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Today's Market Winners and Losers

The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.30%, the Nasdaq up 0.62% and the S&P 500 up 0.37%. Today’s winner include a infrastructure and software company reporting strong quarterly earnings and a technology company reporting that vendors are supplying it with chips. All three of today’s losers are retailers reporting disappointing quarterly financials.

These are Thursday’s market winners and losers

Biggest Winners

Shares of Infoblox Inc. (NYSE: BLOX) are up 34.41% to $18.75 on trading volume of 2.3 million shares. The company reported first-quarter earnings of 6 cents a share, better than Wall Street estimates of 1 cent a share. The 52-week high is $24.15.

Shares of OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ) are up 26.66% to $1.71 on trading volume of 4.6 million shares. The company has announced it is sourcing NAND chips from seveal vendors, which it previously announced was in short supply. The 52-week high is $10.05.

Biggest Losers

Shares of Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) are down 8.64% to $46.73 on trading volume of 8.6 million shares. Year-over-year sales at stores open at least one-year fell 5.6% in November, with Wall Street expecting those sales to rise 1.9%. The 52-week low is $42.72.

Shares of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) are down 8.57% to $14.68 on trading volume of   Although the company beat earnings expectations, revenue of $1.88 billion was slightly lower than the $1.91 billion Wall Street analysts estimated. The 52-week low is $9.35.

Shares of Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) are down 7.66% to $58.85 on trading volume of 5.5 million shares.  The company earned  49 cents a share in the third quarter, worse than the 72 cents a share Wall Street analysts were expecting. The 52-week low is $49.72.

Samuel Weigley

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