Satya Nagendra Padala

The top after-market NYSE gainers Monday were Chico's FAS, Weight Watchers International, Thor Industries, Time Warner Cable Inc and Millennial Media. The top after-market NYSE losers were hhgregg, China Unicom, EnerSys, Trulia and Ellie Mae.

MannKind Corp, Alcatel Lucent SA, Cirrus Logic, Ford Motor, Alliance Resource Partners, Radian Group, HSBC Holdings Plc and DuPont are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.

Asian stock markets declined Monday despite the encouraging economic reports from the U.S. and China as investors opted for caution ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Asian markets are likely to begin the week on a positive note as better-than-expected U.S. non-farm payroll data have suggested that the strength of the economic recovery in the world's largest economy is gaining some traction.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Equal Energy Ltd, Hilltop Holdings Inc, Corporate Executive Board, Gartner and SM Energy Co. The top after-market NYSE losers were hhgregg, Tutor Perini Corp, PharMerica Corp, Select Medical Holdings Corp and Emergent Biosolutions.

LinkedIn Corp, Starbucks Corp, Pan American Silver Corp, Alcatel Lucent, GlaxoSmithKline, Nokia Corp, Deutsche Bank and Weatherford International Ltd. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

Asian stock markets surged Friday as investor sentiment turned positive overnight following better-than-expected economic reports from the U.S.

Crude oil prices declined slightly and hovered below $87 a barrel during Asian trading hours Friday as investors awaited a key U.S. monthly non-farm payrolls and unemployment data from the government.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were LinkedIn Corp, Orbitz Worldwide, Genpact, Heckmann and Basic Energy Services. The top after-market NYSE losers were Active Network, Guess? Inc, Greenway Medical Technologies, Calix, Inc and Fluor Corp.

BT Group, Tata Motors, Royal Dutch Shell, ARM Holdings, Zumiez, Comverse Technology, Research In Motion and Netflix are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the official data showed that Chinese manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in three months.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were Ellie Mae, AVG Technologies, Wabash National Corp, Roundy's and Artio Global Investors Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers were Barnes & Noble, Mueller Water Products, Cameron International Corp, Basic Energy Services and DigitalGlobe.

Nokia Corp, Deutsche Bank, BP Plc, Advanced Micro Devices, Telefonica, Carnival Corp, Ford Motor, Home Depot, United States Steel Corp, International Business Machines Corp and Halliburton Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Asian stock markets mostly advanced Wednesday as better news in Europe both on the earnings and the fiscal front along with South Korean industrial production data improved risk appetite.

Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) eased monetary policy for the second straight month by expanding asset purchases.

Crude oil prices declined and hovered above $85 a barrel in Asia Tuesday as demand reduced in the U.S. because of Superstorm Sandy.

Asian stock markets mostly advanced Monday as better-than-expected reading on the U.S. economic activity data lifted sentiment.

Asian stock markets ended on a negative note last week as the disappointing corporate earnings from the major companies in the U.S. and Asia weighed on the sentiment and suggested that the global economic growth momentum continued to falter.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Tenet Healthcare Corp, ResMed, Delphi Automotive, Community Health Systems and Heckmann Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were Skilled Healthcare Group, Kirby Corp, Marathon Petroleum Corp, HollyFrontier Corp and Pier 1 Imports Inc.

Novo Nordisk, Pilgrim's Pride Corp, SAP AG, Dryships, Yum! Brands, Amazon.com, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Facebook Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

Asian stock markets plunged Friday as the disappointing earnings from Apple Inc. and some regional companies dampened the sentiment.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were Varian Medical Systems, DeVry Inc, RPC Inc, Pandora Media and Federated Investors. The top after-market NYSE losers were Standard Pacific Corp, McEwen Mining, Resolute Forest Products, Dupont Fabros Technology and Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Asian stock markets declined Friday as sentiment was weighed down by mixed U.S. economic data and weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings from Apple.

Zynga Inc, Synacor, Symantec Corp, Akamai Technologies, Facebook, Honeywell International, F5 Networks, Logitech International SA and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

Asian stock markets mostly advanced Thursday as the encouraging economic data from the U.S. and China buoyed sentiment.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were Skechers USA, CoreLogic, Owens-Illinois, Ryland Group and Telefonica Brasil. The top after-market NYSE losers were Fusion-IO, Trinity Industries, Cliffs Natural Resources, Best Buy Co and Teradyne.

Facebook Inc, Power One, Gilead Sciences, SAP AG, Netflix Inc, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Norfolk Southern Corp and Nokia Corp are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a slightly higher open Wednesday ahead of the Census Bureau's new home sales data and the Federal Open Market Committee statement.

Most of the Asian markets declined Wednesday as sentiment deteriorated following the weak earnings reports and the downgrade on five of the Spanish regions by Moody’s.