These are this Wednesday morning’s top day trader and active trader stocks with price and volume moves. More detailed price and volume analysis has been provided with a link to each stock…
Andrew Hall, the head of Citigroup’s (NYSE:C) Philbro commodities trading unit, has been a thorn in the side of the bank since it was disclosed that he made as much as $100…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters:  Wealth management firms are starting to target the not-so wealthy. Reuters:  Gold’s record price drew a muted response. Reuters:  Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) are heating up the smartphone…
Updates throughout the day. Update 2.40 PM EST:Â Biotech Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) is getting crushed, down 13% to $.95 on over 46 million shares. Rumors of insider selling, troubles with OPAXIO cancer, and…
SEC regulations for public companies say that compensation committees for the boards at public companies recommend pay for senior managers and those recommendations are then given to the entire board of directors…
It was a surprise when Ken Lewis, the CEO of Bank of America (BAC), finally resigned. Neither shame nor pressure could move him out of his corner office. He was replaced as…
Updated throughout the day. Update:Â The rapidly falling dollar is causing Asian importers of small cars to lose money on most vehicles and will force European luxury auto companies to raise prices…
A devilishly clever new Trojan horse that works over the Internet can hack into bank accounts while people are online and take money without being noticed. According to CNET, “The bank Trojan, dubbed…
The IMF issued its Global Financial System report and one of the most critical points of its analysis is that banks face another $1.5 trillion in writedowns. That is on top of…
Reuters:Â Â China celebrated 60 years of communist rule as a capitalist economy. Reuters:Â Â The IMF cut global debt write-offs to $3.4 trillion. Reuters:Â Â CIT (CIT) is close to a deal to give…
Reuters:  China may hold the key to a sanctions program against Iran. Reuters:  The head of the AIG (AIG) unit that caused most of the firm’s losses is back in US. Reuters:  The…
Shares in MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE:WFR) have been downgraded from ‘Buy’ to ‘Hold’ by Citigroup (NYSE:C). MEMC makes crystalline polysilicon wafers used in some photovoltaic solar cells, and the market appears…
Stress tests of the balance sheets of Europe’s twenty-two largest banks shows that they have credit losses that will reach a total of $587 billion between this year and next. The analysis…
Short sellers posted a mixed record on big banks. Short interest in Citigroup (C) plunged by 73% to 177.5 million shares. The short interest in Bank of America (BAC)Â was down 18% to…
It may be a decade or more from now, but the time will come when there are no bank branches at all. Broadband will be in 90% of American homes. Banking will…
