Shares in Time Warner rose 4.1% by the close of trading on Wednesday.

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By the close of trading on Tuesday, Tokyo stocks had given up their initial gains on the BOJ statement, and were down 0.4%.

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Optimism that Chinese investment will squelch the spread of sovereign default contagion sent stocks shooting to their best levels of the day by the close of trading.

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Its IPO shares were up 33% by the close of their first day of trading.

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Shares of the Philadelphia semiconductor index, which tracks the stock performance of a handful of semiconductor companies, was down by 7.6% at the close of Monday's trading session.

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Kraft Foods, which is spinning off its North American grocery business Oct. 1, will be removed from the 30-stock index after the close of trading Friday Sept. 21 and replaced by UnitedHealth Group.

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As a result of all this, there were about 975 securities affected by an overqueuing of message traffic sent to five trading posts on the trading floor, which resulted in a late close for those posts.

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