Volume Spike Investor

There has been a monster volume surge in shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S).  The talk is out that Sprint has decided to cancel its major securities sale.  The firm took a hit with earnings when it said it was going to do a large preferred securities sale and short sellers were very active [...]

There is a high amount of options activity ahead of Hansen Natural Corp. (NASDAQ: HANS) earnings today.  The trade may just be a close-out of an old straddle play that had been put on and was closed out, but the open interest data we have doesn’t entirely add up for that as you will see [...]

Euro Tech Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: CLWT) has spiked 11% and already seen twice the normal trading volume. Its subsidiary, Yixing PACT Environmental Technology Company Ltd., signed its first contract in the USA amounting to $2 million for a wastewater neutralization system to be manufactured and installed at a state-of-the-art stainless-steel manufacturing facility in a [...]

MCG Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: MCGC) is finding out what more of the same lack of love feels like. The stock got blasted as revenue fell from $50.2 million to $31.1 million. operating income fell from $28.5 million to $13 milion. Losses from the company’s portfolio made resuls worse. MCGC reported a net loss of $0.96 [...]