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S&P 500 Gainers For The Week 3.4-3.10 (SBUX, S, LUV)

Starbucks Corp SBUX 14.6 37.97 33.12 28325.6  
Western Digital Corp WDC 14.4 34.32 30.01 7950.8  
Sprint Nextel Corp S 12.9 4.90 4.34 14652.6  
Iron Mountain Inc IRM 9.7 27.66 25.21 5535.6  
Block (H&R) Inc. HRB 9.5 15.84 14.47 4832.9  
J. C. Penney Company Inc. JCP 7.9 36.81 34.11 8712.9  
PulteGroup Inc PHM 6.8 7.09 6.64 2708.4  
Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 5.9 12.50 11.80 9344.5  
Tyson Foods Inc. TSN 5.1 19.36 18.42 5952.8  
Exelon Corp EXC 4.4 42.96 41.13 28433.6

Shares in Starbucks rose sharply as it set a distribution deal with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR). GMCR shares rose as much as 40%. Western Digital moved up as it bought the Hitachi’s Global Storage for $3.4 billion.

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) traded up as the media reported a potential merger with No.4 US wireless carrier T-Mobile. Sprint will not be able to compete on its own against AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless on its own.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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