Jim Chesko reporting for WWL First Business News...
Stocks finished narrowly mixed today. The Dow Industrials eased 28 points, while the Nasdaq gained 66 and the S&P 500 added 5.
Intel is out with quarterly earnings and revenue that blew past expectations. The semiconductor giant posted adjusted per-share profit of $1.42 and revenue of about $19.2 billion … pushing the chipmaker’s stock solidly higher in after-hours trading.
But shares of Capital One Financial are losing ground in extended trading. The credit-card and auto-loan giant reported a bigger-than-expected drop in third-quarter earnings.
Oil prices notched modest gains today. December crude added 26 cents to settle at $56.23 a barrel - rising for a third-straight day.
SouthStar Urgent Care is continuing to add new locations … with a new facility set to open next Wednesday in Slidell, its first New Orleans-area location and 15th overall.