These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts with a brief explanation of the news behind the moves:
Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT) up 14% at $12.21 on 28,000 shares after earnings.
Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: ANX) up 4% at $0.33 on 1.2 million shares after appointing Carl Icahn to its Board of Directors.
Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR) down 6.5% at $4.00 on 16,000 shares after earnings.
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL) is up 9% at $30.61 on 250,000 shares after the FDA approved hand drug Xiaflex for a hand treatment of Dupuytren’s Contracture.
Ctrip.com International Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTRP) down 8.5% at $30.40 on 18,200 shares after earnings.
GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) up 10.5% at $6.63 on 30,000 shares after beating earnings.
Home Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HDIX) up almost 90% at $11.45 on 1.3 million shares on the buyout.
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It is the first week of January, which means one thing for lovers of consumer electronics: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, takes place in Las Vegas. The event kicks off on January 7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. We have gone through the press releases issued under the CES exhibitor news to look for which companies are making announcements. Our scope is limited to the public companies and we screened out many “noise versus news” announcements. Some of the featured companies are 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM), Universal Power Group, Inc. (NYSE Amex: UPG), PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU), NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETL), Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), TranSwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). As far as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), we already know that a new tablet device is on the way and it operates outside of CES.
