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Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are trading lower in after-hours trading this Monday afternoon.  The direct reason is its key shipping partner’s earnings warning.
The company hasn’t issued any new news, but the earnings warning from United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and the comments about softening demand “on lower than expected package volume”  are adding to [...]

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) saw unusual options activity today.  In fact, it led the CBOE as the most active Call option series.  We saw some 30,000 of the SEP08 $45 CALLS trade hands.  On a fully leveraged basis that represents some 3 million shares.  The stock closed down 0.2% at $42.97 on 4.162 million [...]

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has been one of the under pressure banking stocks on its own accord of late.  But today we have seen many options trades go off in the Put options.  This may be nothing more than a roll-out as last Friday was expiration date, and it could just be traders making [...]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) was not on the options most active list late in the morning. But a 12:00 AM EST review showed that there had been some 9,044 contracts traded in the JUL08 $7.00 CALL OPTIONS. The Open interest before today was 35,429 contracts. Since then there has been [...]

Mirant Corp. (NYSE: MIR) is seeing shares up 0.9% at $40.86 on heavy volume of 11.7 million shares as of 10:02 AM EST.  While there hasn’t been any fresh news on the stock, there was a rather unusual trade.  A single block trade posted on the tape for 8,498,396 shares at $40.90 at 9:46.  As [...]

Barrier Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTRX) is seeing a major trading volume surge this morning on a $4.15 proposed cash buyout from privately held Stiefel Laboratories.  Right after the open at 9:31 AM EST we have seen 2.8 million shares trade hands.  Shares are now At $4.00.
Full buyout details and analysis at BioHealthInvestor.com.
52-Week Range:      $1.63 to $7.60
Avg. [...]

Gold is being pounded this morning after the dollar has recovered against the Yen and other currencies.  Many of the gold producers and gold bug related stocks are taking it on the chin on active volume in pre-market trading.

ETF: SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) down 2.45% at $86/.77 on 692,000 shares at 8:44 AMEST.
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