Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) shares fell 2.77% to
$23.88 in the morning hour. Valero Energy and LyondellBasell Industries NV
(LYB) are interested in buying Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4)’s refinery in
Texas, newspaper Valor Economico reported without saying how it obtained the
information.
salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM) shares declined 3.48% to
$131.05. The company is expected to buy start-up GoInstant for over $70 million,
people familiar with the matter said.
The deal is the latest for Salesforce.com, which has been acquiring
start-ups that have developed social-media tools and Web-based services.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) shares fell 1.04% to
$21.90 in the morning hour after the Dallas Morning News reported that physical
transformation has started inside J.C. Penney stores, with the company wanting
to remake itself into an group of individual shops. The company said that the
first 10 shops will be open at all of its large department stores in time for
back-to-school shopping.
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) shares declined 2% to
$83.10 after the company said that it started production at the Kizomba
Satellites Phase 1 oil project in offshore Angola. The project will in time
produce 100,000 barrels of oil a day from two large deep-water fields, dubbed
Mavacola and Clochas.
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) shares fell 1.63% to $13.01 in
the morning hour. The company is said to visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York
City's Times Square to declare July 10th as the official first day of the 2012
back-to-school shopping season. In honor of the occasion, Demos Parneros,
president of U.S. Stores for Staples, Inc., will preside over the NASDAQ
Opening Bell.
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