DuPont (DD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) fell 1.6% after a downgrade at Deutsche Bank. DD's downgrade came with a slew of other chemical company downgrades, including Dow Chemical (DOW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Chemtura (CEM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Westlake Chemical (WLK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Valspar (VAL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).
Crude oil futures fell 2.17% in morning trading after the Energy Department announced a rise in crude inventories.
Vail Resorts (MTN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) Power Rating Q3 Profit Rises 16% On Higher Ticket Prices, Skier Visits; EPS Before Items Tops Estimate; Lifts FY06 Profit Outlook (full story).
Fairchild Semiconductor (FCS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) Power Rating Backs Q2 Revenue Outlook (full story).
Palatin Technologies (PTN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) Power Rating To Defend Arbitration Filed By Competitive Technologies (CTT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) Power Rating (full story).
ValueClick (VCLK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) Power Rating Appoints Tom Vadnais President; COO Jeffrey Pullen Quits (full story).
For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking News section.
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Dow |
+43.78 |
11,045.92 |
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NASDAQ |
+13.22 |
2,176.00 |
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S&P 500 |
+4.80 |
1,268.65 |
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NYSE |
NASDAQ | |
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Volume |
975,732,000 |
759,427,000 |
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Advances |
1760 |
1709 |
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Declines |
1279 |
1096 |
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Up Volume |
471 |
450 |
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Down Volume |
382 |
237 |
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New Hi's |
20 |
47 |
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New Lo's |
58 |
60 |
Sectors
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Strongest Sectors |
Weakest Sectors |
| S&P Health Care (HCX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) | GSTI Semiconductor (GSM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
| Morgan Stanley Health Products (RXP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) | North American Telecoms (XTC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
| S&P Banks (BIX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) | Computer Technology (XCI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
Crude Inventories Rise In Most Recent Week (full story).
A new round of foreign economic reports that came out today. Check them out here.
John Patrick Lee
johnl@tradingmarkets.com
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