H&R Block, Merrill Lynch, Yahoo among big movers

NYSE

H&R Block Inc., up 58 cents at $21.40

A record-setting tax season and the sale of its troubled mortgage unit helped the nation's biggest tax preparer swing to a quarterly profit.

Merrill Lynch & Co., down 99 cents at $31.71

A Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. analyst cut her second-quarter estimate and price target, expecting more credit write-downs.

Del Monte Foods Co., down 50 cents at $7.10

The maker of Kibbles 'n Bits will sell its seafood unit to a South Korean firm for $363 million to focus on higher-margin businesses.

Campbell Soup Co., up $1.28 at $33.46

The food maker expects 2008 profit to fall at the upper end of the range it previously expected and approved a $1.2 billion buyback.