Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (SSCCQ) Jumps after Reaching Agreement with Stockholders Shares of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (OTC: SSCCQ) jumped more than 20% in today’s trading. The penny stock reached a high of $0.22 in early trading and at last check was up 19.05% to $0.20, with volume up from daily average of 5.96 million to 6.29 [...]

Netlist Inc. (NLST) Closes 22.64% Higher Shares of Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) jumped more than 25% in today’s trading. The small cap stock closed 22.64% higher at $3.25. Volume was up from daily average of 592,000 to 3.86 million. Irvine, California-based Netlist is a designer, manufacturer and seller of memory subsystems for the server, high [...]

By Jayce Shelton DuPont Company (NYSE: DFT) posted a more than doubling of first-quarter profit, citing rising revenue and lower raw material prices. For the quarter, the chemical giant said it earned $1.13 billion, or $1.24 per share, compared with $488 million, or 54 cents per share, for the first quarter last year. The company [...]

by Dominique Salto Beacon Contributing Writer March 29: Apollo Group Incorporated (Nasdaq: APOL) posted its second-quarter earnings, beating the mean analysts’ estimate, as the company experienced higher-than-expected enrollments. The largest for-profit university in the U.S. by enrollment reported a net profit of 84 cents per share for the fiscal second quarter ended February 28, and [...]