NEW YORK CITY

The following is text of a proclamation on the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire issued by President Barack Obama on March 24, 2011

US stocks continued to rally on Thursday as investors are shrugging off the bad news and focusing on the positive developments from the US corporate sector.

Shares of companies active in Thursday's early trade are: Red Hat, IMAX, Steelcase, Micron Technology, Best Buy, Salesforce.com, Paychex, Hologic, H.B. Fuller Co. and Northern Oil & Gas.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Red Hat, Micron Technology, Best Buy, Salesforce.com, Firstenergy, F5 Networks, Capital One Financial and Marshall & Ilsley Corp.

Shares of companies active in Wednesday's early trade are: Jabil Circuit, Cree, Adobe, Veeco Instruments, XOMA, Tata Communications, China Southern Airlines Co., Cintas, Global Industries and Northern Oil & Gas.

The top U.S. companies that are reporting earnings before the market opens on March 23 are: General Mills, Texas Industries, and Wonder Auto Technology. The top U.S. companies that are reporting earnings after the market close on March 23 are: Paychex, Red Hat, SAIC, Steelcase, HB Fuller, and OMNOVA Solutions.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Motricity, Cintas, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, Euronet Worldwide, and World Acceptance. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: XOMA, Double Eagle Petroleum, Solar Senior Capital, Ancestry.com, and United Therapeutics.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Bristol Myers Squibb, Netflix, Aflac, Verizon Communications, Nordstrom, Akamai Technologies, Wynn Resorts, Frontier Communications, Walgreen and Suntrust Banks.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Tiffany & Co, Hartford Financial, Coach, Joy Global, EMC Corp, General Electric, Nvidia, Sprint Nextel, American Tower and CF Industries Holdings.

Shares of Celera Corp. (NASDAQ: CRA) touched a new 52-week high of $8.42 on Friday, as it agreed to be acquired by Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE: DGX) for $8 a share or about $344 million in cash, net of $327 million in acquired cash and short-term investments.

Shares of companies active in Friday's early trade are Nike Inc., Cisco Systems, Lorillard Inc., LDK Solar Co., Celera, Under Armour and Longtop Financial Technologies.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: New York & Co, Capital Senior Living, Entravision Communications, Ralcorp Holdings and Diana Shipping. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Nike, Polypore International, Revlon, Basic Energy Services and Diamond Offshore Drilling.

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's plans to launch a rival bid for NYSE Euronext faces hurdles as differences with potential partner IntercontinentalExchange Inc persist, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Thursday.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Motorola Mobility, Fedex Corp, Nvidia, Nextera Energy, Amgen, Qualcomm, Sanmina-SCI, Sun Bancorp, THQ and Cypress Semiconductor.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Universal Display, Ascent Solar Technologies, Micron Technology, Deere & Co, Canadian Solar, Online Resources, Applied Materials, Carnival, Starbucks and Apple.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: AAR Corp, Tenet Healthcare, Brown Shoe Co, Universal Health Services and EnergySolutions. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Dividend & Income, Nomura Holdings, Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Progress Energy

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: First Solar, Netflix, MEMC Electronic Materials, U.S. Bancorp, American International Group, Capital One Financial, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Advanced Micro Devices and Jds Uniphase.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Heckmann, Transcananda, Aspen Insurance Holdings, Clean Harbors and KBR, Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Callon Petroleum, American Oriental Bioengineering, Universal Travel, Dole Food and Wuxi Pharmatech.

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc is preparing an offer for NYSE Euronext and the bid could come as early as this week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Cintas, MEMC Electronic Materials, First Solar, Micron Technology, Xilinx, Southwest Airlines, Exelon, NRG Energy, American International Group and Aflac.

EU regulators are likely to take a long, hard look at Deutsche Boerse's planned takeover of NYSE Euronext, the EU's antitrust chief said, while a top NYSE executive said talks with authorities globally are so far going well.