On the upside
An increase in holiday spending lifted shares of payment processing services firm LML Payment Systems (Nasdaq: LMLP).
Shares of airport security device maker ICX Technologies (Nasdaq: ICXT) rose after a failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day.
Wunderlich upgraded RAM Energy Resources (Nasdaq: RAME).
On the downside
Investors were disappointed with Euro Tech Holdings' (Nasdaq: CLWT) six month income of approximately $11,000.
Financial Times suggested that Dell's (Nasdaq: DELL) expansion into IT services may not bear much financial fruit.
Motley Fool selected EMC (NYSE: EMC) as a better buy over NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) but EMC's stock price fell.
In the broad market, advancing issues edged out decliners by a margin of 10 to 9 on the NYSE while decliners outpaced advancers by nearly 9 to 7 on Nasdaq. The Russell 2000 which tracks small cap stocks rose 3 points to 634.
