Today's 5-Star Movers

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July 30, 2008 | Comments (1)

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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 110,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

	Up Today	Sector	Sector Past 30 Days	Fools Saying Outperform	Research
Barrett Business Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBSI)	35.90%	Staffing & Outsourcing Services	2.65%	770 of 789	Research
Wright Express Corp (NYSE: WXS)	17.75%	Information & Delivery Services	6.65%	30 of 32	Research
National Instruments Corp (Nasdaq: NATI)	16.37%	Technical & System Software	(0.30%)	116 of 126	Research

Other Five-Star Staffing & Outsourcing Services: Korn/Ferry International (NYSE: KFY) up 4.74%; Spherion Corp (NYSE: SFN) up 2.94%
Other Five-Star Information & Delivery Services: Interactive Data Corp. (NYSE: IDC) up 1.89%; FactSet Research Systems, Inc. (NYSE: FDS) up 1.00%
Other Five-Star Technical & System Software: Infosys Technologies Limited (ADR) (Nasdaq: INFY) up 1.42%; ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSS) up 0.77%

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Disclosure is important to us here at The Motley Fool. The stocks mentioned in this article received "five-star" ratings from participants in The Motley Fool's CAPS service and are showing strong percentage gains in today's market, at least compared with other CAPS five-star stocks. No individual person selected the stocks in this article, so there is no author to disclose an interest in them. Since this article was automatically generated by identifying the stocks loved both by the CAPS community and by buyers in today’s market, it is possible that Motley Fool personnel (and even The Motley Fool itself, through our Million Dollar Portfolio), have positions in these stocks. We thought you'd like to know that. You can learn more about The Motley Fool’s disclosure policy here.

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S&P 500	845.22	-2.93%
DJIA	8,376.24	-2.51%
NASD	1,445.56	-3.14%
Updated: 4:02:39 PM

S&P 500

845.22

-2.93%

DJIA

8,376.24

-2.51%

NASD

1,445.56

-3.14%

Updated: 4:02:39 PM

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Report this Comment On July 30, 2008, at 2:29 PM, SteveTheInvestor wrote:

Yeah. Whatever. It's up because I didn't buy it.

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