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SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield B (ETF) (NYSE:JNK) decreased -0.50%, to close at $40.00 and its overall traded volume was 2.23M shares during the last session against its average volume of 2.69M. JNK opened the day at $40.14, it made an intraday low of $39.95 and an intraday high of $40.18. The stock has a 52 week low of $35.03 and 52 week high of $41.32. JNK’s market capitalization is 6.47B and it has 161.78M outstanding shares. SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (the Fund), formerly SPDR Lehman High Yield Bond ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital High Yield Very Liquid Index (the Index). The Index includes publicly issued United States dollar denominated, non-investment grade, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bonds that have a remaining maturity of at least one year, regardless of optionality, are rated high-yield using the middle rating of Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch, respectively, and have $600 million or more of outstanding face value. Excluded from the Index are non-corporate bonds, structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features, private placements, bonds with equity-type features, floating-rate issues, Eurobonds, defaulted bonds, payment in kind (PIK) securities and emerging market bonds. The investment manager of the Fund is SSgA Funds Management, Inc.

Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) decreased -0.92%, to close at $15.09 and its overall traded volume was 2.23M shares during the last session against its average volume of 4.51M. GCI opened the day at $15.22, it made an intraday low of $14.85 and an intraday high of $15.40. The stock has a 52 week low of $11.65 and 52 week high of $19.69. GCI’s market capitalization is 3.61B and it has 238.93M outstanding shares. Gannett Co., Inc. (Gannett) is an international media and marketing solutions company. The Company publishes 83 daily United States newspapers, including USA TODAY, the daily print newspaper, and more than 650 magazines and other non-dailies, including USA WEEKEND. The Company also operates 23 TV stations in 19 the United States markets and Captivate, which operates video screens in office elevators in urban markets. Gannett’s subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom’s regional newspaper company with 17 daily paid-for titles, more than 200 weekly newspapers, magazines and trade publications, and a network of Websites. The Company operates in three segments: publishing, digital and broadcasting. In July 2009, Newsquest sold one of its commercial printing businesses, Southernprint Limited. In February 2009, the Company purchased a minority interest in Homefinder, a national online marketplace connecting homebuyers, sellers and real estate professionals.

BPZ Resources, Inc. (NYSE:BPZ) decreased -0.20%, to close at $4.95 and its overall traded volume was 2.22M shares during the last session against its average volume of 1.03M. BPZ opened the day at $4.98, it made an intraday low of $4.72 and an intraday high of $4.99. The stock has a 52 week low of $3.03 and 52 week high of $8.56. BPZ’s market capitalization is 571.76M and it has 115.51M outstanding shares. BPZ Resources, Inc. (BPZ) is an independent oil and gas company focused on the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas in Peru and Ecuador. The Company has the exclusive rights and license agreements for oil and gas exploration and production covering approximately 2.2 million acres in four blocks in northwest Peru and off the northwest coast of Peru in the Gulf of Guayaquil. BPZ also owns a 10% non-operated working interest in an oil and gas producing property, Block 2, located in the southwest region of Ecuador (the Santa Elena Property). BPZ maintains a subsidiary, BPZ Exploracion & Produccion S.R.L. (BPZ E&P) through its wholly owned subsidiary BPZ Energy International Holdings, L.P., and its subsidiary BPZ Energy, LLC. The Company through BPZ E&P has exclusive rights and license contracts for oil and gas exploration and production covering a total of approximately 2.2 million acres, in four blocks, in northwest Peru.

Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE:VSH) decreased -1.52%, to close at $15.52 and its overall traded volume was 2.22M shares during the last session against its average volume of 3.08M. VSH opened the day at $15.80, it made an intraday low of $15.25 and an intraday high of $16.00. The stock has a 52 week low of $6.85 and 52 week high of $16.05. VSH’s market capitalization is 2.56B and it has 164.93M outstanding shares. Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (Vishay) is an international manufacturer and supplier of semiconductors and passive electronic components. Semiconductors include rectifiers; diodes; transistors; integrated circuits (ICs), such as power ICs, and analog switches; modules that contains a range of semiconductors in a single package; and optoelectronic products, such as infrared (IR) emitters and detectors, IR receiver modules, optocouplers, optical sensors, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and IR data transceiver modules. On June 30, 2008, Vishay acquired its partner’s 51% interest in a transducer manufacturing joint venture in India. On July 23, 2008, it acquired Powertron GmbH, a manufacturer of specialty precision resistors. On September 15, 2008, the Company acquired the wet tantalum capacitor business of KEMET Corporation. In July 2010, Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced the completion of the spin-off of Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) from the Company.

E Commerce China Dangdang Inc (NYSE:DANG) decreased -0.65%, to close at $27.71 and its overall traded volume was 2.21M shares during the last session against its average volume of 3.45M. DANG opened the day at $28.37, it made an intraday low of $27.15 and an intraday high of $28.69. The stock has a 52 week low of $22.57 and 52 week high of $34.46. DANG’s market capitalization is 2.16B and it has 77.91M outstanding shares. E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (Dangdang) is a holding company. The Company is a business-to-consumer (B2C), e-commerce Company in the People’s Republic of China. As of September 30, 2010, it offered approximately 590,000 book titles on its Website, including more than 570,000 Chinese language titles. It also offers other media products and selected general merchandise categories on its Website, including beauty and personal care products, home and lifestyle products, and baby, children and maternity products. In July 2009, it launched the dangdang.com marketplace program, which allows third-party merchants to sell their general merchandise products alongside its products.