Market Close: Big Winners & Losers for April 24, 2013

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By Paul Ausick Updated Published

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

Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. (NYSE: NOR) is up 46.7% at $4.45.

FX Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) is up 27% at $3.43.

Buckeye Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BKI) is up 26.5% at $37.86.

Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE: BYI) is up 22.7% at $10.98.

Insmed Inc. (NASDAQ: INSM) is up 17.6% at $8.87.

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

Vocus Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is down 37.1% at $8.38.

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SCON) is down 26.2% at $4.02.

Voltari Corp. (NASDAQ: VLTC) is down 24.6% at $5.59.

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE: EW) is down 22% at $64.60.

DeVry Inc. (NYSE: DV) is down 20.4% at $27.09.

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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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