Volume Spike Investor

It seems that when you get huge moves in junkie financial stocks of one sort, you get blips and secondary or tertiary moves in other junkie financial stocks. First Marblehead Corp. (NYSE: FMD) has seen that occur today. The common stock for First Marblehead is up 14.5% at $2.28 today and the stock has seen [...]

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (NYSE: TRW) is likely to be one of the more traded issues compared to average volue today on teh NYSE.  The company announced a 14 million share secondary offering and this has shares lower on the news.  The stock is down 7.5% at $18.76 as of 9:00 AM EST.  The volume [...]

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) is trading up this morning after reporting that same-store sales rose 4.3%, higher than estimates.  But what is more impoirtant than just the news is the volume and chart alert that will be coming into play today. McDonald’s closed at $55.20 friday and shares are up 1.6% at $56.10 as of [...]

Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) is getting a bad endorsement this morning.  Goldman Sachs cut an already cautious rating down lower to a CONVICTION SELL.  We have shares down 3.55% at $33.65 on 39,000 shares as of 8:51 AM EST.  That will pick up in volume rapidly as we get closer to the open [...]

We are seeing a price alert in Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) this morning.  Shares are down close to 2% at $75.70 as of 8:43 AM EST.  It was the analyst downgrade that nailed this one today: Research In Motion (RIMM) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Be advised that if this gets much weaker, [...]

Priceline.com inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) is rising pre-market after the online travel site reported earnings.  Net income was $67 million, or $1.38 EPS, but pro forma income was $2.02 EPS. Revenue was up close to 20% at $603.7 million.  First Call estimates were $1.75 EPS and $575 million in revenues.  The company also noted that leisure [...]

YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: YRCW) is soaring this morning.  We have seen over 400,000 shares trade an the last print was up 15% at $2.60 as of 8:27 AM EST this morning.  This comes on the heels of the Teamsters union approving more wage cuts.  Average volume on a day is roughly 5.7 million shares.  [...]

It is often hard to get excited about penny stocks of former giant favorites.  But excitement is the case this morning in Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and even in Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM).  Freddie Mac (FRE) did not exactly have pretty earnings on Friday, but shares soared on word that the GSE mortgage lender does [...]