StreetInsider.com Notable Pre-Open Movers: Quixote (Nasdaq: QUIX) 114% HIGHER; Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN) reports definitive agreement to buy Quixote for $6.38/share in cash. The deal is being valued at $61 million. Click here for the full report. Biodel, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOD) 24% HIGHER; announced today that it has submitted a new drug applicati...

Quixote (Nasdaq: QUIX) 118% HIGHER; Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN) reports definitive agreement to buy Quixote for $6.38/share in cash. The deal is being valued at $61 million. Click here for the full report. Biodel, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOD) 9% HIGHER; announced today that it has submitted a new drug application to the U.S. FDA for clearance to market V...

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Before Market Opens: Economics: 8:30am EST Initial Claims - Street sees 460K Continuing Claims - Street sees 5100K Subscribe to EasyStockAlerts and get real-time e-mail alerts when news hits your stocks! ...

PharmAthene (AMEX: PIP) 41.1% HIGHER; volume is very heavy today, but we are not hearing any company-specific news. ICX Technologies (Nasdaq: ICXT) 28.6% HIGHER; ICX has been in the news recently given the recent attempted terrorist attack. Origin Agritech (Nasdaq: SEED) 24.9% HIGHER; today announced that it completed its Second Notes Repurchase Ag...

StreetInsider.com Notable ETF Movers: HIGHER; Semiconductor HOLDRs (NYSE: SMH) up 0.83% to $27.90 on lighter volumes. Semi’s are getting a boost from Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) settling a class-action lawsuit against the company for $160 million. United States Oil (NYSE: USO) up 0.18% to $38.91. Crude inventories were reportedd to decline 1.5...

Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYCC) 27.9% HIGHER; announced the publication of an article that reviews and discusses the company’s seliciclib (CYC202 or R-roscovitine) product candidate, an orally available inhibitor of multiple cyclin-dependent kinases and its mechanism of action. The peer-reviewed article, “Cyclin-Dependent ...

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has acquired SpinVox, a leading provider of voice-to-text services to telecommunications companies across five continents. By integrating SpinVox’s carrier services with Nuance’s advanced speech recognition platform, Nuance will further accelerate the growth of its voic...

UPGRADES: Kaufman Bros. upgrades nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) from Hold to Buy. Price target increased from $14 to $22. BofA Merrill Lynch has upgraded Con-Way (NYSE: CNW) from Neutral to Buy, and upped their price target from $35 - $45. Kaufman Bros. upgrades Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) from Hold to Buy. Price target increased from $20 to $2...

The FTSE 100 re-took the 5,400 mark at the start of the last, shortened session of 2009, re-establishing the winter rally which allowed the index to return to levels last seen before the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...

The few European markets that opened on the final day of the year edged up slightly on very thin volumes ...