Market Update 3:30PM: Selling into strength late in the session nearly halves a day's worth of gains, but the market still appears poised to close to the upside. A reversal in the influential Health Care sector, amid losses in biotech, drug and medical devices, has been a recent source of weakness, as has a pullback in brokerage, as investors consolidate some of the group's 29% year-to-date performance. NYSE Adv/Dec 2052/1207, Nasdaq Adv/Dec...
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General Health Tip
Buy Local Produce. When produce in the grocery store has traveled a great distance, nutrients break down due to exposure to light, time, etc. Your next best bet is frozen fruit and vegetables; freezing preserves the nutrients.
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JESSICA'S DIVA DEMANDS
Jessica Simpson, 25, likes to act clueless, but she can swing her celebrity weight like a pro. According to a studio source, weeks before the press tour for The Dukes of Hazzard began, "we were bombarded with a six-page pamphlet of demands for Jessica from the office of her dad, Joe Simpson." Among Jessica's requests: paid accommodations for her hairstylist and assistant in the same hotel as Jessica; a wardrobe budget estimated in the thousands of dollars; cases of Evian water; and paid private... •JEN FREAKS OVER ANGELINA'S NEW BABY •JULIA STILES, GWYNETH PALTROW AND MORE!
Saddam Says He Won't Attend 'Unjust Court' Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein gestures during his trial held under tight security in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone, Tuesday Dec. 6, 2005. Saddam and seven others face charges that they ordered the killing in 1982 of nearly 150 people in the mainly Shiite village of Dujail, north of Baghdad, after a failed attempt on the former dictators life. (AP Photo/Stefan Zaklin, Pool)
9:57 pm PT More On The Wires :Aspen Insurance Holdings (AHL) announces that it has agreed to sell 8,333,333 of its ordinary shares in an underwritten public offering at a price to the public of $24.00 per share... Commtouch (CTCH) announces that its anti-spam engine will be integrated into the product offerings of Rising Technology, a Chinese secure content management vendor.
9:30 pm PT On The Wires :SafeNet (SFNT) announces that it intends to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $200 mln aggregate principal amount of convertible subordinated notes due 2010. The co intends to use approx $50 mln of the net proceeds from this proposed offering to purchase shares of common concurrently with the offering, depending on market conditions, in privately negotiated transactions... Northeast Utilities (NU) announces the pricing of 20.0 mln common shares, increased from the original 16.5 mln shares, in its previously announced public offering, at an offering price of $19.09 per share... Smith & Wesson Holding (SWB) announces that it has entered into an agreement with Sentry Group to license use of the Smith & Wesson brand and logo on a new line of large capacity safes to be launched in 2006... XL Capital (XL) announces that it has agreed to sell 33,846,000 ordinary shares (plus an additional 5,076,900 shares issuable upon exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional Ordinary Shares) pursuant to the co's new shelf registration statement. The Ordinary Shares are being issued at an initial price of $65.00 per Ordinary Share.
9:16 pm PT Bally Fitness reports sale of common stock by company insiders (BFT) 7.17 :Co reports that insiders have made the required Form 4 filings with the SEC related to the sale of approx 1.2 mln common shares of stock since the co's November 30, 2005 release of nine-month 2005 financial results and restatement of prior-year financial information going back to 2000. The transactions took place on December 2 and December 5.
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