Markets End Mixed As Investors Wait For Bernanke
Markets close the day mixed;
S&P and Dow down fractionally while Nas closes up.
Crude oil dropped to a seven-month low, as US
inventories remain at a seven-year high.
Wal-Mart
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rose 2% after announcing plans to expand overseas in China.
Lucent
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fell 3% after a negative article in Barron’s was published over the weekend
about the company.
href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Stock%20Alert/”>Stocks On The
Move
Books-A-Million
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Q4 EPS Up 22% On Higher Sales; Declares 60% Increase In Quarterly Dividend (full
story).
Kerzner
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Agrees To Be Bought By Investor Group For About $3 Bln (full
story).
Bausch & Lomb’s
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217z100 Laser Gets FDA Approval For Eye Surgery In The U.S (full
story).
Monsanto
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Gets FDA Nod For Posilac Production At Its Augusta Facility (full
story).
Reliant Energy
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Cuts FY06 Outlook On Weaker Commodity Price, Mild Weather; Sees Wider Loss From
Cont. Ops (full
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Michaels Stores
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May Consider Sale; CEO Retires (full
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Williams-Sonoma
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Q4 Profit Up 6% On Higher Revenue; Initiates Quarterly Dividend; Sees FY06 Adj.
EPS Above Street Views (full
story).
For more stories as they happen, go to our href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Breaking%20News/”>Breaking
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Dow
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-5.12
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11,274.53
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NASDAQ
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+7.63
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2,314.11
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S&P 500
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-2.17
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1,305.08
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Volume
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1,913,123,000
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1,943,274,000
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Advances
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1389
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1498
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Declines
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1866
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1519
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Up Volume
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714
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1170
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Down Volume
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1025
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654
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New Hi’s
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208
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192
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New Lo’s
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39
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39
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href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Economic%20News/”>Economic
News
Minehan – ‘Makes No Sense To Worry’ About Effects Of
Housing
Minehan – Fed ‘Could Be Wrong’ On Magnitude Of
Slowdown
John Patrick Lee
johnl@tradingmarkets.com
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