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Ant McPartlin stuns I’m A Celeb co-stars as he makes VERY racy joke about Britain’s Got Talent’s Amanda HoldenFinancial giants have made a conspicuous bearish move on Cisco Systems. Our analysis of options history for Cisco Systems CSCO revealed 12 unusual trades. Delving into the details, we found 25% of traders were bullish, while 75% showed bearish tendencies. Out of all the trades we spotted, 2 were puts, with a value of $58,039, and 10 were calls, valued at $771,834. Predicted Price Range After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $55.0 and $62.5 for Cisco Systems, spanning the last three months. Volume & Open Interest Trends Assessing the volume and open interest is a strategic step in options trading. These metrics shed light on the liquidity and investor interest in Cisco Systems's options at specified strike prices. The forthcoming data visualizes the fluctuation in volume and open interest for both calls and puts, linked to Cisco Systems's substantial trades, within a strike price spectrum from $55.0 to $62.5 over the preceding 30 days. Cisco Systems Option Activity Analysis: Last 30 Days Significant Options Trades Detected: Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Ask Bid Price Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume CSCO CALL SWEEP BEARISH 12/20/24 $0.66 $0.65 $0.65 $60.00 $156.9K 23.5K 2.5K CSCO CALL SWEEP BEARISH 04/17/25 $4.4 $4.3 $4.3 $57.50 $126.8K 1.9K 300 CSCO CALL SWEEP BEARISH 01/16/26 $8.95 $8.75 $8.75 $55.00 $118.1K 2.8K 135 CSCO CALL TRADE BULLISH 01/17/25 $5.1 $5.0 $5.08 $55.00 $98.5K 28.0K 233 CSCO CALL SWEEP BEARISH 12/20/24 $0.7 $0.66 $0.66 $60.00 $65.2K 23.5K 3.5K About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software such as firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff-25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employs 80,000 people and sells its products globally. Having examined the options trading patterns of Cisco Systems, our attention now turns directly to the company. This shift allows us to delve into its present market position and performance Where Is Cisco Systems Standing Right Now? With a volume of 7,671,196, the price of CSCO is up 0.26% at $59.63. RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought. Next earnings are expected to be released in 70 days. What Analysts Are Saying About Cisco Systems 5 market experts have recently issued ratings for this stock, with a consensus target price of $62.8. Unusual Options Activity Detected: Smart Money on the Move Benzinga Edge's Unusual Options board spots potential market movers before they happen. See what positions big money is taking on your favorite stocks. Click here for access .* Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from Citigroup keeps a Buy rating on Cisco Systems with a target price of $64. * Maintaining their stance, an analyst from Wells Fargo continues to hold a Equal-Weight rating for Cisco Systems, targeting a price of $60. * Maintaining their stance, an analyst from Morgan Stanley continues to hold a Overweight rating for Cisco Systems, targeting a price of $62. * In a positive move, an analyst from JP Morgan has upgraded their rating to Overweight and adjusted the price target to $66. * Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from UBS keeps a Neutral rating on Cisco Systems with a target price of $62. Trading options involves greater risks but also offers the potential for higher profits. Savvy traders mitigate these risks through ongoing education, strategic trade adjustments, utilizing various indicators, and staying attuned to market dynamics. Keep up with the latest options trades for Cisco Systems with Benzinga Pro for real-time alerts. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Haiti: Tragically Descending into Deeper CrisisDemocrats are trying to figure out how they lost massive numbers of working class voters in historically blue areas across the country — but the evidence shows that the party simply left them behind. USA Today interviewed multiple former Democrats in the liberal enclave of Massachusetts who cast their votes for President-elect Donald Trump in the recent election, and their main reason was the economy. Mark Callahan, a 67-year-old from Lynn, a suburb of Boston, voted Democrat in nearly every presidential election prior to this year. Now, he said he hopes that Trump will “make a change.” “Everything was too expensive. What we had wasn’t working,” Callahan told the outlet. “The working-class people. They just forgot about us,” Jim Gigliello, a 48-year-old from Revere, said. “It just didn’t seem like any of the politicians had anything that would benefit us,” Curran Bennett, 28, said. Gigliello pointed to the fatigue that voters got with the focus on social justice issues instead of “larger issues like the economy.” Massachusetts, which is so blue that it was the only U.S. state to vote for 1972 Democrat candidate George McGovern over then-President Richard Nixon (R), experienced “one of the most profound rightward shifts of any state” this year, according to USA Today . Despite Vice President Kamala Harris winning the state, diverse communities of working class people became new Trump voters in droves. Garrett Dash Nelson, head curator at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at Boston Public Library and a historical geographer who analyzes political ideologies, used the election results and census data to study the state’s shift. “No matter what method he used to define class, the results were similar,” USA Today reported. His analysis found that communities where more people work in the service industry, have lower median incomes, and have less higher education “generally saw a larger uptick in votes for Trump than more wealthy, white-collar areas.” “Massachusetts saw a pattern that happened all across the country,” Dash Nelson said. “The reality is that the pattern of Republican gains being concentrated primarily in working class, oftentimes diverse working-class municipalities, holds up.” Lawrence, a town that is 80 percent Latino and has a median household income of $53,977 — about half of the state’s overall average of around $100,000 — saw a staggering 46-percent rise in votes for Trump. Springfield, where over a quarter of residents work blue-collar jobs, experienced a 16-percent rise in Trump votes. Lynn, where just 15 percent of residents have a college degree compared to nearly half of Massachusetts residents overall, saw an 11-percent jump for Trump. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), whose district encompasses Lynn, recently came under fire from his own party and is facing calls to resign after telling the New York Times that Democrats have made a mistake by championing transgender athletes in women’s sports. “The feeling is that Republicans are focused more on the urgent challenges people face,” Moulton told USA Today . Arguing that the attempts to cancel him over his opinion that males should not compete against females proves his point, he said, “A lot of Democrats have taken on an incredibly condescending tone and treated everybody who disagrees with them ... as not only wrong, but as bad people.” “We’ve got to do a lot less preaching and a lot more listening,” Moulton added. “There is a simmering distrust among many Americans of the Democratic Party. Even if they like our policies better, they just don’t trust us to take America’s challenges seriously enough.”