Mid-Day Market Update: Rite Aid Surges On Surprise Profit; Pier 1 Imports Shares Fall

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Midway through trading Thursday, the Dow traded down 0.14 percent to 15,655.72 while the NASDAQ gained 0.12 percent to 3,788.25. The S&P fell, dropping 0.02 percent to 1,725.12.
Top Headline
ConAgra Foods
CAG
reported a
42% drop
in its fiscal first-quarter earnings. ConAgra's quarterly profit fell to $144.3 million, or $0.34 per share, from $250.1 million, or $0.61 per share, in the year-ago period. Its earnings from continuing operations came in at $0.33 per share. Excluding one-time items, its earnings declined to $0.37 from $0.44 per share. Its revenue surged 27% to $4.2 billion, missing analysts' estimates of $4.29 billion.
Equities Trading UP
Rite Aid
RAD
shot up 15.63 percent to $4.29 after the company
posted a profit
in its fiscal second quarter. Shares of GT Advanced Technologies
GTAT
got a boost, shooting up 8.08 percent to $8.16. UBS upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy. Agilent Technologies
A
was also up, gaining 4.38 percent to $51.48 after the company announced its
plans to separate
into two public companies.
Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of Pier 1 Imports
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PIR
were down 10.72 percent to $21.07 after the company reported a
32% drop
in its fiscal second-quarter earnings and cut its full-year earnings forecast. Popular
BPOP
shares tumbled 7.15 percent to $27.01 after
Morgan Stanley downgraded
the stock from Equal-weight to Underweight. Pacific Coast Oil Trust
ROYT
down, falling 7.09 percent to $16.70 after the company priced a public offering by Pacific Coast Energy Company LP and other selling unitholders of 13,500,000 trust units at a price of $17.10 per unit.
Commodities
In commodity news,
oil traded down 0.87 percent
to $107.13, while gold traded up 4.80 percent to $1,370.30. Silver traded up 8.19 percent Thursday to $23.33, while copper rose 1.98 percent to $3.34.
Euro zone
European shares
were higher
today. The Spanish Ibex Index gained 1.01 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index rose 1.43 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX gained 0.67 percent and the French CAC 40 rose 0.85 percent while U.K. shares surged 1.01 percent.
Economics
US jobless claims rose by 15,000 to 309,000 in the week ended September 14. However, economists were expecting claims to rise to 338,000. US current-account deficit declined around 6% to $98.9 billion in the second quarter. The Bloomberg Consumer Confidence Index rose to -29.40 in the week ended September 15, versus a prior reading of -32.10. Existing-home sales climbed 1.7% to an annual rate of 5.48 million in August. The Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing index surged to 22.3 in September, versus a reading of 9.3 in August. The Conference Board's index of leading indicators climbed 0.7% to 96.6 in August. Natural gas supplies rose 46 billion cubic feet for the week ended September 13, the US Energy Information Administration reported. However, analysts were expecting a rise of 55 billion cubic feet to 59 billion cubic feet. Data on money supply will be released at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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