Washington Mutual (WM) Shut down by feds. Drops to $.148 from 52-week high of $26.47. Smithfield Foods (SFD) Credit concerns. Sells down to $13.95 from 52-week high of $32.26. Sun (JAVA) Company…
There was a very mixed bag in short selling in the semiconductor sector. What was interesting was the huge increase in the bets against NVIDIA because it was so far after the…
These are some of the top early bird analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing this Monday morning with more than two hours to the open: Ctrip.com (CTRP) Started as Outperform…
These are the top downgrades and negative analyst calls we are seeing this Thursday morning: Kelly Services (KELYA) Cut to Sell at Citigroup. KLA-Tencor (KLAC) Cut to Equal-weight at Morgan Stanley. Lam…
VSInvestor has several volume trading alerts today. Thornburg Mortgage (TMA), a highly risky mortgage company stock is up sharply. Several chip firms lead by Marvell Technology (MRVL) are down on negative brokerage…
These are some of the top analyst calls we are seeing this Tuesday morning: Comverge (COMV) started as Buy at Jefferies. Salesforce.com (CRM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Visa (V) started as…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Friday morning: ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. AnnTaylor (NYSE: ANN) raised to Outperform at FBR. Ashland…
Short sellers moved out of Microsoft (MSFT) based on data as of May 15 compared with numbers on April 20. Short interest in the software company fell by 25 million shares to…
It looks like the SEC is getting more focused in its options backdating probes, although it is going after some companies more than others. Frankly, it’s about time to wrap this up…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are ten of the top analyst calls we see affecting shares in pre-market indications this Monday morning: Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) Raised to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan. Cash America (NYSE:…
By now, we’ve seen most major tech earnings and we’ve already seen most major chip earnings. If it was a movie, the last earnings and guidance would be called "The Poor and…
Douglas A. McIntyre Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) was the subject of a lot of buzz today. There wasn’t any news out on it, but there were enough options that traded today that would…
Douglas A. McIntyre Truckers led the drop after a fake $100 oil print and after a YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ: YRCW) acquisition write-down, pulling down Arkansas Best (NASDAQ: ABFS) and others. With no surprise, airlines followed…
Some of these stocks hit 52-week lows and recovered off of lows so they won’t have a low close. But these did all touch or breach the 52-week lows. At the end…
It was a bit surprising today to see some of the names that were on the 52-week low list that were chip stocks. So far AMD has managed to escape this list…