End-of-Day Market Summary for December 30, 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary for Friday, December 30, 2011, covering headlines from Friday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded down about 69.63 points or 0.57%, the S&P 500 traded 0.43% lower, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded down 0.33%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly higher near the $80.60 level. Earlier today, DA Davidson upgraded Starbucks

to Buy and CL King upgraded MWI Veterinary Supply

to Strong Buy. View all of

. Global Hunter downgraded Rowan Companies

to Accumulate and Stephens downgraded Bank of Ozarks

to Equalweight. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session higher. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.1%, Germany's DAX increased by 0.85% and France's CAC 40 rallied by 1.03% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session higher. China's Shanghai Index gained by 1.22%, Japan's Nikkei 225 increased by 0.67%, and the Hang Seng index gained 0.2%. On the economic calendar, nothing came out. On the commodity front,

and

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

down over 0.7% near the $98.95 level and

futures are trading lower by about 0.4%.

futures are lower by about 2% and

futures are trading over 0.2% lower. There were no earnings announcements today. In corporate news, American Capital

announced that

. Pacific Gas and Electric

announced that

. Comfort Systems USA

announced that

. This concludes your news summary for December 30, 2011.