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Unconfirmed Rumors that Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) are in settlement talks with VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC), would be a huge positive for (VHC),
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:21pm | 75Unconfirmed Rumors that Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)are in settlement talks with VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC),would be huge positive for (VHC),Microsoft (MSFT) has already settled with (VHC).
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Friday's Mid-day Options Leaders (BAC, BIDU, C, AMZN, AAPL)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:16pm | 108The market is hovering around the flat line today, which the bulls should consider a win, considering the S&P 500 is holding these lofty levels. Here are your mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 175,617 contracts, 60.3% calls, 39.7% puts 2. Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU)...
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Morgan Stanley Report on Broadband Pricing Wildly Overblown
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 11:18am | 547By Justin Rohrlich A new report from Morgan Stanley media analyst Ben Swinburne makes quite the audacious claim. Swinburne believes that, as more customers “cut the cord” and enough people eventually consume programming via the Internet, via Apple's (AAPL) iTunes, Google's (GOOG) YouTube, and so...
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Fed Only Does $2.5 Billion In POMO, Stocks Still Weak
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 11:16am | 97The Federal Reserve Bank of New York monetized $2.49 billion in Treasury debt, yet stocks are still wavering, suggesting this might be the end of the POMO-induced run up. Money managers offered to sell the Fed $24.808 billion worth of debt, with maturities ranging from 2013 to 2014. The number was...
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Cirrus Logic Continues To Fall (CRUS)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:53am | 215Yesterday, on the back of a disappointing earnings report, shares of Cirrus Logic were crushed to the tune of around 14%. During today's trading session that downward momentum is continuing. The stock has lost 3.86% and trades at $13.22. The semiconductor company's largest customer is Apple (NASDAQ...
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Did Steve Jobs Offer President Obama Election Tips? (AAPL)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:48am | 74Steve Jobs and President Obama met yesterday in an unscheduled meeting in Silicon Valley and speculation has been running rampant as to what they talked about. Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst who covers Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) thinks Jobs may have given Obama some advice. Watch the video...
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A Tablet PC From HP, A Gamble On Windows
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:41am | 120Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the product will operate. It will be called the Slate 500. The Windows 7-based device will be powered by Intel's 1.86GHz...
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IBM Inventors Create Warning System to Analyze, Assess and Predict Natural Disasters
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:24am | 70IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors have developed a patented natural disaster warning system, which uses analytics to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of post-event rescue efforts in cities and other locations where efficient emergency response is essential following a natural disaster. It also...
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Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX): A Lesson in Option Strike Structure
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 9:25am | 1786Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) reported earnings Wednesday night that were viewed favorably by the Street overall. The stock was up 13% on Thursday to $173. Obviously, traders who were long NFLX stock or long a lot of deltas through a combination of long calls and/or short puts fared well in their...
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HP Completes Acquisition of ArcSight for $1.5B
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 8:08am | 30HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ArcSight for $43.50 per share, or an enterprise value of $1.5 billion.
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Is Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Stock Setting Up The PowerShares QQQ ETF (NASDAQ:QQQQ) For A Major Pullback?
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 6:06pm | 179“Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still showing what looks like a bearish divergence between MACD histogram and price. The current upside reactionary rally is pushing to higher highs on lower(...)Read the rest of Is Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Stock Setting Up The PowerShares QQQ ETF (NASDAQ: QQQQ)...
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NCR Corp. Reports Large Profit Jump (NCR)
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 4:43pm | 109NCR Corp. (NYSE: NCR) released its third quarter earnings results after the closing bell on Thursday. The company reported net income of $85 million, or $0.51 per share, compared to $17 million, or $0.09 per share, in the year ago period. This came in ahead of analysts' consensus estimates of $0.36...
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NCR Announces Third Quarter Results; EPS $.46
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 4:01pm | 149NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) reported financial results today for the three months ended September 30, 2010. Reported revenue of $1.21 billion increased 6 percent from the third quarter of 2009 and included a 1 percent negative impact from foreign currency translation. Q3 2010 Operational...
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Thursday's Mid-day Options Volume Leaders (BAC, C, NFLX, AAPL, F)
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 11:12am | 119The overall market is taking out another set of short stops this morning, passing through the recent high at $1,185, and accelerating to new highs. Currently, the S&P 500 (CBOE: SPX) is trading at $1,189.79, high by 10.65 points. Here are your mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America...
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Who's Buying and Selling This Rally?
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 10:52am | 581By Josh Lipton The stock market has moved sharply higher since August 27, when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed might consider another bond purchase program, a maneuver known as quantitative easing. The point of the program is to prop up the fragile economy by keeping long term...