Benzinga PreMarket Prep

Wednesday’s top pre-market movers had one thing in common, and it’s the same thing just about every stock is moving on: blockchain. Longfin Corp (NASDAQ: LFIN) went from $5.30 to $142.82 after acquiring blockchain micro-lender Ziddu.com. Seven Stars Cloud Group Inc (NASDAQ: SSC) spiked...

Since the start of the year, the Canadian marijuana market has quietly exploded. The industry expanded from fewer than 10 publicly traded licensed producers to 23, all contributing to a total of 67. “It’s gotten a lot more challenging for people to kind of stumble into the Canadian...

Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) is largely overlooked by Wall Street, but that doesn’t mean it’s escaped notice from anyone else. “It’s a very good fit for a number of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers,” Dan Forman, technology sector specialist at Maxim Group,...

Ivan Feinseth, partner and chief investment officer at Tigress Financial Partners, is the only analyst on the Street with a Buy rating on Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN). While some consider Garmin an obsolete personal navigation company, Feinseth looks beyond its earliest focus at a “clever...

When Michele “Mish” Schneider first joined the trading-floor boys club with a continental grain and commodities firm, she felt a bit of culture shock. Schneider was one of “maybe four” women in the pit, which was a physically grueling arena, packed with bodies jostling one...

This earnings season has been a mixed bag for many of the big name technology and semiconductor companies. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) surprised analysts with impressive sales for the first quarter, but Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE...

Social media data indicates Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) had a rough fourth quarter. That's according to Andy Swan, the co-founder of LikeFolio, a company that tracks social media analytics among brands and stocks. Swan was a guest on Friday's edition of Benzinga's PreMarket...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) shares tumbled more than 11 percent Thursday after the company released less-than-impressive quarterly earnings. But technology expert Sean Udall isn’t ready to jump ship. Wait Patiently “The bears are going to be totally empowered today,” Udall said on...

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we’re only one day from the Presidential election--meaning investors are closer than ever to that long-awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.  Chris Versace, CIO & co-...

Gary Kaltbaum, an investment advisor, was a guest on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep Monday to talk about many topics that interest investors, including the state of the IPO market in 2016. Kaltbaum said he keeps a watch-list of up to 70 companies new to the stock market and said that they are "all...