While monthly sales were strong, up more than 20% every month this year with the exception of January and September, investors sold the stock in response to the earnings release.
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The stock rallied in response as investors are betting that the higher pricing sticks.
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The stock tumbled in response.
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How stock prices fluctuate in response to this surge in shopping behavior can ultimately determine the real winners and losers.
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All three major U.S. stock indexes spiked in response and gold soared.
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That said, the initial response from stock markets seems to suggest that ailing economies will get the financial breathing space needed to repair their buckets.
One factor needs to be taken into account -- the survey was conducted in June and early July, shortly before global stock markets plunged in response to concerns over the U.S. lending market, notably loans to so-called subprime customers, seen as high risk.
In rapid response, the stock market snapped a string of three-day losses and quickly bounced up after the Bernanke statement.
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The Fed's statement appeared to cause little response in the stock market, which fell sharply on signs of a slowdown in hiring and manufacturing and weak earnings reports from some major companies.
The stronger dollar against the yen had been seen as a leading catalyst for the rise in Japanese shares, but some traders said the currency market on Thursday was largely acting in response to the stock-market fall.
New reporting requirements that stock exchanges have ordered in response to high-profile scandals, together with tougher auditing standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have pushed boards and managers to become far more diligent in reporting accurate financial information.
When I first wrote about the stock in June of 2008, I was taken aback by the negative response and it seemed to outpace any other stock I had written on by a wide margin.
Meanwhile, European stock markets rallied only briefly in response to the rescue plan announcement, skeptical that it will be successful.
Apple's stock price tumbled following the disappointing response for the iPhone 5 as the phone failed to match the cultlike enthusiasm generated by the company's earlier models.
Today, the concerns over its pipeline take a back seat to an exciting development for Gilead and the stock has risen about 3% in response.
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to create a central database of real-time trading activity, another in a string of proposals it has made in the last few weeks in response to concerns that the stock markets are broken.
Remember, the stock sold off more than 8% in response to that disappointing opening weekend.
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Stock markets did indeed fall today, in response to the news on GDP.
Yields rose in response to increasing demand for a stock alternative as Asian bourses closed the week on a high note.
On Tuesday afternoon, the company reported disappointing results for its fiscal first quarter and the stock has sold of more than 12% in response.
The sharp falls in non-US stock markets, especially in Asia, are a response to this fear, with electronics and car companies like Toyota and Sony especially vulnerable.
And judging from the market response, the news was positive for the stock that gained 6 percent in pre-market trade.
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These front two series expire the soonest, and are therefore more prone to sharp moves in price in response to any positive or negative developments for the underlying stock.
However, the stock price fell so precipitously (by about two thirds) in response to lowered growth guidance after the Q1 2012 conference call that I believe further guidance cuts were already priced in.
DreamWorks stock was zigzagging in post-market trading after an initial big drop in response to its earnings release.
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Tuesday, the overwhelming response of the little guy was to either do nothing or buy more stock.
Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White this afternoon writes in a quick response to the report that he would remain an aggressive buyer of the stock here.
However, he said he would not give a full response to the report yet and he and his officials would be taking stock of the views of ministers and other government departments involved.
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