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Blue Light Special 07-07-2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 5:13pm | 1014Cusick's Corner Where is the next Blue Light Special? (Check out AEO in Bullish Flow.) The Consumer Discretionary sector, XLY +1.61%, is outperforming the general market, S&Ps +1.05%, and Retail is red hot today after Junes sales data came out. Along with the Claims data coming better than...
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Options Brief: Tessera Technologies
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 2:14pm | 66Shares of Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA) are lower on the session by 5.59%, trading at $16.20. Overall put volume is now running at 6.71x the daily average, with 83% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,812 contracts have traded on the session so far. Tessera Technologies, Inc...
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Calls Purchased on KLA-Tencor Corporation
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 12:29pm | 131Shares of KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLIC) are higher on the session by 4.86%, currently trading at $41.67. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past four months, but is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short...
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Calls Purchased on Nanometrics
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:46am | 138Shares of Nanometrics (NASDAQ: NANO) are higher on the session by 7.54%, currently trading at $21.26. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while ago...
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Options Brief: Amkor Technology
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:23am | 77Shares of Amkor Technology (NASDAQ: AMKR) are higher on the session by 6.82%, trading at $6.31. Overall call volume is now running at 163.14x the daily average, with 82% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 18,761 contracts have traded on the session so far. Amkor Technology, Inc....
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Options Brief: Lam Research Corporation
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:17am | 69Shares of Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) are higher on the session by 3.38%, trading at $44.69. Overall call volume is now running at 2.51x the daily average, with 80% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 2,753 contracts have traded on the session so far. Lam Research...
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Options Brief: Applied Materials, Inc.
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:09am | 73Shares of Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) are higher on the session by 2.38%, trading at $13.35. Overall call volume is now running at 2.20x the daily average, with 70% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 9,814 contracts have traded on the session so far. Applied Materials,...
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Benzinga's Volume Movers
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 10:27am | 147Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co Inc (NASDAQ: HITK) shares surged 5.30% to $30.42 at 10:24 am. The volume of HITK shares traded was 811% higher than normal. HITK reported upbeat Q4 earnings. Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd (NASDAQ: NVMI) shares moved up 5.32% to $11.09. The volume of NVMI shares traded was 332...
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Stifel Nicolaus Maintains Buy on Lam Research
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:52am | 94Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "Despite the uncertain state of the industry, we believe Lam remains one of the best positioned companies in the long term, and a potential outperformer once...
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ASML Holding Up 3%
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:31am | 68ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ: ASML) shares are up more than 3% in early trading, after the stock was upgraded to Buy at UBS this morning. At last check, shares were trading at $38.08, a gain of $1.14 or 3.09%. ASML Holding N.V., through its subsidiaries, engages in designing, manufacturing,...
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Stifel Nicolaus Maintains Buy on KLA-Tencor
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:14am | 81Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "Despite the market uncertainty, we still believe KLA-Tencor remains well positioned through these industry transitions. We maintain our Buy rating and our $59...
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FSI International Receives Repeat ORION System Order
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:01am | 53FSI International, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSII), a leading manufacturer of surface conditioning equipment for microelectronics manufacturing, announced today that it received a repeat ORION^® single wafer cleaning system order from a leading foundry producer. The order is expected to ship in the fourth...
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Stifel Nicolaus Maintains Buy on Applied Materials
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 8:53am | 101Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "We believe the current market uncertainty and some of the internal challenges within Applied have kept the stock behind many of its peers. Should the...
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Losers
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 8:30am | 113Affymetrix Inc (NASDAQ: AFFX) dipped 17.63% to $6.59 in the pre-market session. AFFX issued downbeat Q2 revenue projections. Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: QTWW) dropped 6.76% to $4 in the pre-market trading. QTWW's trailing-twelve-month operating margin is -82.93%....
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Gainers
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 8:21am | 131Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd (NASDAQ: NVMI) shares advanced 3.32% to $10.88 in the pre-market session. NVMI received multiple orders from leading edge customers for its newest Integrated Metrology system - the Nova i500. Urban Outfitters Inc (NASDAQ: URBN) shares advanced 3.09% to $31.70 in the...