Shares of RealNetworks Inc. rose Friday as a variety of analysts reacted positively to the company's plans to spin off its gaming business and to its first-quarter report.
Wall Street retreated Friday as investors contended with wider-than-expected losses at insurer American International Group Inc.(Stock Boards, Stock Quotes, Stock Charts ) and another worrisome spike in oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 130 points.
Shares of Haynes International Inc. dropped Friday after the maker of nickel and cobalt alloys said its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 13 percent and widely missed the Street's expectations.
A vice president and general counsel of Arch Coal Inc. exercised options for and then sold 35,300 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday.
Stocks fell on Friday as concerns about the financial sector flared up again after American International Group Inc reported a record loss and as the price of oil set another record.