Friday, July 13, 2007

Alcoa, Idenix, Lufkin Industries, Playtex and Shaw: U.S. Equity Movers

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares are having unusual price changes in U.S. exchanges
today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names.
Share prices are as of 10:10 a.m. New York time.

Alcoa Inc. (AA US) rose $1.36, or 3 percent, to $46.65. The
world's second-biggest aluminum maker said yesterday it withdrew
its unsolicited takeover bid for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. (AL
US) after Rio Tinto Group (RIO AU) made a higher offer of $38.1
billion. Separately, Credit Suisse Group increased its share-
price estimate for Alcoa by 22 percent to $55, saying that
takeover speculation would support the stock. Alcan shares fell
$1.04 to $97.41.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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