Companies trading higher in after hours in reaction to news: UPIP +25.2% (entered into a patent purchase agreement with Ericsson (ERIC)), MEOH +1.8% (announced temporary shutdown of operations in Chile), AEGR +1.4% (announced public offering of common stock, size not disclosed), CVX +0.8% (provided interim update for Q4: upstream results are projected to be higher between sequential quarters, downstream earnings also expected to be higher)
After Hours Losers:
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to earnings: KBR -8.8%, XRTX -5.4%, TLYS -2.3%, AXP -0.9%, PSUN -0.5%, SNX -0.4%
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to news: SANW -4.4% (announced public offering of common stock, size not disclosed), CLNY -1.9% (announced public offering of 5 mln shares of common stock), NDAQ -1.1% (announced short interest in all 2,650 NASDAQ securities totaled ~7.2 bln shares at the December 31, 2012 settlement date, compared with 2,650 issues and ~7.6 bln shares at the end of the previous reporting period)






