Today's 5-Star Movers

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September 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

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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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Taseko Mines Limited (USA)

(AMEX: TGB)

12.75%

Copper

(13.90%)

1234 of 1264

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RPC, Inc.

(NYSE: RES)

12.57%

Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

(13.40%)

320 of 333

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Vimpel-Communications JSC (ADR)

(NYSE: VIP)

11.11%

Wireless Communications

(7.28%)

1202 of 1231

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Other Five-Star Copper
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. (NYSE: FCX) up 7.30%
Sterlite Industries India Limited (ADR) (NYSE: SLT) up 1.39%
Other Five-Star Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Bolt Technology Corp. (AMEX: BOLT) up 6.00%
Precision Drilling Trust (USA) (NYSE: PDS) up 5.30%
Other Five-Star Wireless Communications
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (ADR) (NYSE: MBT) up 6.67%
Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (ADR) (NYSE: TSP) up 4.75%

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NASD 2,374.41 -16.87 -0.71%

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3/19/2010 4:01 PM
VIP $17.82 Up +1.05 +6.26%
Vimpel-Communicati… CAPS Rating: *****
FCX $78.51 Down -1.76 -2.19%
Freeport-McMoRan C… CAPS Rating: ****
RES $11.55 Down -0.35 -2.94%
RPC, Inc. CAPS Rating: ****
TGB $4.82 Down -0.11 -2.23%
Taseko Mines Limit… CAPS Rating: ****
PDS $7.45 Down -0.35 -4.49%
Precision Drilling… CAPS Rating: *****
MBT $54.90 Down -0.16 -0.29%
Mobile TeleSystems… CAPS Rating: ****
SLT $17.79 Down -0.19 -1.06%
Sterlite Industrie… CAPS Rating: ****

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