Take a look at some of Thursday's midday movers:
Spike in natural gas futures propelled natural gas stocks higher including Apache, EQTCorp and Cabot Oil & Gas. Futures rallied after after an unexpectedly bullish storage report.
AOL shares tumbled after activist investor Starboard Value failed to win a proxy fight. A preliminary vote count by AOL showed that a majority of shareholders voted to re-elect all eight of AOL’s current board members and not one of the three supported by Starboard Value. Despite the day's selloff, shares of AOL are up about 25-percent over the past year.
Is the United States in a dollar store economy? Low end retailers jumped near the higher end of their ranges—Family Dollar Stores, Dollar Tree and Dollar General traded near 52-week highs.
Shares of Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras fell to its lowest in nearly five years after company announced a 5.3 percent increase in its five-year exploration and production investment plan to $236.5 billion. But the company cut its production forecast to 5.7 million barrels per day, well below previous forecasts of 6.4 million barrels per day.
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