it’s no doubt tempting to fall into this negative way of thinking, please don’t! hiring managers are human, too, and they understand that these things happen. They know that, as Sally Bolig, Head of Talent Acquisition at Yotpo, a tech company based in NYC, points out, “interviews are nerve-wracking.” Everyone’s nervous in the interview process, she notes, adding that her organization’s protocol is to recognize an interview flub or poor answer with a “yellow flag.” But the key thing is that

Citi Research initiated coverage of Martin Marietta Materials and Vulcan Materials with buy ratings, saying the companies will benefit from increased government infrastructure spending in the coming years. President Donald Trump will try to pass tax reform and an infrastructure spending package at the same time this year, according to a report from Axios on Tuesday. “We think that both Vulcan and Martin present strong investment opportunities at current price levels,” analyst Scott Schrier wrote

Snap shares seesawed Wednesday after a Jefferies analyst said Facebook, experiencing a slump in engagement, will chase Snapchat’s innovation. The parent company behind Snapchat was down about 1 percent intraday Wednesday, a day after Facebook unveiled new features similar to Snapchat. On Tuesday, investment firm Jefferies reiterated its “buy” rating on Snap stock, saying the company continues to beat Facebook in newness. “We see the roll out of clone features in Instagram and now core Facebook a

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the biggest unanswered questions in medicine. And despite the failure rate, the leading trials in Alzheimer’s disease are still targeting amyloid — but earlier in the disease’s course. Another early approach is even more radical: the idea that we could treat Alzheimer’s with light. Those rhythms — neurons firing synchronously in the brain — have been found to be impaired in people with Alzheimer’s, Tsai explained. So then the question of what happens when those rhyt

Many believe there is a much greater possibility of achieving bipartisan support for tax reform even though the last comprehensive tax reform occurred in 1986. There is considerable support in both Houses of Congress for pro-growth tax reform that will make our overly complex tax system simpler, fairer and more competitive. While many people claim to support the need for comprehensive tax reform, the devil is in the details. On the corporate side, the U.S. has the highest statutory corporate tax

U.S. drillers are insulating themselves against falling oil prices — a move that could prolong the global crude glut that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is trying to drain. American companies rushed to lock in higher prices for future deliveries of oil as the market recovered late last year, analysis of company disclosures by consultancy group Wood Mackenzie shows. That threatens to keep oil flowing from U.S. fields throughout 2017, even if prices fall. But the higher pric