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Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is trading higher this morning.  We have seen only about 32,000 shares trade as of 8:15 AM EST but shares are up 2.5% at $72.30 after the BlackBerry maker saw its price target increased to $150 from an already-high $100 at RBC Capital. This is effectively now calling for [...]

We are seeing a price alert in Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) this morning.  Shares are down close to 2% at $75.70 as of 8:43 AM EST.  It was the analyst downgrade that nailed this one today: Research In Motion (RIMM) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Be advised that if this gets much weaker, [...]

Oracle (ORCL) shares are now approaching a new session high, up more than 6% and trading nearly a third of its average daily volume in the opening minutes of the session, following a strong earnings report. The company’s results are helping to push other tech names higher, including Research In Motion (RIMM), which is up more [...]

Expectations are running very high for Palm Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) given the early success of its Pre handheld, and they just got a bit higher. RBC Capital Markets just raised its price target on PALM shares to $18 from $14 ahead of earnings scheduled for release tomorrow. It’s a price target chance that may carry [...]

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to gap up big on active trading. The problem is that at 9:29:40 it is up under 4% at $44.63, and that was up 6% earlier in the morning.   Goldman Sachs is telling traders to buy the stock ahead of next week’s earnings. R-I-M has not participated [...]

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is trading down about 6% pre-market to around $35.30 on over 150,000 shares as of 7:37 AM EST.  It seems that woes of Palm Inc. (PALM) after its own warning are not isolated. The maker of the Blackberry smartphones lowered its revenue projections down to a range of $2.75 [...]

This morning we put out an alert at 24/7 Wall St. showing how many new stocks were hitting 52-week lows.  What was shocking was how many major and key technology or Internet names were on the list.  You can see the full list of lows here, but here are some of those technology stocks hitting [...]

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 [...]

This morning we issued a pre-market down-volume and downward price alert for Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) in early trading with the note that shares could be more insulated than in prior sessions. Shares have actually recovered from lows of $102.81 intra-day and are all the way back up to positive by 0.5% at [...]

We are starting to see a surge in the volume and downward pricing action in shares of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) this morning.  The Blackberry maker saw its shares downgraded this morning as shares were cut to “Underperform” from Hold at Needham. Shares were indicated down 1% before 8:00 AM but at 8:59 [...]