US stock futures are trading higher Friday as investors look toward data on US growth and a speech fromFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The second release of Q2 US GDP is due out at 8:30 AM ET. Economists expect a downward revision of the 2.4% growth estimated in the first release. Also due out is [...]
„Futures on the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) and Dow Jones (INDEXDJX:.DJI) have soared after the government released its final revision to Q2 GDP. Economist were looking for a revision from 2.4% down to 1.4%, but GDP was reported at 1.6%, topping expectations. Personal Consumption in the quarter was revised to 2.0%, better than he 1.6% economists [...]
„Healthspring Inc. (NYSE:HS) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding capital stock of Bravo Health Inc. for $545.0 million. The transaction will be financed through the use of unrestricted cash and borrowings under an amended revolving credit facility and new term loan facilities that will be established [...]
We’ve been waiting for the market to declare itself but it hasn’t made much of a decisive move. We’re pretty sure now that the short and intermediate term trends are down- in fact, short, intermediate and long term trends are all down, but not in a catastrophic way….
AGORACOM – The Small Cap Epicenter reports on the day’s best small cap and micro cap press releases before the opening bell. Today’s show features: A-Power Energy Generation Systems – NASDAQ:APWR $7.54, Rainy River – TSX-V:RR $6.04…
Shares of Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON) dropped over 13% to $1.61 earlier Thursday, following an announcement by the company of an offering of 4 million shares of common stock at $1.50 per share, reports MarketWatch. Company officials expect to earn $5.3 million from the offering.SmarTrend alerted subscribers to take profits in Superconductor Technologies on May [...]
„Exelixis Inc. (NASDAQ:EXEL) shares are trading 6.16% higher at $3.19 a day after regulatory filings showed that the company’s chairman and CFO recently made substantial purchases of the its stock. Chairman Stelios Papadopoulos bought 200000 shares of his company’s stock on August 24 for $610220. CFO Frank Karbe is listed as buying 16500 shares for [...]
It’s all about the GDP this week!!!! There was some improvement in the Initial Jobless Claims today, but the Stock Market is currently Down with very little trading going on. The Bond Market Started Higher today, so Mortgage Rates are better today after yesterday’s Sell-off (Trader’s taking in their profit, as we mentioned the probability [...]
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