US stocks dip on Walmart, middling data

The Dow gained 121.18 points, 0.8%, to 15,354.40. The S&P 500 ended up 15.65 points, 1%, to 1,666.12. And the Nasdaq composite index rose 33.72 points, 1%, to 3,498.97. It was the fourth straight week of gains for the

Wednesday's session closes with the NASDAQ Composite Index at 3,471.62. The total shares traded for the NASDAQ was over 1.78 billion.Advancers stocks led declining by 1.28 to 1 ratio. There were 1404 advancers and 1094 decliners for the day. On the ...

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 105.45 points to 12,613.05. The advance came as Statistics Canada reported consumer prices rose last month at the slowest rate in 3-1/2 years — coming in below expectations at 0.4 per cent. The lack of inflation ...

The board of directors of Polycom Inc (Nasdaq:PLCM), an open standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions company, on Thursday named Kevin Parker as chairman with effect from the same day, replacing David DeWalt who ...

4:01 PM EDT) Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) reported Q2 EPS of $0.16, $0.03 better than the analyst estimate of $0.13. Revenue for the quarter came in at $1.97 billion versus the consensus estimate of $1.91 billion. Sees Q3 EPS $0.16 to ...

Unless the markets confirm a downtrend, don’t short the markets. Investors should wait till a direction to US markets becomes clear, says Sonali Ranade Markets showed considerable divergences during the week with Asian and EU markets continuing to correct as expected while the US markets turned around and made new all-time highs on a closing basis. One needs to confirm the new highs in the US markets. This the markets will do in the normal course by rallying a bit further and then ...

For the fifth consecutive year, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ) has been named to the Globe 100 annual list, the Boston Globe's annual ranking of the 100 top-performing public companies headquartered in Massachusetts. Cubist was ranked ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced the appointment of Fared Adib of Sprint Nextel Corporation ...

Canadian stocks are higher, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index rising more than 80 points, or nearly 0.7%, to session highs, with strong upward momentum. It has been boosted by energy stocks like Surge Energy (SGY.TO) and Suncor (SU.TO). Reflecting ...