Market Update After Hours December 17
Market Updates
| Dow Jones |
13,235.39 |
100.38 |
-0.76% |
| S&P 500 |
1,430.36 |
16.78 |
-1.19% |
| Nasdaq |
3,010.60 |
39.27 |
-1.32% |
Gainers
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ:VVUS) 13.07 +1.60 (13.89%). Up on data that indicated robust development in weekly prescriptions for its Qsymia pill, the most recent fat-consumer on the US market.
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) 10.76 +1.23 (12.91%) Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR) confirmed today that its Board of Directors has received an unsolicited, conditional, [non-binding] proposal from Elliott Management Corporation to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Compuware for $11.00 per share.
Tronox Ltd (NYSE:TROX) 17.37 +1.60 (10.15%) WSJ states a weak global economy has quashed demand for titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints and coatings. That’s left shares of Tronox Ltd. (TROX), one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide, looking cheap, with a stock that is trading at a roughly 37% discount to its stated book value of $25 and for 6.6 times next year’s estimated earnings.
Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE:SPF) 7.08 +0.53 (8.09%) Standard Pacific Homes Acquires Homesites At The Oaks At Boca Raton, One Of Palm Beach County’s Most Upscale Communities
Polypore International, Inc. (NYSE:PPO) 44.21 +3.25 (7.93%) Needham & Company cut shares of Polypore (NYSE: PPO) from a strong-buy rating to a buy rating in a research report sent to investors on Monday morning. The firm currently has $50.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $44.00.
Losers
Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR) 2.91 -0.46 (-13.65%) . Clearwire accepted Sprint’s (NYSE:S) offer to buy the remaining 50% of the company that Sprint does not already own for $2.2 billion, or $2.97 per share.
First Majestic Silver Corp (NYSE:AG) 20.59 -2.33 (-10.17%) First Majestic acquires Orko Silver for $387 million
National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) 1.67 -0.16 (-8.74%)
Clean Harbors Inc (NYSE:CLH) 52.55 -3.50 (-6.24%)
Cabelas Inc (NYSE:CAB) 41.21 -2.72 (-6.19%)
After Hours Most Active
NYSE Ten Most Active Share Volume
| Symbol | Company | Last Sale | Share Volume |
| BAC | Bank of America Corporation |
$11.21 |
7,880,801 |
| WFC | Wells Fargo & Company |
$34.51 |
5,393,644 |
| NRG | NRG Energy, Inc. |
$23.45 |
4,741,723 |
| F | Ford Motor Company |
$11.42 |
3,932,298 |
| TXT | Textron Inc. |
$24.35 |
2,254,744 |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson |
$70.94 |
1,526,495 |
| VALE | VALE S.A. |
$20.10 |
1,307,231 |
| CS | Credit Suisse Group |
$24.54 |
1,153,246 |
| HTZ | Hertz Global Holdings, Inc |
$15.93 |
1,081,908 |
| C | Citigroup Inc. |
$39.38 |
1,062,086 |
NASDAQ Ten Most Active Share Volume
| Symbol | Company | Last Sale | Share Volume |
| FTR | Frontier Communications Corporation |
$4.64 |
1,920,503 |
| QQQ | PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 |
$65.63 |
1,461,880 |
| GRFS | Grifols, S.A. |
$23.20 |
1,300,400 |
| WIN | Windstream Corporation |
$8.77 |
1,022,530 |
| FMCN | Focus Media Holding Limited |
$23.90 |
992,328 |
| NWSA | News Corporation |
$25.06 |
665,287 |
| TXN | Texas Instruments Incorporated |
$30.99 |
633,840 |
| DELL | Dell Inc. |
$10.26 |
622,335 |
| INTC | Intel Corporation |
$20.60 |
590,283 |
| WOOF | VCA Antech, Inc. |
$20.90 |
501,179 |
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Post Written By: Ed Liston
Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.
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