Stocks edge higher on pharma shares
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Stocks indexes rose on Thursday as higher oil prices lifted energy stocks while a crop of positive headlines boosted pharmaceutical stocks.
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Stocks edged higher on Friday, clawing back from the previous session's steep losses, led by energy shares such as Exxon Mobil  as the price of oil rose.
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Charges hurt the quarterly results of Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp., but the drugmakers' shares rose as J&J's earnings beat Wall Street forecasts and Merck sales edged higher despite the withdrawal of its best-selling Vioxx arthritis drug.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday as several major corporate deals pointed to optimism about the economy, outweighing sharp losses by blue-chip Pfizer Inc.  after the world's No. 1 drug company dropped a key experimental product.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) - Shares of Merck and rivals Pfizer and Novartis all closed higher Friday, the day after Merck announced that it was abruptly pulling its hugely popular anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx from the market due to safety concerns.
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NEW YORK - Stocks edged higher Wednesday despite a lower reading on manufacturing activity and a spike in oil prices. Technology shares were unaffected by brokerage downgrades of two semiconductor companies...
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U.S. stock futures edged higher on   Wednesday, with data on durable goods and new home sales on tap   and the Dow Jones industrial average poised to break above its   all-time high.
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Stocks edged higher on Thursday as data showing a drop in weekly jobless claims eased worries on the economy and investors bought beaten-down technology shares.
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Biotechnology stocks moved higher Wednesday, led by MGI Pharma Inc., which agreed to buy a stake in SuperGen Inc. as part of a licensing deal for SuperGen&#39;s Dacogen drug.
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Stocks edged higher at the opening on Friday as data showing the U.S. trade gap narrowed more than expected in May offset concerns about rising interest rates.
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US stocks closed higher on Wednesday, as the dollar strengthened and shares of Merck &amp; Co. (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) helped lift the Dow after the drugmaker
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Europe's main stock exchanges edged higher on Monday after steep pre-weekend losses on Wall Street and ahead of a data-packed week, analysts said.
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U.S. stocks edged higher on Friday, helped by a report showing more workers than expected were added to U.S. payrolls, although rising oil prices and weakness in the dollar limited gains.
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Stocks edged higher on Tuesday as a dip in Treasury bond yields tempered investors' interest-rate worries and boosted financial stocks.
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Shares of drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc.  traded 1.52 percent higher on volume of more than 61,000 shares in pre-market dealings on Friday, a day after the stock plunged to an eight-year low after the company withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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U.S. stocks moved higher on Friday,  as oil prices edged down and PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O and  chip-related stocks boosted the tech-heavy Nasdaq to its  highest level in more than two months.
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Stocks inched higher Tuesday as investors saw the bright side of mixed economic data and rumors about big merger deals, including a report that consumer products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson&#39;s is in talks to purchase a leading medical device maker.