The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Thursday were: Asia Tigers Fund, Exterran Holdings, World Fuel Services, Bank of America, Office Depot, WPX Energy, McClatchy, EnergySolutions and Inergy Midstream.
Asian stocks edged up Friday, as signs of a strengthening economy in the United States encouraged a modest year-end rally in riskier assets.
The TSX finished higher for a third-straight session on Thursday as worries over European bank lending eased and U.S. economic data pointed to gradual economic improvements, sending financial and energy issues up sharply.
Fears over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to decide if thousands of women should have their implants surgically removed.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: WCA Waste, Curis, TIBCO Software, Infosys, Clearwire, Yahoo, and Micron Technology. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Alaska Communications Systems Group, VIVUS, Bed Bath & Beyond, Makita, and Research In Motion.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: WCA Waste, Mellanox Technologies, TIBCO Software, Salix Pharmaceuticals, and Ross Stores. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Alaska Communications Systems Group, VIVUS, SuperMedia, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Sequenom.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Wednesday were: Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Worthington Industries, Timken, Suncor Energy, Willbros Group, Quicksilver Resources, Teavana Holdings, Radioshack Corp, K12 Inc and Rentech Nitrogen Partners.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers Wednesday were: Country Style Cooking, Laredo Petroleum Holdings, United Parcel Service, Mueller Water Products, Pacific Drilling, Arch Coal, Office Depot, Ion Geophysical, Enersys and PulteGroup, Inc.
Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a dead chicken there tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian virus, a government spokesman said.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Research In Motion, Polycom, and Yandex. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Oracle, Conceptus, ARM Holdings, ASML Holding, Baidu, and Paychex.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Research In Motion, FSI International, Cintas, Suffolk Bancorp, and Westell Technologies. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Oracle, L & L Energy, Columbia Laboratories, Epoch Investment Partners, and Autodesk.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers Tuesday were: Jabil Circuit, SAP AG, FelCor Lodging Trust, iSoftStone Holdings, TRC Companies, PVH Corp, Sealed Air Corp, Talisman Energy, Yingli Green Energy Holding and Frontline Ltd.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Tuesday were: Atlantic Power, Sprint Nextel, Ultra Petroleum, Nike, Qihoo 360 Technology, Berry Petroleum, Valmont Industries, Carnival Corp and Beazer Homes USA.
Asian stocks and the euro rose on Wednesday after upbeat U.S. and German data and strong demand for Spanish debt tempered risk-aversion, with investors' focus turning to a European Central Bank tender as a gauge for euro zone funding strains.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.5 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.4 percent at 0819 GMT.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Clearwire, Patterson-UTI Energy, MicroStrategy, VIVUS and Zions Bancorp. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: II-VI, SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Harmonic, Columbia Laboratories and Extreme Networks.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Monday were: Emulex Corp, Sprint Nextel Corp, Skilled Healthcare Group, Radioshack, Cemex SAB, InvenSense, Quicksilver Resources, CBRE Group, Ultra Petroleum and Crexus Investment Corp.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Friday were: Red Hat, Polypore International, Primus Guaranty, Complete Production Services, LDK Solar Co, Talisman Energy, SeaBright Holdings, Ashford Hospitality Trust, Blount International and MEMC Electronic Materials.
Asian stocks and the euro edged up on Tuesday, but sentiment remained fragile on concerns that efforts to contain the euro zone debt crisis were faltering and tougher rules to strengthen banks' capital would further undermine their profits.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Merge Healthcare, Sequenom, LM Ericsson Telephone, Unilife, and Amarin. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: ZAGG, Zions Bancorp, Sina, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Research In Motion.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Friday were: C&J Energy Services, Flotek Industries, Standard Pacific, Monster Worldwide, Transcananda Pipelines, Quanex Building Products, Williams Partners, Stillwater Mining, Crawford & Co and Imax Corp.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Friday were: Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Genpact, Advantage Oil & Gas, Skilled Healthcare Group, Lender Processing Services, CoreSite Realty, Williams Companies, Western Asset Bond and Luby's.
The top after-market NASDAQ losers are: Cray, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, ZAGG, HMS Holdings, Clearwire, Riverbed Technology, Aruba Networks, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Glu Mobile and Zynga Inc.
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers are: SuperMedia, AsiaInfo-Linkage, Imperial Sugar, Electronic Arts, Endocyte, Twin Disc, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Complete Genomics, Central European Distribution and PMC - Sierra.
With less than two weeks left before the end of the year, all kinds of market participants, from economists at multinational banks to stock bloggers in their bedrooms, have begun to give their predictions for 2012. Here is a lucky set of seven predictions that could benefit investors next year.
A rally in stocks fizzled, leaving major indexes with modest gains on Friday, as Wall Street was torn between hope that U.S. economic data signals better times ahead and fear Europe's debt crisis will engulf world economies.
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.3 to 0.6 percent.
World stocks rose on Friday after upbeat U.S. data and corporate results, while concerns over the European banking sector and nervousness about potential ratings downgrades in European sovereign debt underpinned German government bonds.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Thursday were: Bonanza Creek Energy, CTS Corp, Quiksilver, Transcananda Pipelines, Exterran Holdings, Jaguar Mining, Solarwinds, HyperDynamics, First Commonwealth Financial and Parker Drilling.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Thursday were: Harmony Gold Mining, MEMC Electronic Materials, Harry Winston Diamond, Accenture, Skilled Healthcare Group, Michael Kors Holdings, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Alpha Natural Resource, Aflac and MetLife.
