NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
NYSE
Mastercard Inc., up $9.42 at $289.79
American Express will receive as much as $1.8 billion from the credit card company to settle an antitrust lawsuit.
Countrywide Financial Corp., down 8 cents at $4.58
Illinois' attorney general is suing the nation's biggest mortgage lender, whose shareholders are also set to vote on a takeover by Bank of America.
Monsanto Co., down $4.27 at $131.52
The agricultural chemicals company posted a quarterly profit, but one analyst said investors may have expected more from its revised full-year profit outlook.
Darden Restaurants Inc., up $2.16 at $33.76
Strong sales at the Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse helped the restaurant operator turn a quarterly profit, compared with a year-ago loss.

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Shares of some top computers companies were down at the close of trading: Apple Inc fell $1.86 or 1.1 percent, to $173.53.


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