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Yahoo! may be down about 7% after its earnings signaled what is still a lack of serious growth in its turnaround strategy. What is interesting is that the options trading community is keeping a more...
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Ariad Pharmaceuticals could be joining the ranks of the next big biotech acquisitions. The company fits the bill of many biotech acquirers because its market cap is just over $1 billion and its...
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MannKind Corp. (NASDAQ: MNKD) is a stock that has been on a wild ride for many years. The company’s inhalable insulin has been held up from being approved for years as well. That seems to be...
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Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) became a legal short sell this week. That should include the caveat of whether your brokerage firm could even find shares to borrow. One trader told us he was given a cost...
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This week will mark two key events for the post-IPO trading of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR). The first issue is that traders and investors will begin to be able to legally short sell the stock. The...
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Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is set to report earnings on Tuesday and all eyes are going to be on the electric car maker’s results. Expectations will be very high because shares were up...
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If you are getting sick and tired of glitches, errors, and “issues” all culminating to interrupt or halt trading in stocks, you are not alone. Normally we would be discussing errors...
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Investors almost always worry about a stock market crash, but when headwinds start to look stronger than the positive forces, they really start to worry that the rug can get yanked right out from...
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Shares of J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) closed at $12.80 last night, after setting a new 52-week low of $12.50 during the day. Its shares have not traded at that price since January 2001. Options...
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Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) went from warm to hot late last week on word that the buyout interest was heating up. This is one of those situations where 24/7 Wall St. has questioned...
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It was just in March that the CBOE VOLATILITY S&P 500m Index, or the VIX, hit a low of almost 11.0. The signal then was that there was not a care in the world, easy money from quantitative easing...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has long been criticized over its ridiculously high share price. With all of the pressure and media coverage that has been coming from activist investor activity, it should...
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Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) was down big on Thursday after its earnings report. When you consider how small the company is in the grand scheme of things, and when you consider the BofA Merrill...
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Once again investors are faced with the fact that the politicians in Washington D.C. cannot get anything done. With the president’s State of the Union address tonight, the focus turns again to...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having an active day with shares down 10% at $461 due to nearly 33 million shares having traded hands. That is already 1.5-times normal trading volume and investors have...
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