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Trading volume in Taleo [TLEO
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Last month, Oracle [ORCL
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Here's a look at other stocks in the S&P 1,500 index [.SPSUP
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Gas prices in all 50 states this week are back above $3 per gallon for the first time since December 15, when regular unleaded gasoline remained at this level for nearly 10 months.
According to the latest data from AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the national retail average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the U.S. stands at $3.48, nearly 12 percent more than a year ago.
At the same rate, crude oil prices [CLCV1
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Shares of Caesars Entertainment [CZR
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] spiked Wednesday as the company made its IPO debut on the NASDAQ, giving the casino chain a market cap value of about $1.6 billion.
To the downside, Higher One [ONE
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] stock plunged as fourth-quarter revenue for the technology and payments services provider came in below consensus estimates.
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Shares of O'Charley's Restaurant [CHUX
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] spiked Monday after Fidelity National Financial, a title insurance and mortgage firm, announced it is buying the restaurant chain.
To the downside, Sohu.com [SOHU
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] stock dropped as the Chinese search-engine firm forecast first-quarter earnings below the analyst consensus estimate.
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U.S. stocks rallied Friday, following a stronger-than-expected jobs report, showing the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent -- its lowest level since February 2009.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average [.DJI
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Similary, the S&P 500 index [.SPX
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Trading volume in Gilead Sciences [GILD
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] jumped 260 percent on Friday over its 10-day average, after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results from an early clinical trial of a recently acquired hepatitis C drug.
Here's a look at other stocks in the S&P 1,500 index [.SPSUP
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Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch [ANF
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] tumbled Thursday, after the teen retailer forecast a fourth-quarter outlook below analysts' expectations, sending its stock to the lowest level since October 2010.
To the upside, Zynga [ZNGA
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] stock soared, setting a record high, following news of Facebook's highly anticipated IPO — a large portion of Zynga's revenue derives from users playing games on Facebook.
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Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil appeared from his burrow Thursday, casting a shadow and predicting six more weeks of winter. Could this furry weather prognosticator also forecast the stock market performance?
In the last 10 years, stocks fell 70 percent of the time six-weeks after Phil made an apperance, with the S&P 500 index [.SPX
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Shares of Amazon.com [AMZN
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] plunged Wednesday, after the e-commerce giant reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue, leading many analysts to reduce their price targets.
To the upside, Medivation [MDVN
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] stock rose sharply as the biopharmaceutical company reported that an experimental drug against advanced prostate cancer extended patients' lives in a second late-stage clinical trial.
Here is a look at some of the companies showing unusual moves in Wednesday's trading session [.SPX
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