2 Blue-Chip Stocks Brushing Off Earnings Beats

Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc (NYSE:MRK) has reversed its premarket lead, down 2% at $77.20 at last glance. The company posted better-than-expected first-quarter results but cut its profit outlook, expecting a $200 million dent from tariffs. Creeping back down toward its April 16 three-year low of $75.95, MRK is down 22.7% since the start of the year. So far today, MRK has seen 21,000 calls and 29,000 puts exchanged -- triple the overall options volume typically seen at this point. The May 75 put is t ...