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Market Close: Big Winners & Losers for April 23, 2013

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

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SCON) is up 134.9% at $5.45.

MEMSIC Inc. (NASDAQ: MEMS) is up 50.8% at $4.07.

Ceasars Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: CZR) is up 27.3% at $15.90.

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is up 24.4% at $216.99.

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMP) is up 24.1% at $8.46.

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

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRX) is down 13.2% at $0.92.

II-VI Inc. (NASDAQ: IIVI) is down 12% at $14.85.

Universal Business Payment Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: UBPS) is down 11.9% at $3.17.

ARCA Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ABIO) is down 11% at $2.58.

Mecox Lane Ltd. (NASDAQ: MCOX) is down 10.7% at $5.32.

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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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Top Losing Stocks

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Motorola Solutions
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Expedia
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Coterra Energy
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Fidelity National Information Services
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