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Taking A Look At The Colombia ETF (GXG)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 3:33pm | 267The ETF Professor tries to keep abreast of what's going on with emerging markets ETFs and these ETFs have been hot lately, particularly the Latin America offerings. There is a fair amount of country-specific ETFs for this region. Brazil has two equity ETFs. Mexico has one. Even Peru and Chile have...
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Fast Money Guys Would Buy MPEL, RJF, HOC, TJX
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 8:41pm | 112CNBC's Fast Money Guys gave their picks for Wednesday. Tim Seymour would buy Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd (NASDAQ: MPEL) below $4.25, as he is tempted by the fact that MPEL fell 38% from its highs. MPEL had a bad trading session today, it dropped 6.09% and closed at $4.63. Guy Adami would buy...
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5 Stocks Trading Below Their 52-week Low (HRZB, WSBC, WNR, SMTB, HTBK)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 1:43pm | 177Below are interesting stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ that are trading below their 52-week low. Horizon Financial Corp (NASDAQ: HRZB) has a market capitalization of $3.4 million. HRZB shares have declined by 92.89% over the past 52 weeks and are trading at $0.28. WesBanco Inc (NASDAQ: WSBC) has a...
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL) deal with Sun Microsystems (SUN) faces roadblock in EU
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:15am | 154Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) and SUN Microsystems (NYSE: SUN) are likely to face selling pressure on Tuesday, following the further roadblock that the acquisition of Sun MicroSystems (SUN) by Oracle Corp. (ORCL) has started facing. The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp. (ORCL)...
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Benzinga’s Updates (TSO, MCD)
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 10:33am | 110Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) rose 1.86 at $14.23 after reporting its third quarter earnings of $33 million versus $259 million in the year ago period. Revenue declined to $4.74 billion versus $8.68 billion reported last year. Tesoro is also scheduled to pay on December 15, 2009, a quarterly...
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Today’s Earnings Preview (FLR, MDR, MBI, SRE, TSO, DISH)
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 7:39am | 121Fluor Corporation (NEW) (NYSE: FLR) is projected to report third-quarter earnings of 90 cents a share. McDermott International (NYSE: MDR) is expected to report earnings of 40 cents a share in the third quarter. MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) is forecast to report a third-quarter loss of 70 cents a share...
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Refiners Seeing Heavy Options Trade (SUN, TSO, VLO)
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 3:45pm | 92After oil refiner Sunoco (NYSE: SUN) reported less-than-stellar earnings (Sunoco reported a quarterly loss of 29 cents a share, 19 cents worse than estimates) oil refiners are seeing some heavy options trade. In Sunoco, 8,925 puts and 7,490 calls traded with the largest trade being the purchase of...
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5 Large Cap Stocks with Lowest P/B ratio (KEP, STI, VLO)
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 2:36pm | 184Below are interesting large-cap stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE with the lowest price to book ratio. Korea Electric Power Corp (NYSE: KEP) has a price to book ratio of 0.52 and a market capitalization of $17.97 billion. KEP shares are trading at a price significantly lower than their 52-week high of...
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Verenium Corp (NASDAQ:VRNM) Top Loser
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:58pm | 75Verenium Corp (VRNM)is looking bear ugly at $3.78 and is in sure fire down move which can only lead lower, Verenium is a lose-lose scenario no matter what the rest of market will do. Stocks like Verenium can still be used in a number of bearish strategies, looking to implement Put strategies on any...
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Jim Cramer Of CNBC’s Mad Money Names The Top 10 Natural Gas Stocks (CHK, XTO, APC, DVN, UPL, EQT, RRC, HAL, CLNE, FSYS)
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 2:06pm | 276On Cnbc.com, Jim Cramer sees the increasing influence of Natural Gas because the widespread use of Solar and Wind alternative energies is still far from becoming a reality. In addition, natural Gas has 30% less carbon emission than both Oil and coal. More importantly, natural gas has the potential...
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Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) Shares Interestingly Down Today
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 1:14pm | 111Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) Shares Down Today Valero Energy Corp (VLO) shares are trading at $19.36 which is right on the 200 day M.A. Options activity is neutral and does not seem to indicate a bearish scenario. Technically too VLO seems neutral, as long as the stock does not settle below...
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Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) is trading just above resistance level
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 9:55am | 105Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) is trading around $20.25, a shade above its 200 days moving average. The VLO faces its next resistance around $23, from where it started showing downward trend in early June. Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) reported a loss for the third quarter on Tuesday with crude...
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A "Buy Anything" Market
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 12:02pm | 435I was patting myself on the back as I looked at the huge surge in the portfolio today - each and every long position is up, most materially so. Then I went into my watch lists which are literally hundreds upon hundreds of stocks - probably around 400. Excluding 50 or so which are "highly...
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New 52-Week High Stocks (VIP, RINO, YONG, SCSS, CVI)
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 12:13pm | 247Vimpel-Communications (ADR) (NYSE: VIP) touched a new 52-week high at $19.90 in today’s morning trade. Currently the stock is trading at $19.74, up 10.09% on 4.97 million shares. Today, Telenor ASA announced that Telenor Group and Altimo (the telecom arm of the Alfa Group) have reached an agreement...
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Biggest Losers (EEE,FTBK,ATPG,RTK,CIT)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:35am | 314Evergreen Energy Inc. (NYSE: EEE) plummeted 45% to $0.569 on huge volume of 7.10 million shares . Today, Evergreen Energy Inc., a green energy technology solutions company, provided an update on its process to sell Buckeye Industrial Mining Co. and its financing alternatives..On September 18, 2009...