Shares of Priceline.com Inc. hit a nine-year high Tuesday, rising nearly 20 percent, a day after the online travel booking service posted a strong outlook, saying more customers were using it to book airfare and hotel rooms.

Priceline.com Inc. said Monday that its third-quarter profit more than tripled on an "exceptionally strong" summer travel season in which bargain hunters rented more hotel rooms and booked more flights through the online service.

Online travel agency Priceline.com posted a higher quarterly profit on a spike in bookings during an "exceptionally strong" summer travel season.

What follows is a roundup of corporate earnings reports for Monday, Nov. 9.

Standard & Poor's said Thursday it will add miner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. to its S&P 100 index to replace Schering-Plough Corp., after the drugmaker merges with Merck & Co. in a deal expected to be completed soon.

As the market loses steam,  some are turning to technology stocks to ride out the next stock cycle.

The U.S. economy, which was showing tentative early signs of a recovery, faces a potentially grave new threat: swine flu.