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Jefferies & Company has downgraded Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) from Buy to Hold and has lowered the price target from $75.50 to $71.

Cusick's Corner What does an animal do when it is cornered? It gets scared, might even cower, but more times than not it fights back which could best characterize the longs that are in this market now. VIX popped this morning, +15.4%, and the longs that were recently entering the market are in...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Monday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) BioSante Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BPAX...

Shares of The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) are higher on the session by 2.61%, trading at $69.90. Overall call volume is now running at 8.31x the daily average, with 63% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 3,515 contracts have traded on the session so far. The Clorox Company is a...

Below are the top personal products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of cash. Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE: PG) had $2.95 billion in total cash and $31.42 billion in total debt for the latest quarter. Estee Lauder Companies Inc NYSE: EL) had $1.10 billion in total cash and...

Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Friday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ:...

Cusick's Corner Buyers showed up at the close, and I am holding the long deltas in the S&Ps and short deltas in the bonds over the weekend. The thought process is that next week we have earnings plus the anticipation for solid numbers that could potentially start to drive the market early. The...

Cusick's Corner The macro picture in the US is not as rosy as the market was picturing. But by no means does this mean that we are in a major trend shift, in fact this is a market that is still in an uptrend. The question is what the Fed will do now that QE is off the table and Washington is still...

Shares of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) are lower on the session by 0.14%, trading at $64.86. Overall put volume is now running at 4.35x the daily average, with 1% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 46,732 contracts have traded on the session so far. The Procter...

MarkWest Energy Partners (MWE) Announces Public Offering of Common Units - MWE hearing will price at 48 SemiLEDS Corp. (LEDS) Disaster Report - Big Miss CREE comes in sympathy LEDS came off sharply wicking all time lows below 5 before corking to 5.30 FTI Consulting, Inc. (FCN) FTI Consulting, Inc...

This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' outlook for Friday, July 8, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Friday's pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S. equity futures and the U.S. dollar are trading slightly higher as traders wait for employment data later...

US stock futures are lower this morning, as investors are awaiting nonfarm payrolls data and figures on the June unemployment rate. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 16 points to 12,665.00 and futures on the S&P 500 stock index fell 2.90 points to 1,348.80. Nasdaq 100 futures...

Cusick's Corner Where is the next Blue Light Special? (Check out AEO in Bullish Flow.) The Consumer Discretionary sector, XLY +1.61%, is outperforming the general market, S&Ps +1.05%, and Retail is red hot today after Junes sales data came out. Along with the Claims data coming better than...

Shares of WD-40 Company (NASDAQ: WDFC) are trading lower in the after-hours following the release of the company's Q3 earnings results. Currently, shares are lower by 2.83%, trading at $40.50; they ended the regular session higher by 2.03%, at $41.68. SemiLEDs reported Q3 EPS of $0.47 on revenues...

Yesterday the following PRNewswire press release reported that S&P indices announced a powerful uptrend in dividend increases for calendar year 2011.  This provides continued validation of the unique opportunity that blue-chip dividend paying stocks offer investors today. Five Dividend Paying...