Stocks End Mixed

• December 2, 2005
• Brice Wightman

Stocks were mixed on Friday, and nearly
unchanged for the week. Nonfarm payrolls for
November rose 215,000, near expectations; the unemployment rate was 5%.
Average hourly earnings rose +0.2%. Crude climbed to a
three-week high, up 1% on the week.

Starbucks
(
SBUX |
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November comps rose 7%–much higher than the 4.4% anticipated.

Ford
(
F |
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Louis, Atlanta and St. Paul; 7500 workers are employed at these locations.

Novell
(
NOVL |
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Strong sectors were:  Airlines 
(
XALI |
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+0.73%     Pharmeaceuticals
(
DRG |
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Weak sectors were:   
Gold
(
XAU |
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(
BTK |
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-0.36%     Telecom 
(
XTC |
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-0.30%

Dow	-35.08	10,877.51
Nasdaq	+6.20	2273.37
S&P 500	+0.41	1265.08

More stocks on the move:

GenProbe
(
GPRO |
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(
CHIR |
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Sohu.com
(
SOHU |
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of a positive article in Business Week.

OmniVision
(
OVTI |
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PowerRating) beat by 0.10
and guided higher.

Brice Wightman

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