Market Currents

• Thursday, October 29, 2009

• 17:06 PM Standard Pacific (SPF): Q3 EPS of -$0.01 beats by $0.06. Revenue of $327M (-18%) vs. $285M. Shares +3.1% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable post-market earnings: AB, BMC, BYI, CLF, DTE, ELY, GNW, HTZ, IM, KLAC, LVS, MET, MFE, MHK, MTW, MXIM, PKI, POM, RGC, RNWK, SBAC, SPF, STAR, SWN, VAR Comment!

• Thursday, July 23, 2009

• 11:14 AM Homebuilder stocks are strongly higher after encouraging home sales data, and a solid quarter from Standard Pacific (SPF) yesterday afternoon. SPF +13%. LEN +7.8%. MHO +6.4%. MTH +6.3%. CTX +3.1%. PHM +3%. SPDR Homebuilders ETF (XHB) +4.3%. Comment!

• Friday, May 8, 2009

• 09:00 AM Premarket gainers: VNUS +35%. AXL +34%. FITB +30%. HBAN +16%. FIG +15%. VG +14%. CNB +12%. CTIC +12%. RBS +12%. BZ +11%. VRSN +10%. BAC +10%. RF +10%. ING +8%. STT +8%. ONNN +8=7%. CENX +7%. C +7%. HOV +7%. CS +7%. MT +7%. KEY +6%. CIT +6%. DB +6%. AIG +6%. HBC +5%. SPF +8%. AMR +5%. JASO +5%. TNA +5%. ALU +5%. EGLE +5%. Comment!

• Thursday, May 7, 2009

• 18:23 PM Standard Pacific (SPF): Q1 EPS of -$0.01 beats by $0.26. Revenue of $209M vs. $179M. "Although we saw improvement in new home orders as compared to the anemic levels experienced during the 2008 fourth quarter, we remain intently focused on preserving cash by controlling our expenses, carefully managing new home starts and reducing speculative inventory levels." Shares -1.8% AH. (PR) Comment!

• Wednesday, April 8, 2009

• 09:00 AM Premarket gainers: CTX +31%. LNC +27%. HIG +26%. GNW +24%. PFG +24%. SPF +29%. PNX +21%. CNO +17%. BBBY +14%. HOV +14%. PRU +12%. GT +10%. MTG +11%. JNPR +9%. MET +9%. LEN +8%. IFX +8%. MGM +7%. AU +6%. PLD +7%. KG +6%. ETFC +6%. CENX +6%. S +5%. DRYS +4%. ACAS +4%. F +4%. LVS +4%.
  Losers: AIB -11%. SAY -8%. MOS -4%. AAUK -3%. Comment!

• Friday, February 13, 2009

• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Friday's close: CCJ, SPF Comment!

• Thursday, October 30, 2008

• 08:29 AM Early premarket losers: ELN -18%. HIG -12%. SYMC -7%. BIIB -6%. JDSU -4%. SPF -4%. RIO -3%. WFR -2%. Comment!

• Wednesday, October 29, 2008

• 15:10 PM Notable earnings after the close: AAP, ACAS, AEM, AMKR, AMP, ATML, AW, BGC, BMR, CA, CLF, CME, COG, CYH, DTE, EQ, EQR, FR, FRT, FSLR, GNK, HAR, HBI, HIG, HIW, HLX, HRS, ICO, JDSU, MET, MUR, OI, OIS, ORLY, PRU, RNWK, SANM, SIRF, SPF, STR, SYMC, TRN, V, VCLK, WLL Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Wednesday's close: AAP, ACAS, AEM, AMKR, AMP, ATML, AW, BGC, BMR, CA, CLF, CME, COG, CYH, DTE, EQ, EQR, FR, FRT, FSLR, GNK, HAR, HBI, HIG, HIW, HLX, HRS, ICO, JDSU, MET, MUR, OI, OIS, ORLY, PRU, RNWK, SANM, SIRF, SPF, STR, SYMC, TRN, V, VCLK, WLL Comment!

• Wednesday, July 30, 2008

• 15:10 PM Notable earnings after today's close: AKAM, ARRS, ARTC, ATML, AVB, AW, AYE, BARE, BDN, BVN, CLF, DIS, DRIV, ELY, EQR, ESRX, FSLR, GGB, GGP, GNK, HGSI, HLX, HOLX, LVS, MUR, NLY, O, OI, OII, PRU, SBUX, SPF, SQNM, SWN, SYMC, TRN, UNM, V Comment!
• 00:20 AM Notable earnings Wed. after close: AKAM, ARRS, ARTC, ATML, AVB, AW, AYE, BARE, BDN, BVN, CLF, DIS, ELY, EQR, ESRX, FSLR, GGB, GGP, GNK, HGSI, HLX, HOLX, LVS, MUR, NLY, O, OI, OII, PRU, SBUX, SPF, SQNM, SWN, SYMC, TRN, UNM, V Comment!

• Monday, June 30, 2008

• 14:38 PM Standard Pacific (SPF) +3.7% - it closed a $381M share sale. "We believe we are well positioned to weather the current housing downturn and to take advantage of new opportunities as they arise." [PR] Comment!

• Tuesday, May 27, 2008

• 09:54 AM Struggling builder Standard Pacific (SPF) soars +33% after it gets a $530M equity injection. Morningstar had predicted a distressed sale. Comment!