Agricultural Products

Below are the top 5 mid-cap stocks on the NYSE in terms of sales (ttm). The trailing-twelve-month sales figure for AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) is $71.76 billion. ABC’s market capitalization is $7.06 billion. Bernstein upgraded ABC from “underperform” to “market perform.” The trailing-...

SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS) hits a new 52-week high at $4.20 in today’s morning trade. Currently, SRLS is trading at $4.12, up 6.94% on 19K shares. In the last six months, SRLS climbed up over 310%. GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT) soared 15.58% to $5.38 on 2.75 million shares....

Telestone Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTC) gained 3.10% to $13.35 in the pre-market trading. In the previous trading session, TSTC closed at $12.94. The 52-week trading range for TSTC is $0.75 - $13.88. So far in 2009, TSTC climbed up by over 810%. CTC Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCM) climbed 17....

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was the volume winner for a second trading day in a row. Like Friday, the stock only budged a little, but this time the direction was up – 0.6% to close higher at $19.22. Investors apparently remained cautious following a less-than-inspiring report on semiconductor sales....

Some of the stocks seeing extraordinary trading and worth having a look are: Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) shares appreciated by 17.36% to $12.91. The volume of SEED shares traded in today's session was 742% higher than normal. SEED shares created a new high in more than two years after...

PDL BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: PDLI) climbed 5.50% to $7 in the pre-market session. The 52 week trading range for PDLI is $5.20 - $9.92. So far in 2009, PDLI gained around 7%. Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX) jumped 6.67% to $3.20 in the pre-market session. The 52 week trading range for NVAX is $0.52 - $...

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) fell 7% to $7.28 huge volume of 46 million shares after BRCD’s chief executive denied that the company was looking for a buyer despite recent reports showed that BRCD had put itself up for sale. The 52 week trading range for BRCD is $2.05 - $9.84...

With the NYSE trading almost 1.5% higher Monday, it's no surprise that there were 21 breakout stocks on big volume that made my post. As always, the first thing I do is scan the list for familiar names, such as stocks which have appeared on similar scans multiple times in the past week or two (...

Speculation week is off to a roaring start, to wit please see Chinese seed company Origin Agritech (SEED) which always is a place daytraders congregate when agriculture stocks are in favor.... .... now yesterday's performance was somewhat news driven but basically it ran from mid $6s "on the news...

Tellabs, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) climbed 5.08% to $6 in the pre-market session. The 52 week trading range for TLAB is $3.51 - $7.70. Yesterday, TLAB closed at $5.71. Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) increased 4.31% to $16.72. The 52 week trading range for RMBS is $5.44 - $19.94. So far in 2009, RMBS climbed...

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) led the Nasdaq volume pack, trading up 7 cents to $15.45 on the day. The major news for the company wasn’t its own; arch-rival Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it was to buy display advertising Teracent. The announcement likely didn’t faze trading in Yahoo! shares, as...

As of today the top ten most traded option contracts were: Bank of America (BAC) January 17.50 Call Options PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ) December 45 Call Options S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) December 111 Call Options S&P 500 SPDR December 115 Call Options Volatility Index (VIX) Decmber 60 Call Options S...

Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) soared 76% to $9.17 on 16.29 million shares after Saturday SEED announced that it has received the Bio-safety Certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture as a final approval for commercial approval of the world's first genetically modified phytase corn....

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD) climbed 5% to $44.98 after it reported third-quarter net income of $43.1 million, or $0.84 a share as compared to $16.8 million or $0.33 per share from the same quarter last year. While sales were $5.6 billion, a decrease of 8% from the year ago period. Analysts...

Fertilizer maker Bunge (NYSE: BG) is seeing some late options activity as nearly 1,700 November 65 calls have changed hands. Some press reports are speculating that Bunge might be involved in a takeover announcement as soon as tomorrow. That's when these options expire. Remember that CF Industries...