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Jul 14 9:43am ET †
Company Name Price Change / %Change

AA Alcoa Inc Goldman Sachs upgraded the third-largest producer of aluminum to ``buy'' from ``neutral,'' citing growing aluminum consumption in China. 35.49 +0.85 / +2.45%

AAPL Apple Inc The maker of the iPod and Macintosh computers may have sold as many as 425,000 of its new iPhones in the first three days after the handset made its debut, in line with projections. 177.29 +4.71 / +2.73%

BUD Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc The maker of Budweiser agreed to a sweetened $52B takeover offer from Belgian brewer InBev. The deal will create the world's largest brewer. 67.33 +0.83 / +1.25%

FNM Fannie Mae On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined a plan to give Fannie and Freddie, which own or back about $5T worth of home mortgages, a bigger line of credit with the Treasury Department. The firms will also be able to tap the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for funds. 12.59 +2.34 / +22.83%

FRE Freddie Mac Freddie's closely watched auction Monday morning $3B of bills was seeing sufficient demand. 9.01 +1.26 / +16.26%

GE General Electric Company The industrial conglomerate announced that it would develop a new line of fuel efficient jet engines to compete with United Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney. 27.96 +0.30 / +1.08%

LEH Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposal to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may bolster Lehman, at one time the largest U.S. underwriter of mortgage bonds. 14.91 +0.48 / +3.33%

MSFT Microsoft Corporation The technology company announced late Friday plans to cut the price of its low-end XBox 360 and introduce a new mid-range model with a 60GB hard drive. It is rumored that Microsoft could announce a deal with Netflix at the E3 video game industry conference in Los Angeles that would allow movies and TV shows from Netflix to be played on the Xbox. 25.66 +0.41 / +1.62%

RJET Republic Awys Hldgs Inc The operator of regional flights for bigger airlines said it would cut 500 jobs amid record fuel prices and ``expected reductions'' in its contracts with larger carriers. 7.77 -0.01 / -0.13%

UAUA Ual Corp The world's second-largest carrier will offer as many as 400 employees voluntary buyouts as it cuts seating capacity because of surging fuel costs. 3.64 +0.01 / +0.28%

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