$1.82
20.3%
Shares of Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. jumped to $10.77. The troubled subprime lender, which is facing collateral calls by its Wall Street backers, received a $200 million loan from hedge-fund manager Farallon Capital Management LLC.
$0.83
11.2%
Exide Technologies stock increased to $8.24. The nation’s second-largest maker of car batteries said it will supply batteries for Tundra trucks assembled at the Toyota plant in Texas.
-$1.90
5.9%
Halliburton Co. stock fell to $30.50. The world’s second-largest oilfield-services company said first-quarter profit will be lower than expected because of decreased drilling in Canada and the northern U.S.
-$1.25
5.8%
KBR Inc. stock slid to $20.30. The largest U.S. military contractor in Iraq said it might incur additional costs because of delays with a fixed-price project in Nigeria that has been delayed by civil unrest.
$0.63
3.5%
Shares of Palm Inc. rose to $18.77. Technology Web site Unstrung.com said the maker of the Treo e-mail phone is close to finding a buyer. A deal could come as soon as Thursday, the site reported.
$1.92
4.8%
Shares of SanDisk Corp. advanced to $41.91. The world’s largest maker of flash-memory cards was upgraded to “sector outperformer” from “sector performer” by analysts at CIBC World Markets.
