MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL The three most active funds and stocks in pre-market trading on the Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) were Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR)
, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and
Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) as of 8:45 a.m. EST.
Investors exchanged 186,700
shares of Charter Communications, which was down $0.76, or 1.08%. Charter Communications
announced yesterday that certain stockholders have agreed to sell 3.1 million shares of Charter common stock in an underwritten offering.
Investors traded 130,582
shares of Facebook, which was up $0.19, or 0.82%. Yesterday, Facebook director Mark Andreesen
sold about $54 million in Facebook shares to cover taxes.
Investors also traded 84,000
shares of Research In Motion, which was down $0.085, or 0.88%. According to
AllThingsD, the National Transportation Safety Board will no longer purchase BlackBerries. Instead, it plans on purchasing
iPhone 5s (NASDAQ:AAPL). The organization cited a high failure rate of the smartphone and failures occurring at inappropriate times as its reasons.
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