The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Target Corp, Limited Brands, Urban Outfitters, Macy's, Gap, Sprint Nextel, Chesapeake Energy, Corning, Yum! Brands and Wellpoint Inc.
Stock index futures advanced on Thursday before data on the labor market, which may provide investors clues about Friday's key payrolls report.
Wall Street was set to edge up on Thursday, with a key index at its highest in seven weeks, as investors await labor market data giving indications of the recovery in the U.S. economy.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Oshkosh Truck Corp, Corning, Sirius XM Radio, American Tower Corp, Marathon Oil, Cablevision Systems, Eastman Kodak, Radioshack, MEMC Electronic Materials and General Mills.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Royal of Bank Scotland Group, Celestica, JA Solar Holdings, GT Solar International, Dendreon, Hess Corp, TJX Companies, Transocean, Allegheny Technologies and Centurylink.
The top after-market NYSE losers on Wednesday are: Callaway Golf, Transocean, Cameron International, Banco Santander Brasil, Tidewater, AU Optronics, Royal Bank Scotland Group, HealthSouth, Steelcase and Tenet Healthcare Corp.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: USANA Health Sciences, Visa, Celestica, Lithia Motors, Ion Geophysical, AOL, Mastercard, Office Depot, Carnival Corp and Arrow Electronics.
Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext formally sought EU approval for their planned $9 billion tie-up on Wednesday, triggering a lengthy review expected to focus on the derivatives and clearing businesses.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Bank of America, AK Steel Holding, Archer Daniels Midland, Analog Devices, Legg Mason, Monsanto, United States Steel, KB Home, General Mills and Family Dollar Stores.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: Sealy Corp, MBIA, Zale Corp, Alcatel Lucent and McMoRan Exploration. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Shaw Group, OMNOVA Solutions, Alon USA Energy, Ashford Hospitality and Fairchild Semiconductor International.
Bank of Montreal's BMO Capital Markets, fresh from a two-year hiring spree, is further staffing up its U.S. investment bank to take advantage of a surging market for merger advisory.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Southern Union, Navios Maritime Holdings, Noranda Aluminum Holding, Crexus Investment and Vishay Precision Group. The top after-market NYSE losers are: STR Holdings, Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Energy Transfer Equity, New York & Co and Imation Corp.
NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG agreed to pay roughly $900 million of dividends to settle U.S. shareholder lawsuits challenging their roughly $10 billion merger to create the world's largest exchange operator.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Bristol Myers Squibb, Red Hat, Pfizer, Bed Bath & Beyond, Walgreen, Lennar, Conagra Foods, Nabors Industries, Expedia and Hess Corp.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Carmax, Fedex, Yahoo, Reynolds American, Reynolds American, United Parcel Service, Jabil Circuit, Philips Electronics, Archer Daniels Midland and Archer Daniels Midland.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Best Buy, Micron Technology, Biogen Idec, Aetna, Discover Financial, Weatherford International, CVS, Country Style Cooking, Walgreen, Invesco Mortgage and Motorola Mobility Holdings.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: ING Group, Companhia Brasileira, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding, EnergySolutions and American Reprographics. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Lender Processing Services, Cal Dive International, Pandora Media, TRC Companies and CarMax.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Georgia Gulf, Newpark Resources, BPZ Resources, Eastman Chemical and Westlake Chemical. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Collective Brands, Winnebago Industries, STR Holdings, Talbots and Korn/Ferry International.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Netapp, Finisar, Owens-Illinois, E-Commerce China, Carnival, J.C. Penney, Sprint Nextel, United States Steel, Baker Hughes and Southwest Airlines.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: China Ming Yang Wind Power, CLARCOR, Brunswick, La-Z-Boy and E-Commerce China Dangdang. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Emdeon, EMC, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Headwaters and Eastman Kodak.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Nabors Industries, Micron Technology, Sprint Nextel, Barclays, Wells Fargo, Ford Motor, Caterpillar, Apple, Nokia, Morgan Stanley and Kinder Morgan Energy.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: TAL Education Group, BPZ Resources, Xueda Education, CONSOL Energy and Penn West Petroleum. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Hypercom, K-V Pharmaceutical, iSoftStone Holdings, China Ming Yang Wind Power Group and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.