Major indexes close in the green for the day;
sentiments helped by positive earnings from major corporations.
Unexpected positive quarterly results from
Caterpillar, AT&T, Verizon and Honeywell help to boost investor confidence,
lifting the Dow to close up 100, almost 1& higher.
General Motors (GM | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
closed down -3% after announcing a quarterly loss of nearly $5 billion.
GM's
Power Rating.
Stocks On The
Move
Marathon Oil (MRO | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
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Q4 Profit Nearly Triples (full
story).
Bumpy Road Rocks General
Motors' (GM | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
Power Rating
Q4 (full
story).
Microsoft (MSFT | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
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At The Sweetspot Of New Product (full
story).
Caterpillar (CAT | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
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Q4 EPS Soars 56% On Higher Revenue And Price Realization, Boosts FY06
EPS Forecasts (full
story).
Amgen (AMGN | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
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Q4 Earnings Rise 20% On Top Line Growth Of 12.4%, Adj. EPS Misses
Estimates (full
story).
Honeywell (HON | news | PowerRating | PR Charts )
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Q4 Profit More Than Doubles, Guides FY06 EPS In Line With Consensus (full
story).
For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking
News section.
|
Dow |
+99.17 |
10808.91 |
|
NASDAQ |
+22.35 |
2283.00 |
|
S&P 500
|
+9.23 |
1273.91 |
|
|
NYSE |
NASDAQ |
|
Volume |
2,789,625,000 |
2,391,269,000 |
|
Advances |
2106 |
2042 |
|
Declines |
1175 |
981 |
|
Up Volume |
1739 |
1443 |
|
Down Volume |
788 |
760 |
|
New Hi's |
290 |
238 |
|
New Lo's |
36 |
29 |
Economic
News
Durable Goods Orders Continue To
Increase In December (full
story).
Jobless Claims Rise Much Less Than
Expected (full
story).
John Patrick Lee
johnl@tradingmarkets.com
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