Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BIDU, CCME, KLIC, OREX, SIMO, VVUS)

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Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), China MediaExpress Holdings (NASDAQ: CCME), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ: KLIC), Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX), Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SIMO), and Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS).

Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is up 9% premarket to $117.71, slightly above the company’s 52-week range of $41.68-$115.04. China’s Google has posted better-than-expected earnings.

China MediaExpress Holdings (NASDAQ: CCME) is down 8% premarket to $16.48, relative to a 52-week range of $7.58-$23.97.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ: KLIC) is up 10% premarket to $10.70, relative to a 52-week range of $4.65-$10.00. K&S reported better-than-expected first quarter results.

Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) has lost roughly 75% of its value on 7.7 million shares traded. Shares of OREX have dropped to $2.43, relative to a 52-week range of $3.81-$11.15.  The FDA expressed serious concerns over the company’s weight loss drug, and demanded the company conduct further tests.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SIMO) is up 16.5% to $6.48, relative to a 52-week range of $2.64-$6.50. The company reported much better than expected quarterly revenue.

Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is down 7% on heavy volume to $8.34, relative to a 52-week range of $4.69-$13.68. Much of this loss may be pullback from yesterday’s gain.

Michael B. Sauter

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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