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USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) is looking up considerably, although this is not a resolution to its woes.  There were reports that the Department of Energy said it would delay its final decision to give the company time to meet test and financial goals over its government loan guarantee.  As of 6:00 PM EST we have [...]

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) is soaring after it beat earnings estimates, despite it maintaining very conservative guidance.  At 4:49 PM EST we have shares trading up 13% to new 52-week highs at $28.00.  We have also seen almost 1.1 million shares trade hands since the 4:00 PM Closing Bell. FULL Earnings Details…. Stay [...]

Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) is seeing elevated options activity and elevated stock volume.  Shares are up 26% at $4.11 and as of 1:20 PM EST we have seen 11,825,618 shares trade hand. The average volume is roughly 5.1 million shares.  Eastman Kodak shares have traded in a range of $3.15  to $ 4.15 today [...]

King Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: KG) volume exploded on August $10 calls with nearly 4,000 trading before 10:30 AM as a rumor that Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT) is looking at the Company for a $16.00 offer.  Implied volatility initially turned higher from 91% to 98%.  King shares are cheap on most metrics and it trades just [...]

Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) just saw some unusual options activity this morning.  This is out to the OCT-2009 CALLS, but the $47.50 Call Strike price has seen 20,155 contracts trade hands.  The open interest was listed as 48,035 contracts.  On a fully leveraged basis, this would represent a bet of 2 million shares.  This single-strike volume [...]

Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) is a fairly small stock in the land of biotech stocks, yet it is under price pressure on volume this morning based upon a secondary offering.  The company priced 19 million shares at $1.75 per share, which is well under the $1.99 close on Monday.  As of 9:39 AM EST [...]

Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG) is getting significant pre-market volume on reports that Pepsico (NYSE: PEP) has agreed to pay $36.50 per share in a higher bidding price to secure the buyout it has pursued.  At 8:26 AM EST we have seen some 340,000 shares trade hands compared to an average volume of about 2 [...]

STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) is one to watch this morning.  It traded down almost 10% last night in after-hours trading on some 780,000 shares.  This has traded only 23,000 shares as of 8:19 AM EST but shares are still down over 9% at $32.25.  This trades right at 2,2 million shares per day, so between [...]

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: CTSH) is trading up 9% at $33.25 in early trading.  As of 8:16 AM EST we have seen right at 75,000 shares trade hands.  While it trades close to 5 million shares on average per day, this is active for this stockpre-market and this is also up at new 52-week [...]

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI) is seeing unusual trading volume and price action this morning.  The genomics company was Raised to Buy at ThinkEquity.  We have shares up 4.2% at $14.85 on over 120,000 shares at 8:08 AM EST.  This one trades close to 10 million shares on an average day but it is [...]