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The Morning News Call newsletter:
U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with gains in defensive sectors including consumer staples and real estate helping extend a two-day rally, although weakness in technology companies capped gains.
At 10:13 ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.05 percent at 23,150.65. The S&P 500 was up 0.14 percent at 2,492.28 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.09 percent at 6,585.324.
The top three S&P 500 percentage gainers:
** Coty Inc, up 4.3 pct
** General Electric Co, up 4.1 pct
** Dish Network Corp, up 2.6 pct
The top three S&P 500 percentage losers:
** Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, down 2.7 pct
** Diamondback Energy Inc, down 2.7 pct
** Twitter Inc, down 1.9 pct
The top NYSE percentage gainers:
** Maiden Holdings, Ltd, up 13 pct
** BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust, up 10.7 pct
The top NYSE percentage losers:
** X Financial, down 6.7 pct
The top three Nasdaq percentage gainers:
** OPKO Health Inc, up 32.7 pct
** Ability Inc, up 27.1 pct
** Sphere 3D Corp, up 23.7 pct
The top three Nasdaq percentage losers:
** Puhui Wealth Investment Management Co, down 18.5 pct
** American River Bankshares, down 18 pct
** Borqs Technologies Inc, down 17.1 pct
** Aphria Inc: up 10.2 pct
Aphria says Green Growth's proposed hostile bid undervalues company
Jumps on Green Growth's bid plan, but trades below offer price
** Ability Inc: up 27.1 pct
Surges as founders repay loan in exchange for equity
** OPKO Health Inc: up 32.7 pct
Jumps on settling SEC's charges
** Wingstop Inc: up 4.7 pct
Gains as Wedbush upgrades to "outperform"
** Quantum Corp: up 30.0 pct
Quantum Corp surges on $210 mln credit facility
** First Republic Bank: up 5.7 pct
Rises as company set to join S&P 500
** VMware Inc: up 1.1 pct
Edges higher ahead of Dell's trading debut
** Tesla Inc: up 1.1 pct
Tesla names Larry Ellison, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to board
Gains as co names two independent directors
** Philip Morris International Inc: up 2.8 pct
Recent declines overdone, now a buying opportunity - Piper Jaffray
** ADDvantage Technologies Group Inc: up 10.2 pct
Rises on move to sell cable TV segment
The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:
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