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US Stock Futures Down As Investors Await Citigroup Earnings
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:14am | 316US stock futures are lower this morning, as investors are awaiting earnings from Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C). Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 63 points to 12,240.00 and futures on the S&P 500 stock index fell 8.40 points to 1,310.60. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 11 points to 2,298....
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Piper Jaffray Lowers PT On Forest Laboratories To $29
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:10am | 27Piper Jaffray has lowered the price target on Forest Laboratories (NYSE: FRX) from $31 to $29 and maintains its Underweight rating.
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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – April 18, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 3:46am | 4815Merger activity remained steady last week with five new deals announced and five closing. You can find all the deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool that automatically updates itself during market hours. Deal Statistics: Total Number of Deals Closed in 2011 48 Total Number of Deals...
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Earnings Scheduled For April 18 (AMTD, TXN, KEY, C, LLY, GCI, HAL, MTB, BRO, AMLN, ZION, CR)
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 12:51am | 320TD Ameritrade Holding Corp (NASDAQ: AMTD) is expected to post its FQ2 earnings at $0.28 per share on revenue of $702.23 million. Texas Instruments Inc (NYSE: TXN) is projected to report its Q1 earnings at $0.58 per share on revenue of $3.40 billion. Keycorp (NYSE: KEY) is expected to report its...
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Stocks To Watch For April 18 (C, TXN, JNJ, HAL, LLY)
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 12:46am | 194Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) to report its Q1 EPS at $0.09 on revenue of $20.55 billion. Citigroup shares gained 0.23% to $4.43 in after-hours trading. Analysts are expecting Texas Instruments Inc (NYSE: TXN) to have earned...
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Monday's Economic and Earnings Schedule
Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 9:52pm | 121At 10am EST on Monday, the NAHB Housing Market Index for April will be released. A Briefing.com survey expects an index reading of 17. For equities, Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY), Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), Molina Healthcare (...
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10 Small Cap Stocks Trending the Right Way
Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 2:20pm | 3763Get MarketClub's Free Daily Video Market Updates Here Follow me on Twitter and don't forget to write a review of Scott's Investments on Investimonials, it only takes a moment! Below is a list of 10 small cap stocks with a positive earnings trend. I use stockscreen123 as a tool and screener to...
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CEOWORLD Daily Business Roundup- JNJ, CHK, AMD, T, AXP, AAPL, INTC, JPM, GOOG, LLY, CSCO…
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 7:47am | 1985Johnson & Johnson Inc. (JNJ) is in talks to buy Swiss medical-device maker Synthes Inc. $20 billion. Charles Schwab (SCHW) a discount broker, declared boosted profit for the first quarter as earnings reached $243.00 million, or $0.20 per share, from a year earlier $6.00 million, or a lesser...
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Corcept Therapeutics Announces NDA Submitted to the FDA for the Use of CORLUX in Cushing's Syndrome
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 4:06pm | 39Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ: CORT) today announced that it has submitted its New Drug Application for the use of CORLUX in Cushing's Syndrome to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Johnson & Johnson Is In Talks To Purchase Synthes For Roughly $20B - WSJ
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 4:00pm | 27Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Is In Talks To Purchase Synthes For Roughly $20B, Reported By The Wall Street Journal.
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Weird Dynamic at Play 04-15-2011
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 3:35pm | 980Cusick's Corner The market is up, bonds are up, earnings were mixed and the data was in line -- the trend is still strong. Bonds and Equities going up at the same time is a weird dynamic, one that traders are watching closely because this breaks from their contradictory nature that they usually...
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Options Brief: Mylan Inc. (MYL)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:25am | 74Shares of Mylan Inc. (NYSE: MYL) are higher on the session by 1.34%, trading at $23.48. Overall put volume is now running at 4.66x the daily average, with 54% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,805 contracts have traded on the session so far. Mylan Inc. and its subsidiaries is a...
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Top Percentage Gainers and Losers as of 10am 4/15/11 (AGO, OPXA, MBI, AMLN, ABMD, CTCT, CRUS, GGC, OTIV, SFG, BAC, LLY, ALKS)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 10:09am | 317Best 1) Opexa Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OPXA): Trading up 24% from yesterday's close to $2.27. A positive report emanating from a clinical trial of its drug Tovaxin has shares up. 2) Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO): Trading up 18.84% from yesterday's close to $16.84. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has...
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Morgan Stanley Equal Weight On Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 9:49am | 111Morgan Stanley has an Equalweight rating on shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley writes, "J&J's settlement with Merck looks to be slightly (0-1%) more accretive than our prior estimates. We previously published a probability-weighted scenario...
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Abbott Labs: Submits Automated Vitamin D Assay Submitted for FDA Clearance (ABT)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 9:03am | 80Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT) reports according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a third of Americans have vitamin D levels that are either inadequate or deficient. While many people know that vitamin D is necessary to help the body absorb calcium, which helps...