The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Thursday were: Cooper Companies, Pall Corp, AGL Resources, Enersys, Texas Industries, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Goodrich Petroleum, Precision Drilling, Office Depot and Hertz Global Holdings.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Thursday were: Invesco Mortgage Capital, Texas Instruments, Stone Energy, Dynegy, Cincinnati Bell, Getty Realty, GenOn Energy, First Republic Bank, Esterline Technologies and MEMC Electronic Materials.
Twitter announced Thursday plans to introduce brand pages, similar to Facebook.
Among the happiest is likely company chairman Bill Ford Jr., who made the announcement, considering he and family members who own or receive dividend benefit from many of the company's Class B shares have been the income since the dividend was dropped in 2006 as Ford struggled, teetering near bankruptcy.
Susquehanna Financial cut its profit estimates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) after the company guided weak results for its investment bank unit.
U.S. telecom giant AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) said it sold about 6 million smartphones in the first two months of the fourth quarter and expects to break the previous single-quarter smartphone sales record of 6.1 million, thanks mainly to Apple iPhone 4S.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Wednesday were: Methode Electronics, Titan International, C&J Energy Services, Talbots, Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley, McMoRan Exploration, Huntsman Corp, U.S. Bancorp and Novartis AG.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Wednesday were: 3D Systems Corp., Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., Enterprise Products Partners, Armour Residential REIT, Range Resources, Frontline, Juniper Networks, St. Joe and MBIA, Inc.
As his peers in larger financial institutions are dealing with collapsing stock prices and laying off tens of thousands, the chief executive at boutique investment firm Lazard Ltd (NYSE:LAZ) said he believes smaller, more nimble investment banks like his are likely to benefit from trends developing on Wall Street.
The St. Louis-based agricultural chemicals and biotechnology company now expects ongoing EPS guidance in the range of $0.15 to $0.20 for the quarter, up from the previous guidance of $0.10 to $0.15 and exceeding analysts' consensus of $0.13.
To hear it from one side, private equity and hedge fund managers are under a veritable siege: under attack from politicians, regulators, an ornery market and uneasy clients. But the hedge fund managers themselves seem to be saying all is good in Greenwich.
New York State's Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) recently published its final recommendations to the New York State Dept. of Health, proposing a model that would fully integrate Medicaid and Medicare services for those eligible for both programs (dual eligibility).
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), which announced Tuesday that it would cut about 4,500 jobs, could get faster regulatory capital than other banks, according to a Wall Street analyst.
Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is steadily making progress on its ambition to enter consumers' living rooms, via its own television sets called iTV, which are expected to be launched in the first half of 2012.
According to Jeffries, Verizon Communications Inc.'s (NYSE: VZ) standalone video streaming service, which is expected to launch in 2012, could be another potential competitor for Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX).
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Tuesday were: Talbots, Men's Wearhouse, Sealy Corp, NCI Building Systems, Lithia Motors, Coeur d'Alene Mines, Yingli Green Energy Holding, United States Steel Corp, B&G Foods Holdings and China Ming Yang Wind Power Group.
The top aftermarket NYSE losers on Tuesday were: HyperDynamics Corp, Precision Drilling Corp, NYSE Euronext, Gold Fields Ltd, SK Telecom Corp, Express, Pacific Drilling, Peabody Energy Corp and Federal Signal Corp.
Citigroup Inc. (C) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the bank will eliminate 4,500 jobs "over the next few quarters" in an effort to reduce costs, The Associated Press reported.
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE: HIG) announced it will sell all of the assets of Hartford Life Private Placement LLC, a subsidiary that provides insurance to high-net-worth customers, to Philadelphia Financial Group Inc. for $117.5 million.
UBS announced Tuesday it will be adding five recently-public Web 3.0 companies, including Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) to its benchmark index of young public Internet companies, officially called the UBS Next Generation Internet Index.
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) shares continued rallying today, the fifth day the stock seems poised to close higher, as trading was boosted by a widely-anticipated speech from its CEO. The wider market for large financial companies was mixed.
Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) is expected to show significant cash flow improvements over the next few years, according to Barclays Capital Markets.
