fast forward to mike khouw. >> get ready, mike. >> so steve is picking a chart that looks really interestingde and tim looking one to the down side i guess on a relative basis, karen too. i'm looking at one going sideways energy has gone sideways it has gone sideways for ten years. if you went back ten years, this is essentially a dead money trade. i am thinking that there might be some opportunity for, you know, a potential rebound this year if we see an up tick in some other areas these don't trade that expensive so i'm look at this for 2025 maybe this is the year. >> coming up, american express cashing in on big gain this is year why this name is at the forefront of the financials and the pinnacle of payment stock news plus you're reasoning out of time to get the final stocking stuffers. tim. christmas is just a few days away and it is time to find out which retail stocks have been naughty and which have been nice more "fast money" in two it's the first iphone built for apple intelligence. that's like peanut butter on jelly...on gold. get four iphone 16 pro on us, plus four lines for $25

mike khouw, do you think these companies are worth anybody's money? whole lot, i don't know, in the last couple years, really. >> no, they -- they really haven't. but i think that's really the point that making. i don't think anybody is looking for crude to go back to 100 bucks a barrel. we're probably going to see more supply coming from opec and opec plus, as some of their sort of production curtailments run off into the middle of 2025. but the thing is, that a lot of the companies that we're talking about are trading at relatively cheap multiples, have decent yields, and are profitable at oil in these areas. so, if you are worried about the multipleexpansion, look at stocks that haven't seen any. >> in my mind, the a.i. and nvidia trade is all energy related. speaking of trades, up next, your final trades. knock, knock. #1 broker here for the #1 hit maker. thanks for swingin' by, carl. no problem. so, what are all of those for? ah, this one lets me adjust the bass. add more guitar. maybe some drums. wow, so many choices. yeah. like schwab. i can ge

mike khouw, what do you see?we saw more than 50% above average call volume in this one, traded 300,000 calls. and this on a day when overall options volumes were about 16% below their 50-day moving average, and the calls were outpacing puts by about 5 to 1. the busiesttracts were the 35-strike calls. paying a decent bit to make calls this week. i would make one point. even though the short interest still remains quite high here, the short squeeze risk, at least as measured by the options market, we can look out and see what the implied cost to borrow the shares is. it's not nearly what it once was. so, if people are playing for a short squeeze, could you get one? maybe, but the probably ility i not nearly as high as it once was. >> right, and it's not like the 80% gain on the year is based on any sort of glimmers of even a slight tick-up in business, i mean, sales have declined year on year for five straight quarters, expected to decline a sixth quarter in january, julie. maybe this is more of a commentary on the

mike khouw's got the action. alphabet was the third busiest single stock option today, trailing only nvidia and tesla, with about 2 million contracts traded between google and goog, the nonvoting shares. calls outpaced puts by more than 3.6 to 1. the busiest contract in both the voting and the nonvoting shares were the january 200 strike calls. we saw between those two 110,000 contracts trade for $4.20 a contract on average. buyers of those calls are betting that there is at least 6% upside over the course of the next month. >> all right, thank you, mike. mike khouw. up next, final trades. since starti the farmer's dog, bogart has lost so much weight. and he has so much more energy. he's like a puppy again. ♪ (banjo playing) ♪ c,mon bo! this is a before picture of bogart. such a big boy. pre-portiod packs makes it really easy to keep him lean and healthy. and look at him now. he's like a show dog. [silence] bogue, can you give daddy a break here? he's having a hard enough time. ♪ in any business, you ride the lin

live from studio b at the nasdaq on the desk tonight -- tim seymour, carter worth, guy adami, and mike khouw. >>> we start with some pockets of strength in a tepid market. banks and airlines taking off, after american gave a strong outlook for the fourth quarter there was strength elsewhere in the travel trade, too. marriott, hilton, as well as expedia and booking. the moves coming as investors turn their focus to tomorrow's jobs report. will the data get the broad markets moving once again? moving higher, i should say. guy, what do you think >> well, it's interesting, right, this jobs number what are we rooting for we have this conversation seemingly every month. >> or does it matter >> or does it matter, that's the third -- door number three >> options three, monty. maybe i'll take door number three. i'm not sure it does at this point. the market seems pretty convinced we're going to be on this trajectory. today was an interesting day, technically, that carter can opine on it's not a big deal, but one day does not a trend make. the reversals today were interesting. citi's been a dog for so

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getting skewered and i'm mel melissa lee, on the desk tonight, tim seymour, karen finerman and mike khouw will join us shortly. three major moves that can threaten stocks, and the ten-year climbing 4.6% after yesterday's fed meeting and its highest it's been since june 2022 the dollar also continuing to strengthen hitting a two-iary high of its own. those moves as the central bank revised its outlook for 2025, now expecting just two more cuts and that sent stock markets reeling on wednesday while the major averages tried to club back some of the losses yesterday. a late-day phase sent the nasdaq into the red and the dow well off its highs and it did manage to break the ten-week losing streak and the gain in the historically strong month. can the rally get back on track, and i guess the key here is we mentioned the dollar and the yield if they keep going higher, what kind of headwinds will they be >> there's no question that significantly higher yields are back, and i don't think anybody wants to see yields diving and i think that the ten-year below three and a half is also a great sign he