Mid-Day Market Update: US Stocks Rise; Best Buy Jumps On Upbeat Earnings

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Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.25 percent to 15,047.93 while the NASDAQ surged 0.66 percent to 3,612.62. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.50 percent to 1,654.27.
Top Headline
The Home Depot
HD
reported a 17.2%
gain in its
fiscal second-quarter net earnings. Home Depot's quarterly earnings surged to $1.8 billion, or $1.24 per share, from $1.53 billion, or $1.01 per share, in the year-ago period. Its total sales rose 9.5% to $22.52 billion, while same-store sales gained 10.7%. However, analysts were estimating earnings of $1.22 per share on sales of $21.83 billion. Home Depot raised its fiscal 2013 earnings forecast to $3.60 per share.
Equities Trading UP
Best Buy Co
BBY
shot up 9.63 percent to $33.69 after the company reported
upbeat fiscal second-quarter
earnings. Shares of Urban Outfitters
URBN
got a boost, shooting up 9.95 percent to $43.89 after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. Analysts at Wedbush upgraded the stock from Neutral to Outperform. Trina Solar
TSL
was also up, gaining 9.88 percent to $7.45 after the company posted a narrower Q2 loss.
Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of LightInTheBox Holding Co
LITB
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were down 36.11 percent to $12.31 after the company issued weak third-quarter revenue forecast. Analysts at Credit Suisse downgraded the stock from Neutral to Underperform. Barnes & Noble
BKS
shares tumbled 14.46 percent to $14.26 after the company reported a
wider fiscal first-quarter
loss. Zillow
Z
was down, falling 3.68 percent to $81.62 after the company
priced offering
of 5,023,486 shares of its Class A common stock at $82.00 per share.
Commodities
In commodity news,
oil traded down 0.79 percent
to $106.25, while gold traded up 0.51 percent to $1,372.70. Silver traded down 0.22 percent Tuesday to $23.17, while copper rose 0.09 percent to $3.34.
Euro zone
European shares
were lower
today. The Spanish Ibex Index tumbled 1.93 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index dropped 1.28%. Meanwhile, the German DAX declined 0.90 percent and the French CAC 40 dipped 1.48 percent while U.K. shares fell 0.46 percent.
Economics
The ICSC/Goldman Sachs Chain Store Sales Index dropped 1.9% in the week ended Saturday versus the previous week. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index rose to -0.15 in July, from -0.23 in June. The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index rose 0.2% for the first two weeks in August versus July.
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