Volume Spike Investor

We have already covered in depth how the European Union may have thrown in another roadblock on the Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA).  This has caused over 1.04 million shares to trade hands in JAVA stock as of 5:18 PM EST.  The stock closed at $8.35 today, and the [...]

Human Genome Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI) was lower this morning and had been off our radar as a result after yesterday’s huge moves.  Yet at 1:30 PM EST we have just hit the virtual double on average daily volume.  Shares are up 8% at $27.34 on about 16.2 million shares versus and average volume of [...]

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has seen a flurry of PUT OPTIONS activity today.  It has traded about 123,000 puts and 17,589 calls as of 11:20am, with put volume nearly 3X average daily volume already.  Of this volume more than 75% of it has been bought at the offer, bearish bets.  The majority of [...]

We have already covered the news earlier this morning that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is acquiring Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE: BNI). But this news has many of the other railroad stocks popping early on the news…. We wanted to update our 8:12 AM piece so as of 9:10 AM EST: CSX Corp. [...]