$PSTH

Monday, July 19, 2021 Futures Up/Down % Last Dow -358.00 1.04% 34,206 S&P 500 -32.25 0.74% 4,286 Nasdaq -55.50 0.38% 14,615 U.S. stock markets are looking lower as S&P futures fall -0.7% as rising Covid case rates and recent technology underperformance weigh on risk sentiment. In Asian markets, the Hang Seng falls as much as 2.2%, the Nikkei drops 1.4% and the Shanghai Composite slips -0.3%. In Europe, the rise of the rapidly-spreading Delta variant is threatening to derail many efforts towards a full economic reopening as worsening outbreaks continue to cloud the once-promising outlook. The German DAX is down 2% (over 300 points) to 15,225, while the FTSE 100 drops 2% to 6,870. The Dollar Index (DXY) rises for third day while yen strengthens below 110/USD amid risk aversion. The Aussie dollar falls to seven-month low and AUD 10-year yield drops after Victoria extends lockdown and Sydney again tightens restrictions amid worsening delta outbreak. Oil drops over -2.5% as WTI crude slips below the $70 per barrel level after OPEC and its allies struck a deal to inject more oil into the global economy. Treasury 10-year yield eases to 1.25% as relentless bond rally continues. Stocks finished lower Friday after surging inflation led to an unexpected decline in U.S. consumer sentiment in early July. For the week, the Dow fell 0.5%, the S&P 500 declined 1% and the Nasdaq dropped 1.9%. Stocks snapped their three-week losing streak with sharp declines on Friday, with defensive stocks leading the weekly gains with utilities, staples and REITs (reached a record high), while energy got slammed down over 7%, followed by a drop in discretionary and materials. In corporate news this weekend, Zoom Media ($ZM) announced a +$14B acquisition of Five9 Inc. ($FIVN) in the software space on Sunday ahead of a busy week of earnings. Market Closing Prices Yesterday The S&P 500 Index dropped -32.87 points, or 0.75%, to 4,327.16 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -299.15 points, or 0.86%, to 34,687.85 The Nasdaq Composite slumped-115.86 points, or 0.80%, to 14,427.24 The Russell 2000 Index declined -27.05 points, or 1.24% to 2,163.24 Events Calendar for Today 10:00 AM ET NAHB Housing Market Index for July Earnings Calendar: Earnings Before the Open: AN, BMRC, CALM, GNTY, PLD, TSCO Earnings After the Close: CCK, ELS, EQBK, FBK, FNB, IBM, JBHT, PACW, PPG, STLD, WTFC, ZION Macro Up/Down Last Nymex -2.04 69.77 Brent -1.99 71.60 Gold -9.00 1,803.05 EUR/USD -0.0032 1.1774 JPY/USD -0.30 109.77 10-Year Note -0.041 1.250% World News S. TIC report: foreigners bought a net total $105.3 B in assets in May, after purchases of $100.1 B (was $101.2 B) in April. But net long-term data showed sales of -$30.2 B in May after purchases of $100.7 B in April. Of those long-term flows, -$93.4 B in Treasury coupons were liquidated, while $37.8 B in agencies was purchased, along with $17.3 B in corporate bonds OPEC and its allies struck a deal that allows for monthly supply hikes of 400k b/d until the end of 2021, putting the group back in control of the crude market. Starting in August, they’ll pump out an extra 400K barrels a day through the end of 2022, restoring all the cuts they made at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. UAE will have a new baseline of 3.5m bpd, Iraq/Kuwait baselines will increase by 150k bpd each, Saudi/Russian baselines will be adjusted to 11.5m bpd Sector News Breakdown Consumer Academy Sports and Outdoors ($ASO) is more than a pandemic play, according to Barron’s saying interest in health and wellness has been enduring, and the company’s manageable debt level will allow it to open more brick-and-mortar stores Cal-Maine Foods ($CALM) Q4 EPS loss (-$0.09) below the $0.18 estimate; reports Q4 revenue $349.8M vs. est. $404.67M; average sales price for shell eggs was $1.32 per dozen for q4 compared with $1.58 per dozen for same period last year; said expect to see further volatility in market prices for our primary feed ingredients Cruise operators Carnival Corp ($CCL), Royal Caribbean Group ($RCL) and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) fall about 3% each premarket along with a decline in other European travel and leisure stocks on worries that the fast-spreading Delta variant could hamper travel demand and slow the ongoing global economic recovery Veoneer ($VNE) signed an agreement with LiDAR company Baraja to industrialize their Spectrum-Scan LiDAR technology for the next market wave of L2+ through L4 autonomous vehicle applications Energy, Industrials and Materials OPEC+ and its allies, including Russia, agree Sunday to further relax output curbs. Under the deal, announced following a virtual meeting of OPEC+ energy ministers, production will rise by 400,000 barrels a day each month beginning in August and would eventually undo all of the curbs put in place last year Ingersoll Rand Inc. ($IR) has made takeover bids for component maker SPX Flow Inc. ($FLOW) that have so far been rebuffed, according to people familiar with the matter, the WSJ reported on Sunday. IR’s most recent all-cash offer valued SPX Flow in the low-$80s a share, the people said, or around $3.5 billion https://on.wsj.com/3kB1qlt Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services ($ISS) has favored Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ ($BIP) offer for Inter Pipeline Ltd ($IPPLF) in a blow to a rival bid from Pembina Pipeline Corp ($PMB). During the past week, Brookfield raised its hostile offer for Inter Pipeline to about C$8.58 billion ($6.80 billion). Alcoa ($AA) upgraded to Conviction Buy from Buy at Goldman Sachs Financials Interactive Brokers Group ($IBKR) introduces a new simple flat fee structure of a flat 3 EUR or 3 GBP per trade (trades up to 6,000 EUR/GBP in value) for stock trading in Europe Healthcare Amyris ($AMRS), Zymergen ($ZY), Soaring Eagle Acquisition ($SRNG) are the three main stock plays on synthetic biology, which could become a huge market according to Barron’s this weekend Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) is exploring a plan to offload liabilities from widespread Baby Powder litigation into a newly created business that would then seek bankruptcy protection – Reuters Tempest Therapeutics ($TPST) files $250M mixed securities shelf Technology, Media & Telecom Zoom Video Communications, Inc. ($ZM) to acquire Five9, Inc. ($FIVN) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.7 billion with FIVN holders to receive $200.28 per share; FIVN holders will receive 0.5533 shares of Class A common stock of Zoom Video Communications, Inc. for each share of Five9, Inc. https://on.mktw.net/3xRVVTf SAP AG ($SAP) is moving to cloud, and investors are yet to give company credit, according to Barron’s noting while the transformation will take time, the CEO expects to triple its revenue from the cloud by 2025, and 40% of cloud revenue has been coming from new clients Telefonica SA ($TEF) agreed to sell a stake in its Colombian fiber optic broadband network to KKR & Co. Telefonica will control 40% of the new venture, which will aim to bring high-speed internet access to about 90 cities in the next three years, and KKR the remaining 60%, the carrier said in a statement late Friday. The venture is valued at $500 million Bill Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings ($PSTH) had dropped a deal to buy 10% of Vivendi’s flagship Universal Music Group after U.S. regulators questioned its stake purchase of Universal Music. DISH ($DISH) signed a transformative, long-term strategic Network Services Agreement (NSA) with AT&T, making AT&T the primary network services partner for DISH MVNO customers

Monday, June 21, 2021 Futures Up/Down % Last Dow 190.00 0.57% 33,345 S&P 500 18.0 0.43% 4,171 Nasdaq 61.75 0.44% 14,096 U.S. stock futures are looking sharply higher, tracking gains in Europe while Asian markets decline with global stock markets mixed. Stocks ended lower last week after the Federal Reserve said Wednesday it expects to raise interest rates by late 2023, sooner than previously projected. Prompting the policy shift was a much stronger economic rebound and hotter inflation than the Fed anticipated just a few months ago. Markets then again dropped on Friday after St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said during a TV interview on CNBC that inflation risks may warrant the Federal Reserve beginning raising interest rates next year, backing an even-earlier liftoff than penciled in by many of his colleagues. Shares of banks, energy firms and other companies that tend to be sensitive to the economy’s fluctuations have fallen sharply since the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday. Material stocks plunged with Nucor (NUE) falling ~13% in tough week for steel stocks, while Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) fell 14%, and gold miner Newmont Corp (NEM) dropped 11%. The S&P 500 Banks index plunges 8% as the yield curve flattens and energy stocks fall over 5% as crude retreats from multi-year highs as U.S. dollar firms after Fed signal on rates. Treasury yields plunged further overnight as the benchmark 10-year U.S. yield fell to its lowest since Feb. 24 at 1.354%, before recovering back to 1.433% now. Bitcoin prices dropping nearly 8% to $32,700, while Ethereum falls about 10% to $1,975 in a general rout of crypto assets to start the week; Bitcoin cash (BCH) down over 11% under $500 – crypto assets fall as Reuters reports further crackdown in China as authorities in the southwest province of Sichuan on Friday ordered cryptocurrency mining projects to close. In Asian markets, The Nikkei Index plunged -953 points to 28,010, the Shanghai Index was up a few points at 3,529 and the Hang Seng Index dropped -312 points to 28,489. In Europe, the German DAX is higher by 115 points to 15,560, while the FTSE 100 is up about 15 points to 7,030. Market Closing Prices Yesterday The S&P 500 Index dropped -55.41 points, or 1.31%, to 4,166.45 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -533.32 points, or 1.58%, to 33,290.08 The Nasdaq Composite slumped -131.02 points, or 0.93%, to 14,030.38 The Russell 2000 Index plunged -49.71 points, or 2.17% to 2,237.75 Events Calendar for Today 8:30 AM EST National Activity Index for May Earnings Calendar: Earnings Before the Open: PLUG Earnings After the Close: none Other Key Events: Goldman Sachs 17th Business Services, Transport & Leisure Conference (virtual), 6/21-6/23 Raymond James Human Health Innovation Conference (virtual), 6/21-6/23 Roth London Conference (virtual), 6/21-6/23 Macro Up/Down Last Nymex 0.17 71.81 Brent 0.06 73.57 Gold 15.20 1,784.20 EUR/USD 0.0032 1.1896 JPY/USD -0.13 110.08 10-Year Note -0.014 1.436% World News Bitcoin prices dropping nearly 8% to $32,700, while Ethereum falls about 10% to $1,975 in a general rout of crypto assets to start the week; Bitcoin cash (BCH) down over 11% under $500 – crypto assets fall as Reuters reports further crackdown in China as authorities in the southwest province of Sichuan on Friday ordered cryptocurrency mining projects to close. Negotiators for Iran and six world powers on Sunday adjourned talks on reviving their 2015 nuclear deal and return to respective capitals for consultations as remaining differences still need to be overcome, officials said – Reuters Sector News Breakdown Consumer Six Flags Entertainment (SIX) could keep climbing as it offers outdoor entertainment that’s close to home, according to Barron’s. Some 1.3 million people visited its parks in the first quarter, versus Wall Street’s estimate of just 600,000, boding well for the summer season when all of its North America parks will be open. Still, labor shortages could be a headwind. Porsche AG (POAHY) will develop and produce battery cells for electric sportscars in a new joint venture with German lithium-ion specialist Custom Cells GmbH; is investing a high double-digit million-euro sum and will control a 83.75% stake in the Cellforce venture Amazon (AMZN) Prime Day has kicked off, with the online retail giant promising more than 2 million deals over the two-day event. Energy, Industrials and Materials CNH Industrial (CNHI) agreed to acquire Raven Industries (RAVN) for $58.00 per share, in a transaction valued at $2.1B https://bit.ly/3iXZByo Chevron (CVX) said it was returning offshore workers who had been evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Claudette from its Gulf of Mexico production platforms Boeing’s (BA) 737-10, the largest airplane in the 737 MAX family, completed a successful first flight on June 18. The airplane took off from Renton Field in Renton, Washington, at 10:07 a.m. and landed at 12:38 p.m. at Boeing Field in Seattle FedEx (FDX) mentioned positively in Barron’s saying it can charge higher fees when demand strengthens, thanks to the duopoly it shares with UPS (UPS), and that should add up to a strong earnings report this coming week. A big beat and strong guidance will probably be needed to move the stock higher Healthcare Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TARS) said a pivotal Phase 2b/3 study of its investigational therapeutic TP-03 met all of its primary and secondary endpoints in patients with Demodex blepharitis, an ocular disease caused by an infestation of Demodex mites. Theravance Biopharma Inc. (TBPH) said its Phase 2 trial of its treatment for acute lung injury and impaired oxygenation didn’t meet its primary endpoint when compared with a placebo Technology, Media & Telecom Oracle (ORCL) mentioned positively in Barron’s saying the company is in the middle of a major business overhaul, reinventing itself for the cloud, and thought the stock has been among the year’s best performing tech shares, but the rally may not be over Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH), a special purpose acquisition company, announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Vivendi (VIVHY) to acquire 10% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares of Universal Music Group for approximately $4 billion

6500 $PSTH JUL2021 $22.5 / $40 call spreads bought 3.28 

7365 $PSTH Mar21 12th 28.5 Calls trade $1.00 ASKSIDE ARCA 10:09:09 IV=122.4% +34.2 FLOOR - OPENING Vol=8005, OI=132

3000 $PSTH JUN2021 $30 / $40 call spreads bought 1.9, 3000 $25 Ps sold 3.4, rolled from an APR position

3000 $PSTH JUN2021 $30 / $40 call spreads bought 1.9, 3000 $25 Ps sold 3.4, rolled from an APR position

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plus psth is looking for a company that's been profitable for X amount of years

they may chose with spec as $psth value is more now

There is a rumour $psth gonna merge with Rivian

$PSTH MAR2021 $45 Cs // 4.6k+ trading vs 676 OI

$PSTH acting lke Ackmans got a goodie a s it's coming soon

$PSTH potential merger news

2,176 $PSTH 18 JUN 21 20 PUT @.55 LMT

whats activity today in $PSTH

I think cathy wood pumped psth

1,999 $PSTH 100 19 FEB 21 22.5 PUT @.20 LMT

13:26 EDT PSTH Ackman says had limited talks with Stripe, which is 'not ready' to go public Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, made the comments during an interview on Bloomberg television.

13:26 EDT AIRB, PSTH Airbnb rebuffs approach from Ackman's SPAC, Bloomberg reports Bill Ackman approached Airbnb (AIRB) about a merger with his blank-check company, but the home-rental site rebuffed the billionaire investor and said it prefers a traditional initial public offering, Bloomberg's Scott Deveau reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Airbnb hasn't completely ruled out a merger with Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH), although no discussions are currently underway, the people said. Reference Link

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