Market Close: Big Winners & Losers for April 17, 2013

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By Paul Ausick Updated Published

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Here are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing:

Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR) is up 34% at $2.88.

Fairway Group Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: FWM) is up 33.5% at $17.35. Today was the stock’s IPO.

OCZ Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ) is up 26% at $1.55.

Oragenics Inc. (NYSEMKT: OGEN) is up 25.5% at $3.45.

Park City Group Inc. (NYSEMKT: PCYG) is up 21.9% at $5.35.

And here are today’s five biggest losing stocks at closing:

Kingtone Wirelessinfo Solution Holding Co. (NASDAQ: KONE) is down 26.4% at $2.18.

InnerWorkings Inc. (NASDAQ: INWK) is down 25.3% at $10.48.

China Information Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: CNIT) is down 24.7% at $1.31.

Cirrus Logic Inc. (NASDAQ: CRUS) is down 15.7% at $18.05.

Ambassadors Group Inc. (NASDAQ: EPAX) is down 15.2% at $3.40.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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