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The U.S. stock index signaled a higher open Friday as investor sentiment turned positive amid the encouraging data from China.

Asian stock markets advanced Friday as sentiment was buoyed following the release of improved economic data in both the U.S. and China.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were NuPathe Inc, Education Management Corporation, Life Technologies Corporation and Unilife Corporation, while the top after-market NASDAQ losers were Trius Therapeutic Inc, Intel Corporation, MAKO Surgical Corp, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc and Oncothyreo Inc.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were American Greetings Corp, First Horizon National, KBR, Inc, Rio Tinto and Dole Food Co. The top after-market NYSE losers were VOC Energy Trust, El Paso Electric, Capital One Financial, Advanced Micro Devices and Yingli Green Energy.

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Nu Skin Enterprises, Bank of America Corp, Anworth Mortgage Asset, Alcatel Lucent, eBay, Barclays, Fusion-IO, Boeing Co and Rio Tinto Plc are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Thursday.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Census Bureau’s data on housing starts and building permits.

Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday as investors opted for caution ahead of China’s fourth quarter growth economic data release Friday.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were CBS Corp, Nu Skin Enterprises, Triple-S Management, Intrepid Potash and Verifone Systems. The top after-market NYSE losers were Country Style Cooking, HHGregg, Northern Tier Energy, Air Lease Corp and Forum Energy Technologies.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were K-Swiss Inc, EnerNOC Inc, Nektar Therapeutics and Plexus Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers Wednesday were Columbia Sportswear Company, AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc, Hercules Offshore Inc, Liquidity Services Inc and InterMune Inc.

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Investment demand is expected to drive the price of gold higher in first half 2013, on loose monetary policies and burgeoning sovereign debt.

Myspace, the social network co-owned by Justin Timberlake, relaunched on Tuesday, but all eyes were on Facebook's Social Graph.

Expectations have dropped for Bank of America’s 4Q results in the months leading up to the company’s earnings announcement, due on Thursday.

Carnival Corp, Sturm, Ruger & Co, Yahoo! Inc, Boeing Co, Deutsche Bank, Dell Inc, UBS AG and BP plc are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Wednesday.

Slavery still exists in Mali, and the current insurgency crisis has put the problem on hold.

Women have long played a leading role for the PKK, a designated terrorist organization in Turkey.

U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Wednesday ahead of the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December by the Department of Labor and the Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report by the Federal Reserve.

Crude oil prices advanced and hovered above $93 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Wednesday after the U.S. crude stockpiles increased far less than expected.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Tuesday were Christopher & Banks, Chicago Bridge & Iron, AU Optronics Corp, Starwood Property Trust and TransCanada Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were Carpenter Technology, Cobalt International Energy, Stag Industrial, Mindray Medical and Imperial Holdings.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Tuesday were Vera Bradley Inc, TTM Technologies Inc, ArQule Inc and Gordmans Stores Inc. The top after-market NASDAQ losers Tuesday were Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc, Crocs Inc, AtriCure Inc, Arkansas Best Corporation and Five Below Inc.

Nobody's neutral on Apple as the share price continues to swoon, erasing nearly all its gains of 2012.

The U.S. risks having a second major credit ratings agency strip it of its top rating because of debt ceiling, deficit fights.

Radioshack Corp, Mellanox Technologies, Zynga Inc, Sangamo Biosciences, Stillwater Mining, Facebook, ARM Holdings and Alcoa Inc are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Tuesday.

Staff cuts and stronger investment banking operations are expected to boost Goldman Sachs fouth-quarter and full-year performance.

Times were Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) could do no wrong, as sales and earnings grew and grew. However, harder times have come.

The U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open Tuesday ahead of the Department of Commerce's retail sales report and the Department of Labor's Producer Price Index.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Monday were Express, Radioshack Corp, Ruckus Wireless, ITT Educational and Flowers Foods, Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers were STMicroelectronics, Under Armour, Office Depot, Nordic American Tankers and hhgregg.