Market Update Sat 10:03am ET: Weekly Recap - It was a mixed week for the stock market. Downward momentum from late last week carried into early this week, but the market then stabilized and went into a holding pattern.
Two themes from the past week were good economic data and continued mergers and acquisitions.
On Monday, the S&P 500 lost 7 points. There was no major news to account for the loss, but the tone had worsened late in the prior week. Tuesday, the S&P was down a miniscule 0.30 for its fourth straight loss. That changed on Wednesday, as the S&P gained 3 points and...
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Iraq Shiites Talk With Kurds; Grave Found People gather around suspected human remains Monday Dec. 26, 2005, at the site where municipal workers doing maintenance work in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq, uncovered remains that police believed were part of a mass grave thought to date back to 1991, when Saddam Hussein's regime quenched a Shiite uprising in the south. On Tuesday, the remains, discovered on Monday, were sent for testing in an effort to identify the bodies, Karbala police spokesman Rahman Mashawy said. (AP Photo/str)
1:01 pm PT Select Comfort announced a five-year agreement to extend its consumer financing arrangement with GE Consumer Finance (SCSS) 28.50 +0.17 : Co announced a five-year agreement to extend its consumer financing arrangement with GE Consumer Finance, Retail Sales Finance, a consumer lending unit of GE. The agreement extends an existing agreement that dates back to 1999.
12:31 pm PT Advanced Micro - - Relative Strength (AMD) 31.31 +0.81 : The stock stands out among its Semi peers as it extends its recent strength higher intraday to a fresh multi-year high.
10:37 am PT Cooper Tire announces its majority ownership in Chinese tire manufacturer approved (CTB) 15.30 +0.51 : Co announces all necessary government approvals have been received for its transaction to obtain 51% ownership in China's third-largest Chinese-owned tire manufacturer. The closing is anticipated in early Jan 2006.
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