$2.18
9.3%
Shares of Alberto-Culver Co. jumped to $25.70. The Melrose Park-based maker of personal-care products said that excluding items it would have earned 29 cents a share in the fourth quarter, beating estimates by 3 cents, according to Thomson Financial.
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-$3.03
-5.6%
McDonald’s Corp. stock sank to $51.07. The shares posted the biggest loss in the Dow Jones industrial average after the Oak Brook-based firm said sales at U.S. restaurants open at least 13 months were flat in December.
-$2.38
-7%
Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. slumped to $31.42. Its stock declined on concern the $19.5 billion buyout by private-equity firms may not happen. Clear Channel agreed to be bought by Thomas H. Lee Partners Inc. and Bain Capital LLC.
$9.34
8.7%
Shares of Nymex Holdings Inc. climbed to $116.50. CME Group Inc., parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, said it is in preliminary talks to acquire Nymex to expand into energy trading. CME Group sank $4, to $625.
-$1.16
-5.3%
Yahoo Inc. stock slid to $20.78. The shares had the steepest decline in the Nasdaq 100 after the firm had its 2008 revenue estimate cut by Thomas Weisel analysts on concern over advertising weakness and the possibility a contract with AT&T Inc. might need to be renegotiated.
-$2.78
-14.7%
Shares of YRC Worldwide Inc. tumbled to $16.08. The nation’s biggest trucking company reported a fourth-quarter loss as it wrote down the value of two acquisitions. Excluding the write-down, YRC said it earned 1 cent a share. On that basis, analysts expected earnings of 53 cents a share.