Archive for September, 2011

Oklahoma Vs. FSU Halftime Score: Seminoles D Buying Time For E.J. Manuel

Read More: Jimmy Stevens (K – Oklahoma), EJ Manuel (QB – Florida St.), Landry Jones (QB – Oklahoma), Javon Harris (DB – Oklahoma), Oklahoma Sooners, Florida St. Seminoles The Oklahoma Sooners take a 13-3 lead into the half against the Florida St. Seminoles after a long interception return by Javon Harrisset up a scoring opportunity. [...]

Liquidity Service Stock Soars (LQDT)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Shares of Liquidity Service (Nasdaq:LQDT) have taken a tremendous swing upward. The stock is trading at $29 as of 10:11 am ET, 20.8% above Wednesdays closing price of $24. Volume is at 390,973, 1.8 times the daily average of 221,700. Liquidity Service has a market cap of $688.8 million and is [...]

Matrix Service Stock Gaps Down On Today’s Open (MTRX)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Shares of Matrix Service Company (Nasdaq:MTRX) were gapping down Thursday morning with an open price 11.3% lower than Wednesdays closing price. The stock closed at $11.34 Wednesday and opened todays trading at $10.06. The average volume for Matrix Service has been 145,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. Matrix [...]

Bonefish Grill & Outback Steakhouse Win Zagat Top Honors

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Bonefish Grill and Outback Steakhouse have won top honors in the Zagats 2011 National Chain Restaurants Survey. #160;Bonefish Grill, OSIs polished casual restaurant best known for its big-city bar and market-fresh fish, took six top honors including Top Overall (averaging food, facilities and service ratings), Best Seafood, Top [...]

Farmers Field looks to avoid litigation

State lawmakers introduced legislation Friday that would expedite legal challenges to Farmers Field, Anschutz Entertainment Groups $1.2 billion proposed football stadium in downtown Los Angeles. Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Senator Alex Padilla, who authored the bill, introduced the legislation one week before the Sept. 9 deadline for action on bills when Sacramento lawmakers [...]

Liquidity Service Stock Hits New 52-Week High (LQDT)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Liquidity Service (Nasdaq:LQDT) hit a new 52-week high Wednesday as it is currently trading at $32.26, above its previous 52-week high of $31.99 with 365,272 shares traded as of 3:10 pm ET. Average volume has been 315,500 shares over the past 30 days. Liquidity Service has a market cap of $814.3 [...]

Tech Buying Opportunity Ahead

Chart patterns indicate that an upcoming pullback in the tech sector will be well supported, providing a good opportunity to go long select sector ETFs and stocks. While the Samp;P 500 and Spyder Trust (SPY) have failed to surpass the 50% retracement resistance from the May highs, the Nasdaq 100 is a different story. Technology [...]

Intuit and JD Powers to Speak at Clarabridge’s ‘Clarity in a Noisy World …

RESTON, Va., Aug 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Clarabridge, Inc., the leading provider of sentiment and text analytics software to Global 1000 companies embracing customer experience management (CEM), today announced that executives from Intuit and JD Powers and Associates will speak at its ‘Clarity in a Noisy World: Leveraging the Voice of the Customer with [...]

My Southern perspective: Buying U.S.-made goods will help U.S. create jobs

President Obama is on the stump making speeches around the country and last week he was on national TV. The subject is jobs. The national unemployment statistics tell us that 9.1 percent of our workforce is unemployed. That is down from 12 percent a year ago but it means that 14 million people are still [...]