DOGS
Loblaw If the guy who founded Loblaw was named Bob, imagine the hilarity when he introduced himself at dinner parties. Loblaw's profit warning was outrageously funny stuff, too, as the supermarket operator's stock went splat like a rotten cantaloupe.
$54.06, down $3.14 (L-TSX)
Google's ridiculously overvalued stock is plummeting? We didn't see this coming. Nope. Not at all. Complete surprise. We're floored.
$399.46, down $66.79 (GOOG-NASDAQ)
Nikkei Index For a country where babies are born clutching cellphones and Tamagotchi games, Japan is having a heck of a time working out the bugs in its stock market. Hit by a wave of sell orders triggered by a probe of an Internet company, the Tokyo Stock Exchange had to close early this week.
15,696.690, down 758.26 (NIKKEI 225)
STARS
International Game Technology "Like a boomerang your players are sure to come back," reads a message on IGT's web site. Not that the maker of slot machines and VLTs is encouraging compulsive gambling or anything. First-quarter earnings blew past expectations; at least investors are hitting the jackpot.
$35.45, up $3.69 (IGT-NYSE)
McDonald's Say what you want about McDonald's. But please don't say it after a double bacon cheeseburger if you're standing near an open flame. The fast-food chain's global same-store sales jumped a healthy 5 per cent in December, giving the stock a little extra gas.
$35.86, up $1.39 (MCD-NYSE)
Real Resources Years ago, when the company was called Fake Resources, nobody would touch it. Then one day the CEO woke in the middle of the night with a radical idea: "We need to change our name to Real Resources," he said, and the stock was soon climbing. Of course, soaring oil prices helped, too.
$28.18, up $2.42 (RER-TSX)
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