Friday, December 02, 2005

APPLE LEADS NASDAQ REVIVAL

December 2, 2005 -- As investors fixated on the possibility of Dow 11,000, tech stock traders stayed interested in Apple Computer and Google, two giants whose shares continued an uninterrupted climb.

Apple soared 5.57 percent to $71.60, Google gained 2.27 percent to $414.09, and Intel rose 1.87 percent to $27.18.

Research in Motion, the maker the BlackBerry e-mail device, jumped 6.36 percent to $65.02 on news that that U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had rejected one of five patents held by NTP Inc. currently at the center of a bitter dispute between the companies.