Durect, EDO, Modine, Novellus, Orbital, Skechers: 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 1:10 p.m. New York time.

American Express Co. (AXP US) rose $2.71, or 4.4 percent, to
$64.59. The No. 4 U.S. credit-card issuer was upgraded to ``buy''
from ``neutral'' at Goldman, Sachs & Co., which said its card-
network business was ``undervalued'' compared with its rivals.


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Google, American Express Advance on Earnings Reports: U.S. After-Hours

(Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. gained in extended trading after the owner of the most popular Internet search engine said first-quarter profit rose 69 percent as the company boosted advertising sales and took market share away from Yahoo! Inc.

Shares of Mountain View, California-based Google added $14.35 to $486 at 5:39 p.m. in New York. The company said net income increased to $3.18 a share from $1.95 a year earlier. Profit excluding costs for stock options was $3.68 a share, exceeding the average estimate of 27 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Sales excluding revenue passed on to partners rose to $2.53 billion, exceeding analysts' estimates.


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