BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Drug stocks edged higher in early action Friday, but shares of Sepracor Inc. fell 5% after the stock was downgraded by analysts at FBR to underperform.
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Pakistani stocks tumbled Friday under political instability amid tensions over survival of the governing coalition on the issue of reinstatement of judges ousted by military dictator turned civilian president Pervez Musharraf.
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May 2, 2008 - 10:23 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Magma Design Automation Inc. lost a third of their value Friday morning after the microchip design software company offered a fiscal first-quarter…
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May 2, 2008 - 10:32 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Networking equipment companies headed higher Friday morning as Wall Street advanced after a better-than expected jobs report. Nortel climbed after reiterat…
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Airline investors struggled to maintain a rally from prior-day trading despite a sudden jump Friday in oil prices. The Amex Airline Index
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Analyst upgrades boosted shares of RadioShack Corp. and high-end retailer Nordstrom early Friday, while Gap Inc. fell on a downgrade. Overall, the retail sector moved hi…
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) subsidiary was forced to cancel more than 3,000 flights, stranding tens of thousands of customers and costing the carrier tens of millions in lost revenue, after it was determined the airline hadn…
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks regained some of their losses in the previous session on Friday, as Chevron reported a better-than-expected increase of 10% in its first-quarter earnings.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks posted strong gains Friday, moving higher as the Federal Reserve expanded a program to ease liquidity in troubled debt markets and as employment data sh…
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LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks hit their highest levels since mid-January on Friday as confidence in the U.S. economy grew, the dollar strengthened and oil prices fell, ahead of key U.S. employmen…