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DSCI takes off, SIRI beams up, USAT loses grip

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Derma Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: DSCI) shares mushroomed 25.63 percent to close Monday at $6.63. Volume for the stock was 308,259 shares, leaving in the dust a full-day average of 8,308. Princeton-based DSCI is a medical device and pharmaceutical company focused on advanced wound care.

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (Nasdaq: SIRI) dealt in 50.8 million shares Monday, just a hair below its full-day average. Share prices were up 1.9 percent to $1.58, after expressing desire to raise its basic monthly subscription price from $12.95.

USA Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAT) dunked 7.8 percent to $1.53 Monday. Volume for the stock was 874,814 shares, doubling its daily average. Malvern, Pa.-based USAT is a leader in the networking of wireless cashless transactions.

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WG wild and good, PFE popular, CPF reacts to proposed split

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Willbros Group Inc.(NYSE: WG) shares rose 15.2% to $11.47 Monday. Volume for the stock was 1.4 million, swallowing up a full-day average of 579,364, after Johnson Rice hiked its view of the oil-industry contractor to overweight from equal-weight.

Pfizer (Nasdaq: PFE) dealt in 36.8 million shares Monday, just shy of its full-day average of 45.4 million. Share prices were up 0.3 percent to $18.42, after Mylan Inc. said Monday it is now shipping a generic version of Pfizer Inc.’s heartburn drug Protonix.

Central Pacific Financial Corporation (NYSE: CPF) went south 10.6 percent to $1.61 Monday. Volume for the stock was 584,318 shares, doubling its daily average, after Friday letting out word of plans for a reverse stock split.

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NVGN leaps, MU active, MCOX in doldrums

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Novogen Limited (Nasdaq: NVGN) shares accelerated 41.1 percent to $1.58, on 1.8 million shares, overwhelming a daily average of 42,778. Australia-based NVGN has a consumer healthcare business, providing research and development services to its 71.3-per-cent-owned subsidiary, Marshall Edwards, Inc.

Micron Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) dealt in 48 million shares Monday, more than 50 percent better than its full-day average of 32.3 million. Share prices improved 1.9 percent to $10.02. Over the past 12 months, Micron Technology generated $2,483 million cash on net income of $1,801 million.

Mecox Lane Limited (Nasdaq: MCOX) sagged 9.6 percent to $5.56 Monday. Volume for the stock was 335,728 shares, rearing behind its daily average of 823,049, as the days wound down toward the deadline for plaintiff action in its upcoming lawsuit.

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OCCF eye-popping, F busy, GENE falling

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Optical Cable Corporation (Nasdaq: OCCF) shares gathered 41.9% to $5.25, on 534,791 shares, overwhelming a daily average of 10,781, on word that quarterly earnings increased 47.9 percent to $7.2 million over the prior-year quarter.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) dealt in 26.8 million shares Monday, still trailing its full-day average of 84.3 million. Share prices subsided 0.5 percent to $17.87, on word the carmaker was about to sell $1.137 billion of bonds backed by automotive debt.

Genetic Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: GENE) jettisoned 10.8 percent to $3.65 Monday. Volume for the stock was 220,041 shares, or triple its daily average.

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GXDX runs up, GE bright, APP threadbare

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Genoptix Inc. (Nasdaq: GXDX) shares rose 25.8% to $24.85 after Swiss drug maker Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) said it would buy the cancer-diagnostic specialist for $470 million. Volume for the stock was 18.75 million shares, compared to a daily average of 461,835.

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) dealt in 58.5 million shares Monday, surpassing its full-day average of 57 million. Share prices moved higher 1.4 percent to $20.02.

American Apparel Inc. (AMEX: APP) dropped 13.2 percent to $1.12 Monday. Volume for the stock was 794,910 shares, beating out its daily average of 578,569. The apparel maker is in talks to bring in an external restructuring adviser to try to revive growth and appease creditors.

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