News Buzz: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TEVA), World Acceptance (NASDAQ:WRLD), AngioDynamics (NASDAQ:ANGO), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)

Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline are among pharmaceutical companies whose shares advanced after announcing $115 billion of acquisition plans since the end of March. “It’s been like a game of Pac-Man,” said Timothy Chiang, an analyst at CRT Capital Group. Mylan has attempted to negotiate a takeover of Meda, while Chiang said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR)…

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Stocks To Watch: Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS), Wolverine World Wide (NYSE:WWW), Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), Eaton Corp (NYSE:ETN)

Littelfuse Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS), the global leader in circuit protection, was recently recognized with a Supplier of the Year Award (circuit protection devices) from one of the company’s strategic channel providers, Arrow Electronics Inc. Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) stock performance was -2.71% in last session and finished the day at $90.78. Traded volume was 322,756.00million shares in…

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Tech Runners: EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD), Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Network gear company Cisco Systems Inc., cloud computing firm EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and virtualization giant VMware are closing ranks to offer for the first time a combined channel program that speaks with “one voice” around their VCE converged infrastructure offerings. EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) stock performance was 0.32% in last session and finished the day at…

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Stock Alert: AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:VOD), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), which also has a stake in America Movil, has recently been trimming its position. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this month showed AT&T held about 8.36 percent of America Movil, down from about 9 percent at the end of last year. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) stock performance was 0.97%…

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Hot Stocks: National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ)

As the European Central Bank prepares to take over supervision of about 130 euro-area lenders from BNP Paribas to National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) starting in November, regulators have sought to compile the toughest stress tests in a bid to repair credibility damaged by assessments in 2010 and 2011 that didn’t uncover weaknesses at…

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Market Movers: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)

It was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) versus Samsung but Google loomed large Tuesday during closing arguments at the monthlong federal trial involving claims of patent infringement exchanged by the world’s two largest smartphone makers. A lawyer for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) accused Samsung of “slavishly” copying key features of its iPhone and iPad products and demanded $2.2…

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