Market Update Close: Yet again, the market started the day on positive footing, only to quickly fade and position itself within a trading range well below the flat line. The fourth quarter has gotten off to the worst start in ten years, largely due to a lack of leadership that today's session continued. Crude's action further curbed enthusiasm, while a relatively disappointing fiscal Q4 earnings report from Apple (AAPL 49.21 -2.38) and a Prudential downgrade of the semiconductor sector further drove buyers to the market's margins. Despite the aforementioned uptick in oil, the Energy Services sector...
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Aid flows to Kashmir quake zone, but scene chaotic A Kashmiri woman holds her injured child outside a hospital in Karnah, near the LoC (Line of Control) in Indian-administered Kashmir October 11, 2005. India's prime minister on Tuesday pledged to rebuild the lives of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir whose world was destroyed by South Asia's earthquake, declaring it "a national calamity". REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
3:07 pm PT Swing Trader: Is Fear A Factor Yet? : -Technical- The SPY experienced another wave of selling on Wednesday, making for the 8th consecutive down day without a higher high. It's not exactly rocket science to realize majority of stocks are looking in bad shape here this October and are due for some type of bounce activity. The question is how much and how long will a rally last as the market faces 4-months of overhead resistance. (continued)
1:12 pm PT IPIX partners with Panasonic to augment digital tech offering (IPIX) 2.54 -0.04:Co announces it has been appointed as an authorized reseller for Panasonic Security Systems. This augments IPIX's 360-degree digital technology products to offer the most robust surveillance and visual intelligence applications on the market today.
1:10 pm PT NABI Biopharma announces successful results from StaphVAX consistency lots study (NABI) :Co announces positive results from its StaphVAX consistency lots study, which was an open-labeled study testing the safety and immune response of three commercial scale lots of StaphVAX produced by the co's contract manufacturer, Cambrex Bio Science Baltimore. The data gathered from this study demonstrated that StaphVAX can elicit high levels of anti-staphylococci antibodies, and that it can be consistently and successfully manufactured. The data also demonstrated that the manufacturing process is both well controlled and reproducible.