Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
NYSE
Chevron Corp., up 38 cents at $95.32
Record high oil prices lifted profit 10 percent and above expectations, the second-largest U.S. oil company said.
Viacom Inc., down 44 cents at $39.48
Shares fell, even as the owner of MTV and Nickelodeon said strong sales of video game "Rock Band" lifted first-quarter earnings 33 percent.
KBR Inc., up $1.68 at $30.21
The military contractor's quarterly profit more than tripled because of a $51 million gain from an arbitration award.
Washington Post Co., down $30.70 at $652.80
More consumers turned to the Internet for information, tugging down newspaper revenue, circulation and profit.
InterContinental Exchange Inc., up $1.12 at $161.12
Trading volume accelerated in the U.S. and Europe, lifting the futures exchange operator's first-quarter profit by 66 percent.
NASDAQ
Sun Microsystems Inc., down $3.69 at $12.64
Soft spending from U.S. companies caused the server and software company to post an unexpected $34 million quarterly loss.
Microsoft Corp., down 16 cents at $29.24
The world's biggest software company may go straight to Yahoo Inc.'s shareholders with a hostile takeover bid, according to a report.
Morningstar Inc., up $11.87 at $71.84
An analyst upgraded the stock after the investment-research firm's profit rose 32 percent and topped expectations.
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