| Company Name | Exchange | Ticker | Market Cap (Mn) |
Last Price | Last Volume | Price Return (1-Day) |
Price Return (5-Days) |
52-Week High | 52-Week Low |
| GFI Group Inc | NYSE | GFIG | 563.7 | 4.47 | 11,156,757 | 43.7% | 46.1% | 4.50 | 2.98 |
| El Tigre Silver Corp | TSXV | ELS | 16.7 | 0.27 | 2,480,391 | 80.0% | 80.0% | 0.29 | 0.12 |
GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG) and El Tigre Silver Corp. (TSXV: ELS) lead the top small cap stock gainers for various sectors on both sides the border, including one that saw its share price soar 80%.
GFI Group Inc (NYSE: GFIG), a provider of wholesale brokerage services, clearing services and electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets, was the top gainer in the U.S. financial sector skyrocketing 43.7% Wednesday while recording huge trading volumes of 11.15 million shares after CME Group Inc, the largest futures exchange operator, announced to buy GFIG to expand its reach in the European energy and global foreign exchange markets. The stock ended yesterday at $4.47 breaching all the key technical resistance levels of 30-day, 50-day and 200-day DMAs (Daily Moving Average) of $3.26, $3.32 and $3.61 respectively. During the past 5-trading sessions, the stock gained 46.1% with daily average trading volumes of 2.5 million shares, while the stock accumulated over 35% in the past one month with daily average trading volumes of 664,175 shares. The stock is up 125% year-to-date.
Shares of El Tigre Silver Corp (TSX-V: ELS), a Canada-based mineral exploration and development company that owns 100% of 9 mining concessions, 8 comprising 431 square kilometers, located in the Sierra El Tigre, northeastern Sonora State in Mexico, jumped 80% yesterday breaking all the key technical resistance levels of 30-day, 50-day and 200-day DMAs (Daily Moving Average) of C$0.16, C$0.17 and C$0.19 respectively. The stock ended at C$0.27 while recording significant trading volumes of 2.5 million shares. During the past five trading sessions, the stock gained 80% with daily average trading volumes of 680,340 shares compared with the past one month average trading volumes of 139,718 shares.
