Financial stocks are particularly buoyant -- Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is up 5.2 percent.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Janus Capital Group, Complete Production Services, Federated Investors, Dice Holdings and Imperial Holdings. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Advanced Micro Devices, Great Plains Energy, Seadrill, Chesapeake Energy and Continental Resources.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: OMNOVA Solutions, Jabil Circuit, Hewlett-Packard, Synnex Corp and Talisman Energy. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Walgreen, Commercial Metals, Ship Finance International, Ship Finance International and Standard Pacific Corp.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: iSoftStone Holdings, Flotek Industries, Ivanhoe Mines, Chicago Bridge & Iron and Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold. The top after-market NYSE losers are: CoreSite Realty, Accuride, Carbo Ceramics, RPC and Oil States International.
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The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: ING Group, Basic Energy Services, American Eagle Outfitters, Noah Holdings Ltd and Jabil Circuit. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Sunrise Senior Living, American Axle & Manufacturing, Moneygram International, Clorox and Korn/Ferry International.
Deutsche Boerse AG's acquisition of NYSE Euronext could be unfair because it would create a silo in which a single exchange would dominate all stages of the trading and clearing process, said the head of rival Nasdaq OMX Group.
Nasdaq OMX has intensified its opposition to the planned tie-up of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse , saying the deal would irrevocably destroy competition in Europe's listed-derivatives market, the Wall Street Journal said.
Deutsche Boerse late on Thursday said shareholders in the Frankfurt-based exchange operator who had not yet tendered their stock as part of the NYSE Euronext deal, would not be forced to do so as part of a so-called squeeze-out.
The top after-market NYSE Losers on Friday are: Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Quanta Services, KBR, Chicago Bridge & Iron, Pier 1 Imports, Kronos Worldwide, UDR, Alere, Nucor and Temple-Inland.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Banco Santander, Brookfield Office Properties, Jaguar Mining, Sandridge Energy, Radioshack, Toll Brothers, General Growth Properties, Endeavour Silver Corp, Bank of America and CVR Energy.
The New York Stock Exchange will open Monday, a spokesman said.
New York is in the eye of Hurricane Irene's path. Here's why America's largest city faces high risk from Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene is bearing down a path toward assault on the U.S. East Coast Friday. Irene is nearing North Carolina and forcing evacuations and planned closings of public transportation in New York as the I-95 corridor prepares and gets ready to hunker down for the massive storm.
Hurricane Irene is tracking toward a potential direct hit on New York, America's largest city. The damage from such a storm could be major. Here's why.
The top after-market NYSE Losers on Tuesday are: Inphi Corp, Ivanhoe Mines, La-Z-Boy, DSW, Cobalt International Energy, Red Hat, Oceaneering International, PVH, Westlake Chemical and FMC Technologies.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: Dycom Industries, Accuride Corp, 3D Systems, Dollar General, MEMC Electronic Materials, Vonage Holdings, GMX Resources, Heckmann and Complete Production Services.
The top after-market NYSE Losers on Monday are: AutoNation, MVC Capital, Big Lots, Gap, LaSalle Hotel Properties, Western Refining, Robert Half International, Williams-Sonoma, Williams-Sonoma and Youku.com.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Helmerich & Payne, Camelot Information Systems, Penn Virginia, Astoria Financial, Monster Worldwide, Masco Corp, Western Digital and Elan Corp.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Frontline, Weatherford International, CBL & Associates Properties, iSoftStone Holdings and Strategic Hotels & Resorts. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Royal Bank Scotland Group, Accretive Health, Yanzhou Coal Mining Co, Clean Harbors and Liz Claiborne.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: MF Global Holdings, La-Z-Boy, Sanofi, Swift Transportation, Atlantic Power, MBIA, Salesforce.com, Barnes & Noble, Gap and Equity One.
The top after-market NYSE losers on Thursday are: LDK Solar Co, Hewlett-Packard, Aeropostale, Humana, GenOn Energy, First Commonwealth Financial and UBS AG.
