End-of-Day Market Summary for December 15, 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary for Thursday, December 15, 2011, covering headlines from Monday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded up about 45.94 points or 0.39%, the S&P 500 traded 0.32% higher, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded up 0.07%, and the U.S. dollar trades lower near the $80.95 level. Earlier today, Deutsche Bank upgraded TECO Energy

to Hold and Wedbush upgraded Xylem

to Outperform. View all of

. Jefferies downgraded Diamond Foods

to Hold and UBS downgraded BorgWarner

to Neutral. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session higher. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.63%, Germany's DAX increased by 0.98% and France's CAC 40 rallied by 0.76% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session lower. China's Shanghai Index slid by 2.11%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 1.66%, and the Hang Seng index lost 1.78%. On the economic calendar, Producer Price Index MoM came in at 0.3% versus an estimate of 0.2%; Initial Jobless claims came in at 366K versus an estimate of 390K; Continuing Claims came in at 2603K versus an estimate of 3637K; Industrial Production came in at -0.2% versus an estimate of 0.1%. On the commodity front,

and

futures traded lower today, with gold trading about 0.3% lower today. Energy futures are lower, however, with

down over 1.6% near the $98 level and

futures are trading lower by about 0.6%.

futures are lower by about 0.1% and

futures are trading over 0.02% higher. On the earnings front today, Accenture Reports Q1 EPS $0.96 vs $0.94 Est; Revenues $7.10B vs $6.85B Est; Adobe Systems Reports Q4 EPS $0.67 vs $0.60 Est; Revenues $1.15B vs $1.09B Est; Quiksilver Reports Q4 EPS $0.06 vs $0.07 Est; Revenues $545.2M vs $527.56M Est; Research In Motion Reports Q3 EPS $1.27 vs $1.19 Est; Revenues $5.2B vs $5.26B Est. In corporate news, the Securities and Exchange Commission commented on Citigroup's

court case, in which its settlement was rejected.

. Hologic

announced that

. Cablevision

announced that

. Terms of the resignation were undisclosed. Today's Movers include:

This concludes your news summary for December 15, 2011.