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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs (ABII, ASFI, STST, TSLA)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 3:01pm | 192Abraxis Bioscience Inc (NASDAQ: ABII) shares reached $74.54 to create a new 52-week high, before slipping to $74.44. Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) has agreed to buy ABII in a cash and stock deal amounting to $2.9 billion. Asta Funding Inc (NASDAQ: ASFI) shares gained 3.41% to create a new 52-...
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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs (WAIN, ASFI, EVVV, CPNO)
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 1:57pm | 147Wainwright Bank & Trust Company (NASDAQ: WAIN) shares gained 94.28% to create a new 52-week high of $18.68. Eastern Bank Corp has agreed to purchase WAIN for around $163 million in cash. Asta Funding Inc (NASDAQ: ASFI) shares reached $9.45 to create a new 52-week high, before slipping to $9.42...
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Fast Money Picks For June 28th (PM, CME, RTP, COV, GS, BAC)
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 6:26pm | 199On CNBC's Fast Money, Patty Edwards suggested that investors should buy Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) on Monday. Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) fell 1.14% today. Karen Finerman thinks that Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) is a buy because of the increased demand for medical products....
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Bank Stocks Surge Ahead As Lawmakers Agree On Less Stringent Banking Reforms
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 12:36pm | 216Following a deal reached by lawmakers regarding new legislation for governing the financial services sector, shares of several financial companies surged today. In the talks that ended early today, lawmakers agreed on several proposed rules that were less stringent than was feared by people. The...
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2010 Fund Performance Period 6
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 3:54pm | 3836If, after reading the blog content you might have an interest in participation for the mutual fund, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund Manager] [...
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6-24-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 11:49am | 3690Stocks trade lower as investor worry about the strength of the economy Stocks fell in early trading Thursday and interest rates dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year as investors remain tentative about the strength of a domestic economic recovery. Reports on initial jobless claims and...
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Top Yielding American Stock Exchange Stocks
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 1:42am | 403The 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...
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What is Warren Buffett Buying and Selling?
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 10:46pm | 286Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), is one of the three richest people in the world and a top trader and investor. The latest SEC report came out on Berkshire and shows his latest moves as of the end of March. What is most significant about this list is not what he is buying...
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Top Narrow Based Indexes for June 17 (ECPG, CIGX, UXG)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 2:36pm | 221By 12:22 pm, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 41.91 points, or 0.40%, to 10,367.55, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had lost 3.87 points, or 0.35%. The NASDAQ composite index had also dipped 5.60 points, or 0.24%. Some of the narrow based indexes that are driving the...
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Benzinga’s Volume Movers (JDAS, CRUS, FSLR, ECPG)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 2:34pm | 176JDA Software Group Inc (NASDAQ: JDAS) shares soared 3.23% to $23.01 at 11:30 am. The volume of JDAS shares traded was 618% higher than normal. In a software licensing dispute, JDAS may have to pay $246 million to department store operator Dillard's Inc. Cirrus Logic Inc (NASDAQ: CRUS) shares...
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Top 4 Small-Cap NASDAQ Stocks In The Financial Sector With The Highest Cash (IBKR, PNSN, BPOP, ESGR)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 7:02am | 136Below are the top 4 small-cap financial stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of cash. Interactive Brokers Group Inc (NASDAQ: IBKR) had $23.73 billion of cash in the latest quarter, while its debt liabilities stood at $624.22 million. Penson Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: PNSN) had $5.20 billion of cash and $161....
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CBOE Shares Coming to Market
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 1:15pm | 1707The 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...
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Commodity Futures Price
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 5:05am | 571Commodity futures price quotes are available for food and fiber, grain and oil seed, interest rates, cattle and hogs, metals, and oil and energy futures. It doesn’t matter if you trade soybeans futures, oil futures, gold futures, natural gas futures copper futures, , or wheat futures knowing the...
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KBW Says NewStar Financial Shares Are "Significantly Undervalued" (NEWS)
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 12:57pm | 94Keefe Bruyette & Woods analysts released a short client note today on NewStar Financial (NASDAQ: NEWS). They said that after Tim Conway, Chairman and CEO of NewStar, presented at KBW's Diversified Financials Conference they continue to believe that the company's stock is "significantly...
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NYSE Euronext Announces Trading Volumes for May 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010 - 12:07pm | 163NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced trading volumes for its global derivatives and cash equities exchanges for May 20101. NYSE Euronext set an all-time record of 13.3 million global derivatives contracts traded per day in May 2010. European derivatives average daily volume (“ADV”) increased(...)...