Top Gainers: Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV), Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), Apollo Education Group Inc (NASDAQ:APOL), Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON)

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:HOV) New Jersey’s largest homebuilder, is optimistic that demand will continue to rise though sales have been uneven in recent months. “While the housing market has improved dramatically overall compared to where it was a couple of years ago, the recent recovery has been a little more choppy,” Chief Executive Officer Ara…

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Services Sector Active stocks: Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE:HTZ), Lowe’s Companies (NYSE:LOW), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFM)

Pandora Media Inc.  (NYSE:P) has another competitor now that Amazon (AMZN_) has launched its own free music streaming service.  The online market place is offering its Prime Music service to customers already subscribed to Amazon Prime.  The company has a library of 1 million songs, while Pandora is close with just about 900,000 songs in…

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Hot Stocks In news: Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ:SIRI), Pandora Media (NYSE:P)

Time Warner, owner of HBO and the studio behind The Lego Movie, beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts for operations in the first three months of the year, and raised its full-year guidance after getting more money than expected in re-transmission fees from Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), the country’s largest cable TV operator. Comcast Corporation…

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Services Sector Active Runners: Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS)

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), the internet radio service provider seems to be really living up to its name. The company is experiencing a Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P)’s Box of troubles and as issues emerge one after the other, Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) shares value fell right through the roof signaling the tough times ahead for…

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Services Sector Stocks Touching New Highs: Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), Macy’s (NYSE:M), The Men’s Wearhouse (NYSE:MW), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS)

Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV) posted a rise in traffic for Feb 2014. The traffic – measured in revenue passenger miles (RPMs) – came in at 7.14 billion, up 1.2% from 7.06 billion recorded in the comparable month a year ago. Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) stock performance was 0.76% in last session and finished…

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