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Sprint to Protest AT&T for T-Mobile Deal

The CEO of Sprint said he would appeal this deal to congress, saying the combined entity would have “tremendous power.”

If completed, AT&T and VZ would control 79% of the US mobile market.

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Biggest Winners/Losers, Month to Date (ETF’s)

The following are some of the biggest winners/losers for March, 2011, ETF’s only.

SOXS +22%
TYP +15%
EWV +15%
SSG +15%
GAZ +13%
TVIX +14%
AGQ +12%
PSLV +12%
DRV +12%
SQQQ +11%
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URA -24%
SOXL -22%
TYH -18%
ZSL -17%
USD -14%
DZK -14%
NIB -14%
DRN -13%
DTO -13%
TQQQ -12%

Data provided by The PPT

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Biggest Winners/Losers, Month to Date

Here are some of the biggest winners and losers for March, 2011, with minimum market caps of 250mill.

CIGX +97%
CTIC +67%
SHS +51%
GMCR +51%
BSFT +36%
CBR +36%
AHD +35%
TZOO +35%
TRC +34%
RCRC +30%
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CEDC -48%
FNSR -47%
OCLR -40%
FN -34%
SANM -33%
BKS -32%
AMLN -31%
FXEN -31%
TLB -29%
AMCN -29%

Data provided by The PPT

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Commodity Closing Prices

May WTI ticks to session highs, at $105.04, with ~2 min left in pit trade; now up $1.91 to $105.00

May corn finished up 0.25 cents to $6.8675, May wheat rose 1.25 cents to close at $7.2225, May soybeans gained 2.5 cents to close at $13.655, April ethanol closed higher by 0.001 cents at $2.488, while May world sugar futures closed down 0.32 cents to 24.88 cent.

May crude oil, the new front month, settled higher by $1.95 to $105.04, April natural closed up 9.3 cents to $4.254, April heating oil ended higher by 2.55 cents to $3.078, while April RBOB gasoline finished up 0.95 cents to $3.0069.

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Bond Internals: Mostly Choppy Trade

Treasuries continue choppy trade

2-yr -01/32 @ 99 30/32
3-yr -01/32 @ 100 10/32
5-yr -01/32 @ 100 11/32
7-yr -02/32 @ 100 04/32
10-yr unch @ 102 12/32
30-yr +06/32 @ 104 30/32

Another quiet day in the Treasury complex is playing out as a lack of market moving data and little macro developments has led to choppy trade. The 30-yr continues to hold small gains while the rest of the complex is seeing minimal losses. Despite its bid, the 30-yr yield is higher by almost 1 bp to 4.452%. Today’s action has left the yield curve little changed with the 2-10-yr spread near 269 and the 10-30-yr spread a little flatter at 111. Spot gold is unchanged at 1247, and spot silver trades higher by 18 cents at 36.29.

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Crack Spreads Moderate

Due to a divergence between oil and gasoline, crack spreads are correcting today, now down 7.8%. Refinery related stocks are paring recent gains, with exception to DK, ALJ and WNR.

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Today’s Unusual Options Activity

Bullish Call Activity:

  • VGR May 17.5 calls (volume: 1060, open int: 680, implied vol: ~27%, prev day implied vol: 17%)
  • CNX Apr 60 calls are seeing interest following speculation co canceled from conference. The CNX Apr 60 calls have traded 12.0K contracts vs 7300 open interest (implied vol: ~43%, prev day implied vol: 39%).
  • MRVL calls are seeing interest following takeover chatter. So far today 34.9K total calls have traded vs 2.7K total puts. Most notable are the MRVL Apr 16 calls (volume: 14.4K, open int: 3530, implied vol: ~34%, prev day implied vol: 32%)
  • THC May 7 calls (volume: 5860, open int: 32.7K, implied vol: ~21%, prev day implied vol: 19%) — co is expected to report earnings early May

Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 0.71… VIX: (20.02, -0.59, -2.9%).
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From This Morning

Calls:

  • WHR Apr 85 calls are seeing interest with 1540 contracts trading vs. open int of 2060, pushing implied vol up around 1 points to ~30% — co is expected to report earnings mid Apr, possibly falling outside the expirations cycle.

Stocks seeing volatility selling:

  • MSFT Apr 24 puts are active with 13.3K contracts trading vs. open int of 38.9K, pushing implied vol down around 1 points to ~24% — co is expected to report earnings mid Apr, possibly falling outside the expirations cycle.
  • EXPR and CCL implied vol is lower following earnings/guidance

Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 0.63.. VIX: (20.19, -0.42, -2.0%).
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Today’s 52 Week Highs, Lows, Movers and Shakers

New 52-week highs trading over 250K (average daily volume) include: Communications (MSI, PWAV), Computer Services (CERN, SIFY), Gold & Silver (MFN, VIGY), Insurance (ING, RGA), Oil & Gas (CVX, EROC, EVEP, FTK, NBL, NFX, PGH).

New 52-week lows trading over 250K (average daily volume) include: AIB, AOB, CHBT, CISG, CNIT, CVVT, HALO, JOEZ, NTSP, TLB, TRID

Gainers

The following are today’s top 20 percentage gainers and top 20 percentage losers, categorized by sectors (over $300 mln market cap and 100K average daily volume).

Today’s top 20 % gainers

  • Technology: PWAV (4.23 +7.91%), TZOO (53.39 +7.06%), MOTR (13.6 +6.33%), PANL (49.61 +6.16%), SONS (3.59 +4.36%),
  • Services: DANG (20.57 +8.75%), SSI (18.3 +5.41%), EXPR (18.3 +5.14%), BJ (48.69 +4.68%),
  • Healthcare: NEOP (3.86 +5.77%), STJ (51.22 +5.74%), UNIS (5.88 +4.81%),
  • Financial: AHT (10.85 +4.53%),
  • Consumer Goods: FSS (6.22 +9.51%),
  • Basic Materials: REE (11.75 +13.2%), MCP (49.41 +10.59%), HNR (15.31 +9.44%), HDY (6.26 +7.19%), ICO (10.83 +4.54%), GLBL (8.75 +4.29%).

Today’s top 20 % losers

  • Technology: PLAB (7.66 -9.67%), AFFX (4.42 -6.55%), CIEN (22.65 -5.7%), LFT (30.22 -5.47%), SSYS (46.28 -5.2%), BSFT (49.3 -4.86%), SGMS (8.59 -4.66%),
  • Services: TLB (4.44 -9.2%), GDOT (42.97 -7.65%), UEPS (8.35 -6.91%), WAG (39.39 -6.15%), DM (11.29 -5.52%), WXS (48.1 -5.22%), NTSP (9.37 -5.16%), MOVE (2.11 -4.95%), HTHT (17.97 -4.85%), PIR (9.04 -4.64%),
  • Industrial Goods: SHFL (10.2 -5.38%),
  • Healthcare: HALO (5.9 -4.84%),
  • Consumer Goods: CIGX (3.38 -9.14%).

Today’s top 20 volume

  • Technology: S (77.5 mln +4.01%), CSCO (31.84 mln +0.86%), INTC (26.86 mln -0.59%), ALU (17.22 mln -1.62%), YHOO (16.66 mln 0%), MU (15.82 mln 0%), MSFT (15.75 mln +0.38%), T (14.68 mln -0.39%),
  • Services: WAG (23.56 mln -6.15%), LVS (17.14 mln -1.37%),
  • Healthcare: PFE (20.49 mln +0.1%),
  • Financial: C (218.68 mln 0%), BAC (42.72 mln -1.21%), AGNC (28.24 mln -2.96%), CIM (27.48 mln -3.27%), KEY (14.78 mln -0.34%), NLY (13.83 mln -1%), IVR (13.03 mln -4.06%),
  • Consumer Goods: F (25.31 mln -1.47%),
  • Conglomerates: GE (19.84 mln -0.53%).

Today’s top relative volume (current volume to 3-month average daily volume)

  • Utilities: NGG (6.71x +1.94%),
  • Services: CP (7.94x -2.84%), EXPR (7.8x +5.14%), WAG (7.09x -6.15%), DTG (6.1x +2.97%), GDOT (4.44x -7.65%), NTSP (4.13x -5.16%), GLNG (4.02x +3.19%),
  • Healthcare: ACHN (6.18x +2.05%), HALO (4.3x -4.84%),
  • Financial: IVR (32.42x -4.06%), AGNC (17.23x -2.96%), HBHC (10.98x -0.47%), CATY (4.27x -2.18%),
  • Consumer Goods: CAJ (4.76x -1.6%), FDML (4.61x -1.07%), HMC (4.04x -2.93%),
  • Basic Materials: NOG (4.7x -1.52%), JRCC (4.68x +1.42%), HNR (4.02x +9.44%).

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Market Internals Update

Pressure has been limited, but stocks have spent almost all session mired in the red with modest losses… The stock market started the session on flat footing, but backed down after it failed to attract the follow through buying necessary to push the S&P 500 through resistance in the 1300 zone. Subsequent selling has been modest as many traders consider it good news that there haven’t been any headlines detailing further deterioration in the status of Japan or Libya… There haven’t been any economic data of consequence to motivate participants, but a few corporate news items have led to some increased activity in individual names… In-line earnings from Walgreen (WAG 39.40, -2.57) have been met with a concerted selling effort that has left the stock to sufer its worst single-session slide since June. In contrast, retailer plays Express (EXPR 18.31, +0.91) and Dollar General (DG 30.94, +0.56) are up sharply in response to stronger-than-expected earnings results… Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY 26.39, +0.39) bounced to a one-month high at the open, but has gradually forfeited gains. Initial strength was underpinned by news that one of its drugs met a primary endpoint in a Phase III study… Even though gold prices have spent the session mostly unchanged around $1426 per ounce, a few gold stocks are faring quite well. As such, Newmont Mining (NEM 52.73, +1.03) is up 2% and Kinross Gold (KGC 15.86, +0.57) is up almost 4%… Oil prices have pushed past $104 per barrel, but energy stocks have been unable to shake free from broad market weakness. As such, the Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE 77.55, 0.13) is down with a slight loss. Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.3%, S&P 500 -0.2%

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