End-of-Day Market Summary for December 27 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary for Tuesday, December 27, 2011, covering headlines from Tuesday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded down about 2.27 points or 0.02%, the S&P 500 traded 0.01% higher, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded up 0.25%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly lower near the $80.15 level. Earlier today, RBC Capital upgraded Commvault Systems

to Top Pick and Oppenheimer upgraded VMWare

to Outperform. View all of

. KeyBanc downgraded Cogdell Spencer

to Hold and Caris downgraded Time Warner

to Above Average. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session higher. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 1.02%, Germany's DAX increased by 0.18% and France's CAC 40 rallied by 0.03% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session mixed. China's Shanghai Index tumbled by 1.08%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 0.23%, and the Hang Seng index gained 1.37%. On the economic calendar, Consumer Confidence came in at 64.5 versus an estimate of 58.9; Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity came in at -3 versus an estimate of 4.8; Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index came in at 3 versus an estimate of 5. On the commodity front,

and

futures traded lower today, with gold trading about 0.1% lower today. Energy futures are mixed, with

up over 1.7% near the $101.30 level and

futures are trading lower by about .2%.

futures are higher by about 0.1% and

futures are trading over 0.1% higher. There were no earnings announcements today. In corporate news, Sears

announced

. Shares plunged on the news. Mylan

announced that

, which was a product originally produced by Abbott Laboratories

. Icahn Enterprises

announced that

. This concludes your news summary for December 27, 2011.