Volume Spike Investor

We have taken a look at the movers up and down today and pulled out the key names we have seen on news with exponential trading volume.  We have also included the news and relative color on the trading day and offered a link to each where applicable.  Share prices as of a 12:25 PM [...]

General Electric Co. (GE) is seeing a break-out.  Yesterday it was Goldman Sachs, today JPMorgan helping with comments on the conglomerate.  The prior 52-week high was $17.52 that was hit back on September 19 2009 after it went ex-dividend.  This morning shares opened up at $17.49 after a $17.29 close on Monday.  Now shares are [...]

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) saw a rather large price and volume spike late in the afternoon.  Before 2:30 PM EST AIG shares went from being down around the lows of the day at $33.30+ and went all the way up to $36.37 in a very rapid fashion.  We have seen notes that Macquarie [...]

The bull market is officially one-year old now.  March 9, 2009 was the absolute low for the index levels.  VSInvestor.com has pulled many of biggest stock movers from the Russell 2000 Index.  Amazingly, we had to include stocks which up a whopping 800% just to get the list down to close to 40 stocks.  This [...]

Two and three weeks ago, SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) was the talk of Wall Street.  Since last year, the stock has risen fast than a rocket from under $0.10 to finally back over $1.00.  An analyst ‘Buy’ recommendation from Wunderlich in recent weeks with a $1.00 price target and then some added upgrades [...]

TiVo Inc. is soaring.  Not just by some but by a major amount.  The company announced just a few minutes ago that the U.S. Court of Appeals release a decision/ruling in the company’s lawsuit against EchoStar.  The company noted:

“We are pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit fully affirmed the [...]

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM)  is spiking higher this morning.  Maybe it is the realization that many other car companies are having recalls too.  But traders are pouncing on the buy-buttons on the screens at the open.  Shares are gapping up 3% at $76.72 right after the open.  At 9:33 AM EST we have seen [...]

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) started rising earlier today on buyout rumors and we have seen a virtual 300% of trading volume with more than 90 minutes left in the day.  The rumor mill noted billionaire Mexican investor Carlos Slim as potentially buying the rest of the company he does not own.  He [...]

The reports today put Smith International Inc. (NYSE: SII) as a company in talks to be acquired by Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB).  If this occurs it would be the largest oilfield services giant becoming even larger.  While we have yet to see a formal deal, Smith shares traded over 42 million shares today, almost 8-times [...]

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has suddenly become everyone’s buddy again.  After shares cracked through the $1.00 mark they just kept running.  At 2:28 PM EST we have seen a whopping 161 million shares trade hands and the stock is up 8.5% more at $1.14 for a new 52-week high (intraday high $1.18).  If [...]