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On CNBC's Fast Money, Tim Seymour said that he wants to buy Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC (ADR) (NYSE: WBD) on the dip tomorrow. Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods (WBD) fell 4.14% today. Guy Adami likes Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE), and Karen Finerman is a buyer of Philip Morris (NYSE: PM). Adobe (ADBE...

Cusick’s Corner The market was not happy with the housing data but has retraced the bulk of the pullback into the Midday. Some felt that the action this morning was also flow over from the pullback into the After Hours yesterday, but that pullback was light in volume and buyers are sitting out...

At 11:41 am, the Dow lost 28.79 points, or 0.28%, to 10,264.73, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index moved down 5.90, or 0.54%, to 1,089.41 and the NASDAQ composite index fell 13.33, or 0.59%, to 2,248.47. The industries that are driving the market today are: Printed Circuit Boards: The top...

Tuesday morning, Mattel (NYSE:MAT) was upgraded at Caris & Company to a “buy” rating from an “above average” designation. The firm also adjusted its 12-month price target to $32 from $29 (representing a change of 46% from current levels) and lifted 2010 earnings estimates by nine cents to $1.75...

The American Stock Exchange, also known as the AMEX, was founded in 1842 as the New York Curb Exchange. It got that name since stock traders and brokers used to stand on the curb and trade stocks back in the early 1800's. On October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext (NYX) took over the American Stock...

Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) was given a solid vote of confidence on Friday, as Goldman Sachs upped its rating on the natural gas company to “conviction buy” from “buy.” The brokerage said it was placing WMB on its conviction buy list “with 35% total upside to our $28, 12-month target price. An...

Shares of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) are higher on the session by 0.94%, currently trading at $52.99. The stock has been moving largely sideways for the better part of six months. Options traders are picking up some protection for the second day in a row. The July $55 put was purchased 1,...

Shares of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) are higher on the session by 0.32%, currently trading at $52.51. The stock has been trading largely sideways for the past nine months and has managed to hold the 200-day moving average when it recently tested it. Nevertheless, puts are being purchased...

Boeing (NYSE:BA) has announced plans to ramp up production of its ever-popular narrow-body 737 jet.  BA currently completes 31.5 jets per month and will be aiming to increase that number to 35 by the end of 2012.  There seems to be a sense of urgency within Boeing as this is the company’s second...

As everyone knows, most investors continue to use stocks (as opposed to options) for their primary investment tool.  Although options volume continues to grow each year, there are still a lot of people who do not understand what all the fuss is about.  Well hopefully, I can give you a quick rundown...

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, which is right across the street from where I’m sitting as I write this, is bringing their shares to market tomorrow, 11.7 million of them initially under the ticker CBOE. They are looking to raise at least $339 million with Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter...

Cusick’s Corner Today’s report of an unexpected drop in May retail sales was balanced later by an unexpected increase in consumer sentiment. Today’s trading range was relatively tight, volume was light, but all major stock indices closed higher possibly due to some end-of-day short covering. The...

Earlier this week, Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) narrowed its second-quarter earnings guidance, lifting the lower end of its range to 60 cents per share from 56 cents.  The expected range is now 60 to 64 cents per share, compared to analysts’ estimates of 61 cents.  The company’s earnings are...

Cusick’s Corner As I wrote on June 8th, typically the market action of late can generally be described as some small buying on lows, followed by a market recovery and then the market usually just gets pounded at the end of the day. Well, not today. The market actually ended on an upswing. As...