On the upside
Seagate (Nasdaq: STX) chairman and chief executive Stephen J. Luczo purchased more than $1.2 million worth of company stock.
The Department of Energy awarded $34 million in stimulus grants to customers and government agency partners of Clean Energy Fuels (Nasdaq: CLNE).
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas selected Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW) to provide long term care insurance to its membership.
On the downside
FX Energy (Nasdaq: FXEN) halted all drilling operations at its Ostrowiec-1 wildcat well and will plug and abandon the well.
Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA) reported a loss for the first quarter.
Gravity (Nasdaq: GRVY) reported higher second quarter earnings and revenue but the stock price fell.
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of nearly 5 to 4 on the NYSE while decliners edged out advancers by nearly 10 to 9 on Nasdaq. The Russell 2000 which tracks small cap stocks eased a fraction to 583.
