David Marino

New York

Head, Derivatives Coverage at Bloomberg News

Leading derivatives coverage @terminal. Commodities refugee. Ex-Platts, CSCE. Retweets not endorsements. Opinions mine. Options/commods/Mets/frisbee

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Articles

Solving The Office Supply Glut And Affordable Real Estate Shortage

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Marino

David Marino, Senior Executive Managing Director of Hughes Marino. A fundamental tenet of real estate valuation and development is that land gravitates to the highest and best use. The United States has a residential real estate crisis, where Zillow reported in 2024 that there’s a shortage of approximately 4.5 million housing units. Simultaneously, the U.S. office sector is in crisis.
Gold Options Traders Signal Caution Amid Rally to Record High

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | David Marino |Yvonne Yue Li

While gold prices have soared to peaks above $3,000 an ounce, options traders are showing little of the exuberance seen last year in tech stocks or other high-flying commodities like coffee and cocoa. Spot gold has jumped 18% so far in 2025 amid concerns that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs will stoke trade wars with Canada, Mexico, Europe and other global trading partners.
Options Market Focused on Jobs and Inflation Over Tariff Reveal

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | David Marino |Christian Dass |Bernard Goyder

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Options Market Focused on Jobs and Inflation Over Tariff Reveal

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | David Marino |Christian Dass |Bernard Goyder

Kink in volatility curve is bigger for March 31 and April 4The VIX hasn’t been as reactive as in previous selloffsWhile investors are eyeing warily Donald Trump’s tariff “Liberation Day” on April 2, options markets show it’s far from the only event on the calendar. Implied volatility for S&P 500 Index options is elevated for a couple of particular days in the next two weeks, signaling greater demand for protection against big market swings then.
Options Market Focused on Jobs and Inflation Over Tariff Reveal

1 month ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | David Marino |Christian Dass |Bernard Goyder

(Bloomberg) -- While investors are eyeing warily Donald Trump’s tariff “Liberation Day” on April 2, options markets show it’s far from the only event on the calendar. • None They Built a Secret Apartment in a Mall. Now the Mall Is Dying.
VIX Nears 30 First Time Since August Shock on Tariff Anxiety

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | David Marino |Jessica Menton

A slump in the S&P 500 Index on Monday sent the Cboe Volatility Index a hair away from 30, the level it last reached during the volatility shock in August. The VIX reached 29.56 shortly after 3 p.m. in New York before paring the advance as the S&P 500 plunged as much as 3.6%, with the VVIX, which measures volatility of VIX options, also spiking. The index of expected S&P 500 swings in the next month hasn’t spent much time above the 30 level since 2022, when stocks lost 19%.
VIX Nears 30 First Time Since August Shock on Tariff Anxiety

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | David Marino |Jess Menton

A slump in the S&P 500 Index on Monday sent the Cboe Volatility Index a hair away from 30, the level it last reached during the volatility shock in August. The VIX reached 29.56 shortly after 3 p.m. in New York before paring the advance as the S&P 500 plunged as much as 3.6%, with the VVIX, which measures volatility of VIX options, also spiking. The index of expected S&P 500 swings in the next month hasn’t spent much time above the 30 level since 2022, when stocks lost 19%.
S&P 500 Sinks as VIX Futures Curve Inversion Sends Distress Signal

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | David Marino |Bernard Goyder

A rout in the S&P 500 Index has boosted demand for short-term hedges, flipping the Cboe VIX Futures curve into a rare inversion. Traders who had been lining up options to hedge against a steep pullback in the S&P 500 are reaping the benefit. In mid-February, huge volumes of call buying were seen in March-expiry strikes from 20 to 25, and last week more than 260,000 contracts of calls from 55 to 75 were bought.
Nvidia (NVDA) Share Decline to $115 Is Day’s Biggest Options Bet

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Bernard Goyder |David Marino

Worries about the growth outlook for Nvidia Corp., the chipmaker at the center of the AI spending boom, pushed shares to a three-week low on Thursday. And someone just wagered that a deeper slide is in store. Between 2 p.m. and 2:40 p.m., a trader bought more than 300,000 contracts wagering that Nvidia’s shares would drop to $115 by March 7 — a move that implies a 12% decline from Wednesday’s close. The last time shares traded at this level was in mid-September.
Europe Gas Option Traders Bet on Summer Surge as Supply Shrinks

2 months ago | financialpost.com | Priscila Azevedo Rocha |David Marino

The trades, which run counter to the market’s typical historical pattern of valuing winter gas higher than summer, underscore the conviction that prices have further to climb as supply tightness fears dominate the market. Investment funds have already pushed bullish wagers on Intercontinental Exchange Inc. near an all-time high, and worries that normal shipping routes will be thrown into disarray by trade conflicts are adding uncertainty to an already volatile market.