Borders Group Inc. (NYSE: BGP) leaped 25.93 percent late Monday morning to $1.36. Volume of 4,417,506 shares proved five times its normal full-day average volume. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., through its subsidiaries BGP is a leading specialty retailer of books as well as other educational and entertainment items

Cisco Systems (NasdaqGS: CSCO) was among the volume leaders late Monday morning, trading in 34,577,264 shares, making headway against its full-day average, which is near 69,622,200. CSCO share prices progressed 2.46 percent to $19.54. CSCO and BMC Software today announced a strategic alliance to develop and market new solutions for large-scale multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructures.

Palatin Technologies Inc. (AMEX: PTN) slid in price 17.13 percent Monday to 87 cents, on volume of 63,151 shares, nosing out its full-day average in just the first two hours. PTN is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of peptide, peptide mimetic and small molecule agonists with a focus on melanocortin and natriuretic peptide receptor systems.