Fast Money Episodes

Sandisk in Quicksand

[cnbc 3000082529] The Fast Money Halftime Report traders discuss shares of memory chip maker, Sandisk, down 13 percent. Billy Greenblatt, Sterling Infosystems CEO, also weighs in on expectations for the jobs report to be released Friday. […]

Fast Money Episodes

Early Spring Boosts Retail

[cnbc 3000082530] Breaking down the hottest retail trends, with Dana Telsey, Telsey Advisory Group. The Fast Money Halftime traders also discuss Gartner cutting its IT spending forecast to 3.7%. […]

Unprecedented ‘mortgage sale’ and consumer confidence fuel real estate prices in first quarter 2012

Unprecedented ‘mortgage sale’ and consumer confidence fuel real estate prices in first quarter 2012 PR Newswire TORONTO, April 5, 2012 Early spring-like weather jump starts housing market activity TORONTO , April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The Royal LePage House Price Survey released today showed the average price of a home in Canada increased between 2.2 and 5.0 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, compared to the previous year. Market activity in the first quarter of 2012 was unusually high resulting in tight inventories and strong price appreciation in most major cities. Buyers were attracted into the market by historically low mortgage rates and sellers brought listing inventory to market earlier than normal, encouraged by unseasonably warm weather […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Wattner Acquires Solar Power Plants Torno I, II & III for Solar Funds

Wattner Acquires Solar Power Plants Torno I, II & III for Solar Funds PR Newswire COLOGNE, Germany, April 5, 2012 COLOGNE, Germany , April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Total capacity of 24 megawatts for 49 million euros Wattner has acquired the solar power plants Torno I, II & III and is incorporating them into the closed-end solar funds Wattner SunAsset 2 & 3. The installations were constructed in October 2011 on conversion area in Saxony. The total capacity of all three installations is about 24 megawatts (MW) with an investment sum of approx […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

EDAC Technologies Completes Purchase of Manufacturing Facility in Plainville, CT

EDAC Technologies Completes Purchase of Manufacturing Facility in Plainville, CT – Relocation, Integration of Four Operations for Efficiency/More Capacity to Begin – State of CT Approves $2 Million Brownfield Redevelopment Loan for Facility PR Newswire FARMINGTON, Conn., April 5, 2012 FARMINGTON, Conn. , April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — EDAC Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: EDAC), a diversified designer, manufacturer and servicer of precision components for aerospace and industrial applications, announced today that it has completed the purchase of a 181,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Plainville, Conn. The Company plans to begin implementing its facility integration plan immediately, with completion slated for the Fall of 2013 […]

Stock Analysts

EA to Release Amalur’s Second DLC (ATVI) (EA) (MSFT) (SNE)

Video game giant Electronic Arts Inc. ( EA ) and developer 38 Studios is set to release their second downloadable content (DLC) for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on April 17, 2012. The DLC, titled Teeth of Naros , will take gamers to the floating city of Idylla , where they will encounter a mysterious race of devoted giants, Kollossae […]

Stock Analysts

CUR: Q1 2012 Financial Results (revised) (T.CUR)

CUR: Q1 2012 Financial Results Brian Marckx, CFA Q1 2012 Financial Results On March 30th DiagnoCure Inc. ( T.CUR , CUR.TO ) reported results for the fiscal first quarter ending January 31, 2012. Revenue of $556k was slightly ahead of our $381k estimate as a result of higher than modeled ($269k A vs […]

Stock Analysts

Kraft Foods En Route to Split (KFT)

Kraft Foods Inc. ( KFT ) recently announced that it has filed a regulatory statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission as part of the process to establish its North American grocery business as a new, stand-alone company. […]

Stock Analysts

UCB’s Neupro Reaches US (UCBJF)

UCB ( UCBJF ) recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Neupro (rotigotine) to treat signs and symptoms of advanced stage idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) and moderate-to-severe primary restless legs syndrome (RLS). We note that Neupro is currently approved in the US and the European Union (EU) for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of early-stage idiopathic PD. The drug is also approved in the EU for the symptomatic treatment of moderate to severe idiopathic RLS in adults. […]

Stock Analysts

ESRX Loss Continues to Hurt Walgreen (BIOS) (ESRX) (WAG)

The termination of the Express Scripts ( ESRX ) contract continues to hurt Walgreen ( WAG ) sales which led to a frail start for Walgreen’s third quarter 2012. For the month of March 2012, the company recorded a 4.3% dip in year-over-year sales to $6.02 billion. Although total front-end sales witnessed a modest increase of 2.5% with 1.2% rise in comparable store front-end sales, customer traffic in comparable stores fell 1.0%. […]

Max Keiser

Keiser Report: Angel Dust for Ponzi-Addicts (E271)

[youtube Xi2owPhUgJY] Follow Max Keiser on Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxkeiser In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Ben Bernanke’s ‘happy dust’ and Angela Merkel’s ‘red lines’ cause ire in BRICS trade partners. In the second half of the show Max talks to Jim Rickards about a BRICS currency, gold and the fog of currency war. KR on FB: http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport […]

Momentum Stocks

Zumiez, Inc. (ZUMZ) – Bull of the Day (ZUMZ)

Zumiez Inc. ( ZUMZ ) posted earnings of $0.60 per share for fourth quarter 2011, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny and improved substantially from the prior-period profit of $0.49. The improved results were driven by solid top-line performance resulting from high-single digit comparable sales growth and improved operating margin […]

Momentum Stocks

Weight Watchers International Inc – Momentum (WTW)

WTW 040412 Weight Watchers International Inc. (NYSE: WTW ) We live in a modern social society where physical attributes are scrutinized more than ever. Maybe it’s the 800 million people posting pictures of themselves and others on Facebook, or perhaps the fact that just about every American between the age of 12 and 60 has a Smartphone with a camera […]