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Active Stocks to Watch : Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONS), Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA), Willis Lease Finance Corp. (NASDAQ:WLFC), BIDU

Active Stocks to Watch : Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONS), Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA), Willis Lease Finance Corp. (NASDAQ:WLFC), BIDU
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Charles Donlon
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October 23, 2014
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Oregon is cutting its last ties with a botched health insurance exchange portal built by Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) as the state and the high-tech company pursue lawsuits against each other. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in last trading activity fell -1.85% to close at $37.64. Company weekly performance is -1.72% while its quarterly performance stands at -6.72%. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is -9.97% away from its 52 week high. Sonus Networks (NASDAQ:SONS) is scheduled to release its earnings data on Thursday, October 23rd. Sonus Networks has set its Q3 guidance at $0.01 EPS and its FY14 guidance at $0.05-0.07 EPS. On last trading day Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONS) moved down -5.75% to close at $2.95. Its volatility for the week is 4.94% while volatility for the month is 4.53%. SONS's sales growth for past 5 years was -2.40% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 28.60%. Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONS) monthly performance is -18.73%. Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) on Oct. 10 announced that the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has concluded its review of Iclusig® (ponatinib) under the Article 20 referral procedure and has recommended that Iclusig continue to be used in Europe in accordance with its already approved indications. Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) in last trading activity moved down -3.45% to close at $5.59. Company weekly performance is 2.01% while its quarterly performance stands at -9.55%. Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) is -43.13% away from its 52 week high. Willis Lease Finance Corp. (NASDAQ:WLFC) CEO Charles F. Iv Willis sold 4,412 shares of Willis Lease Finance Corp. stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $20.60, for a total transaction of $90,887.20. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 501,978 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,340,747.Willis Lease Finance Corp. (NASDAQ:WLFC) has 11.80% insider ownership while its institutional ownership stands at 42.60%. In last trading activity company's stock closed at $20.84. Chinese Internet services company Baidu, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) is currently using deep learning algorithm, a new subfield of artificial intelligence (AI), to improve its search engine technology and other computing tasks. On Wednesday shares of Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) closed at $219.26. Company's sales growth for last 5 years was 58.40% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 38.94%.

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