Apollo Group Inc. (APOL) : For-profit education firms like this parent company of the University of Phoenix have come under great regulatory scrutiny in recent years.

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Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Activision Blizzard, Inc. ( NASD: ATVI) is up about 3.4%, Akamai Technologies Inc ( NASD: AKAM) is up about 1.7%, and Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is up by about 2.1%.

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Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL), according to The Online Investor.

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Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Altera Corp. ( NASD: ALTR) is down about 0.8%, Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is off about 1.4%, and Applied Materials, Inc. ( NASD: AMAT) is lower by about 0.7%.

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