Volume Spike Investor

It is 9:25 AM and here are you most active gap-up and gap-down stocks this morning:

YHOO up 4.5% at $23.50 on 1.12 million shares.
Barr Pharma (BRL) up 17% at $54.80 on almost 400,000 shares.
E*TRADE (ETFC) up 11% at $3.50 on 1 million shares.
Huntington Bancshares Inc. (HBAN) up almost 20% at $6.85 on 188,000 shares.
ARM Holdings [...]

We are seeing highly unusual volume trading in Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: BRL) in late after-hours trading tonight.  The culprit is a report (possible rumor) that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is in talks to buy the US-generic drug maker.
Barr Labs closed up 1.6% today at $46.82, but its market cap at that price [...]