Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Alpha Natural Resources and Wyndham Worldwide popped while Avis and Cephalon dropped. Read More
COP is off 0.86 percent to $46.24 in midday trading. The stock hit a 52-week low of $34.12 in March before running up 43 percent in early June but has largely traded sideways since then. Read More
Oil prices rose above $72 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time this month as a falling dollar spurred investors to buy commodities as a hedge against inflation. Paul Sankey, oil analyst at Deutsche Bank told investors where they should be looking and shared his outlook for crude oil in the months to come. Read More