NEW YORK, May 18- Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.
NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.
NEW YORK, May 17- With the broad S&P 500 Index gliding once again into uncharted territory and posting four straight weeks of gains, the talk of Wall Street's rally inevitably hitting a ceiling is starting to get old.
*Money managers pull $1.4 bln from COMEX gold in May 14 week. Money managers, including hedge funds, pulled $1.4 billion from the U.S. gold futures market for the week ended May 14 by trimming their net long positions in the metal, according to Reuters calculations of data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
*Money managers pull $1.4 bln from COMEX gold in May 14 week. Money managers, including hedge funds, pulled $1.4 billion from the U.S. gold futures market for the week ended May 14 by trimming their net long positions in the metal, according to Reuters calculations of data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Kroger rose$. 35 or 1.0 percent, to $35.42. Safeway rose$. 14 or. 6 percent, to $25.15. Supervalu rose$. 26 or 3.9 percent, to $6.95.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. fell$. 34 or. 5 percent, to $62.04. Kimberly-Clark Corp. rose$. 60 or. 6 percent, to $104.35. Procter& Gamble Co. fell$. 18 or. 2 percent, to $80.02.
Caterpillar rose$. 89 or 1.0 percent, to $87.67. Deere& Co. fell $2.42 or 2.7 percent, to $86.97. Terex rose$. 89 or 2.8 percent, to $32.90.
AT&T Inc. rose$. 06 or. 2 percent, to $37.44. Sprint Nextel rose$. 04 or. 5 percent, to $7.32. Verizon Communications Inc. rose$. 15 or. 3 percent, to $53.35.
Apollo Group rose$. 28 or 1.3 percent, to $21.35. Career Education Corp. rose$. 30 or 10.8 percent, to $3.08. DeVry rose$. 58 or 1.9 percent, to $31.11.
Fluor rose $2.57 or 4.1 percent, to $64.57. Foster Wheeler rose$. 11 or. 5 percent, to $21.60. Quanta Services Inc. rose$. 46 or 1.5 percent, to $30.20.
Comcast Corp. fell$. 23 or. 5 percent, to $42.64. Walt Disney Co. rose$. 11 or. 2 percent, to $66.58. Gannett rose$. 73 or 3.5 percent, to $21.56.
American Electric Power Co. rose$. 59 or 1.2 percent, to $49.64. Consolidated Edison Inc. Holding Co. rose$. 63 or 1.0 percent, to $60.79. Dominion Resources Inc. rose$. 79 or 1.3 percent, to $61.17.
General Electric Co. rose$. 19 or. 8 percent, to $23.46. Snap-On rose$. 83 or. 9 percent, to $91.67. Whirlpool Corp. rose $2.61 or 2.0 percent, to $130.71.
NEW YORK-- Shares of some top chemicals companies were up at the close of trading:. Dow Chemical Co. rose$. 72 or 2.1 percent, to $35.82. DuPont Co. rose$. 40 or. 7 percent, to $55.89.
BP PLC rose$. 21 or. 5 percent, to $42.96. ConocoPhillips rose$. 88 or 1.4 percent, to $63.31. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose $1.06 or 1.2 percent, to $91.76.
Aruba Networks: Approximately 47,555,700 shares changed hands, a 1,582.9 percent increase over its 65- day average volume. The shares fell $4.51 or 25.6 percent to $13.10. Carrollton Bancorp: Approximately 7,500 shares changed hands, a 1,371.0 percent increase over its 65- day average volume.
ConAgra Foods Inc. rose$. 14 or. 4 percent, to $35.92. General Mills Inc. fell$. 11 or. 2 percent, to $50.36. Hormel Foods Corp. rose$. 07 or. 2 percent, to $42.70.
American Express Co. rose $1.09 or 1.5 percent, to $73.32. Capital One Financial Corp. rose $1.68 or 2.8 percent, to $60.83. Discover Financial Services rose $1.22 or 2.6 percent, to $47.70.
Allergan rose$. 99 or 1.0 percent, to $101.41. Baxter International Inc. rose $1.09 or 1.5 percent, to $72.94. Boston Scientific Corp. rose$. 06 or. 7 percent, to $9.10.