End-of-Day Market Summary for January 6, 2012

This is your Benzinga news summary for Friday, January 6, 2012, covering headlines from Thursday's daytime trading session. Today at market close, the Dow Jones Index traded down about 55.78 points or 0.45%, the S&P 500 traded 0.25% lower, the Nasdaq Composite Index traded up 0.16%, and the U.S. dollar trades slightly higher near the $80.60 level. Earlier today, Jefferies upgraded Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

to Buy and Macquarie upgraded SunTrust Banks

to Outperform. View all of

. Jefferies downgraded Invesco Mortgage Capital

to Buy and JP Morgan downgraded Boyd Gaming Group

to Underweight. View all of

. Overseas, European markets ended their trading session mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.45%, Germany's DAX decreased by 0.62% and France's CAC 40 tumbled by 0.24% on the session. Asian stocks ended their session mixed. China's Shanghai Index rallied by 0.7%, Japan's Nikkei 225 decreased by 1.16%, and the Hang Seng index lost 1.17%. On the economic calendar, Change in Nonfarm Payrolls came in at 200K versus an estimate of 155K and the Unemployment Rate came in at 8.5% versus an estimate of 8.7%. On the commodity front,

and

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

up over 0.1% near the $101.75 level and

futures are trading lower by about 0.9%.

futures are higher by about 3% and

futures are trading over 0.1% lower. Today's afternoon earnings announcements included nothing major. In corporate news, Icahn Enterprises Holdings

announced that

. Lululemon

announced that

. Integrated Electrical Services

announced that

. This concludes your news summary for January 6, 2012.