Bank of New York Mellon, General Motors, Delta, Broadcom are big market movers Tuesday

By AP
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Bank of New York Mellon, General Motors big movers

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

NYSE

Coach Inc., up $2.69 at $20.92

First-quarter profit slid, but the luxury handbag maker said sales and traffic had stabilized, and declared a new cash dividend.

General Motors Corp., up 4 cents at $1.70

The car maker could get as much as $5 billion more in federal loans on top of the $13.4 billion it has already received.

Delta Air Lines Inc., up $1.30 at $8.11

Losses on fuel hedges drove the airline to a quarterly loss, but the company said it expects to be profitable this year.

New York Times Co., down 91 cents at $4.94

Plunging ad revenues sank the newspaper company to a deeper loss, and its chief executive warned of ongoing big ad declines.

Merck & Co., down $1.68 at $23.54

Sales were short of expectations for nearly all of the company’s drugs, and the drug maker cut its forecast for the year.

Citigroup Inc., up 30 cents at $3.24

Four new people were nominated to the bank’s board of directors, and the Treasury secretary said most banks are well-capitalized.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp., down 5 cents at $27.98

The bank chopped its dividend 63 percent as first-quarter earnings and revenue dropped much more than analysts had expected.

NASDAQ

Broadcom Corp., down $1.27 at $20.52

The chip maker launched a hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp., whose shares soared nearly 50 percent.

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