ECONOMY & MARKETS

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: GT Solar International, STEC, DryShips, ASML Holding, Sina Corp, Natural Alternatives International, Apple and Boingo Wireless. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: SIGA Technologies and SunPower.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Nabors Industries, Micron Technology, Sprint Nextel, Barclays, Wells Fargo, Ford Motor, Caterpillar, Apple, Nokia, Morgan Stanley and Kinder Morgan Energy.

Air Canada has said it has contingency plans in place to maintain its full flight schedule, supported by hundreds of managers and non-union staff at nine major Canadian airports.

Apple’s integration of Twitter with iOS 5 nudging away Facebook, the largest social networking site, didn’t seem to be Apple’s original plan as the video of a test build of iOS 4 this April shows.

Paper-based computing platform giant Livescribe hopes to make an impact by introducing the new Connect feature to its Echo and Pulse smartpens

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Double Eagle Petroleum, GT Solar International, Cytori Therapeutics, A-Power Energy Generation Systems and Hercules Offshore. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: AngioDynamics, Identive Group, SIGA Technologies, BroadSoft and Saba Software.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: TAL Education Group, BPZ Resources, Xueda Education, CONSOL Energy and Penn West Petroleum. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Hypercom, K-V Pharmaceutical, iSoftStone Holdings, China Ming Yang Wind Power Group and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: VF Corp, Hartford Financial, Caterpillar, Adobe Systems, Gilead Sciences, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Devon Energy, Regions Financial, Harley Davidson and Ford Motor Co.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Ness Technologies, A123 Systems, Vodafone Group, Deckers Outdoor, Melco Crown Entertainment, ARM Holdings and Melco Crown Entertainment. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Zion Oil & Gas, Silgan Holdings and Gilead Sciences.

Social networking site Facebook tried to discredit search giant Google by hiring a public relation firm to spread anti-Google stories across media and encouraging outlets to examine allegations of Google’s privacy practices, said a report.

David Levy, chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, believes in the future of America. He thinks the economy will not only fully recover but also improve its position on the global stage from its current slump.

Oil prices fell on Friday as Saudi Arabia reportedly followed through on its threat to defy OPEC and unilaterally increase oil production.

The Federal Reserve has become the largest Treasury holder in the world in Q1 2011 at $1.34 trillion.

Lulzsec, the hackers who took down PBS and Sony has now taken interest in exposing email addresses and passwords of people visiting pornography websites.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is set to release for Xbox 360 on November 15

Following the 2011 WWDC, Apple-lovers will have another reason to be excited over as multinational retailer; Wal-Mart has offered a staggering discount of $52 discount over the regular price on the 16 GB iPhone 4.

Microsoft has updated new iPhone apps in its search engine Bing, in order to help Apple users find the right application for the right task.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Micromet, Verigy, Harbin Electric, Zipcar, Lululemon Athletica, and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diana Containerships, Life Partners Holdings, LM Ericsson Telephone, SIRIUS XM Radio, Research In Motion, and Vodafone Group.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Tiffany, CME Group, Micron Technology, Analog Devices, Sky-mobi, DryShips, RealD, Suntrust Banks, First Horizon National and MEMC Electronic Materials.

As Congress rejected a delay in the implementation of debit card regulations for further study, RBC Capital Markets anticipates near term weakness in the shares of MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) as it believes the consensus was for the delay to be approved.

There is no need to lay off teachers or firefighters or to close fire houses, as proposed earlier by New York's city council in order to save revenue. The answer lies simply within the lawful collection of tax on 40 million cartons of untaxed cigarettes sold by Indian Reservations, internet, and other illegal sources, which equates to $2 billion dollars in lost revenue per year.

Caris & Co. said Kindle is a multi-billion dollar opportunity for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). Kindle can generate revenue in excess of $5.48 billion and $1.20 billion in gross profit in 2011, while the brokerage expects at least $8.64 billion in revenue and $2.11 billion in gross profit by 2012.

California based game developer Infinity Ward has previewed the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- Spec Ops mode at the E3 and hopes that it can add to the already attained fame of the game.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Yongye International, Global Sources, Sky-mobi, School Specialty, and Pantry. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Gladstone Commercial, Diodes, Wi-LAN, SeaChange International, and Pharmasset.

US stocks bounced higher on Thursday as the market took a breather from the mid-year malaise that began in May.

Jim Rogers doesn’t care if silver continues to go down. In fact, he would love it if that happened because he would be able to buy them for cheaper, he said on CNBC.

Apple amended its guidelines for in-app subscriptions on the App Store and said it no longer requires a subscription to be the same price or less than it is offered outside the app.

On Wednesday, an OPEC meeting ended with a failure to reach any agreement to increase oil production. Oil prices immediate jumped due to supply shortage concerns.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Titan Machinery, Zoran, DryShips, XOMA, JA Solar Holdings, and Lululemon Athletica. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Vertex Pharmaceuticals,Urban Outfitters, Brocade Communications Systems, Brigham Exploration, and Aixtron.