-$2.25
4.3%
Valero Energy Corp. stock slid to $50.10. Shares of some energy companies dropped after the price of crude oil fell to the lowest level in almost six months. Sunoco Inc., the nation’s second-largest refiner, after Valero, lost $2.03, or 3.2 percent, to $61.37.
-$1.34
2.5%
Centex Corp. stock sagged to $52.32. Shares of some home builders declined after a report showed that housing construction dropped 6 percent in August. Toll Brothers Inc. shed 74 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $27.42.
$4.57
4.9%
Shares of AutoZone Inc. climbed to $98.67. The nation’s largest seller of auto parts said fiscal fourth-quarter profit, excluding some items, was $2.96 a share, beating estimates by 17 cents a share.
-$1.36
4.5%
Shares of ImClone Systems Inc. fell to $29.16. The biotech company lost a court ruling that might result in it paying royalties on the experimental cancer drug Erbitux to an Israeli research institute.
$0.46
13%
Napster Inc. stock jumped to $4.01. The online music retailer said it hired UBS Investment Bank to assist in a possible company sale.
-$2.83
7.1%
Shares of Monster Worldwide Inc. slipped to $37.10. The owner of the online job-listing service Monster.com and some other Internet-related companies fell after Yahoo Inc. said this quarter’s results will be at the low end of its forecast range. Google Inc. slumped $10.88, or 2.6 percent, to $403.81.
