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Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) and QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) are both getting shelled after earnings reports were deemed as disappointments.  The Finns are getting shelled harder this morning. Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is seeing its margins under pressure after its earnings report.  The company said that its forecast the global handset market was intact and [...]

These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks seen on the move with news events.  We have provided appropriate trading data and color on each where applicable. QUALCOMM Corp. (NASDAQ: QCOM) has done something to try to halt what has been a share price freefall after 7 straight down days.  The [...]

We have at least four stocks up or down by double-digit percentages in the after-hours session based upon their earnings reports.  These are Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) up; Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) and Tetra Tech Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) down… Price snapshots below are as of 7:00 PM EST:

Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) shares are down 4 percent to $46.35 in premarket trading near 8 a.m. of less than 5,000 shares; the stock had been among the most active after-hours issues. The company beat fiscal third-quarter earnings expectations, but guided only in line for fiscal Q4. Analysts at First Charter raised concerns about the [...]

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA) is seeing a surge in pre-market trading.  This is never in the most active stocks, yet it is one of the most active of NASDAQ tech stocks so far.  Shares are up 20% just over $20.00 as of 9:13 AM EST and we are already over 370,000 shares.  Average daily [...]

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is getting shelled pre-market.  The stock is lower after its Q1-2009 disappointing report was marred by weaker revenue guidance despite “surprisingly strong CDMA and 3G demand.”  Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said it believes the company is just being overly conservative on guidance with lowered numbers and said QCOM remains one of the [...]

Tessera Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA) is still way down pre-market after it dropped a bomb in the after-hours session.  Shares had slid 9.5% yesterday to $16.62 at the close, and shares were down by 42% at $9.73 last night.  It is actually worse this morning with shares down at $9.33 with 30 minutes to the [...]

Tessera Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA) dropped a bomb in the afdter-hours session.  The company said that the ITC issued an initial determination in its Wireless ITC action.  The Administrative Law Judge overseeing the International Trade Commission action brought by Tessera against certain wireless manufacturers (Qualcomm-QCOM was one) issued an Initial Determination finding Tessera’s asserted patents [...]

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has issued another warning on its sales due to the weak consumer, buying of cheaper phones, holding phones longer and more…..  Nokia shares are down 12% at $12.37 pre-market, down from ayearly high of about $40.00.  If this price holds it will mark a 52-week low.  We have already seen over 2.8 [...]

We are starting to see some increased put option buying in Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today.  This is after CNBC comments this morning from CEO Paul Jacobs where he commented that higher-end smartphone and PDA-phone replacements seem to be slightly longer replacement cycles than in the past.  Based upon the current economy and based upon [...]