Thursday, July 19, 2007

Alcoa, Clearwire, Foot Locker, Midland, Starbucks: U.S. Equity Movers

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares are having unusual price changes in U.S. exchanges
today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names.
Share prices are as of 3 p.m. in New York.

Alcoa Inc. (AA US) slid $2.01, or 4.3 percent, to $44.44.
The Australian newspaper reported that BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP US)
won't make a takeover offer for the world's second-largest
aluminum company. The newspaper cited sources it didn't name as
confirming that Alcoa, based in New York, is ``no longer a target
of interest'' for Melbourne-based BHP, the world's largest mining
company. BHP's American depositary receipts, each representing 2
ordinary shares, gained $1.85 to $67.64.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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