End-of-Day Market Summary for December 28, 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary for Wednesday, December 28, 2011, covering headlines from Wednesday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded down about 138.88 points or 1.13%, the S&P 500 traded 1.24% lower, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded down 1.34%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly higher near the $80.95 level. Earlier today, DA Davidson upgraded Starbucks

to Buy and CL King upgraded MWI Veterinary Supply

to Strong Buy. View all of

. Canaccord downgraded Enbridge

to Hold and the Oxen Group downgraded Compania Cervecerias Unida

to Hold. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session higher. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.1%, Germany's DAX decreased by 2.01% and France's CAC 40 slid by 1.03% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session mixed. China's Shanghai Index gained by 0.19%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 0.2%, and the Hang Seng index lost 0.59%. On the economic calendar, nothing came out. On the commodity front,

and

futures traded lower today, with gold trading about 0.6% lower today. Energy futures are lower, with

down over 1.7% near the $99.55 level and

futures are trading lower by about 1.3%.

futures are lower by about 0.6% and

futures are trading over 0.4% lower. There were no earnings announcements today. In corporate news, Epiq Systems

announced that

. China Sky One Medical

announced that

. The resignation is dated on December 22, 2011, although a new CFO has not been announced. Jamba

announced that

. Today's Movers include:

This concludes your news summary for December 28, 2011.