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Earnings Scheduled For July 11
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 4:30am | 99Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.34 on revenue of $6.32 billion. PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ: PACW) is expected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.27 on revenue of $70.63 million. Infosys Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is estimated to report its Q1 EPS at $0.64 on revenue of $1.65...
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Stocks To Watch For July 11
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 4:15am | 199Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) to report its Q2 EPS at $0.34 on revenue of $6.32 billion. Alcoa shares dropped 0.67% to close at $16.38 on Friday. Lonza Group Ltd announced its plans to buy Arch Chemicals Inc (NYSE: ARJ) in an...
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SKYY: The Wait For A Cloud Computing ETF is Over
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 3:39pm | 953The first cloud computing ETF has arrived. On Wednesday (7/6/11), the First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index Fund (SKYY) was listed for trading on the NASDAQ. Part of the reason investors had to wait so long is that like its namesake, cloud computing is somewhat amorphous, with no clearly defined...
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CIBER Wins Contract to Support Financial Systems for the National Park Service
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 10:03am | 67CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR), and its partner, Delta Solutions and Technologies, Inc. have won a five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract from the National Park Service. The award covers financial and business solutions, project management and information technology-related services...
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SRA International Awarded $12B Multi-Award Contract from Department of Veterans Affairs
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 9:15am | 52SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX) today announced it is one of the awardees on the Department of Veterans Affairs'Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ), multiple-award task order contract has a five-year base period, with a...
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Stocks to Watch for 07/8/11: Fresh 52 Week Highs and Lows
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 12:59am | 2553Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Thursday's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Shares of Level 3 Communications hit...
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Swing & Fade Traders Frustrated 07-06-2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 5:48pm | 827Cusick's Corner The market is in a light volume, range-bound environment that has no solid leadership across the board. We are seeing stocks and commodities that are trading now in a range to the upside but the huge trend, a break out or down, has not been confirmed. If you look at the S&Ps,...
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Retail is Focus Today 07-06-2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 5:16pm | 859Cusick's Corner The market is trading off the lows of the day and Retail, XRT, has been the focus today in front of a plethora of data and earnings which may be potentially volatile because the strength of the consumer has been under pressure due to energy price fluctuations and lackluster...
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US Seismic Systems Receives Order for Custom Downhole Seismic Arrays
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 12:39pm | 144US Seismic Systems, a subsidiary company of Acorn Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACFN) announced today that it has received an order for custom downhole seismic systems based upon its revolutionary fiber optic sensor technology from a leading international oilfield seismic equipment company. The value of...
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Options Brief: Xerox Corporation
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 10:42am | 82Shares of Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) are lower on the session by 0.66%, trading at $10.50. Overall call volume is now running at 3.64x the daily average, with 2% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 13,930 contracts have traded on the session so far. Xerox Corporation provides a...
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Telvent: Spain's National Energy Commission Selects Telvent to Support Its Expanding IT Systems
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 9:19am | 198Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Spanish National Energy Commission (CNE) to provide vital technical support for the authority's institutional IT systems. Telvent will help guarantee top performance of the systems and 24/7 availability as both the...
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Safeguard Scientifics to Acquire 36% Interest in Penn Mezzanine
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 9:01am | 170Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 36% ownership interest in Penn Mezzanine, a mezzanine platform which commenced operations in early 2010 with over $30 million of initial fund capital. In addition to this capital, Safeguard will...
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Jefferies Maintains Buy on ManTech Int'l
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 7:15am | 121Jefferies is out with its report today on ManTech Int'l (NASDAQ: MANT), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "After spending two days on the road with management, we came away with a reinforced belief that visibility to guidance is excellent, with over 90% of revenue in hand...
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Classic Summer Mode 07-05-2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 6:16pm | 828Cusick's Corner The markets were, well in summer mode. This is the type of action that one could expect into an employment number at the end of the week and with earnings coming. The market had low volume with choppy action and while the bid has been nibbling, the future data has been holding the...
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Classic Summer Mode 07-05-2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 6:16pm | 828Cusick's Corner The markets were, well in summer mode. This is the type of action that one could expect into an employment number at the end of the week and with earnings coming. The market had low volume with choppy action and while the bid has been nibbling, the future data has been holding the...