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6.9%

Shares of FTD Group Inc. advanced to $10.74. The Downers Grove-based firm forecast profit of 76 cents a share for the current fiscal year, 2 cents a share higher than estimates.

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NYSE Group Inc. stock declined to $63.75, erasing the New York Stock Exchange’s gains as a publicly traded company in the eight weeks since it bought Chicago-based Archipelago Holdings Inc.

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Aviall Inc. stock jumped to $46.96 after Chicago-based Boeing Co. agreed to buy the airplane-parts distributor for about $1.7 billion. Aviall shareholders will get $48 a share, Boeing said.

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Shares of American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. fell to $16.47. The maker of axle and chassis parts said first-quarter profit fell 35 percent. The company depends on General Motors Corp. for about 80 percent of its sales.

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Aramark Corp. stock climbed to $33.90. The operator of campus cafeterias and stadium concession stands said investors, led by Chief Executive Joseph Neubauer, offered $32 a share for the company.

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Shares of Comverse Technology Inc. rose to $23.65. The world’s largest maker of voice-mail software said Chairman and Chief Executive Kobi Alexander resigned after Comverse said it will restate results back to at least fiscal 2001.