Here’s a look at The Options Insider’s favorite tweets of the week.
Financial Markets/Exchanges/Options?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffers its biggest weekly decline in more than a year: http://on.wsj.com/1eKj8ZN? $djia?(WSJ Markets??@WSJmarkets)
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$VIX up 30.7% on the day (on Friday) (Bill Luby??@VIXandMore)
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$VIX-plosions have taken place about 3-4 times per year since 2009, last one before today was 10/7/13 (on Friday)(dam warner??@agwarner)
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Two straight record volume days for $SPX weeklies, 427k yesterday and more than 460k today: http://bit.ly/19SUcQR? @CBOE $VIX $$ (on Thursday and Friday)(OptionsBeat??@OptionsBeat)
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BREAKING: ISE Gemini breaks 750K contracts traded for the first trade in a trading session. #options?(on Friday)(ISE??@ISEexchange)
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Overheard at STAC – “Retail doesn’t care about fragmentation” -TD rep. Guess he hasn’t talked to an options spread trader lately. (The Options Insider??@Options)
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Euronext aims to get regulatory approval for its spinoff from NYSE Euronext either this or next month, according to Euronext CEO Cerutti. (Traders Magazine??@traders_tweets)
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Oy! The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 300 points today & 500 for the week. pic.twitter.com/ZJwvwCRano?(Yahoo Finance??@YahooFinance)
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The Economy
The odds of moving up or down the income ladder have not changed much in two decades, a study finds: http://cnb.cx/1cZzQk5?(CNBC??@CNBC)
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The world’s freest economy is also the least affordable housing market | http://buswk.co/1bg0Lba?(Businessweek??@BW)
An angry Timothy Geithner warned S&P about the rating firm’s US downgrade, according to new legal filings: http://on.wsj.com/1bfZ0e9?(WSJ Markets??@WSJmarkets)
Reviewing 2013/Looking at 2014
According to Goldman Sachs estimates, corporate profits grew five times faster than wages in 2013 | http://buswk.co/1fhC4hB?(Businessweek??@BW)
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We take a look at the average ticket price of some of the most expensive events of 2013 | http://buswk.co/1egfjZp? pic.twitter.com/FC4tCzlKPd?(Businessweek??@BW??Jan 23)
This and That
If you bought Apple shares instead of the first Apple computer 30 years ago, your $2,495 would be worth $400,162 today. $AAPL?(Eli Langer??@EliLanger)
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Who made bigger impact over last 25 years: Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos? ? #CNBC25?(CNBC??@CNBC)
Warren Buffett and the founder of Quicken Loans teaming-up to offer $1 billion for a perfect March Madness bracket: http://cnb.cx/1dRt704?(CNBC??@CNBC)
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Corzine loses bid for dismissal of CFTC?s #MFGlobal lawsuit http://stks.co/stMB?(Futures Magazine??@FuturesMagazine)