Europe tried to rally, but could not stick gains after Greece announced their coalition government formation tragedy will continue. Yields remain elevated.
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52 Week Highs and Lows
NYSE
New Highs 7 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Bank of America 5.875% IKM 25.20 18,593 BlkRk MuniYld CA Quality MCA 15.83 4,396 Church & Dwight CHD 53.86 60,906 Nuveen CA Investment NQC 16.16 4,122 Nuveen CA Muni Value NCA 10.34 10,730 Nuveen California Select NVC 16.53 8,850 Wstrn Asset Muni Ptnrs Fd MNP 16.70 8,387 New Lows 56 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ AAR Corp AIR 14.19 22,240 AbitibiBowater ABH 10.76 34,539 Allison Transmission ALSN 19.10 36,909 Alpha Natural Res ANR 12.73 1,396,523 Ampco-Pittsburgh AP 15.78 2,111 AngloGold Ashanti AU 31.79 218,927 Artio Global Invs Inc ART 3.14 3,965 Banco Bilbao Argentaria BBVA 6.30 301,615 BraskemSA BAK 12.04 13,303 Cellcom Israel CEL 9.23 245,953 Centrais Eletricas Brasil EBR 7.83 27,716 China Unicom HK CHU 16.03 34,761 Companhia Siderurgica SID 7.05 464,571 Consolidated Graphics CGX 28.48 2,780 Credit Suisse Group AG CS 20.30 392,586 DelhaizeGrp DEG 39.17 11,396 EldoradoGold EGO 10.86 346,852 Enerplus ERF 15.11 226,269 Ford Motor Wt F/WS 1.75 78,487 France Telecom FTE 12.83 548,107 GFI Group GFIG 2.81 10,335 Gardner Denver GDI 58.05 16,524 Genco Shipping Trading GNK 3.66 28,829 Gold Field ADS GFI 12.11 339,602 HudBay Minerals HBM 8.49 3,558 Indosat ADS IIT 23.18 1,100 Infoblox Inc BLOX 18.67 16,402 Kaydon Corp KDN 22.94 16,331 Kinder Morgan Inc. Wt WI KMI/WSw 1.82 126,200 Legg Mason LM 22.58 50,390 Lone Pine Resources LPR 4.27 321,615 Matador Resources MTDR 9.43 35,039 McEwen Mining MUX 2.60 395,626 Mechel OAO MTL 6.71 173,835 Millennial Media Inc MM 13.55 287,143 Moneygram Intl Inc MGI 14.23 3,207 Newfield Exploration NFX 31.19 307,338 Nokia NOK 2.95 7,213,135 Nuveen Glbl Val Opp Fd JGV 14.28 7,711 Oaktree Capital Group OAK 39.11 9,200 Oi S.A.ADS OIBR 13.53 141,472 Panasonic Cp PC 6.93 28,887 Patriot Coal PCX 4.55 1,200,667 Petrobras Argentina ADS PZE 9.60 4,649 Pitney Bowes PBI 14.05 286,896 Resolute Energy wt REN/WS 0.50 9,300 Resolute Energy Cp REN 8.90 40,809 Seabridge Gold SA 13.50 16,829 Siemens SI 84.52 152,494 Silvercorp Metals SVM 5.47 139,628 Sinopec Shanghai Petro SHI 31.23 1,993 Solutia WT SOA/WS 0.12 2,014 STMicroelec STM 4.93 260,304 Talisman Energy TLM 10.13 237,118 TelItalia ADS A TI/A 8.22 39,340 Telefonica TEF 12.69 587,496
NASDAQ
New Highs 10 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Akorn AKRX 13.25 81,403 Amylin Pharm AMLN 27.12 1,400,825 Ariad Pharm ARIA 17.42 234,206 MicroFinancial MFI 8.46 1,301 ProShs Ult Nsdq Biotech BIB 100.99 1,817 Reeds REED 2.55 9,350 Saia SAIA 20.86 15,815 Security Natl Finl Cl A SNFCA 2.01 34,203 Sypris Solutions SYPR 5.05 27,049 Vertex Pharm VRTX 66.10 666,507 New Lows 33 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ APCO Oil and Gas APAGF 24.56 470 B Communications BCOM 6.21 1,462 Brightpoint CELL 5.51 9,363 BSQUARE BSQR 2.45 2,200 CafePress PRSS 14.96 2,509 Casual Male Retail Group CMRG 2.76 27,178 Complete Genomics GNOM 1.75 91,816 RR Donnelley RRD 10.82 58,137 DynaVox DVOX 1.54 48,969 General Comm (Cl A) GNCMA 6.95 955 Intrnt Gold-Golden Lines IGLD 4.36 6,100 iSh MSCI Emg Mkts EMEA EEME 49.78 300 iShs S&P Glbl Cln Enrgy ICLN 7.66 1,101 MGP Ingredients MGPI 3.79 4,602 Meru Networks MERU 1.97 7,171 Mobile Mini MINI 14.85 31,169 National Amer University NAUH 3.77 2,079 Ocean Power Techs OPTT 2.08 7,819 Oncothyreon ONTY 3.94 81,586 Peerless Manufacturing Co PMFG 9.44 6,873 Pan American Silver PAAS 15.79 263,025 Partner Comm Co PTNR 5.84 87,441 PwrShrs Glbl Wind Energy PWND 5.67 800 Prima Biomed Ltd. ADS PBMD 5.25 2,500 Sify Techs (ADS) SIFY 2.40 4,630 Silver Standard Resources SSRI 11.05 64,434 Summer Infant SUMR 3.21 769,389 Telestone Techs TSTC 2.31 10,600 Utd Online UNTD 3.89 47,413 Urologix ULGX 0.71 7,955 Vimicro Intl (ADS) VIMC 1.11 11,824 Wacoal Hldgs Corp WACLY 51.61 1,780 WebMD Health WBMD 21.14 19,050Comments »
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-CALLS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE CHK 5/19/12 18.0000 1263 0.0500 dn 0.0500 COF 6/16/12 52.5000 247 1.8700 dn 0.2200 GLD 5/19/12 158.0000 138 0.0700 dn 0.0200 C 5/19/12 28.0000 124 0.8000 up 0.1400 AAPL 5/19/12 560.0000 121 6.1900 up 0.3900 C 6/16/12 37.0000 117 0.0500 up 0.0000 ARNA 5/19/12 7.0000 108 0.0700 dn 0.1500 FCX 8/18/12 37.0000 99 1.5600 dn 0.0600 JNPR 7/21/12 24.0000 80 0.1400 up 0.0500 RIG 5/19/12 45.0000 77 0.6300 up 0.0000 -PUTS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE CHK 6/16/12 15.0000 663 1.4400 up 0.1400 CHK 5/19/12 15.0000 522 0.6600 up 0.2600 BAC 6/16/12 7.0000 179 0.2200 dn 0.0300 LOW 5/19/12 29.0000 173 0.6200 up 0.3500 AAPL 5/19/12 550.0000 141 3.3200 dn 0.3300 AAPL 5/19/12 555.0000 133 4.5000 dn 0.8000 AAPL 5/19/12 545.0000 133 2.2000 dn 0.3300 AAPL 5/19/12 530.0000 117 0.6700 dn 0.1100 PBR 7/21/12 20.0000 100 1.3100 up 0.0100 F 9/22/12 8.0000 91 0.1400 up 0.0000 -VOLUME- CALLS PUTS TOTAL 12471 14563 27034
-CALLS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE DLPH 8/18/12 35.0000 4900 0.2500 up 0.0000 GLD 1/19/13 185.0000 3936 2.3100 up 0.0100 GLD 1/19/13 165.0000 3930 5.4600 dn 0.1400 RENN 5/19/12 6.0000 3221 0.3000 up 0.0000 AVP 10/20/12 20.0000 2675 1.4500 dn 1.0000 MSFT 6/16/12 32.0000 2441 0.3100 up 0.0300 AAPL 5/19/12 560.0000 2134 6.1000 up 0.3500 RENN 5/19/12 7.0000 1458 0.1000 dn 0.0500 CHK 5/19/12 17.0000 1182 0.1100 dn 0.0400 AAPL 5/19/12 565.0000 1180 3.6500 dn 0.1000 -PUTS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE T 6/16/12 33.0000 2218 0.4600 up 0.0200 ESRX 5/19/12 55.0000 1951 1.0700 dn 0.0800 AAPL 5/19/12 555.0000 1356 4.7000 dn 0.8000 BAC 6/16/12 7.0000 1304 0.2200 dn 0.0300 LVS 9/22/12 45.0000 1210 2.9600 dn 0.2400 GRPN 6/16/12 15.0000 1174 3.2000 dn 1.5600 BAC 5/19/12 8.0000 1166 0.5300 dn 0.1300 AAPL 5/19/12 560.0000 1154 7.0000 dn 0.8000 AAPL 5/19/12 550.0000 1111 3.1000 dn 0.6500 GRPN 5/19/12 12.0000 1010 0.2000 dn 1.3400 -VOLUME- CALLS PUTS TOTAL 355872 333159 689031Comments »
FLASH: Futures Go Negative as Greece Announces There Will Be No Coalition Government
FLASH: SHARES OF GRPN ARE CHOPPING DICKS OFF IN PRE-MARKET TRADING
Following better than expected results, GRPN is up 22% pre-market.
Comments »Retail Sales: Prior 0.8%, Market Expects 0.2%, Actual 0.1%…CPI: Prior 0.3%, Market Expects 0.0%, Actual 0.0%
Retail ex-auto: 0.1%
Core CPI: 0.2%
Empire Manufacturing : Prior 6.6, Market expects 8.4, Actual 17.09
Comments »Gapping Up and Down This Morning
Gapping up
AMAP +15.7%, GRPN +14.2%, DKS +5.7%, AMLN +4.2%, PSTI +3.5%, RENN +3.1%, BAC +1.5%, JPM +1%, MS +1%
Gapping down
SUMR -26.2%, AVP -13.4%, MM -5.6%, HD -4.3%, CEL -3.3%, LOW -3.2%, ACAT -3.2%, NOK -2.6%, PCX -2.5%
Comments »Stocks on the Move This Morning
FLASH: European Markets are Losing Altitude Fast
Europe has been paring gains all morning and is now entering negative territory.
Comments »Asia Trades Down While Europe and U.S. Futures Have a Dead Cat Bounce
Unbelievable Stat: The Greek Stock Market is Down 88% From 2007 Highs
US and European Futures Moderately Higher Following a Day of Carnage
Europe Tanks Into the Closing Bell
European markets will close on the lows with Vienna Austria down 3.96%. Luckily U.S. equities are paring losses as we speak.
Comments »SURPRISE: Guess Which European Stock Market is Crashing the Hardest Today?
Today’s Large Cap Winners and Losers
52 Week Highs and Lows
NYSE
New Highs 16 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ BlackRock Build Am Bd Tr BBN 22.75 8,161 BlkRk MuniHldgs II MUH 16.77 2,826 DWS Strategic Muni Inco KSM 14.59 1,290 Invesco VnKmCAInc VCV 14.43 11,183 M/I Homes MHO 15.09 42,612 NVR Inc NVR 824.00 4,758 Nationstar Mortgage Hldgs NSM 15.35 58,161 Nuveen CA Muni Value NCA 10.33 4,087 Nuveen Ins CA NXC 15.44 883 Nuveen Sel Tax Free NXP 15.22 2,874 Standard Pacific SPF 5.67 289,525 Strat Htls & Resorts B BEEpB 30.81 500 Toll Brothers TOL 27.74 348,693 US Airways Grp LCC 11.55 677,749 Wstrn Asset Muni Ptnrs Fd MNP 16.64 1,783 Wisconsin Energy WEC 37.45 174,543 New Lows 65 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ AAR Corp AIR 14.22 12,205 Alumina ADS AWC 3.75 471,603 Ares Commercial Real Est ACRE 16.02 53,900 Artio Global Invs Inc ART 3.15 10,288 Best Buy BBY 19.02 340,806 BraskemSA BAK 12.11 72,787 Buckeye Partners BPL 50.06 39,417 CACI Intl CACI 46.18 31,038 Cellcom Israel CEL 10.48 157,956 Centrais Eletricas Brasil EBR 8.04 47,153 Cent Ele Brasil pfd. ADS EBR/B 10.83 9,708 China Unicom HK CHU 16.18 68,534 Coeur D'Alene CDE 17.61 220,458 Crawford & Co B CRD/B 3.70 4,875 Credit Suisse Group AG CS 20.36 1,298,431 DeVry DV 29.56 36,861 EldoradoGold EGO 10.97 564,939 Enerplus ERF 15.43 414,713 Excel Tr 8.125% Pfd B EXLpB 24.90 38,604 FTI Consulting FCN 31.10 46,670 GFI Group GFIG 2.86 7,708 G O L Linhas Aereas GOL 5.03 152,905 Genco Shipping Trading GNK 3.89 32,546 Green Dot Cl A GDOT 22.50 33,368 IamGold IAG 10.31 449,215 Intrepid Potash IPI 20.38 46,694 Investment Tech Grp ITG 8.92 28,854 Banco Itau Hldg ITUB 14.21 930,957 Ivanhoe Mines IVN 9.03 159,665 Kemet KEM 5.66 159,929 Legg Mason BW Glbl Incm BWG 19.45 44,499 Lone Pine Resources LPR 5.02 10,100 Memc Elec Materials WFR 2.21 699,004 McEwen Mining MUX 2.85 307,780 Mechel OAO MTL 6.87 253,009 NTT DOCOMO Inc DCM 16.14 16,420 Navistar Intl NAV 29.54 101,893 Newfield Exploration NFX 31.60 67,360 Nokia NOK 3.03 7,752,382 No Amer Engy Ptnrs NOA 3.23 11,550 Nuveen Glbl Val Opp Fd JGV 14.75 7,100 Oi SA ADS Ord OIBR/C 5.40 6,759 Oi S.A.ADS OIBR 13.83 190,528 PNC Finl Svs Dep. Pfd. P PNCpP 24.96 20,258 Pacific Coast Oil Trust ROYT 18.27 48,716 Patriot Coal PCX 4.83 398,000 Petoleo Brasil PBR 19.95 2,112,251 Petoleo Brasil A PBR/A 19.02 762,135 Pitney Bowes PBI 14.57 367,259 Resolute Energy wt REN/WS 0.55 700 Resolute Energy Cp REN 9.08 26,314 SAIC Inc SAI 11.03 84,986 Seabridge Gold SA 13.82 67,696 Silver Wheaton SLW 25.00 1,208,503 Silvercorp Metals SVM 5.64 161,461 Sinopec Shanghai Petro SHI 31.82 9,810 Standard Register SR 0.63 18,468 STMicroelec STM 4.99 210,218 Talisman Energy TLM 10.55 471,859 Telefonica TEF 13.95 512,231 Vale Cap II 6.75% CJS 53.44 478 Vale Cap II VALE.P CJT 60.15 300 Vale ADS Cl A pfd. VALE/P 18.70 827,932 Vale S.A. VALE 19.27 2,567,775 Vonage Holdings VG 1.73 32,185
NASDAQ
New Highs 12 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Audience Inc. ADNC 20.50 25,758 BioDelivery Sciences BDSI 4.20 35,561 Bona Film Group ADS BONA 6.37 61,851 Citizens South Banking CSBC 6.44 11,002 Golfsmith Intl Hldgs GOLF 6.05 65,912 Heritage Oaks Bancorp HEOP 5.62 1,188 Homeowner Choice 7% Ser A HCIIP 19.83 900 Mantex Intl MNTX 10.45 38,813 Medivation MDVN 84.94 106,900 MutualFirst Fincl MFSF 11.49 100 Ultimate Software Group ULTI 83.02 80,126 Vertex Pharm VRTX 65.37 922,109 New Lows 58 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ APCO Oil and Gas APAGF 26.43 4,851 Acme Packet APKT 24.03 133,398 Alaska Comm Sys Grp ALSK 2.20 41,398 Amtech Sys ASYS 5.13 32,403 Arkansas Best ABFS 13.21 9,634 Biostar Pharmaceuticals BSPM 1.24 10,734 Brightpoint CELL 5.58 28,504 BSQUARE BSQR 2.65 6,444 Cambium Learning Gr ABCD 1.81 200 Ceres CERE 10.27 200 China Jo-Jo Drugstores CJJD 0.95 500 China TechFaith Wireless CNTF 1.21 2,250 China Valves Technology CVVT 1.55 10,711 Clearwire A CLWR 1.19 1,401,550 Codexis CDXS 3.20 16,104 Commun Sys JCS 11.50 3,923 Cumulus Media CMLS 2.08 283,081 Daktronics DAKT 7.45 773 Digital Generation DGIT 7.51 30,574 Echelon ELON 3.62 31,083 Education Management EDMC 9.35 12,768 First Solar FSLR 15.68 350,191 First Tr ISE Glbl Platinm PLTM 16.48 2,440 Flir Systems FLIR 20.91 48,366 Global Power Equipmnt Grp GLPW 19.26 3,332 Grupo Galicia GGAL 5.08 8,036 Infosys ADS INFY 43.17 67,804 iSh MSCI Emg Mkts Growth EGRW 50.65 100 iShs S&P Glbl Cln Enrgy ICLN 7.85 861 j2 Global JCOM 24.58 16,144 Knightsbridge Tankers VLCCF 10.78 44,583 Layne Christensen Co LAYN 19.27 1,802 Lincoln Educational Svcs LINC 6.10 16,333 MGP Ingredients MGPI 3.90 1,700 ManTech Intl (Cl A) MANT 23.23 12,598 Multiband Corporation MBND 2.30 3,500 Multi-Color LABL 19.29 2,126 Nash Finch Co NAFC 22.35 2,140 NxStage Medical NXTM 15.09 10,400 Oclaro Inc OCLR 2.23 97,147 Pan American Silver PAAS 16.17 144,200 Partner Comm Co PTNR 6.52 13,054 PwrShrs Glbl Wind Energy PWND 5.71 400 QuinStreet QNST 7.82 3,755 Research in Motion RIMM 11.55 1,287,594 Riverbed Tech RVBD 16.30 368,239 Scientific Learning SCIL 1.21 6,679 Sify Techs (ADS) SIFY 2.42 10,587 Silicon Graphics Intl SGI 5.83 71,395 Silver Standard Resources SSRI 11.39 109,004 Sky-mobi Ltd ADS MOBI 2.29 78,776 Sohu com SOHU 44.28 83,919 Swisher Hygiene SWSH 1.74 106,796 Sycamore Networks SCMR 14.82 6,409 Symantec SYMC 14.74 1,205,109 Transcat TRNS 8.31 1,900 Vicor VICR 6.37 12,617 Wacoal Hldgs Corp WACLY 53.96 576Comments »
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-CALLS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE COP1 6/16/12 72.5000 2688 0.4300 dn 0.2700 C 5/19/12 30.0000 2119 0.2700 dn 0.1100 DHR 6/16/12 57.5000 1934 0.1500 dn 0.0500 TTWO 6/16/12 13.0000 1888 0.6400 dn 0.0100 BAC 6/16/12 8.0000 1751 0.2200 dn 0.0300 EUO 5/19/12 20.0000 1672 0.4500 up 0.2000 YHOO 7/21/12 17.0000 1556 0.3700 up 0.0400 BAC 1/19/13 10.0000 1543 0.3500 dn 0.0100 ARNA 5/19/12 7.0000 1405 0.2100 up 0.0000 TLB 8/18/12 3.0000 1340 0.1200 dn 0.0600 -PUTS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE NRG 1/18/14 10.0000 6271 1.2000 dn 0.1000 SFI 1/18/14 5.0000 5435 1.1000 dn 0.1000 SFI 1/19/13 5.0000 4567 0.6500 up 0.0000 DF 1/19/13 5.0000 4259 0.1500 up 0.0000 MHR 5/19/12 5.0000 3521 0.5000 up 0.0000 CIT 1/18/14 20.0000 3512 1.4800 up 0.0900 UAL 1/19/13 10.0000 3120 0.3800 up 0.0100 UAL 1/19/13 8.0000 1975 0.2700 dn 0.0400 PHH 1/18/14 12.5000 1875 2.0500 dn 0.2000 MGM 1/18/14 8.0000 1864 1.4600 dn 0.0300 -VOLUME- CALLS PUTS TOTAL 344099 458732 802831
-CALLS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE JPM 5/19/12 37.0000 290 0.4100 dn 0.3300 AAPL 5/19/12 570.0000 182 5.2000 dn 0.4500 JPM 5/19/12 36.0000 169 0.8200 dn 0.5900 AAPL 5/19/12 585.0000 138 1.2000 dn 0.1600 AAPL 5/19/12 580.0000 127 1.9600 dn 0.0400 JPM 7/21/12 38.0000 119 1.2500 dn 0.3300 JPM 5/19/12 38.0000 114 0.1700 dn 0.1600 GLD 5/19/12 153.0000 113 0.7200 dn 1.8800 GE 5/19/12 20.0000 111 0.0100 dn 0.0300 DAL 5/19/12 12.0000 101 0.1200 up 0.0600 -PUTS- OPTION EXP.DATE STRIKE PRC. VOLUME LAST S/PRC. NET CHANGE CHK 5/19/12 16.0000 850 1.0700 dn 0.8900 MS 5/19/12 14.0000 406 0.2800 up 0.1600 MS 5/19/12 12.0000 203 0.0400 up 0.0200 MS 5/19/12 16.0000 203 1.6400 up 0.5500 CHK 6/16/12 15.0000 130 1.5700 dn 0.4800 AAPL 5/19/12 520.0000 104 0.3500 up 0.0800 JCP 5/19/12 36.0000 100 2.9000 up 0.1600 GLD 5/19/12 146.0000 95 0.1800 up 0.1000 SBUX 1/19/13 40.0000 94 1.2500 up 0.3000 SBUX 6/16/12 50.0000 94 0.5300 up 0.1000 -VOLUME- CALLS PUTS TOTAL 22880 21634 44514Comments »