DJ US HOT STOCKS:Bank of America Falls In Late Trading On 3Q Net
Among the companies whose shares showed movement in Monday's after-hours session are Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Gateway Financial Holdings Inc. (GBTS) and KKR Financial Holdings LLC (KFN).
Bank of America's third-quarter net income fell 68%. The company also cut its quarterly dividend in half and announced plans to sell common stock to raise $10 billion. Shares slid 7.4% to $29.85 in post-market trading.
Gateway Financial Holdings said it will record a noncash other-than-temporary charge of $37.4 million in the third quarter because of its holdings of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) preferred securities. The company said it additionally expects to receive favorable state tax benefits that have not been determined at this time and expects to remain well-capitalized. Shares of the bank holding company rose 9.9% to $5.99 in after-hours trading.
JPMorgan cut its investment rating on KKR Financial Holdings shares to neutral from overweight saying the investment firm has limited access to capital and slim prospects to grow in the deteriorating economic environment. The stock ended the day down 23% but has recovered slightly in after-hours trading and is currently up 16% to $5.
Regular Session Movers:
Fitch Ratings cut its credit ratings on National City Corp. (NCC, $2.56, -$0.95, -27.07%) and its bank unit, saying the "near future is unlikely to offer the company any relief and may very well result in additional asset-quality problems as the economy weakens."
CombinatoRx Inc.'s (CRXX, $0.70, -$2.30, -76.67%) anti-inflammatory drug, Synavive, failed to show it was significantly better than a placebo in relieving knee pain caused when walking. Lazard Capital Markets cut its investment rating on the biopharmaceutical company's shares to hold from buy, citing the results of the study.
Dendreon Corp. (DNDN, $6.93, $1.73, 33.27%) said an interim analysis of a late-stage study shows its Provenge prostate-cancer therapy shows a 20% death-risk reduction compared with a placebo. President and Chief Executive Mitchell H. Gold said the findings, similar to those seen in prior phase 3 trials, should be finalized in mid-2009.
OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OSIP, $39.31, -$6.53, -14.25%) and Genentech Inc. (DNA, $80.62, -$6.91, -7.89%) said a Phase 3 study combining OSI's Tarceva and Genentech's Avastin was no better at preventing death from a type of lung cancer than Tarceva and placebo. Avastin and Tarceva are both so-called targeted cancer drugs co-marketed by OSI and Genentech in the U.S.
Steel companies were some of the hardest-hit stocks on the day, as UBS lowered its steel-price foreceast on a global 2009 recession and the International Iron and Stell Institute said it was reevaluating its three-year outlook becuase the global economy had made its current ratings unclear. AK Steel Holding Corp. (AKS, $18.04, -$2.26, -11.13%), U.S. Steel Corp. (X, $59.62, -$3.88, -6.11%) and Nucor Corp. (NUE, $33.74, -$1.01, -2.91%) were some of the leading decliners.
Energy stocks tumbled amid a wider market swoon and another drop in the price of oil, with natural gas firm Williams Cos. (WMB, $17.69, -$1.37, -7.19%), Oil refiner Tesoro Corp. (TSO, $12.22, -$1.70, -12.21%), and oil-and-gas company Hess Corp. (HES, $72.25, $0.25, 0.35%) among the biggest losers.
Solar stocks are getting pounded as a widening credit crisis hits Europe and the industry's biggest markets, Spain and Germany. Even the long awaited solar tax credit in the U.S., passed as part of the bailout plan, hasn't buoyed the sector, as equipment makers GT Solar International (SOLR, $8.00, -$1.11, -12.18%), Trina Solar (TSL, $17.96, -$2.86, -13.74%) and SunTech Power (STP, $30.58, -$2.89, -8.63%) all fell.
AgFeed Industries Inc. (FEED, $6.26, $0.59, 10.41%) said it expects to report record third-quarter earnings and affirmed it full-year earnings guidance of $1.10 a share. The Chinese animal feed company also announced a $10 million share-buyback program and an agreement by management not to sell shares for one year.
Irish banks Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB, $17.50, -$1.35, -7.16%) and Bank of Ireland (IRE, $20.70, -$2.96, -12.51%) plunged as support from Tuesday's government decision to guarantee all major Irish banks fell away.
Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK, $3.05, -$0.22, -6.73%) said it wrote down another $401.5 million in August while also making $848 million in credit-derivative payments. The write-downs from changes in fair value of credit derivatives put the struggling bond insurer's latest total for the quarter-to-date write-downs at $2.87 billion.
Citigroup Inc.'s (C, $17.41, -$0.94, -5.12%) lawsuit against Wachovia Corp. (WB, $5.78, -$0.43, -6.92%), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC, $33.64, -$0.92, -2.66%) and their directors is seeking at least $60 billion, Citi said as it seeks redress for Wells Fargo reaching a deal to acquire struggling Wachovia. Meanwhile, a North Carolina court issued a temporary restraining order Sunday preventing Citigroup from enforcing an "exclusivity agreement" it signed with Wachovia as part of a $2.1 billion deal to buy the Carolina bank.
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Just a hunch and strange movement on my scottrade quote screen , WAMUQ keeps popping up a .21 ask price with no trades this morning at 6 am ,,,,,I wonder if they are going to run today..Im gonna keep an eye on it ...Also same thing on SOV with an ask of 12.67....you never know what can happen..
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I know it was just a blip in my scottrade screen happens all the time BUT for all I know it might be a signal of some sort if not some kind of fake, like when some pennies would post a 911 trade as a signal to other MMs,, pobably just a glitch or fat finger....
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WAMUQ Scottrade macd chart forcast for what its worth;;;;
Moving Average Price Compare Yesterday, WAMUQ closed above its 13 minute moving average. This is generally considered to an indication of a bullish trend.
Moving Averages No current signals
MACD The MACD for WAMUQ currently indicates a strong bullish signal for two reasons. First, the MACD is above the signal line, a 9minute moving average. Second, the MACD is above 0 which implies that the underlying moving averages are trending higher.
Stochastics The Stochastic Oscillator is registering a bullish signal as the %K line is above the %D. However, WAMUQ is neither overbought nor oversold.
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SLOOOOOOWW day today got some WAMUQ at .10 a little while ago, hope it runs a little EOD if not maybe in the morning Posts: 1633 | From: Florida | Registered: Mar 2006
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I love it when 50000 shrs bought at ask then MMs throw a 100 shares at bid for .10 a share,,Just love it.. Posts: 1633 | From: Florida | Registered: Mar 2006
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Well as much as I hate to I am going to hold overnight , just hope they dont drive it down after hours... And looks like I am the only one around here today......
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Well not sure about anyone else but everything on my watch list was down today, and the only one I bought at least I bought them at the LOD..
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quote:Originally posted by Gary59: Well not sure about anyone else but everything on my watch list was down today, and the only one I bought at least I bought them at the LOD..
I'm green by .01 on abk. Everything else is red. What a crazy finish.
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quote:Originally posted by Gary59: Well as much as I hate to I am going to hold overnight , just hope they dont drive it down after hours... And looks like I am the only one around here today......
Sorry man, last half hour was NUTS. sometimes I can get here sometimes I can't. Still playing the fins in my practice account. Not messin with my cash yet, cept for qtww that one caught my eye today. do the DD as always, looking for a $1 bouncer but who the hell knows these days.
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Well you where better off not being here yesterday BooDog..nothing but down.. this morning gapping up on most on my list but only holding WAMUQ from yesterday at .10..hope it gaps like the others,I will get out quick this morning..
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Hey anyone around this morning , I have a question: I know that pinks dont trade pre or post market but do they shift the bid and ask and will it show on the board pre-market? Thanks
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quote:Originally posted by Gary59: Hey anyone around this morning , I have a question: I know that pinks dont trade pre or post market but do they shift the bid and ask and will it show on the board pre-market? Thanks
Hey good morning.
Take a look at otc bulletin board.. do a quote and it show pre and post. I like to use it. Then others for research.
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Thanks Rockster , I was wondering about WAMUQ i got a few share yesterday at low of .10 I usually dont trade chapter 11 stocks but has really been looking good for flipping ,,Until yesterday.. I will check out otc board thanks.
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Thanks I just checked as well and shows flat....But I would have thought there would be news if they stopped trading on it today... I know one thing I will get out this morning QUICK if any signs of a upward gap,, MACD and Bollenger bands showing uptrend this morning BUT now its a pink so that usually doesnt work with pinks that often...Good luck today Rockster.. This is the only one I am holding I have been staying in cash the last few weeks because of this market acting the way it has , and just doing a few flips a week....
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This is the first time I have been hesitant. I'm now at a 18% cash position. (can't even sell my .0001's for more cash) I'm waiting until this afternoon.
May do a XLF put to cover some of my losses if they don't come back. Financial select sector.
Hope all works out for you. From what I have read. The only person even is the one in cash. Stock to commodities etc.. all down EVEN OIL!
I'm sure some may be up but it's not in index only in select stocks.
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Well looking at the pre-market trades again this morning all where up 30 minutes ago and now gapping down from yesterdays close...Gonna be another sh**** day today it looks like.... Hold on to your cash,, if you have any left... Just my 2 cents worth.. but maybe it will swing back around later (I Hope)
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Well I got out of WAMUQ at .11 only made 12 bucks BUT I got out without a loss,,might have pulled out early but I am getting afraid to hold anything in this market especially a chapter 11 stock...Ouch
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement On September 29, 2008, Syncora Guarantee Inc. ("Syncora Guarantee"), the financial guarantee insurance wholly-owned subsidiary of Syncora Holdings Ltd. (the "Company"), entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. ("JPMorgan") and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ("WGM") pursuant to which JPMorgan will assist Syncora Guarantee in identifying and analyzing potential strategic alternatives with respect to Syncora Guarantee's portfolio of credit default swap and financial guarantee contracts (the "Contracts"), including any commutation, termination, amendment or restructuring of exposures pursuant to Section 6.12 of the Master Transaction Agreement, dated July 28, 2008, among the Company, Syncora Guarantee, Syncora Guarantee Re Ltd., XL Capital Ltd., certain affiliates of XL Capital Ltd. and certain financial institutions that are counterparties to credit default swap contracts with Syncora Guarantee.
JPMorgan will receive fees totaling US$10 million for its financial advisory services under the Agreement based on specified bench marks and may be eligible for an additional discretionary bonus of US$10 million, payable in the sole discretion of Syncora Guarantee, upon consummation of a restructuring with any of certain specified counterparties.
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Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008, 12:00AM 1) Have a fiscal policy that creates immense deficits in good times and bad, burdening America's posterity with staggering burdens of repaying the debt. 2) Eliminate regulation of Wall Street and/or fail to enforce the regulations that already exist, instead trusting Wall Street and other money managers and speculators to manage other people's money with few or no regulations and little oversight.
3) Have an energy policy that disallows producing our own energy and instead requires that we buy energy from abroad, thus making our oil prices highly volatile and creating large balance of payments deficits, lowering the value of the dollar and thus making the problem get progressively worse.
4) Have Congress mandate that banks and other financial entities lend money to persons they know in advance to have poor credit ratings or none at all.
5) Allow investment banks, insurers, and banks to bet their entire net worth and then some on the premise that borrowers known to be improvident will in fact repay those loans.
6) Allow the creation of large betting pools called "hedge funds" that can move markets and control the outcome of trading, thus taking a forum for savings and retirement for families and making it into a rigged casino game that exists primarily to fleece suckers like ordinary working men and women.
7) Have laws that protect corporate officers from being sued for misconduct but at the same time punish lawyers in the private sector who ferret out such misconduct and try to make accountable the people responsible for shareholder and investor losses. If one of those lawyers gets particularly aggressive in protecting stockholders, put him in prison.
8) Appoint as head of the United States Treasury Department a man whose whole life was spent on Wall Street, who became fantastically rich through his peddling of junk bonds at his firm while the firm later sold short those same sorts of bonds.
9) Scare Americans into putting up $750 billion of their hard earned money to bail out the billionaires and their friends who created the market for loans to poor credit risks (The "subprime" market) and the unbelievably large side bets on those loans, promising that such a bailout would save the retirement savings of Americans, then allow the immense hedge funds to make the market crater immediately afterwards.
10) Propose to save the situation by surtaxing the oil industry, which is owned by our fellow Americans, mostly in their retirement plans, thus penalizing Americans for investing in companies that efficiently and legally produce an indispensable product.
11) Insist that the free market requires that banks and insurers with friends of the Secretary of the Treasury be saved but allow other entities not so fortunate to fail, thus creating total uncertainty and terror among financial institutions, and demolishing all of the confidence built up in financial circles since the days of FDR.
12) Then have the Republican candidate say he would keep on the job the Treasury Secretary who facilitated the crisis, failed to protect the nation from the crisis, got the taxpayers to pony up to save his Wall Street buddies, and have the Democratic candidate, as noted, say he would save the day by taxing the stockholders of energy companies.
There, that should do it.
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quote:Originally posted by BooDog: watch it finish at .18 lol
Thats been my luck latley BooDog, good to see you make it back today before closing.. Im back to all cash looking for 1 flip left for the week and will have a few clear bucks tommorow too..So throw something out there for me BooDog especially a %300 sure thing Posts: 1633 | From: Florida | Registered: Mar 2006
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quote:Originally posted by BooDog: watch it finish at .18 lol
Thats been my luck latley BooDog, good to see you make it back today before closing.. Im back to all cash looking for 1 flip left for the week and will have a few clear bucks tommorow too..So throw something out there for me BooDog especially a %300 sure thing
lets see.... howa bout nothing that I'm in. lol freeking fins turned on me at close again right after I got done calibrating my standings. Grrrrr!
Thats my practice account. Still all cash on my main account and thanks to scottrade I missed out on DCGN for some of that bounce action. Not recommending it - was just looking for a flip.
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