Among the biggest winners in Friday’s early trading are American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC), Tivo (Nasdaq: TIVO) and Deer Consumer Products (Nasdaq: DEER). Top Percentage Gainers — Monday, May 17, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price Intra-Day % Gain 52-Week High 52-Week Low Deer Consumer Products (Nasdaq: DEER) $8.51 +10.5% $18.97 $5.09 American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC) $33.01 +6.6% $43.95 $21.31 Tivo (Nasdaq: TIVO) $10.75 +5.8% $18.93 $6.41 *Table includes companies with minimum market capitalizations of $200 million and three month trading volumes of at least 100,000 shares. All percentage returns are… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Friday’s early trading are American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC), Tivo (Nasdaq: TIVO) and Deer Consumer Products (Nasdaq: DEER). Top Percentage Gainers — Monday, May 17, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price Intra-Day % Gain 52-Week High 52-Week Low Deer Consumer Products (Nasdaq: DEER) $8.51 +10.5% $18.97 $5.09 American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC) $33.01 +6.6% $43.95 $21.31 Tivo (Nasdaq: TIVO) $10.75 +5.8% $18.93 $6.41 *Table includes companies with minimum market capitalizations of $200 million and three month trading volumes of at least 100,000 shares. All percentage returns are listed as of 12:15PM Eastern Standard Time. Click on ticker symbols for up-to-the-minute price quotes and percentage gain data. China’s Deer Consumer Products raise Outlook, plans Buyback Shares of China-based Deer Consumer Products (Nasdaq: DEER) are up nearly +11% after management made moves to highlight the apparently low valuation of the company’s stock. Deer makes a wide range of kitchen appliances for both the domestic market, as well as brand-name U.S. manufacturers such as Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK). During the past six months, Deer has continually raised sales and… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Monday’s early trading are Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD), A123 Systems (Nasdaq: AONE) and Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW). Top Percentage Losers — Monday, May 17, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price Intra-Day % Loss 52-Week High… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Friday’s early trading are Hain Celestial (Nasdaq: HAIN), Pozen (Nasdaq: POZN) and Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS). Top Percentage Gainers — Friday, May 14, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price Intra-Day % Gain 52-Week High 52-Week Low Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS) $28.50 +10.8% $31.22 $7.10 Hain… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Friday’s early trading are Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA), Cirrus Logic (Nasdaq: CRUS) and CA (NYSE: CA). Top Percentage Losers — Friday, May 14, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price Intra-Day % Loss 52-Week High 52-Week Low Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) $13.19 -10.0% $18.96 $8.33 Cirrus… Read More

“Is it safe?” Those famous words repeatedly uttered by Laurence Olivier in the 1976 thriller Marathon Man are always on the mind of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators. In fact, the FDA mandates that any drug undergoing clinical testing be assessed for its impact on the human heart. And… Read More

It’s not just the birds chirping and the flowers blooming. Even humans are getting in on the spring action; gearing up for softball leagues, mountain hikes and lazy days of fishing. This eternal ritual brings hordes of shoppers to sporting goods stores to check out the latest gear. That helps… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Thursday’s early trading are Clean Energy Fuels (Nasdaq: CLNE), Westport Innovations (Nasdaq: WPRT), Sprint (NYSE: S) and Titanium Metals (NYSE: TIE). Top Percentage Gainers — Thursday, May 13, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price % Gain 52-Week High 52-Week Low Sprint (NYSE: S) $4.46… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Thursday’s early trading are Prestige Brands (NYSE: PBH), Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), Gentiva (Nasdaq: GTIV), Almost Family (Nasdaq: AFAM) and Allied Nevada (NYSE: ANV). Top Percentage Losers — Thursday, May 13, 2010 Company Name (Ticker) Intra-Day Price % Loss 52-Week High 52-Week Low Prestige Brands… Read More

The advice to Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 comedy-drama film The Graduate needs an update: the future is “bio-plastics.” At least that’s what Metabolix (Nasdaq: MBLX) thinks. The company has just received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its biodegradable plastics that can be used in… Read More

Investors continue to show their ambivalence about solar power stocks, as every fresh quarterly report is met with a fresh round of aggressive buying or selling, Simply put, these companies are neither as good nor as bad as their quarterly reports imply. Instead, these reports highlight that the industry is… Read More