Apple buyback burnishes earnings per share, may soothe critics
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buy low, sell high. That's the investor's credo, and one Apple Inc appears to have followed when it pounced on a drop in its own stock...
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NQ Mobile shares drop 47 percent, targeted by short seller
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NQ Mobile Inc shares plummeted on Thursday, their biggest daily decline ever, after the noted short seller Muddy Waters Research Group called the company a "massive...
Uranium firm USEC soars again, traders cite continued squeeze
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of USEC Inc gained for an eighth consecutive day on Tuesday, extending a meteoric rise that has quadrupled the market value of the tiny uranium...
Shares of little-known uranium company blast into stratosphere
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of USEC Inc , a uranium company that closed out last week with a market value of just $30 million, more than doubled on Monday...
Onyx explores possible sale after rejecting Amgen offer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cancer drugmaker Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Sunday it rejected a roughly $10 billion takeover offer from larger biotechnology company Amgen Inc as too low but...
Wall Street ends slightly up but slumps for the week
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks ended mostly higher on Friday, with the Dow and S&P; 500 ending two days of heavy losses, though traders continued to fret over planned changes...
Analysis: A hard day to be a short-seller, one of many this year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three long-time favorites of the short-selling crowd are making those investors eat crow, as Tesla, Barnes & Noble and Green Mountain Coffee are racking up big...
Symantec shares plunge, traders see mini ‘flash crash’
(Reuters) - Shares of Symantec Corp plunged some 10 percent in a matter of seconds on Tuesday before being halted by the Nasdaq, in the latest instance of what traders...
Gold slide flashes warning signs for global economy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The plunge in the gold price in the past week may have raised a big red flag over the global economy. Some top investors say the...
Twitter, social media are fertile ground for stock hoaxes
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prominent short-seller David Einhorn raised eyebrows last month when he popped up on Twitter to disavow that he had tweeted about Herbalife Ltd. "Apparently I have...