04/28
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Jason Knox

Jason Knox covers the Software & Services sector. A financial analyst for 20 years, Jason joined Tech Insider in 2006. Previously, he was an analyst with Cleary Gull Inc. and with Blunt, Ellis & Loewi, both in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During his career, Jason has been named in The Wall Street Journal “All-Star Analysts’ Survey,” and highlighted as one of the NASDAQ-StarMine top analysts within the Internet Software & Services industry.

Active Movers: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX), Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE)

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Mark Zuckerberg and other members of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s board have been sued by a shareholder who claimed a policy letting them annually award directors more than $150 million of stock each if they choose is unreasonably generous. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was 0.61% in last session and finished the day at $62.88. Traded…

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Active Watch List: Banco Santander Brasil (NYSE:BSBR), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG), Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX), Halcon Resources Corp (NYSE:HK)

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Banco Santander SA (ADR) (NYSE:BSBR) shareholders selected Rothschild to appraise its 4.7 billion-euro ($6.4 billion) bid for minority shareholders’ stakes in its Brazilian unit. Banco Santander Brasil SA (ADR) (NYSE:BSBR) stock performance was 2.30% in last session and finished the day at $7.13. Traded volume was 9.29million shares in the last session and the average…

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NYSE losers: Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN), Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE:END), China Cord Blood (NYSE:CO), Lentuo International (NYSE:LAS), Oil-Dri Corporation of America (NYSE:ODC)

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Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) one of the world’s largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork, this month offered to pay $50 a share for Hillshire Brands, maker of Ball Park hot dogs and Jimmy Dean sausages. The proposal came two days after chicken producer Pilgrim’s Pride, which is 75 percent owned by Brazilian…

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Biotech unusual volume stocks: Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACHN), Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX), BioDelivery Sciences International (NASDAQ:BDSI), ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (NYSEMKT:IMUC), Anika Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ANIK)

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AbbVie may now consider a takeover of Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHN), a $411 million company, to expand in that market, Redmond said. Shares of Achillion rallied (ACHN:US) as much as 67 percent yesterday. Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHN) stock performance was 47.57% in last session and finished the day at $4.25. Traded volume was 47.79million shares…

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Healthcare Active Movers; Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX), Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD)

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Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) was the target of a large growth in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 59,856,772 shares, a growth of 14.0% from the April 30th total of 52,494,773 shares, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. Currently, 0.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. Pfizer…

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Tech Runners: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU)

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Usmanov has sold most of his Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) shares and expects to benefit from investments in China’s Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. (JD), Ivan Streshinskiy, head of the billionaire’s asset-management company USM Advisors LLC, said in March. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was -1.09% in last session and finished the…

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