Today's 5-Star Movers

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April 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

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As fundamentals-focused long-term investors, Fools never base an investment decision on the daily gyrations of the market. But the market's daily price movements can be useful when looking for new stock ideas for further research, or to keep tabs on watch-list stocks.

Below you'll find today's biggest movers among our five-star stocks -- the highest rating awarded by our CAPS community of more than 86,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Sector

Sector Past 30 Days

Fools Saying Outperform

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Smith Micro Software, Inc.

(Nasdaq: SMSI)

11.11%

Application Software

1.34%

751 of 776

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Sonic Foundry, Inc.

(Nasdaq: SOFO)

10.59%

Application Software

1.34%

135 of 140

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Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

(Nasdaq: TINY)

10.22%

Closed-End Fund - Equity

0.70%

623 of 664

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Other Five-Star Application Software
Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) up 1.70%
American Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMSWA) up 0.94%
Other Five-Star Closed-End Fund - Equity
iShares MSCI South Africa Index (ETF) (NYSE: EZA) up 3.22%
iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWZ) up 2.37%

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