Today’s big gainer among the Dow 30 was The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS). The Mouse House’s stock traded at $85.47, up 1.02% in a 52-week range of $60.41 to $85.86, a new 52-week high. Share volume was about 35% lower than the daily average of around 6.5 million shares traded. Disney’s latest film, Maleficent, finished its second week of release with a two-week box office total of more than $127 million.
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) traded up 0.96% today at $27.43 in a 52-week range of $22.76 to $28.09. Volume was about 15% below the daily average of nearly 28 million shares. GE said today that it had invested in a Japanese solar project.
Defense company United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) traded up 0.97% today at around $120.06 in a 52-week range of $90.30 to $120.66. Volume was about 25% below the daily average of around 3.2 million shares traded. The firm was awarded two federal contracts today worth about $125 million.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) traded higher by 0.81% at $57.44 in a 52-week range of $50.06 to $61.48. The bank made some changes in its European operations over the weekend and that could have been the catalyst for today’s share price rise. Volume was about 40% below the daily average of nearly 18 million shares traded.
Of the Dow 30 stocks 12 looked to close higher today while 17 were on their way to a lower finish and one remained flat.
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