Gold on Tuesday pushed back above a closely watched, long-term average as investors grew jittery over the impending French presidential election, which could have a pair of antiestablishment candidates facing off for the top job.
June gold
GCM7, +0.96%
gained $7.90, or 0.6% at $1,261.60 an ouncetrading above its 200-day moving average of $1,260.65, which suggests positive momentum building in the yellow metal, if it closes above that level.
stock market guide: LKQ Corporation(LKQ)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Wednesday's regular session.
stock market guide: eHealth Inc.(EHTH)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) was down, falling around 32 percent to $9.53. eHealth reported a Q2 net loss of $0.5 million, versus a year-ago net income of $5.8 million. The company also reported weak quarterly revenue.
stock market guide: Ballard Power Systems, Inc.(BLDP)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows shares of FuelCell Energy along withsmall cap alternative energy or fuel cell stocks like Ballard Power Systems Inc (NASDAQ: BLDP), Hydrogenics Corporation (NASDAQ: HYGS) and Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ: PLUG) all peaking in 2014 with some signs of stabilization early last yearalong withsome increase this year:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows shares of Plug Power plus alternative energy or fuel cell stock peers like Ballard Power Systems Inc (NASDAQ: BLDP), FuelCell Energy Inc (NASDAQ: FCEL) and Hydrogenics Corporation (NASDAQ: HYGS) all peaking in 2014 before collapsing with shares leveling off or perhaps finally to recover a bit:
- [By Peter Graham]
The Q4 2016 earnings report small cap fuel cell stock Ballard Power Systems Inc (NASDAQ: BLDP) is scheduled for before the market opens on Thursday (March 2nd).Small cap alternative energy or fuel cellstocks have notlived up to their hype, but Ballard Power Systems has been busy announcing the following news:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Friday afternoon, the non-cyclical consumer goods & services sector proved to be a source of strength for the market. Leading the sector was strength from Ballard Power Systems Inc. (USA) (NASDAQ: BLDP) and Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN).
stock market guide: Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc.(SVVC)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Hibah Yousuf]
Similarly, Twitter is also the biggest holding in the Firsthand Technology Value Fund (SVVC). With just over 1 million shares of the social media platform, Twitter represents nearly 11% of the total portfolio as of mid-year. Shares of Firsthand Technology Value jumped more than 6% Friday.
stock market guide: Burcon Nutrascience Corp(BUR)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By William Romov]
Last Wednesday (Dec. 6), the company received a patent for certain methods of production of its phase 2 antidepressant, AV-101.
Penny Stock Current Share Price Dec. 4 – Dec. 8 Gain (as of Dec. 8)
VistaGen Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: VTGN) $1.80 135%
FXCM Inc. (Nasdaq: GLBR) $1.12 124%
Neuralstem Inc. (Nasdaq: CUR) $2.00 75.44%
Ohr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: OHRP) $1.49 75.29%
ClearSign Combustion Corp. (Nasdaq: CLIR) $3.50 53.85%
Astrotech Corp. (Nasdaq: ASTC) $4.21 51.99%
Burcon NutraScience Corp. (Nasdaq: BUR) $0.72 44%
LM Funding America Inc. (Nasdaq: LMFA) $3.72 42.53%
Second Sight Medical Products Inc. (Nasdaq: EYES) $1.75 42.28%
Globus Maritime Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLBS) $1.47 41.35%
As a result, its share price shot up from $0.92 to $2.52 on Wednesday. The stock pulled back to $1.80 by the end of the week, for a total gain of 135% for the week.
stock market guide: Rhino Resource Partners LP(RNO)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Alexis Xydias]
Investors are regaining confidence, squeezing pessimists who say the economy remains sluggish outside of Germany and point to record-low trading volume as a lack of conviction in the Euro Stoxxs 61 percent rally of the past two years. Besides gains in stocks from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA to Renault SA (RNO), yields on Spanish and Italian bonds have declined to a two-year low compared with German bunds and the euro has strengthened 4.6 percent to $1.35 in the past six months.
