-$10.57
2.9%
Google Inc. stock slid to $353.88 after it mistakenly posted an internal financial forecast on its Web site. The projections included a reference to management’s concerns about profits narrowing amid tougher competition.
$1.15
4%
CVS Corp. stock rose to $30.07. The drugstore chain was added to Credit Suisse’s “U.S. focus list.” Separately, CVS said its PharmaCare unit was chosen to provide pharmacy benefits to DaimlerChrysler AG’s U.S. employees, retirees and dependents.
$2.54
12.2%
Shares of Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. jumped to $23.40. The auction house said 2005 profit from continuing operations and excluding an accounting change was $1 a share, beating estimates.
$1.19
4.8%
Talbots Inc. stock climbed to $25.94. Shares of the retailer were raised to “hold” from “sell” by Citigroup analyst Kimberly Greenberger.
-$1.56
Crude oil for April delivery settled at $60.02 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after hitting a low of $59.25. OPEC said it will keep output steady, and an Energy Department report showed a bigger-than-expected gain in stockpiles.
1%
A gauge of consumer staples stocks posted the biggest advance among 10 industry groups in the S&P 500. Procter & Gamble Co., the world’s biggest maker of consumer goods, rose 77 cents, to $61.07, for the best performance in the Dow.
