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Benzinga Pro provides its subscribers with real-time alerts of potentially market-moving options activity. Here's a recap of the options alerts from Friday, January 27, 2017. All time stamps are in Eastern Time. 5:35:42pm: P Pandora Feb 10th 13.5 Calls Sweep: 757 @ ASK $0.65: 984 traded...

Toward the end of trading Friday, the Dow traded down 0.10 percent to 20,079.89 while the NASDAQ declined 0.03 percent to 5,653.54. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.20 percent to 2,292.16. Leading and Lagging Sectors Healthcare shares gained around 0.78 percent in trading on Friday. Meanwhile...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) reported an earnings miss, despite better-than-expected revenue, as a mysterious cost of goods sold expense weighed on the margins. But, Wall Street’s bullish long-term view on the stock remains largely unchanged. There are reasons for Street’...

Since the days leading up to the election, President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about big-brand news. On January 8, after reports clarified border-wall financing, Trump tweeted that the media was “dishonest” and “fake.” On January 11, he called Buzzfeed a “pile...

Shares of VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) hit a new 52-week high of $89.50 on Friday after the company reported its fourth-quarter results, which one analyst described as being one of its best quarters in years. Very Healthy Quarter According to Ben McFadden of Pacific Crest, VMWare's quarter was "very...

Brent Bracelin of Pacific Crest maintains an Overweight rating on shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) with an unchanged $70 price target following the company's earnings report, which demonstrated momentum in the cloud. Commercial Cloud Bracelin noted that Microsoft's commercial cloud...

Deutsche Bank’s Bryan Keane expects Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL’s margins to expand in FY 2017 after a better-than-expected take rate drove an in-line EPS for the company. Despite the impact from increased transaction expenses, PayPal now expects flat to slightly expanding margins...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often assailed as an antiquated index for its price-weighting methodology and the fact that it is home to just 30 stocks. Still, the Dow also qualifies as venerable and widely followed, hence all the hoopla surrounding its ascent to 20,000. That much ballyhooed...

Shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) were trading lower by around 4 percent Friday morning after the company's

Stifel sees an upbeat earnings from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) when the social media giant reports its fourth-quarter numbers on February 1. The brokerage also believes that Facebook is well-positioned heading in to 2017, despite concerns over declining ad-loads. Expectations For Quarter Print...

Pulmatrix Inc (NASDAQ: PULM) shares climbed 34.2 percent to $2.98 after surging 35.37 percent on Thursday. Stonegate Mortgage Corp (NYSE: SGM) shares jumped 28.9 percent to $7.73. Home Point Financial agreed to acquire Stonegate Mortgage for $211 million. Lantronix Inc (NASDAQ: LTRX)...

$41.50 - Thursday close $41.20 - Intraday high as of 12:35 PM $40.19 - Current price as of 12:35 PM $39.92 - Intraday low as of 12:35 PM $39.34 - December 30 low

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s stock hit a new all-time high of $65.64 on Friday after the company reported a better-than-expected second-quarter earnings print while its third-quarter guidance also exceeded expectations. Investors who are taking a fresh look at the stock on Friday are...

$116.55 - Thursday close $114.70 - Intraday high as of 12:30 PM $114.00 - Current price as of 12:30 PM $112.85 - Intradfay low as of 12:30 PM $112.82 - December 7 low

$64.71 - Intraday high as of 12:26 PM $64.17 - Thursday close $63.21 - Current price as of 12:26 PM $62.94 - Intraday low as of 12:26 PM $62.17 - November 7, 2014 low