Stock Market Today: Big Winners & Losers for Tuesday

April 30, 2013 by Paul Ausick

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Here are the five biggest gaining stocks in today’s U.S. markets at closing:

Transition Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: TTHI) is up 37.8% at $3.10.

Digital Ally Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) is up 35.8% at $6.00.

Pain Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: PTIE) is up 26% at $4.12.

DURECT Corp. (NASDAQ: DRRX) is up 25.6% at $1.57.

Multimedia Games Inc. (NASDAQ: MGAM) is up 22.2% at $24.66.

And here are the markets’ five biggest losing stocks today:

Delcath Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: DCTH) is down 40.1% at $0.83.

Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO) is down 31.3% at $5.11.

Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is down 18.3% at $19.04.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: AOSL) is down 15.8% at $7.24.

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) is down 15.7% at $13.66.

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