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Today's 5-Star Movers

By Motley Fool Staff
August 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Below you'll find today's biggest movers among our five-star stocks -- the highest rating from our CAPS community of more than 115,000 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
Focus Media Holding Limited (ADR) (Nasdaq: FMCN)	11.35%	Advertising Agencies	5.42%	1,041 of 1,067	Research
ShengdaTech (Nasdaq: SDTH)	6.82%	Specialty Chemicals	11.58%	1,067 of 1,080	Research
ICO (Nasdaq: ICOC)	6.45%	Synthetics	5.83%	813 of 830	Research

Other Five-Star Specialty Chemicals:

Quaker Chemical (NYSE: KWR) up 2.26%
Innospec (Nasdaq: IOSP) up 1.52%

Other Five-Star Synthetics:

Landec (Nasdaq: LNDC) up 1.75%
Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) up 1.36%

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