Best
1) Coffee Holding JVA: Trading up 20.6% from yesterday's close to $15.63. A positive article regarding Coffee Holding was published by TheStreet.com after the bell Thursday. The stock has gained 106% over the past five trading sessions. Shares set a 52-week high of $15.50 in the session, but have steadily sold off since.
2) Chelsea Therapeutics International CHTP: Trading up 13.1% from yesterday's close to $4.75. The price target for shares of Chelsea was raised from $6 to $18 at Roth Capital. Yesterday, the company announced positive Phase III results for its neurology drug Northera.
3) Yongye International YONG: Trading up 12.3% from yesterday's close to $4.77. Last night, Yongye announced the closing of the $50 million equity investment by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia.
4) Verigy VRGY: Trading up 10.8% from yesterday's close to $14.95. Verigy announced that Advantest ATE has gained approval from regulators to acquire the company for $15 per share.
5) Deer Consumer Products DEER: Trading up 9.4% from yesterday's close to $7.23. Shares had spiked up to $8 on heavy volume earlier in the session, but have since sold off.
Other Notable Gainers
Micromet MITI: Trading up 8.5% from yesterday's close to $5.73. Micromet announced positive results for its acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment blinatumomab.
LML Payment Systems LMLP: Trading up 7.4% from yesterday's close to $3.05. The stock broke above its 200-day simple moving average (one year daily chart) in today's session. Shares had traded as high as $3.36 earlier in the day.
Identive Group INVE: Trading up $6.3% from yesterday's close to $2.36. Shares are looking to break above their 200-day simple moving average (one year daily chart), which is currently sitting at $2.45.
Live Nation Entertainment LYV: Trading up 6% from yesterday's close to $10.93. Shares have broken above their 50- and 200-day simple moving averages (one year daily chart) in today's session.
Worst
1) RealD RLD: Trading down 15.8% from yesterday's close to $20.28. Shares of RealD are experienced the biggest intraday loss since their IPO in July, as analysts question how lucrative the 3-D movie business will be. The stock has lost 43% in the past 16 trading sessions. Shares set an intraday low of $19.51 in the first few minutes of trading.
2) China-Biotics CHBT: Trading down 15.8% from yesterday's close to $4.02. Shares set a 52-week low of $4.02 in today's session.
3) Zale ZLC: Trading down 15% from yesterday's close to $5.32. Zale was cut from Buy to Neutral by Bank of America BAC. Shares of Zale recently set a 52-week high of $6.81 on June 8th.
4) Life Partners Holdings LPHI: Trading down 14% from yesterday's close to $3.24. Life Partners announced that its auditor, Ernst & Young, resigned last week.
5) Diodes DIOD: Trading down 12.7% from yesterday's close to $23.89. The company lowered its gross margin guidance to 32.5 percent (plus or minus 1.5 percent). Diodes says the margin is being negatively impacted by shrinking demand and a slower-than-expected recovery from recent manpower shortages at company packing facilities in China.
Other Notable Losers
ChinaCache International Holdings CCIH: Trading down 12% from yesterday's close to $6.85. Shares of ChinaCache hit a 52-week low of $6.52 in today's session. The year-to-date performance of ChinaCache has been a loss of 67%.
Clean Diesel Technologies CDTI: Trading down 9.7% from yesterday's close to $5.41.
China Natural Gas CHNG: Trading down 9% from yesterday's close to $2.53.
Builders FirstSource BLDR: Trading down 8.6% from yesterday's close to $2.02.
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