The stock market is down Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.20%, the Nasdaq down 0.04% and the S&P 500 down 0.39%. Today’s sole winner is a pharmaceutical company with a kidney drug that passed a trial, and today’s sole loser announced that its yearly profit will fall short of prior estimates.
This is today’s market winner and loser.
Biggest Winner
Shares of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: KERX) are up 41.40% to $4.85 on trading volume of 10.7 million shares. A kidney disease drug the company is trying to get on the market has passed a late-stage trial. The 52-week high is $5.19.
Biggest Loser
Shares of Jos. A Bank Clothiers Inc. (NASDAQ: JOSB) are down 16.25% to $38.75 on trading volume of 1.7 million shares. The company announced that 2012 profit will fall 20% compared to the prior year because of warmer-than-usual weather and U.S. political unease. Before Monday, the 52-week low was $39.54.
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