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Opening Glance: Construction and engineering down



By AP
11 July 2008 @ 10:50 am EST

NEW YORK - Shares of construction and engineering companies opened lower on Friday as the broader market tumbled on worries over mortgage companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and sharply higher oil prices.

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FRE 5.1 0.15
FNM 7.04 0.62
JEC 64.57 -0.13
GVA 36.09 -0.65
PWR 28.08 0.25
PCR 26.19 1.63

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Meanwhile, a Friedman, Billings, Ramsey analyst upgraded shares of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to "Outperform" from "Market Perform," saying shares are cheap.

Here's how some shares of construction and engineering companies are performing:

Jacobs, up $3.15, or 4.2 percent, to $77.94.

Granite Construction Inc., down 5 cents to $32.70.

Quanta Services Inc., down 90 cents to $29.76.

Perini Corp., off 80 cents to $24.63.

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