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We already knew that Bare Escentuals Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE) was in for a rough day as its shares were indicated slightly lower pre-market.  The maker of non-toxic and chemical-free womens makeup brands posted disappointing results at $0.25 EPS on $130.2 million in revenues, but analysts were looking for $0.26 and $142.8 million.  It looks like [...]

Gramercy Capital Corp. (NYSE: GKK) is actually the number one percentage gainer at the NYSE today for any stocks that are active in trading volume.  Yesterday the company said that its FFO rose and that it was suspending its dividend.  traders had bid this one up pre-market in pre-market trading indications and it has continued [...]

Bankrate Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE) is surging this morning.  The company managed to defy its skeptics who expected further fallout from the online financial data pressure.  The company posted earnings at $0.43 vs. $0.34 estimates.  The company also said that it expects to be at the mid-to-upper range of its revenue guidance and slightly exceed the [...]

Thoratec Corp. (NASDAQ: THOR) is trading up sharply after the company beat earnings targets and even raised its guidance.  Strong heart failure pumps were cited as the reason.  What is interesting more than anything here is that it was just this last Monday when the stock was mutilated over a product recall.  Product recalls for [...]

Powerwave Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PWAV) is getting creamed in the early trading.  Shares are down 45% at $0.99 right after the open.  There have been 1.8 million shares trade by 9:35 AM EST and the average daily volume is only about 2.3 million shares.  This is a severe 52-week low as the prior range had [...]

Credit Suisse is out dimming some expectations for select solar company price targets this morning, and this has these solar stocks and other solar stocks giving back some of the profits seen this week.  JA Solar Holdings (NASDAQ: JASO), ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL), and Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) are all gapping down lower after [...]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock is trading sharply higher by over 5% today after Bernstein research issued a report that is basically calling for  major stock buyback.  You can see the full details of that report at 24/7 Wall St. Shares are now up 6% at $106.00 on almost 30 million shares at 12:20 PM [...]

Here are four stocks seeing sizable drops in this morning’s pre-market trading after earnings and guidance came in at very disappointing levels.  Here are today’s big gap-down stocks (9:05 AM EST): Molex Inc. (NASDAQ: MOLX) -10% STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) -3.5% VistaPrint (NASDAQ: VPRT) -16% Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) -10% or so… You can see the [...]

Three of the biggest losers today are from companies which gave dismal earnings are AmeriCredit (NYSE: ACF), Ceradyne Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDN), and Paraxel International Corp. (NASDAQ: PRXL).  Below is the brief synopsis for each:

Britannia Bulk Holdings Inc. (NYSE: DWT) is an international provider of dry bulk shipping and maritime logistics services with a focus on transporting dry bulk commodities in and out of the Baltic region.  It has said that it expects to announce a significant net loss from the substantial decreases in dry bulk charter rates. that [...]