NEW YORK-- A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on New York Stock Exchange at 1 p.m.:. Orbitz Worldwide rose 22.0 percent to $7.87. Barnes& Noble Inc. rose 18.2 percent to $21.00.
PORTLAND, Ore.-- Precision Castparts rocketed to an all-time high in trading Thursday after breezing past Wall Street profit expectations for the fourth quarter. Net income jumped 23 percent to $414.2 million, or $2.82 per share, up from $336.1 million, or $2.30 per share a year earlier.
MILAN, May 7- Pirelli, the world's fifth-largest tyremaker, stuck with its full-year earnings target as it expected growth in the higher-margin premium segment to underpin profitability, despite a drop in European sales.
MILAN, May 7- Pirelli, the world's fifth-largest tyremaker, stuck with its full-year sales and profit targets as growth in the higher-margin premium segment underpin revenue and margins this year.
STOCK MARKET AND BOARD MEETINGS ITALY- Ex-dividend: Banca Ifis 0.37 euro per ordinary share; Banca Popolare di Sondrio 0.033 euro per share; Banca Profilo 0.002 euro per share; B&C Speakers 0.28 euro per share; CAD IT 0.30 euro per share; Conafi Prestito 0.06 euro per share; Credito Bergamasco 0.55 euro per share; Elica 0.237 euro per share; Esprinet 0.089 euro per ordinary share; Gruppo MutuiOnline 0.05 euro per share as ordinary dividend and 0.07 euro per share as extraordinary dividend; Save 0.43672 euro per share; Valsoia 0.170 euro per share.
*SocGen cuts price target to 8.90 euros from 9.50 euros; rating buy. For a summary of rating actions and price target changes on European companies:. Reuters Station users, click. 1580.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday asked centre-left politician Enrico Letta to form a new government, signalling the end of a damaging two-month stalemate since elections in the euro zone's third largest economy in February.
NEW YORK/ CHICAGO, April 12- Within 36 hours of Warren Buffett's announcement of a deal to buy H.J. Heinz, U.S. authorities froze an account linked to possible insider trading.
NEW YORK, Jan 27- U.S. stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The Standard& Poor's 500 Index is up 5.4 percent this year and above 1,500- climbing to the spot where Wall Street strategists expected it to be by mid-year.
NEW YORK, Jan 25- U.S. stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The Standard& Poor's 500 Index has gained 5.4 percent this year and closed above 1,500- climbing to the spot where Wall Street strategists expected it to be by mid-year.
NEW YORK, Jan 25- U.S. stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The Standard& Poor's 500 Index has gained 5 percent this year- climbing to the spot where Wall Street strategists expected it to be by mid-year.