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• Bancolombia SA (CIB)
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• Cadence Financial Corp (CADE)
• CenterPoint Energy Inc (CNP)
• Collective Brands Inc (PSS)
• El Paso Electric Co (EE)
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• Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD)
• Fairpoint Communications Inc (FRP)
• Ferro Corp (FOE)
• First Merchants Corp (FRME)
• First Security Group Inc (FSGI)
• Fuel Tech Inc (FTEK)
• Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (GOL)
• Harleysville Group Inc (HGIC)
• Haverty Furniture Companies Inc (HVT)
• Heartland Payment Systems Inc (HPY)
• Huntsman Corp (HUN)
• Intrepid Potash Inc (IPI)
• ITT Corp (ITT)
• Jo-Ann Stores Inc (JAS)
• Kelly Services Inc (KELYA)
• Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP)
• Lincoln National Corp (LNC)
• LoJack Corp (LOJN)
• The Macerich Co (MAC)
• MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU)
• MetroCorp Bancshares Inc (MCBI)
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• Parke Bancorp Inc (PKBK)
• Penford Corp (PENX)
• The PMI Group Inc (PMI)
• PPG Industries Inc (PPG)
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• THQ Inc (THQI)
• Timberland Bancorp Inc (TSBK)
• Titan Machinery Inc (TITN)
• Trico Marine Services Inc (TRMA)
• Vulcan Materials Co (VMC)
• ZipRealty Inc (ZIPR)

This from the Guardian (UK):

Investors should start seeing the effect on year-end balance sheets, and reforms under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 are likely to complicate matters by forcing companies to spend cash to shore up their plans.

“If your pension plan was invested mainly in equities and equities are off 20 percent, all of a sudden you have a 20 percent shortfall,” William Hernandez, chief financial officer of paint maker PPG Industries Inc , told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.

“It is going to…

But they threw off their shackles on Friday. Dupont (DD), which fell 46 cents to $45.24 a day earlier, was up by 3.77% to $47.67. Keeping it company was Dow Chemical (DOW), the only one to have bucked the pullback on Thursday, with a surge of 4.16% to trade at $37.31.

But the stock to really watch out for is Olin Corp. (OLN) that climbed by 10.39% to $23.17 in spite of the announcement that caustic soda shipments from its plant in McIntosh, Ala., will be halted until further notice. Praxair, Inc. (PX) too scaled $85.98, up by 4.65%. Dow and Praxair are trading near their 200-Day Moving Average.

Also on the upswing were PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG), Ashland Inc. (ASH) and Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (APD), all stocks that had tanked on Thursday. However, the biggest chemical maker, BASF (BASFY) was not so lucky, as it was down to $46.83 following a Bloomberg news that the company will cut down polystyrene production in Europe by 25% because of a fall in demand. Dow Chemical too had announced a 15% reduction in polystyrene production in Europe in June.