End-of-Day Market Summary for January 9, 2012

This is your Benzinga news summary for Monday, January 9, 2012, covering headlines from Thursday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded up about 32.62 points or 0.26%, the S&P 500 traded 0.23% higher, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded up 0.09%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly lower near the $81.25 level. Earlier today, Barclays upgraded OpenTable

to Overweight and Macquarie upgraded Comcast

to Outperform. View all of

. Goldman Sachs downgraded TJX Companies

to Neutral and Deutsche Bank downgraded Southern Copper

to Hold. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session lower. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.66%, Germany's DAX decreased by 0.67% and France's CAC 40 tumbled by 0.31% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session mixed. China's Shanghai Index rallied by 2.89%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 1.16%, and the Hang Seng index gained 1.47%. On the economic calendar, Consumer Credit came in at $20.37B versus an estimate of $7B. On the commodity front,

and

futures traded higher today, with gold trading about 0.21% higher today. Energy futures are mixed, with

down over 0.1% near the $101.45 level and

futures are trading higher by about 0.2%.

futures are lower by about 1.5% and

futures are trading over 0.1% lower. Today's afternoon earnings announcements included Alcoa Reports 4Q EPS $(0.03) vs $(0.03) Est; Revenues $5.99B vs $5.74B Est; Standard Microsystems Reports Q3 EPS $0.21 vs $0.33 Est; Revenues $106.20M vs $107.56M Est; Volcano Corporation Announces Preliminary Q4 Revs $92.7M vs $93.1M Est; 2011 Revs $343.5M vs $343.8M Est. In corporate news, Liz Claiborne

announced that

. Pandora

announced that

. Nanometrics

announced that

. This concludes your news summary for January 9, 2012.