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UBS (NYSE: UBS) shares are down about 3% near $12.50 in active premarket trading around 8:25 a.m. Eastern, after the company warned of a second-quarter loss and sold about US$3.5 billion of shares at a 7% discount to the stock’s closing price on Thursday. The cash raising is expected to help raise the bank’s tier 1 [...]

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) shares will be ones to watch at the open for a potential volume spike after yet another setback for its 787 Dreamliner. Australia’s Qantas Airways said it will defer orders for 30 of the plans, and analysts are concerned that more customers could do the same as airlines become frustrated with [...]

Palm (PALM) shares are up nearly 14% in strong premarket trading after the company beat earnings expectations by $0.22 a share, on the back of its recently introduced Pre smartphone. Few Pre metrics were given, but it was clear the Pre helped boost overall smartphone demand. The company said it’s ramping Pre supply, and says [...]

Caraco Pharma Labs (AMEX: CPD) shares have been cut roughly in half on a late-session volume spike. The stock is trading at more than 1.5 times normal volume after Reuters reported that marshals have seized drug products manufactured at its Michigan plants, including generic heart, pain and psychiatric medications, due to potential manufacturing standards violations. [...]

Monsanto Co (NYSE: MON) shares are trading at nearly twice their average volume as of 2 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, after analysts weighed in today on the company’s third-quarter results. As VolumeSpikeInvestor.com pointed out in a brief earnings preview ahead of yesterday’s results, the key to upside for MON shares was the outlook and margins in the [...]

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has already crossed above its average volume for the day.  It is actually almost twice-normal volume for a whole day.  With 84 million shares having traded hands, that compares to under 50 million shaes for an average day.   If this continues, we could have close to three-times normal [...]

Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ) shares are at session highs and have seen their most active trade of the day in the past 20 minutes as of about noon Eastern after the company said it’s making progress toward restoring production at its Allston Landing manufacturing facility. — Mike Tarsala For full details, go to BioHealthInvestor.com  

Insurance company Aegon NV (AEG) shares are up about 4% and have traded more than half their usual daily volume in roughly the past 5 minute as of 11:50 a.m. Eastern. Market chatter is that there was an intraday upgrade of the stock that is responsible for the move. Assuming that the company can make [...]

First Solar  Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) shares are down about 4% as of 11:10 a.m. Eastern, on strong relative volume compared to its average first two hours of trading. The company’s first analyst day in more than a year was hosted in Las Vegas yesterday, and it received a lukewarm response from investors and analysts. The [...]

Shares of AthenaHealth Inc. are up 4% and have traded more than half their average volume by 11 a.m. Eastern, as the company benefits from an Outperform rating by a boutique brokerage firm. The company is being seen as a beneficiary of a projected spending boost in healthcare spending, as a result of the American Recovery and [...]