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Fast Money Gang Would Buy MBT, UNH, DRI, BTU
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 6:24pm | 112CNBC's Fast Money Pete Najarian wants to buy Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) tomorrow. Peabody (BTU) jumped 1.01% to $43.81. Tim Seymour recommends buying Mobile Telesystems (NYSE: MBT) that had a horrible session today and fell 5.46%. Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) is a choice of Karen...
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Notable Positive Earnings Surprises
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 8:59am | 134After close of Monday session, results coming up are showing to be better than previously expected. The most notable positive earnings are coming from Apple (AAPL), Boston Scientific (BSX), Caterpillar (CAT), DuPont (DD), Pfizer (PFE), Texas Instruments (TXN), UnitedHealth (UNH), and Coach (COH...
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United Health Care (UNH) and Aetna Inc. (AET) Down on Health Care Bill Progress
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 1:30pm | 134Large health insurers including United Health Care (NYSE: UNH) and Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) are down significantly due to the continued 'progress' on healthcare reform. Earlier today Senator Olympia Snow, a republican from Maine, said she would support the current form of the health care reform bill...
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Guy Adami Likes United Health
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 2:37pm | 63CNBC's Fast Money Guy Adami thinks that it is a good time to buy United Health Group (NYSE: UNH), because he believes that all the rhetoric about health care plan will pass. United Health (UNH) fell more than 4.5% as Senate Financial Committee made the decision to vote on Health Care bill on...
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Bob Doll And Curtis Arledge of Blackrock Discuss Markets on CNBC (IBM, UNH, APC)
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 8:45am | 145This morning on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Blackrock representatives Bob Doll and Curtis Arledge spoke about the firms' view of the overall markets and three individual stock picks. Overall Blackrock is positive on the markets and feels we are in the beginning stages of a moderate/slow recovery. Doll and...
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Consider going long in United Health Group Inc.(UNH) around $24
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 9:39am | 73United Health Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) stock faced strong resistance at $30 levels and has corrected almost 15% from its recent highs. The United Health Group Inc. (UNH) stock has got strong support at $24.6. One can expect the UNH stock to trade in $24 to $30 range in near term. One can take long...
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5 Top Stocks with the Most Cash
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 7:44am | 170Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) has total cash of $788.1 billion and a PEG ratio of 0.85. The company was upgraded by JMP Securities from “market perform” to “market outperform.” Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) has total cash of $39.1 billion and a PEG ratio of 0.78. JP Morgan upgraded the...
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Exxon Mobile (XOM) Leads S&P In Stock Buybacks
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 2:49pm | 136As companies continue to build cash reserves, S&P stock buybacks have hit record low. Exxon Mobile (NYSE: XOM) led the companies in buybacks during the second quarter with $5.2 billion spent, and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is 2nd ranked with $1.9 billion in buybacks. Other notables include...
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Biggest Losers (ZOOM,KR,TIV,HNT)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 11:31am | 282Zoom Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZOOM) - After yesterday’s massive rally of 212%, the stock has corrected about 15%to $10.81 largely on profit booking. A total of 958K shares being traded till now. Yesterday, it announced the results of its recently approved acquisition, Gold Lion. The newly...
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Joe Terranova And Guy Adami Are Bearish On Health Care Sector
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 6:59pm | 71CNBC's Fast Money Joe Terranova sees the opportunity on the short side for the health care sector. Guy Adami added that he would sell United Health Group (NYSE: UNH) because of too much uncertainty. Billionaire investor Jim Chanos told CNBC that health care sector is facing headwinds and that...
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CollabNet's Darryl Bowler to Speak at Agile2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 9:00am | 377BRISBANE, CA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - CollabNet, the leader in distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that Darryl Bowler, a senior systems architect consultant at the company, will present at Agile2009, an international conference focusing on Agile...
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Cascade Microtech Secures Production Test Win at Top Producer of LED Devices
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 8:00am | 422BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD) today announced that a leading light-emitting diode (LED) manufacturer has selected its high-speed Summit 12000 HS probe system for production test. Cascade Microtech's Summit 12000 HS was chosen for its system...
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Monday Options Update: VIX, WLP, UNH, CVX, & OIH
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 1:04pm | 307CBOE Vix index (VIX) – Risk aversion is back with a vengeance on Monday’s early trade. Following through on Asian market weakness, S&P index futures were already 20 points lower pre-market and haven’t managed much of a bounce since the open. The Vix index has jumped 15% to 27.85 mid-morning,...
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Magma Energy Selected as Preferred Bidder to Acquire Up to 32.32% of Iceland Geothermal Energy Producer HS Orka
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 8:46am | 803VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 17, 2009) - Magma Energy Corp. (TSX:MXY) announces that it has been selected as the preferred bidder to acquire up to 32.32% of Iceland geothermal company HS Orka through an auction process carried out by Reykjavik Energy ("RE") on behalf of itself...
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Quickparts(R) Makes the Inc. Magazine 5000 Fastest-Growing Businesses for the Third Consecutive Year
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 9:31am | 474ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - Quickparts (http://www.quickparts.com), one of North America's largest providers of custom designed parts, was a member of the Inc. 500 in 2004 and has been named to the third annual Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the...