Top Narrow Based Indexes For December 17 (ITMN, SMI, HSFT)

By 10:57 am, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 34.40 points, or 0.30%, to 11,464.85, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had lost 1.77 points, or 0.14%. The NASDAQ composite index rose 4.18 points, or 0.16%. Some of the narrow based indexes supporting the markets are Respiratory Stocks, which have gained 8.6%, Semiconductor Fabricator Stocks, up 1.8%, and Chinese IT Stocks, moving 1.7% higher as a group. In Tickerspy's

complex, InterMune Inc

had surged 106.8%. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (

) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has backed the ITMN's experimental lung drug Esbriet. The best performing Tickerspy

stock has been Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp

, which was up 2.5%. SMI's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $1.48 billion. HiSoft Technology International Ltd

is today's leading Tickerspy's

stock, gaining 5.3%. HSFT has priced its follow-on public offering of 5,000,000 American depositary shares at $26.00 per ADS. Read more