Odds-Making: Is Brocade Really Bait For Dell? (BRCD, DELL, CSCO, HPQ)
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is seeing a price and volume spike this morning after an analyst named Paul Mansky at Canaccord Genuity noted that Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) should acquire the company. Our own take is that Brocade should have already been acquired, but here it remains an independent company and Cisco Systems [...]
With Hurd As New Pres, Oracle Jumps Pre-Market
IT appears that morning traders seem to approve of Software giant Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) acquisition of former Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd. As of 8:41AM EDT, the stock is up $1.64 (7.16%) to $24.56. ORCL has already traded 1.91 million shares, with an average daily volume of 25.2 million. Hurd resigned from HP [...]
Unusual Options Volume Spikes on Friday (NLY, COCO, HPQ, PCS, NTAP, NFLX, PHM, SUN)
Friday had some incredibly wild options moves in select names on a standout basis. We tracked some very unique and strange moves in options of Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY), Corinthian Colleges Inc. (NASDAQ: COCO), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS), NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), PulteGroup, Inc. [...]
Blue Horseshoe (hates) Brocade?
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is getting its feelings hurt in after-hours trading after H-P (NYSE: HPQ) decided to spend $2.7 billion to buy 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS). Many have been under the assumption that Brocade Communications would be bought by H-P. The good news is that someone else may now need to look at [...]
Looking for Support Levels in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) is already throwing up a trading alert for day traders this morning. Some may be the market weakness indicated, but some is on the needed sell-off after you look at how much H-P ran up ahead of yesterday’s earnings reports. Shares are down 2% at $42.98 on over 200,000 shares as [...]
Trader Alert: H-P (HPQ)… Watch Key Moving Averages
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is trading up 13% on its strong guidance. Shares are up at $33.30 in pre-market trading as of 9:08 AM EST. We have already seen over 3 million shares trade hands. You can read the full details at the link above, but this has put in a bid elsewhere at rivals [...]
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