By The Numbers
- Lightning Round: CVS Caremark, Devon Energy, Tyson Foods and More
- Lightning Round OT: Ford, NewAlliance Bancshares and More
- Why You Should Speculate on Stocks
- Next Week’s Top IPO
- U.S. Stocks Rally for the Second Straight Week
- Cramer: 5 Earnings Reports to Watch Next Week
- Your First Move For Monday November 16th
- Web Extra: Where Will The Next Bull Come From?
- Burned by Yahoo!, Disney and More
- The Latest Picks That Paid – Friday November 13th
MOST SHARED
- Seeking Innovation in Health Care
- Cramer: 5 Earnings Reports to Watch Next Week
- Driving Health Care Innovation
- Next Week’s Top IPO
- Herbalife Vs. Hedge Funds
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great
- Has Twitter's Finest Hours (Seconds) Come and Gone?
- Court Rejects 'Clawbacks' for Alleged Stanford Victims
- Hedge Fund Billionaire Paulson Reports New Citi Stake
- Israel: Leader of Business Innovation
RSS FEED
Text Size 
On a week dominated by a new credit card bill and concerns over the US government debt AAA-credit rating, the markets end the week roughly flat to positive, following an abrupt reversal late Friday.
- Since March 9th lows, the S&P is up 31.11%, the Dow is up 26.43%, and the NASDAQ is up 33.37%
- The NASDAQ Composite is still positive year-to-date, up 7.3%, while the NASDAQ 100 is up 12.5% during the same period
Index Impact:
-McDonalds (MCD) had the most positive impact on the Dow, up almost 7% for the week
*YTD, American Express (AXP) is the top Dow performer by % gain, up over 26% YTD
**9 Dow components are positive YTD: AXP, IBM, DD, JPM, KO, DIS, INTC, MSFT, BA
-3M (MMM) had the most negative impact on the Dow, down over 3% for the week
*YTD, General Motors (GM) is the worst Dow performer by % loss, down over 55% YTD
-Procter & Gamble (PG) had the most positive impact on the S&P, up almost 5% for the week
*YTD, the top S&P performer by % gain is Sprint Nextel (S) up almost 182% YTD
-AT&T (T) had the most negative impact on the S&P, down almost 5% for the week
*YTD, the bottom S&P performer by % loss is Eastman Kodak (EK) down over 59% YTD
-Costco (COST) had the most positive impact on the NASDAQ 100 up almost 8% for the week.
*YTD, the top NASDAQ 100 performer by % gain is Sun Microsystems (JAVA), up almost 136% YTD
-Microsoft (MSFT) had the most negative impact on the NASDAQ 100, down over 2% for the week
*YTD, the worst NASDAQ 100 performer by % loss is Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPDI) down over 33% YTD
 |
Sector Impact:
Six out of ten S&P sectors were positive for the week led by Materials, up over 2.5%. Telecom was the most negative sector, down over 3% for the week.
- Materials were helped by International Paper (IP) up over 14% for the week
- Telecom was hurt by AT&T (T) down almost 5% for the week
- Year-to-date, three out of ten S&P sectors are trading on the black led by Materials, up nearly 15%
- Utilities are the laggards in 2009, down almost 12%
 |
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke to Columbia students, and Buffett made the students a startling offer.
- For the chief of cable company Comcast, growth has been about making deals – generally very large deals.
- Some companies may start using insurance to shift carbon risk from their balance sheets to maybe... yours?
- The president and founder of Genesis Today wants to improve America’s health, and thinks Wal-Mart can help.
- Switzerland's privacy watchdog is taking legal action to force Google to make changes to its Street View service.
- A wealthy, distracted Texas driver crashed his million-dollar Bugatti Veyron sports car into a salt marsh, say police.
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes