TradingMarkets Mid-Day Movers

  • April 5, 2007
  • Darren Wong

U.S. stocks are trading mixed in today’s
pre-holiday session.  Also, traders are cautious ahead of
tomorrow’s March employment figures.

May Crude futures continue to
pull back currently down 0.6% to $64.00 per barrel.  Gold futures
are trading fractionally higher by 0.3% to $679.50 an ounce.

Stocks in Asia finished Thursday’s session
mixed.  The Shanghai Composite closed higher by 0.8% to
3,319.14, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 1% to 20,209.71, and Tokyo’s
Nikkei fell 0.3% to 17,491.42.

Our

Daily Market Bias page has been updated with new indicators to
determine if there is a strong bias for the market to move higher
(or lower) the following day.  These tables can help you to
pinpoint market conditions that have historically led to
significant up or down moves over the next 1 to 5 days. 

Click here for more information on our Daily Market Bias
indicators.



Stocks in
Motion

Rite Aid
(
RAD |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) March Same Store Sales Up 3.3%; Sales
Rise 3.8% (full
story).  RAD shares rise 1.4%.

Constellation
Brands
(
STZ |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) Q4 Profit Rises On Higher Wine Sales; Backs FY08 EPS
Outlook (full
story).  STZ shares gain 3%.

Micron Technology
(
MU |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) Swings To Q2 Loss (full
story).  MU shares lose 3.5%.

Immucor
(
BLUD |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating) Q3 Profit Up 28%, EPS Tops
Consensus By A Penny (full
story).  BLUD shares jump 6.4%.

For more stories as they happen, go to our
Breaking News section.

Market Snapshot

Dow

 -3.82 12,526.23

NASDAQ

 +3.85 2,462.59

S&P 500

 +0.71 1,440.08

 

 NYSE NASDAQ

Volume

 951,374,000 624,460,000

Advances

 1787 1421

Declines

 1216 1377

Up Volume

 486 326

Down Volume

 344 217

New Highs

 164 120

New Lows

 13 31



Strongest/Weakest Sectors

Strongest Sectors

Weakest Sectors
S&P Healthcare Index (HCX) S&P Chemicals Index (CEX)
Amex Airline Index (XAL) CBOE Internet Index (INX)
Amex Disk Drive Index (DDX) Nasdaq Telecommunications Index (IXTCX)


Economic
News

Initial Claims 321K vs 315K
consensus

Darren Wong

Associate Editor

darrenw@tradingmarkets.com