Closing Bell: Down quarter, but finally an up-month (AMZN, BAC, F, GOOG, DIS)

Despite poor data from Chicago Purchasing Managers and on the consumer confidence side, stocks jumped back. It turns out that the world decided yesterday's sell-off was just a buying opportunity for bargain hunters. A change may be coming Thursday to "mark to market" from FASB. The bad news was that we had a another negative quarter, but this marked an up-month for the broad index readings. Finally.

Here are today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 7,603.98 +81.96 (1.09%)
S&P 500 797.51 +9.98 (1.27%)
Nasdaq 1,528.59 +26.79 (1.78%)

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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) followed yesterday's gains. This was one of the few gainers during yesterday's "sell everything" session and was one of the quarter-end mark-up stocks for window dressing traders. Shares were up 3.4% at $73.87 late in the day.

Bank of America Corporation
(NYSE: BAC) was trading up over 13% at $6.83 late in the day. The talk again was changes to the "mark to market" that may be coming Thursday. Ken Lewis also fielded some email questions to help the cause.

Ford Motor Company
(NYSE: F) has decided to adopt a similar ad strategy like Hyundai. It has its own new "job protection" and zero-percent loan crafted after the Korean car company's. Shares were actually down almost 2% at $2.71 shortly before the close.

Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) rose after Merriman Curhan Ford raised the search giant to a Buy from Neutral. The company also announced a venture capital arm of $100 million where Google plans to invest in fledgling companies. Shares were up 2.5% at $351.47 ahead of the close.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) had a solid day after more details came out about a YouTube partnership and hopes of a broader Hulu partnership. It looks like the logic is that Disney can put the content online and make money off it, or online pirates can put the content online and Disney can make nothing. Shares were up almost 3% at $18.34 shortly ahead of the close.
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Last updated: February 10, 2012: 07:57 AM

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