Background
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board", is a stock exchange based in New York City. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and, with 2,764 listed securities, has the second most securities of all stock exchanges. It was the second biggest stock exchange in the world in terms of company listings, second only to NASDAQ with 3,200 companies, before the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of India consolidated to become the biggest stock exchange in the world with 4,800 company listings as of August 2007. As of December 31, 2006, the combined capitalization of all New York Stock Exchange listed companies was $25.0 trillion.
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Kolkata, India, January 7: GE Healthcare is to launch India’s first digital X-ray system. The US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) today announced the launch of India's first affordable, true digital flat panel X-ray
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The Money Times
Latest news - About NYSE
Monsanto used a dash of salsa to zing its way through a blowout first quarter.
Greater demand in Latin America propelled Monsanto
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SAN BRUNO, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- InQuira, Inc., a provider of
integrated software applications for web self-help, agent-assisted support and
enterprise knowledge management, today announced that International Game
Technology (NYSE: IGT), a
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RedOrbit
...the various packaging companies; however, with Ball Corp. (NYSE:BLL) dominating the beverage can market, and Owens-Illinois (NYSE:OI) a leader in glass bottling. Raw Material Relief The packaging companies will also benefit from the fall in prices for commodities,...
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Investopedia
NEW DELHI: NYSE will halt trading in
Satyam Computers at the opening trading session at the exchange on Wednesday.
"The NYSE will halt trading in SAY today at the opening in New York
for news dissemination and trading will be halted on our European
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Economic Times
...Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK), KBR Inc. (NYSE: KBR), Fluor (NYSE: FLR), Aecom Technology (NYSE: ACM), and Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC), among several others. All paid and trial subscribers to BullMarket.com can now receive immediate access to the newsletter's...
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... MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) will issue its fourth quarter earnings before the opening of The New York Stock Exchange on Friday, January 30. The company will also hold a conference call with investors at 8:...
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...Officer of Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR), announced today that the Company's Mefiag B.V. subsidiary, in Heerenveen, The Netherlands, has received two (2) orders totaling approximately $650,000. The orders are both for high-efficiency filtration systems,...
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...Va., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Alternext US: CVM) announced today the initiation of a definitive study of its new rheumatoid arthritis treatment vaccine (CEL-2000) to determine the long-lasting beneficial effects on animals...
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...a 56 kilobits-per-second dial-up modem. The up to 3 Mbps service delivers download speeds 50 times faster than dial-up. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication...
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PR Newswire
...and TVs in a customer's home, regardless of the device's place of purchase or the age. Coverage is less than $1 a day. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication...
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Spice - About NYSE and India
...cells and modules. ReneSola's shares are currently traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SOL) and the AIM of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: SOLA). For more information about ReneSola, please visit http://www.renesola.com . Link to this page: ...
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Reuters
...hence less demand for Mn Ore. With approximately 4500 employees across five operations in Australia and South Africa, BHP Billiton Manganese is the world's largest integrated producer of manganese units and is ranked number one in the world in seaborne supply...
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Last Week - About NYSE
...an eighth straight session, closing out the year with a 65% decline. Markets in Tokyo were closed for the holiday, leaving the Nikkei 225 with a 42% loss for the year its largest annual loss. U.K. and European indexes moved generally higher, though the few...
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Investor's Business Daily
...2.5 million shares from earlier plans of 2 million. Owens-Illinois shares were also flat after trading 11.4 million shares. Wachovia Corp. (WB: , , ) led NYSE volume movers with 19.8 million shares trading hands and a nearly 3% rise. The banking company...
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MarketWatch
...out, clearing the 28.36 buy point of a handle. But volume was running only about average, raising questions about the move. Cerner (CERN), a maker of medical software, rose 1%. The stock retook its 10-week moving average during the week of Dec. 12. Since then,...
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Investor's Business Daily
...but supply holds constant, the price rises. What's the logical reaction? You don't need to be an ExxonMobil oil exec or an OPEC oil baron to answer that: Producers see high prices for a commodity, and they react in their economic self-interest. They try to...
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Town Hall
...don't know anyone who truly thought Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) would both be trading under a buck as 2008 came to close. The ultimate collapse of both stocks was devastating, not only to investors that continued to believe all the...
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Blogging Stocks
...MLPs, like El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE:EPB), Energy Products Partners, LP (NYSE:EPD), and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, (NYSE:KMP) could see the current credit crunch as an opportunity to acquire smaller, less well-heeled competitors. Credit...
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24x7 Wall St.
...include many of the same names, they're weighted differently. As a result, the fund invests nearly as much money in companies like Transocean (NYSE: RIG), Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN), and Apache (NYSE: APA) as it does in the largest integrated energy companies....
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...in the black, which is somewhat of an achievement. Just ask beleaguered companies like Citigroup (NYSE: C) and General Motors (NYSE: GM). Plus, its nine-month period performance wasn't all that bad -- strength in its apparel segment drove positive net revenue...
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Motley Fool
...in the common stock of yellow pages directories publisher R.H. Donnelley Corp (RHD.N) should be suspended, effective January 2. NYSE said the decision comes after the company's stock had fallen below the exchange's continued listing standard, which requires...
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Reuters
Last Month - About NYSE
...2008-12-08 21:05:02 - Watson Wyatt (NYSE, NASDAQ: WW) is the trusted business partner to the world"s leading organizations on people and financial issues. The firm"s global services include: managing the cost and effectiveness of employee benefit...
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PR-Inside.com
...in. This year, movie rental maven Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) rewrote its streaming video service under a new toolset. Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) SilverLight has replaced the old Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) Flash interface, and there was much rejoicing as the service...
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Motley Fool
...DLTR) was downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Friedman Billings. Standpoint Research initiated CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) with a Buy rating and $45 target. The firm does not expect front end sales to suffer in the weakening economy and believes...
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Blogging Stocks
...quick check of the market's sale rack finds Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) trading at an earnings multiple well below its five-year average. Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), and Novartis (NYSE: NVS) are trading at discounts to their recent...
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Motley Fool
...& Fitch (NYSE: ANF) is resisting the tidal wave of discounting that is hitting malls, and is sticking to its retail prices. On a recent conference call, CEO Michael Jeffries called aggressive discounting a "short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects." The...
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Blogging Stocks
...on that move the past two sessions, and appears to have established a new uptrend. The chart for Valeant Pharma (NYSE:VRX) has an interesting difference from the two large cap stocks above. Valeant has been using the 200-day moving average as support,...
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Investopedia
...companies. From giant steelmaker ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) to Brazil's big mining company Vale (NYSE: RIO) and on to aluminum's Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX), it's nigh impossible to find a name in the group that's maintained any sort of share or product price...
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Motley Fool
...11% range. Really, the closest you'll come to finding AV-like margins in the large contractor sphere are United Tech (NYSE: UTX) and Textron -- and even Textron is flagging fast. And speaking of flagging fast, AV could be in for some rough comps in the current...
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Motley Fool
...a 13.8% net profit margin, which is better than the trailing-12-month profit margin for rivals Rofin-Sinar (Nasdaq: RSTI), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Coherent (Nasdaq: COHR), or Rohm & Haas (NYSE: ROH). (Better, too, than R&H's new owner, Dow Chemical (NYSE:...
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Motley Fool
...if he did push for it to take on more risk. And as much as people complained about the day spa retreats to which American International Group (NYSE: AIG) treated its executives on the taxpayer's dime, that didn't stop the Treasury from bailing out the insurer...
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