End-of-Day Market Summary for December 6, 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' summary for Tuesday, December 6, 2011, covering headlines from Tuesday's trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded up about 52.30 points or 0.43%, the S&P 500 traded 0.11% higher, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded down 0.23%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly lower near the $78.60 level. Earlier today, Ticonderoga upgraded ACE

to Buy and Bank of America upgraded Entergy

to Neutral. View all of

. Oxen Group downgraded SunPower

to Sell and Sterne Agee downgraded Ingersoll-Rand

to Neutral. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.01%, Germany's DAX decreased by 1.27% and France's CAC 40 slid by 0.68% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session lower. China's Shanghai Index lost 0.31%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 1.39%, and the Hang Seng index lost 1.24%. On the commodity front,

and

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

down over 0.05% near the $100.90 level and

futures are trading higher by about 0.9%.

futures are higher by about 0.9% and

futures are trading over 0.1% higher. On the earnings front this afternoon, SAIC Reports Q3 EPS $0.35 vs $0.34 Est; Revenues $2.81B vs $2.75B Est; Mens Wearhouse Reports Q3 EPS $0.79 vs $0.65 Est; Revenues $584.60M vs $570.94M Est; Oxford Industries Reports Q3 EPS $0.16 vs $0.14 Est; Revenues $170.3M vs $164.92M Est; Vera Bradley Reports Q3 EPS $0.32 vs $0.28 Est; Revenues $121.10M vs $109.85M Est. In corporate news, American Airlines

announced that

to increase its exposure across US airports. Terms were undisclosed. China Medical Technologies

has been accused

. Ir has responded back by laying out various income figures and cost numbers to prove its innocence. comScore

announced that

, up 15$ from 2010. This concludes your news summary for December 6, 2011