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MTD Closing Auction as % of Consolidated Volume By Sector
Daily U.S. Market Update
Michael Reinking, Directly From The NYSE Trading Floor
Markets are off to a bit of a sluggish start ahead of what should be a busy week. As we head to print the S&P is down 7pts to 4,121 (-0.2%), the Dow is down 115pts to 33,685 (-0.3%) while the Russell 2k is down 11pts to 2,233 (-0.5%). Last week was capped off with a sharp rally into the close and today’s “losses” are reversing a small portion of that. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones ended the week up over 2% and are now up ~10% YTD. We have entered into the slow grind higher phase of the market rally with the S&P 500 up in 6 of the previous 7 sessions with the only interruption a 0.1% pullback along the way.
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Options
Options are financial derivatives, meaning that they derive their value from the underlying security or stock. Options give the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying stock at a pre-determined price.
Market Insights and Education
Q1 2021 Options Review: Volumes Continue to Soar
By James Chu, Manager, Research and Analytics, NYSE &
John Fischer, Manager, Strategy and Research, NYSE
After an extraordinary 2020, the pace of trading activity in the options markets accelerated at the start of 2021. Out of the gate, January multi-list options volume averaged a record 42.1 million contracts per day. Prior to 2020 there had never been a single day with options volume of 40+ million contracts.
NYSE Briefs: SPACs
Understanding how “SPACs” or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies go to market.
Buyers and Sellers Meeting Earlier in the NYSE Opening Auction
By Kevin Tyrrell, Head of Research, NYSE
The boost in retail trading activity which began during pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020 continues today. This trend has impacted various market behaviors, including opening auctions.
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Floor Talk with Stacey Cunningham
In March 2020, the NYSE closed the Trading Floor and moved to all-electronic trading for the first time. What were the main takeaways from the temporary closure?
Data rich: why having granular ESG data matters
Diversity, employee benefits and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are ESG considerations that are rapidly becoming essential to investment analysis and portfolio selection.
Is the small-cap earnings recovery just beginning?
Royce Investments Co-CIO Francis Gannon on why he thinks earnings will drive the market as the economy heats up.
SEC Promotes Investor Awareness
The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is embracing National Financial Capability Month by encouraging all investors to visit Investor.gov for an array of educational resources.
The role of energy markets in investor commitments to decarbonization
Lauren Smart, Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Commercial for S&P Global Platts Market Intelligence talks with Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of Utility Markets for ICE about ESG, the energy transition, hedging, decarbonization and the role of markets in tackling new challenges and opportunities.
Hope Jarkowski on how the NYSE meets the needs of modern investors
Hope Jarkowski, the Head of Equities at the New York Stock Exchange, makes her inaugural visit Inside the ICE House to look back on a wild year since the March 2020 market correction.
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Exchange Traded Products
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Through a dual options market structure, traders and brokers have choice and flexibility that comes from a mixture of electronic trading and open outcry interaction.
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Latest press releases and announcements from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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