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Early action was choppy and listless Thursday as market participants responded to renewed weakness in Europe, but an afternoon advance added to weekly gains. Today after the close, look for the following companies to report: ZOLL, WDC, FIO, COHR, ELY, MIPS, ABAX, ARBA, CPSI, CRBC, EMN, FII, GDOT, HBHC, INFA, INVN, KLAC, MCRL, MCRS, MXIM, [...]

The Fed was in focus this afternoon, but today’s advance is really owed to a strong rally by the market’s biggest stock, Apple (AAPL, 610.00, +49.72). Today after the close, of the many companies scheduled to report, some of the bigger names include: AKAM, AIZ, CCI, CTXS, CLF, FNF, GG, JAH, KBR, LSI, LVS, ORLY, [...]

The Dow and SP 500 booked solid gains today, but the Nasdaq faltered amid weakness in Tech stocks and heavyweight Apple. After the close, ACE, ACPW, AEGN, AFL, ACC, AMGN, AMSG, ANEN, AAPL, BIDU, BKI, CHRW, BCR, CBG, CBI, CGI, CENX, CTS, CYMI, DDIC, DV, DUF, DRCO, EW, WIRE, ENTR, EEFT, FTI, FTNT, HLIT, HTS, [...]

The major equity averages fell hard in early trade. Although they were able to trim losses in a slow and steady fashion, broad losses were still booked. After the close, ALGN, AMP, BXS, BBCN, CNI, CR, CTGX, ETH, FNB, FFIN, HWA, HSTM, HTLF, HXL, IEX, ILMN, JJSF, NFLX, OMI, RCII, SANM, SFG, STM, TXN, TUES, [...]

A general lack of leadership left stocks to slide into negative territory for the second straight session, but a late bounce helped the major averages trim their losses. After the close, ASBC, COF, CYN, EZPW, IBKR, MSFT, ALTR, AMD, EFII, TPX, ETFC, SNDK, CB, COBZ, CPHD, FSL, HUBG, LSCC, MATW, MBFI, RMBS, RVBD, CYT, CMG, [...]

The broad market spent the session bouncing along in negative territory. Its inability to push into positive territory left it to book a modest loss. After the close, CVBF, EBAY, FFIV, KMP, PLXS, WTFC, AXP, CBST, SLM, ALB, PLCM, VMW, STLD, AF, BRKL, CNS, GHL, IBKC, LRCX, MLNX, NE, RLI, SWK, UMPQ, WERN, CCK, CLB, [...]

Equities finished near their best levels of the session as enthusiastic investors gobbled up shares after Spain was able to successfully raise EUR3.2 billion through the sale of 12- and 18-month bills. The auctions were met with robust investor demand despite the rise in yields, and shelved contagion fears for the time being. Today’s gains [...]

Stocks ended the day mixed as the Dow advanced 0.6% and the Nasdaq fell 0.8%. The broad-based SP 500 finished little changed with a loss of 0.1%. Equities opened on session highs following the strong retail sales data, but fell to their lows shortly after the business inventories and NAHB Housing Market Index data. The [...]

The major averages finished at session highs as investors gobbled up shares on the prospects of more quantitative easing by the Fed after this morning’s initial claims and PPI data fell short of estimates. The data, coupled with last night’s speech by Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, in which she suggested keeping the Fed Funds [...]

Stocks finished off their best levels as the early morning excitment following the Spanish auctions and better than expected earnings from Alcoa faded over the course of the session. The Fed’s latest Beige Book was released this afternoon, and suggested that overall economic activity in the dozen Fed districts continued to increase at a modest [...]