AppTech Corp. ($APCX) Shares Skyrocket 400% on Word of Verizon ($VZ) Approval Shares of AppTech Corp. (OTC: $APCX) surged by more than 400% in today’s trading. Houston-based AppTech Corp.’s was formerly known as Natural Nutrition Inc. Its subsidiary AppTech Global is a developer of mobile application market places, which serve emerging countries throughout the world. [...]

Hot Stock Merge Healthcare Spikes nearly 9% on Q1 Results Shares of Merge Healthcare Inc. (NASDAQ: $MRGE) surged by more than 10% in Friday’s trading. Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare develops healthcare information software solutions and also delivers related services. The small-cap stock reached a high of $2.43, closing 8.68% higher at $2.38, with volume up from [...]

By Dominique de Kevelioc, de Bailleul Beacon Contributing Writer If you missed the candid opening statement Wednesday by William K. Black before the Financial Services Committee, you’re in for a treat.  Black is a University of Missouri professor of economics and law and a former senior bank regulator.  His testimony at the hearing Wednesday on [...]

By Dominique de Kevelioc, de Bailleul Beacon Contributing Writer On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to throw the public bone; charging Goldman Sachs with what amounts to a petty crime compared with the suspicious nature of its involvement in much larger events may go a long way in diffusing the anger of a [...]

By Gerald Wahl Beacon Contributing Writer Fresh Harvest Products Inc. (OTC: FRHV) is allegedly a New York City-based marketer of organic and natural food and beverage products. The stock closed 72.86% higher at $0.135 in trading on Tuesday. This was after Monday’s 189% monstrous gain. Volume has been up from a daily average of 7.5 [...]