S&P 500 Leaders & Laggards: ICE EDS

Shares of InterContinental Exchange rose $14.49, or 12.5 percent, to $130.39.

The S&P 500 index rose 10.46 to 1,336.91.

Family Dollar Stores Inc. advanced $2.13, or 11.7 percent, to $20.31. The Matthews, N.C., retailer reported flat sales at stores that have been open for at least one year for January, while Wall Street had expected sales to fall.

Same-store sales is considered a key measurement of retailer health, because it evaluates results at existing locations instead of newly opened ones.

And Big Lots Inc. rose $1.64, or 10.8 percent, to $16.80. The discount retailer said its same-store sales were down slightly for January, as it had predicted.

On the losing side, Electronic Data Systems Corp. retreated $1.71, or 8.7 percent, to $17.90. The loss of a main customer weighed down quarterly profit by 13 percent for the operator of corporate computer systems.

Prudential Financial Inc. declined $6.01, or 7.8 percent, to $71.39 and set a 52-week low of $69.05. Quarterly earnings fell 11 percent on lower profits in its investment and international segments.

JDS Uniphase Corp. lost 68 cents, or 5.3 percent, to $12.12, giving back some of Wednesday's gains, when the communications test and fiber-optic network equipment maker reported a fiscal second-quarter profit and had at least two analysts upgrade the stock.