The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Before The Market Opens Economics: 8:30am EDT Initial Claims - Street sees 470K Continuing Claims - Street sees 4445K Trade Balance - Street sees ($47.3B) Earnings: C&D Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CHP) - consensus loss $0.06 Descartes Syst...

This report is an intraday check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high or low so far today. 52-Week High: JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO) high of $7.35. JASO announced after the market yesterday that they have signed 500-MW in supply agreements for mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline solar cells for 2011 d...

Zymogenetics (Nasdaq: ZGEN) 84.1% HIGHER; Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY) to acquire ZGEN for $9.75/share in cash. Click here to see the full report. Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co. (NYSE: QXM) 30.6% HIGHER; Qiao Xing Universal Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq: XING) today announced that it has proposed to acquire all outstanding shares of Qiao Xing Mobile C...

Gainers Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 1.45% to $14.39. Banks are making a recovery after the sector led the markets lower yesterday. Euro bank fears resurfaced, but the ECB’s commitment for liquidity in the banks kept fears in check. United States Oil (NYSE: USO) up 1.37% to $33.22. October oil contracts are about $0.44/barr...

Zymogenetics (Nasdaq: ZGEN) 84.2% HIGHER; Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY) to acquire ZGEN for $9.75/share in cash. Click here to see the full report. EDAP TMS SA (Nasdaq: EDAP) 50.2% HIGHER; today reported favorable clinical outcomes for patients treated with Ablatherm-HIFU. For a representative number of patients with a minimum of two year follow-up and...

Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq: ZRAN) announces that they have entered an agreement to acquire Microtune, Inc. (Nasdaq: TUNE) for $2.92 per share in cash, or $84 million net of cash acquired. The transaction is expected to close upon Microtune shareholder approval. Both boards have approved the merger. Zoran expects the acquisition to be accretive imme...

UPGRADES Soleil Securities upgrades MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) from Hold to Buy, with a price target increased by $1 to $14. Click Here for more color. Goldman Sachs upgrades Costco Wholesale (Nasdaq: COST) from Neutral to Buy and raised their price target form $62 to $68. Click Here for more color. Raymond James upgrades Huntington Bancshares (Nasdaq...

The FTSE 100 makes gains, but retail stocks are unsettled by news of falling profits and a forecast of further low margin growth in the sector from two of its constituents ...

News has broader impact, with the shares of other banks falling on concerns that the move might put pressure on them to follow suit ...

Developing nation stock markets could rise fivefold to $80,000bn, taking the emerging market share of global equity markets from 31% to 55% ...