On the upside
Third quarter earnings for Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) due to low prices but the results topped analyst estimates.
Shares of Netlist (Nasdaq: NLST) continued soaring after the company introduced HyperCloud, the world's first 16GB, 2 virtual rank memory modules for servers.
Rino International (NYSE: RINO) reported sharply higher third quarter earnings as revenue surged.
On the downside
Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) completed its acquisition of a manufacturing facility in Baltimore for $8.2 million.
Astrotech (Nasdaq: ASTC) reported higher first quarter earnings as revenue rose but the stock price fell.
Borders (NYSE: BGP) will close 200 stores in January, 2010.
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of more than 5 to 2 on the NYSE and by 2 to 1 on Nasdaq. The Russell 2000 which tracks small cap stocks gained 5 points to 586.