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Bookkeeping: Looking to Take Some Profits Today
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 10:00am | 1745Speculation week is off to a roaring start, to wit please see Chinese seed company Origin Agritech (SEED) which always is a place daytraders congregate when agriculture stocks are in favor.... .... now yesterday's performance was somewhat news driven but basically it ran from mid $6s "on the news...
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Bookkeeping: Beginning Stake in Smart Grid Company EnerNOC (ENOC)
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 2:06pm | 1191I believe this is the first time I've spoken about EnerNOC (ENOC) in the blog, but it is part of a very small niche in the market based on smart grid updates; perhaps 4-5 stocks in all. Just in the past week or two a new ETF for this sector has been launched (symbol: GRID) which has 29 stocks, but...
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Benzinga’s Biggest Losers (INOC, ERI, QUIK, PSUN, FTK, TBUS)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 11:28am | 299Innotrac Corporation (NASDAQ: INOC) plunged 29% to $2.08 huge 39K shares only after INOC announced reported that third quarter revenues declined 30.4% to $22.3 million as compared to $32 million same quarter last year. . So far this year, Innotrac Corporation (NASDAQ: INOC) is up over 23%. Emrise...
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Spherix Announces Positive Interim Results in Phase 3 Trial of Novel, Oral Compound for Type 2 Diabetes
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 8:42am | 140Spherix Incorporated (Nasdaq: SPEX), an innovator in biotechnology for diabetes therapy, and a provider of technical and regulatory consulting services to food, supplement, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today announced positive interim Phase 3 clinical results for the planned review...
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Acacia (ACTG) Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Nimbus
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 7:50am | 95Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) announced that its Data Network Storage LLC subsidiary has entered into a settlement and license agreement with Nimbus Data Systems, Inc. covering a patent portfolio that relates to storage area network technology. This agreement resolves patent litigation...
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Acacia (ACTG) Subsidiary Enters into Agreement with International Business Machines Corporation
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 7:40am | 108Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) announced that its Optimum Processing Solutions LLC (OPS) subsidiary has entered into a settlement agreement with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). This agreement resolves all claims between OPS and IBM arising out of the patent...
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Reserve bank of Australia (RBA) raises GDP growth forecast from now onwards
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 8:37am | 104Australia’s central bank, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has raised the country's gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to 1.75 percent for this year and 3.25 percent in 2010. Three months ago, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) had initially forecast GDP growth of 0.5 percent and 2.25 per cent for...
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Duff & Phelps Files To Sell 2.5M Shares
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 5:47pm | 25Duff & Phelps (NYSE: DUF) files to sell 2.5M shares. Goldman Sachs is acting as the sole underwriter for the offering.
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CBIZ Inc(NYSE:CBZ) A Stock With Extreme Implied Volatility Discount.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 10:56am | 103CBIZ Inc(NYSE: CBZ)A Stock With Extreme Implied Volatility Discount. Today CBIZ’s implied volatility has collapsed from over 160 to just 32 in just a day.Stock options with ‘volatile’ implied volatilities offer very profitable trading strategies regardless of underlying stock’s direction, like CBIZ...
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Iron Mountain Inc (NYSE:IRM) Extremely High Put/Call Ratio.
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 12:54pm | 140Iron Mountain Inc (NYSE: IRM) Extremely High Put/Call Ratio. Iron Mountain Inc (IRM) trading at $26.29 today, appears to have an unusually high put/call ratio of over 120. Stocks with extreme Put/Call ratios are actually considered bullish most of the time but not always. The idea is simply that...
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Equifax (EFX) To Buy IXI Corporation For $124 Million In Cash
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 8:49am | 41Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire IXI Corporation, a leader in collecting, analyzing and delivering consumer wealth and asset data. Equifax will pay $124 million in cash for the company.
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The Geo Group (GEO) And Cornell Companies (CRN) Bouncing Off Ackman Comments On Corrections Corp (CXW)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 3:48pm | 275As we noted earlier, Pershing Square's Bill Ackman told the sold out Value Investing Congress that he purchased shares of Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW) at approximately $24.50 a share. Ackman's announcement that he bought CXW has caused other stocks in the prison sector to spike in...
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Today's Morning Top Gainers (BEST, FIGI, ALLI, IPCS, KFN)
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 10:54am | 278Shiner International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEST) is today’s top percentage gainer in morning trade and surged 30% today to $1.82 on an unusual huge volume of 1.73 million shares after today it announced that it has entered into a new contract with Shineway Group. The Company believes that this contact...
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Stocks to Watch (AIG, APC, CXW, EXH, FACT)
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 2:56am | 291American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) The insurer bailed out by the U.S. is in talks with former Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg to settle legal disputes, the Wall Street Journal reported, without saying where it got the information. Mark Herr, a spokesman for the New York...
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Cramer Calls On (CAT,CXW,MCD,V,MIC)
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 6:09am | 199Cramer needs Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) to pullback before he will recommend it. Shares of CAT have increased over 68% in the last 6 months. Don’t buy Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW) Cramer said by stating that there’s no catalyst that makes the stock worth owning. In the past six...