Sep. 14 at 10:39 AM
$EWY South Korea’s usual mix: semiconductor exports, global demand cycles, & a won that traders treat as a proxy for risk sentiment. Risks are baked in: geopolitics with North Korea & China, shifting U.S. relations, & the unpredictability of Korean domestic policy.
#RKT Friday options flow was unusually high—
$10.86M. 41% higher than the average. A heavy skew toward calls. Rocket Companies bought Redfin, which means collaging real estate traffic with an equally interest-rate-sensitive mortgage business. Mr. Cooper merger comes with the promise of half a billion in “synergies.” BofA upgraded, hiking the target from
$21 to
$24. Forbes thinks it will “go to
$40.” The case is simple: falling rates ignite both purchase & refinance volumes.
#RKT Notes: The Redfin purchase. Fifty million monthly visitors now feed into a mortgage machine already chained to rate cycles. A funnel. Falling rates. Rates down, volumes up. This is the entire “thesis.” It was true yesterday, it will be true tomorrow.
