Posts Tagged ‘JPM’

LDK jumps, JPM busy, DANG slides

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

LDK Solar Co, Inc. (NYSE: LDK) grew in price 10.7 percent to $13.40. Volume was a hefty 12,730,432 shares, more than twice its full-day volume average, on speculation that the recent buzz out of Germany about feed-in tariff cuts makes a hard cap on solar installations a lot less likely.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was a volume leader Tuesday, trading in 40,111,730 shares, surpassing its full-day average of 38,489,000. Prices for the stock were flat at $44.78. This, amid word that Morgan wrongly foreclosed on 14 active-service military families and overcharged thousands more on their mortgages.

E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (NYSE: DANG) fell 8.5 percent to $31.00. Volume for the stock was 4,014,004 shares, just below its all-day average of 5,006,680. DANG is a leading business-to-consumer, or B2C, e-commerce company in China.

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CXZ travels, JPM trades, JTX taxed

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. (AMEX: CXZ) vaulted 29.14 percent in price Wednesday to $2.26. Volume of 1,673,267 shares was six times its daily average. Crosshair is a prominent player in the exploration and development of uranium, vanadium and gold in the U.S. and Canada.

JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) traded in 29,365,591 shares Wednesday, approaching its daily average of 38,702,900. Share prices gained 2.71 percent to $42.11.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (NYSE: JTX) fell 9.54 percent in price Wednesday to $1.75, on volume of 1,708,936 shares, nearly twice its full-day average. Based in Parsippany, N.J., JTX is an industry leading provider of full service individual federal and state income tax preparation.

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ARB soars, JP posts solid volume, HDB sinks

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) went skyward 18.91 percent Thursday to close out trading at $37.22. Volume was 2,315,992, better than 11 times its normal daily average. The Columbia, Md.-based ARB announced Wednesday that Clear Channel Radio has signed multi-year, multi-market contracts for Arbitron’s Portable People Meter™ and diary radio ratings services. These agreements extend Clear Channel’s access to Arbitron radio ratings and other services in all of Clear Channel Radio’s markets through December 31, 2016.

JP Morgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM) inched up 1.37 percent to close Thursday at $40.81. Volume of 40,747,612 shares nosed out its usual daily volume. JPM announced Thursday that its CEO, Claudia Slacik, has been appointed to the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

HDFC BANK Ltd. (NYSE: HDB) saw its stock skid 10.64 percent to close Thursday at $160.78. Volume for the Indian-based bank was 1,315,601, more than six times its usual daily volume.

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