On the upside
Bucyrus International (Nasdaq: BUCY) offered $1.3 billion to buy the mining equipment unit from Terex Corp. (NYSE: TEX).
An analyst upgraded chip giant Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) whose shares extended last week's rally among tech stocks.
Shares of apparel store operator Stein Mart (Nasdaq: SMRT) rose on optimism about the holiday shopping season.
American Greetings (NYSE: AM) was selected to produce the official 2009 presidential and vice presidential holiday cards for the Obama administration.
On the downside
The Department of Interior suspended Kforce Government Solutions (Nasdaq: KFRC) from new and renewed work with the federal government last Friday.
Citigroup (NYSE: C) was one of the few laggards following a Barron's article that identified the banking giant the weakest among its peers.
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of nearly 3 to 1 on the NYSE and by nearly 2 to 1 on Nasdaq. The Russell 2000 which tracks small cap stocks climbed 7 points to 618.
