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Nice is an enterprise software company that serves the customer engagement and financial crime and compliance markets. The company provides data analytics-based solutions through both a cloud platform and on-premises infrastructure. Within customer engagement, Nice’s CXone platform delivers solutions focused on contact center software and workforce engagement management, or WEM. Contact center offerings include solutions for digital self-service, customer journey and experience optimization, and compliance. WEM products optimize call center efficiency, leveraging data and AI analytics for call volume forecasting and agent scheduling. Within financial crime and compliance, Nice offers risk and investigation management, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, and compliance solutions.

The stock market continues to push higher, although the S&P 500 (SPX) failed to hold 6,000 for the fifth time since November 8. Once again, breadth was good and leadership was provided by the S&P 600 Small-Caps, which popped 1.8%, and the S&P 400 Mid-Caps, which tacked on 1.5%. The most-concentrated mega-cap indices -- such as the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) and S&P 100 -- lagged again, posting only minor gains. A few markets moved quite a bit, with the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) rising 2.5% and the 10-year yield dropping about 15 basis points to 4.26%. We previously suggested that the 10-year had reached an important level and a possible inflection point -- and with yesterday's action, we got our confirmation. Gold and silver futures plunged over 3%, while Bitcoin also fell over 3% to below $95,000; as expected, the big round number of $100,000 has provided a ceiling. Looking at a few of pieces of option data, the OEX open-interest ratio, which is total put open-interest divided by total call open-interest, remains very low. This is a non-contrarian sentiment indicator, as OEX option traders usually are quite good at identifying turning points in the market. When this ratio rises, OEX traders are becoming more bearish and vice versa -- and it's often a good idea to follow these astute investors. The CBOE equity-only put/call ratio is a contrarian sentiment reading, and the five-day has been very low for over the past two months, indicating a big appetite by smaller investors for call options. While this is concerning, generally we do not get a pullback or a correction until these investors re-verse course. (Mark Arbeter, CMT)

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