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Monday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 1:06pm | 85Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 293,912 contracts, 36.9% calls, 63.1% puts 2. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 147,081 contracts, 65.3% calls, 34.7% puts 3. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) 92,672 contracts, 41.8% calls, 58.2% puts 4. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C)...
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Apple Sued Over Quick-Boot Patent Originally Owned by LG
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 12:59pm | 61Operating Systems Solutions is suing Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over patent RE840,092, entitled 'Method for Quickly Booting a Computer System'. Operating Systems Solutions has accused Apple of violating the patent used in its Mac products running the Mac OS X operating system, specifically, MacBook Pro...
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More Bad News for FaceTime: Skype Brings HD Video Calls to Lion
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 12:44pm | 248Will we even remember what FaceTime was five years from now? Probably. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a stickler for standing by its own technologies, so it seems unlikely that FaceTime will be abandoned. But while it may have seemed like a necessary evolution in videoconferencing when it first debuted,...
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Great Depression 2.0: You've Got Nothing
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 12:02pm | 769What was a recession is now starting to look like a full blown depression. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is being sued by AIG (NYSE: AIG) for $10 billion. This is both ironic, hilarious and depressing, as AIG nearly caused the financial crisis in 2008, and could lead to starting another with this...
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Forget Drugs, iPad 2s are More Fun to Smuggle
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 12:00pm | 223Who knew zip-lines could be so useful? While Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) upcoming tablet may steal the show, that hasn't stopped consumers from eating up the aging iPad 2. That hasn't stopped smugglers from eating it up either. MicGadget reports (via Business Insider) that smugglers in Hong Kong have...
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McDonald's Investors Loving It, Relatively Speaking
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 11:00am | 626With the Dow off over 300 points on a slew of worries this morning, investors in McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) are lovin' it this morning, relatively speaking. The Oakbrook, Ill-based company reported a 5.1% increase in July same-store-sales this morning, as smoothies helped the U.S., and...
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Deutsche Bank Provides Color on Quality Systems
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 9:16am | 141Deutsche Bank provided color on Quality Systems (NASDAQ: QSII). In a research report published today, the rating agency commented on the company's agreement with Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). In the report, Deutsche Bank states, “This morning, Quality Systems, through its NextGen divi‐ sion, announced that...
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Apple's Cloud Movie Service Not Ready for Launch
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 7:40am | 101Last week's rumors about a cloud movie service that would enable iTunes users to stream movies from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) servers and later download them to various devices, are premature at best, according to a report from CNET. Apple has still not signed agreements for feature films with at least...
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Will These 5 Tech Stocks Crash in a Correction?
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:15pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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6 Retail Stocks Poised for Breakout Profits
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:13pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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Analyzing 6 'Buy' Rated Stocks That Trade for Under $10
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:11pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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5 Stocks John Paulson Can't Get Enough Of
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:08pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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6 Cheap Stocks to Consider After Earnings
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:05pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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The 8 Worst Stocks of the Dow
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:03pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...
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6 Overvalued Stocks That Look Ready to Tumble
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:00pm | 282In one swift day of catastrophic trading, the major stock indices erased all of their 2011 gains and foreshadowed a major turn for the worst in market sentiment. Uncertainty about eurozone instability, the rushed US debt-ceiling deal, and poor jobs indicators overall coalesced into massive investor...