This report is a mid-day check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week low. It is a brief list, and not meant to be a complete listing. No specific ratio is set. 52-Week Low: Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. (NYSE: DO) low of $64.48. Shares of offshore drillers are tumbling today as well, as President Obama will scale back deep-w...

This report is a mid-day check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high. It is a brief list, and not meant to be a complete listing. No specific ratio is set. 52-Week High: SanDisk Corp (Nasdaq: SNDK) high of $47.51. After hitting a previous 52-week high yesterday, of $46.53, shares are continuing their upward momentum ahe...

DJSP Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: DJSP) 30.8% LOWER; reports Q1 EPS of $0.35, 5 cents worse than estimates. Revenues were $71.6 million vs. $71.1 million consensus. Management’s guidance didn’t help much either. Blue Coat (Nasdaq: BCSI) 21.3% LOWER; reports Q4 adj-EPS of $0.40, inline with the analyst estimate of $0.40. Revenue for the q...

Gainers United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG) up 1.36% to $7.43. Nat gas is the winner today as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) announced a $4.7 billion acquisition of East Resources Inc., a closely held U.S. natural-gas explorer. Click Here for all the details. iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE: VXX) up 1.45% to $28.74. The CB...

UPGRADES OmniVision (Nasdaq: OVTI) gets an upgrade at Needham & Company, from buy to Strong Buy, with a price target increased from $20 to $25. Click Here for more color. Sterne Agee upgrades Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) from Neutral to Buy today. The firm also set a $37 price target on the bank. ThinkEquity upgrades Take-Two Interactive Software (...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) (NYSE: RDS-B) announced Friday that it will acquire East Resources Inc., a major owner of U.S. shale gas holdings, from private investors for $4.7 billion. The largest oil company in Europe said it will pay cash for the the privately-held Northeast U.S. company that controls 1.25 million acres in Marcellus Shale...

CKX (Nasdaq: CKXE) 27.3% HIGHER;Reports that out-going judge and creator or “American Idol”, Simon Fuller, has teamed with former Barclays banker Roger Jenkins to acquire the company for $600 million. Ener1, Inc. (Nasdaq: HEV) 21.3% HIGHER; signed a binding letter of intent (LOI) for a new joint venture with the electric vehicle divisio...

London stocks failed to hold on to early gains on Friday as weakness in US equity markets dragged the main index into the red ...

The new owner of Saab Automobile gained almost 5% after saying it was in talks with carmakers to share technology and parts for a new car based on a 1950s Saab model ...

Asian markets ended the week positively thanks to a three-day rally as investors took the view that the recent sell-off had left stocks undervalued ...