Archive for January 8th, 2009

Exponential Volume Surge: Anadys Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ANDS)

Anadys Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDS) is surging from ongoing Phase Ib clinical trial data of its ANA598, its investigational non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor. This is also in patients infected with chronic Hepatitis C virus where all eight patients who received ANA598 demonstrated a rapid decline in viral load, and no patients demonstrated viral rebound while on [...]

Volume Soike & Price Tanker: Nordic American Tanker (NAT, DRYS)

Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. (NYSE: NAT) is geting hammered this morning on very active trading.  At 9:25 AM EST we have already seen 243,000 shares trade and the average volume is only 822,000 shares.  The price drop is a harsh one at -8.5% to $32.44.  The culprit is a questionable secondary offering.
DryShips inc. (NASDAQ: [...]

Major Price/Volume Surge: Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) is seeing its shares get pounded this morning.  As of 9:19 AM EST we have seen over 225,000 shares trade hands.  What is interesting is that this stock only trades about 1.23 million shares per day and it generally takes a lot to move the stock this much.  Shares are [...]