The top aftermarket NYSE losers Tuesday were: Endeavor International, Parker Drilling, Ventas, Office Depot, iSoftStone Holdings, Demand Media, Noranda Aluminum Holding and Xueda Education Group.
After closing the book on a wild and nerve-wracking year, investors greeted the first trading day of the year with a wide rally Tuesday -- bidding up equities, commodities and other risky assets across the board.
Gold rose by nearly 2 percent on Tuesday, fueled by a recovery in the euro against the dollar, after the bullion price neared six-month lows last week in a flurry of year-end selling.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Imperial Sugar, RAM Energy Resources, Rambus, Logitech International, Micron Technology, Melco Crown Entertainment, Research In Motion and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Zions Bancorp. and Key Technology.
ICE February Brent crude futures rose $2.97 to $110.35 a barrel in trading, while U.S. crude futures were up $2.70 to $101.53 a barrel. U.S. crude futures were up as much as $101.68 in the trading day.
The United States will continue to be the top choice of most global commercial real-estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil, which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday.
Shaky Europe. Political gridlock. Volatile markets. Familiar themes for those who lived through this year, and investors should be ready to revisit them next year.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers Friday are: Web.com Group, TASER International, SORL Auto Parts, Globecomm Systems, Bank of the Ozarks, Research In Motion, and Google. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Sonus Networks, Vitesse Semiconductor, ZAGG, Xenoport, and Rediff.com India.
Toronto's main stock index closed higher on Friday, the last trading day of the year, as financial and resource shares rallied on signs the U.S. economy was recovering, but the jump was not enough to avert the market's first year-on-year decline since 2008.
The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Asset Acceptance Capital, Ryanair Holdings, LM Ericsson Telephone, Amazon.com, and Research In Motion. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: ASML Holding, James River Coal, Diamond Foods, and Apple.
The top after market NYSE gainers on Thursday were: Masco Corp, Mosaic Co, USG Corp, Teradyne and Carnival Corp. The top after market NYSE Losers were: GenOn Energy, Franco Nev Corp, Office Depot, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes and Janus Capital Group.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: MoSys, Pacific Biosciences of California, Career Education, Thoratec, and Royal Gold. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Primo Water, DexCom, SIGA Technologies, Xyratex, and Northern Technologies International.
Asian stocks nudged higher and the euro clung to overnight gains Friday, the last trading day of 2011, as positive data from the United States helped allay concerns on the global economy, while year-end short covering lifted crude prices.
The Canadian dollar was little changed against the U.S. dollar on Thursday morning but that meant it outperformed other major currencies as the greenback consolidated the sharp safe-haven gains it made in thin year-end trade in the previous session.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Fushi Copperweld, Yahoo, ARM Holdings, Research In Motion, Baidu, Apple, and Cisco Systems. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Amazon.com, Makita, OmniVision Technologies, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and LM Ericsson Telephone.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Wednesday were: Hudbay Minerals, Radian Group, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, AuRico Gold, Jones Group, HyperDynamics Corp, Parker Drilling, Huntsman Corp and Suncor Energy Inc.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers Wednesday were: Molina Healthcare, WPX Energy, Autoliv, Mosaic, Statoil ASA, Hartford Financial Services Group, Sprint Nextel, Invesco High Yield Investments and Eaton Corp.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Fushi Copperweld, MIPS Technologies, Career Education, Sykes Enterprises, and Stewart Enterprises. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Exar, Metabolix, Xyratex, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and Apollo Investment.
Asian stocks fell on Thursday, taking cues from weak U.S. and European shares, as players cut positions heading into the year end with an Italian debt auction later in the day keeping markets nervous.
U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after a hefty year-end rally and the S&P 500 erased gains for the year on renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health.
Venezuela is offering women the free removal of breast implants made by a bankrupt French company that used industrial silicone to make cheap prostheses linked to health risks.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Pinnacle Financial Partners, ARM Holdings, Randgold Resources, Infosys, Research In Motion, Amazon.com, Google, and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Cavium, Sears Holdings, Windstream, and Cisco Systems.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Bon-Ton Stores, Neurocrine Biosciences, Vanda Pharmaceuticals, and Dish Network. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Cavium, Parlux Fragrances, Solazyme, MAKO Surgical, and Rambus.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Tuesday were: McDermott International, Energy Transfer Equity, Radioshack, Sequans Communications, Western Digital, Commercial Metals, Korea Fund, CIT Group and Whirlpool Corp.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers Tuesday were: Medicis Pharmaceutical, Beazer Homes USA, Service Corporation International, GenOn Energy, WPX Energy, CapitalSource, K12 and W.R. Berkley Corp.
Crude oil prices gained in Asian trade Wednesday on fears that growing tensions between Iran and Western powers may threaten crude supplies from the Middle East.
Stocks ended flat on Tuesday after fluctuating between small gains and losses in a light-volume session, as investors took a breather following a 5 percent rally last week.
China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market movers are: Parlux Fragrances, Makita, Siliconware Precision Industries, Amazon.com, and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Sears Holdings, RAM Energy Resources, ZAGG, QUALCOMM, and Research In Motion.
