Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cablevision to spin off Madison Square assets: report - U.S. Daily


Cablevision to aerobatics off Madison Square assets: report
U.S. Daily
... steel and all other field products. it announced $1.20 a deal in profits. this exceeded analysts' estimates. shares in after hours trading. thank you, ...

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Goldcorp Q2 Loss Widens - Trading Markets (press release)


Goldcorp Q2 Loss Widens
Trading Markets (press release)
... closed Wednesday's regular trading session on the NYSE at US$35.43, down 71 cents or 1.96% and lost an additional 16 cents in after hours trading. ...

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Choice Hotels profit dips in 2Q but tops estimates - CNBC


Choice Hotels acquire dips in 2Q but tops estimates
CNBC
Shares of Choice Hotels fell 26 cents to close at $26.43 Wednesday and remained unchanged in after-hours trading following the report.


Aflac 2Q earnings fall on investment losses - CNBC


Aflac 2Q earnings fall on assets losses
CNBC
In after-hours trading, shares fell 5 cents to $35.40. Shares of Aflac winking the regular session at $35.45, down $1.15, or 3.1 percent.

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Unusual Option in Pre-Earnings Trading: Goodyear (GT)

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) has just seen some very extraordinary options trading today. Normally we might not care, but this is just a day ahead of its quarterly earnings report. We hit seen 25,620 contracts trade in the OCT-2009 $17.50 CALL options. The preceding open interest was only 1,683 and we hit at least 20,000 of those as a buy. That figure looks to be more than every of the open interest of the nearby strike prices combined. As far as how this compares and stands out wildly, the AUGUST-2009 $15.00 CALL options hit traded only 1,510 contracts and that preceding open interest was 2,109. There was only one other CALL that traded actively. That was the JAN-2010 $17.50 CALL, which traded 1,696 contracts versus an open interest of 585 before today.This one azygos extraordinary options trading event is actually far larger than every other PUT and CALL amount activity among every strike prices and every options expiration dates we hit available.

JON C. OGG
JULY 29, 2009


Oil futures end sharply lower - MarketWatch


Oil futures end sharply lower
MarketWatch
Crude oil for September delivery dropped $3.88, or 5.8%, to end at $63.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In after-hours trading on Globex, ...

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Microsoft expected to post declines after the bell - MarketWatch


Microsoft expected to post declines after the bell
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Microsoft Corp. is expected to report declines in fiscal fourth-quarter profit and sales after ...

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STOCKS NEWS US-AFTER THE BELL-Apple shares rise - Forbes


STOCKS NEWS US-AFTER THE BELL-Apple shares rise
Forbes
money below $12.50, he said. It can also attain money from a modest uprise in the occasions, the analysts said in a state on Tuesday. 1439 ET 21July2009 Lexmark ...

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AFTER THE BELL-Yahoo, AMD shares slip - Forbes


AFTER THE BELL-Yahoo, AMD shares slip
Forbes
NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - Shares of Yahoo dipped 2.3 proportionality while shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc fell 9.8 proportionality after the closing bell on ...

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AFTER THE BELL-XL Capital shares gain - Forbes


AFTER THE BELL-XL Capital shares gain
Forbes
NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - Shares of XL Capital Ltd , a large reinsurer, rose 3 percent after the bell on weekday after it reported a fall in quarterly ...


Yahoo! Options See Explosive Volume (YHOO)

As of NOON EST we have seen some very off state in the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) stock options. We have seen more than the entire open interest of the AUG-$16 CALLS trade hands and it is only NOONEST. This is the state in the AUGUST-2009 CALLS:

Strike.. LAST…volume /Open Interest
$15.00.. $0.80..7,259… 29,464
$16.00.. $0.39..82,151.. 77,586
$17.00.. $0.17..28,327.. 43,205
$18.00.. $0.07..8,939… 42,432

This is more contract state in the $16 CALLS than in the entire PUT matrix…. We have only seen about 32,000 contracts for the entire AUGUST-2009 PUT options with strike prices from $10.00 to $22.00.

This could be some traders commerce their “calls” they owned in hopes of a deal, but much of the state looks like traders making more face bets. If these are face bets, these are so far heading the wrong direction.

Jon C. Ogg
July 29, 2009


Human Genome Sciences to raise $310M in stock offering - Bizjournals.com


Human Genome Sciences to raise $310M in stock offering
Bizjournals.com
Tuesday evening's programme of the stock offering price sent HGS shares dipping yet again, this time by 6 percent to $13.76, in after-hours trading. ...

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VOLUME ALERT: Trimble Navigation (TRMB)

Trimble Navigation (Nasdaq: TRMB) shares are trading about 11 proportionality higher to $23.75 on more than 3 times normal volume as of 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. The company missed earnings and revenue expectations, but showed some signs that its engineering and construction business may be stabilizing, and also lost fewer mobile solutions subscribers. — Mike Tarsala


XL revenue slumps as book value rockets 26% - Royal Gazette


XL revenue slumps as book value rockets 26%
Royal Gazette
That news went down well with the markets, as XL's share price rose three percent in after-hours trading to $14, as of 5.47 pm Eastern time. ...

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BEFORE THE BELL:US Futures Down Before Orders Data, Beige Book - Wall Street Journal


BEFORE THE BELL:US Futures Down Before Orders Data, Beige Book
Wall Street Journal
Shares surged 21% to $23.49 after hours, trading at levels not seen since November. Conseco Inc. projected it would swing to a second-quarter profit because ...

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PREMARKET ALERT: Exelixis (EXEL)

Exelixis Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) shares are up more than 3 percent to $6.07 in premarket trading, onĂ‚  volume of about 34,000 shares as of 8:40 a.m. Eastern. There is no news discover on the company, and no known new reports from analysts. Motley Fool mentioned the company rather passively in a story about biotechs being taken out, saying that EXEL is one with “multiple shots on goal”. Of note, Exelixis has a partnership with Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY), which bought Medarex Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDX) for a premium last week. At the time, Bristol Myers said it still had the resources for additional deals. — Mike Tarsala


Microsoft, Yahoo link up in Internet search deal - USA Today


Microsoft, Yahoo unification up in Internet search deal
USA Today
The stock gained 22 cents to close Tuesday at $17.22, then climbed another 17 cents in after-hours trading. Despite spending billions to upgrade its search ...

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The Times names executive vice president of business services - Los Angeles Times


The Times names chief vice president of playing services
Los Angeles Times
Jakks shares fell 84 cents, or more than 7%, to $10.86 in after-hours trading on the news. Western Digital Corp., a maker of hard-disk drives, ...


Elron shares rocket on new diabetes pump - Globes


Elron shares rocket on new diabetes pump
Globes
Ltd. (TASE:IDBH), chromatic 32.7% on Nasdaq yesterday to $4.63 and jumped another 107% in after-hours trading to $9.60. The share chromatic 35% in early trading on ...

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Conseco Forecasts Q2 Profit In Line With Consensus - Update - RTT News


Conseco Forecasts Q2 Profit In Line With Consensus - Update
RTT News
Shares of the consort surged 23% in after-hours trading. The consort is slated to foretell its financial results for the second quarter on August 4. ...

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Microsoft, Yahoo Reported To Strike Search Deal - MSN Malaysia News


Microsoft, Yahoo Reported To Strike Search Deal
MSN Malaysia News
In after-hours trading, shares of Yahoo rose 1.6% from Tuesday's close to $17.50; those of Microsoft were little changed at $23.45.

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