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National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is up on hopes that that either a German-led or EU-led bailout or aid package will end the country’s woes.  It is not just important by how much higher this stock is today, but the notion of the major trading volume is extremely important.  This has become the [...]

Apple  Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reports after today’s close and this will be the highlight of the earnings after Monday’s closing bell.  Thomson Reuters has estimates pegged at $2.07 EPS (non-GAAP of course) and revenues of $12.06 billion…  Whispers are significantly higher.  Analysts are close to $240 in price targets, options traders are braced for a [...]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is down 1.37% at $205.22 on over 4.4 million shares as of 10:05 AM EST.  Frankly, Apple holders might feel lucky that the drop is only by that little.  Deutsche Bank has removed Steve Jobs and friends from its short-term buy list ahead of next week’s earnings and ahead of the [...]

We won’t bother telling you about the proposed regulation that was just proposed by the White House today, nor will we bother telling you how bad that regulation will be for the bulge bracket brokerages and money center banks on huge volume losses earlier after the news broke this morning.  Oddly enough, this may actually [...]

We won’t bother complaining about or praising why these banks and brokers are down so much today.  You already know the proposed regulation that would basically turn banks into utilities. Here are the reactions… more importantly, look at the share volumes as of 1:33 PM EST:
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) $41.0125, Down 5.50%
82 million [...]

Earlier today at 247wallst.com, we had discussed the great mystery options trading in Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK).  It turns out that the volume picked up some additional notice, because the share volume in common stock caught up as well.  The stock just closed at $4.93 on 13.1 million shares, versus an average volume of [...]

Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMMU) has spiked higher on a US patent #7,641,901 in a released titled “Potential Lupus Drug Gains U.S. Patent”…. After HGSI the lupus word is all thatw as needed.  The company already has 141 US patents and 302 worldwide patents…. Shares are off of highs already… Its $3.93 price is a gain [...]

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is not the world’s most common stock to see giving high-volume trade alerts.  Yet that is what is happening today.   The market is fighting to remain positive, but GE shares are up considerably.  This may be on outside activity than anything as it has positive locomotive news and as airplane [...]

TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR) is soaring this morning after receiving and shipping three significant orders in December 2009.  This now puts revenues above expectations at approximately $32 million for the quarter versus $28.7 million consensus.  The 2009 figure does include approximately $3.5 million of revenue deferred in Q3 2009 relating to the TASER X3 [...]

CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) has seen what is nothing short of an odd move today in both the stock and in in call options activity.  There are some hints out there that Nokia-Siemens, the venture of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), may go after CIENA after their failed attempt to acquire [...]