
David Marino
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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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | David Marino
Vinay Prasad(Bloomberg) -- An unusually large bearish bet on a drug ETF gained almost $800,000 as drug stocks reeled following the appointment of Vinay Prasad as director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics and Research. Just before 9:45 a.m. New York time, a trader bought 10,000 contracts of put spreads on the VanEck Pharmaceutical exchange-traded fund (ticker PPH). Biotech stocks slumped after 12:30 p.m. on news of Prasad’s appointment.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | David Marino |Christian Dass
(Bloomberg) -- For hedge funds, last year’s popular index dispersion trade has increasingly morphed into more focused strategies. With tariff tantrums upending global markets, macroeconomic concerns have taken over, overshadowing individual corporate news. In April, the implied correlation on the S&P 500 Index averaged its highest level in more than two years, remaining elevated even at the height of the earnings season. The trend was similar in Europe.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | David Marino |Christian Dass |Bernard Goyder
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