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Pantry Inc. (Nasdaq:PTRY), Gainsco Inc. (Nasdaq:GAN) and First Mercury Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:FMR) are among the biggest percentage losers in Tuesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: FFD Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:FFDF), Innophos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:IPHS), Life Partners Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:LPHI), LCA Vision Inc. (Nasdaq:LCAV), WNS Holdings Ltd (Nasdaq:WNS) and Altra Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:AIMC).

DryShips Inc. (Nasdaq:DRYS), Focus Media Holding Ltd. (Nasdaq:FMCN) and Ener1 Inc. (Nasdaq:HEV) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Tuesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Innophos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:IPHS), China Biotics Inc. (Nasdaq:CHBT), Micrus Endovascular Corp. (Nasdaq:MEND), HADERA PAPER Ltd. (Nasdaq:AIP), Beacon Federal Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq:BFED) and Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. (Nasdaq:GNK).

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. (Nasdaq:AGM), Macatawa Bank Corp. (Nasdaq:MCBC) and Banner Corp. (Nasdaq:BANR) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Value Line Inc. (Nasdaq:VALU), Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. (Nasdaq:TWPG), Innophos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:IPHS), James River Coal Co. (Nasdaq:JRCC), Agilysys Inc. (Nasdaq:AGYS) and PMFG Inc. (Nasdaq:PMFG).

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Small-cap stocks closed slightly lower Friday, pulled down by pre-weekend profit-taking and losses in small-cap energy names as crude oil tumbled to a 15-week closing low. The Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) finished Friday’s action down 1.01, or 0.13% at 753.37, which stands as the third highest daily close of the year and the highest weekly close of 2008. For the first time in a while, large-cap products were noticeably firmer than small-caps, with the Dow up 0.38% Friday to 11659.90, and the S&P 500 up 0.41% at 1298.20. For the year, the Russell is down 1.65%, while the Dow is off 12.0% and the S&P 500 is down 11.5%.

Normally, crude oil price declines have been a supportive element for small-cap stocks, and while that psychology is still in play, there were enough commodity-tied small-cap shares in the red Friday to pull down the Russell relative to the Dow and S&P 500. Among broad market sectors, coal, gold, metals and mining, oil and gas drillers, oil production and steel stocks were the worst performers.

Crude oil futures finished out the week at 15-week closing lows, slipping about 1% Friday just below $114 dollars a barrel. Although there are many stocks that stand to benefit from a stabilization in crude oil price declines, the general consensus is that further downside probing in the energy market would be an overall bullish element for equities because it would free up consumer spending for other areas...

Small-cap stocks put together a solid rally Tuesday, essentially recapturing the lost ground from Monday’s sharp decline. The market got an early boost from sinking crude oil prices, and extended those gains after the FOMC report failed to spark any fresh concerns. The Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) closed up 16.90, or 2.40% at 721.04. In the last three weeks, the market has generated one-day rallies of more than 2% on four occasions, which is an unusually large number of singular big-rally days jammed into such a short time frame.

Foreign exchange markets seemed to say that the Fed was on the right path, with the U.S. dollar jumping more than 100 basis points against the euro, and the dollar index climbing to the highest point since mid-June. In general, at this stage of the economic cycle, a strong greenback is seen as a sign of strength for the U.S. economy, and should encourage foreign asset flow into the U.S. stock market.

As for today’s big FOMC report, there was some mild intraday volatility associated with the statement, but the overall response was one of comfort. There is still a diversity of opinion about whether the Fed is in a position to fight inflation with tighter policy because of rising unemployment and soft economic conditions, but there also is a sense that the recent pullback in energy prices and other commodity markets may have provided the FOMC members with some valuable time and breathing room to combat a difficult situation...

Graham Corp (Nasdaq:GHM), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS) and Luminex Corp (Nasdaq:LMNX) are among the new 52-week highs in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: LTC Properties (Nasdaq:LTC), Emergent BioSolutions Inc (Nasdaq:EBS), PharMerica Corp (Nasdaq:PMC), Ness Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:NSTC), Met-Pro Corp (Nasdaq:MPR) and iGate Corp (Nasdaq:IGTE).

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Innophos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:IPHS) has skyrocketed 25% to a 52-week high on a strong second quarter performance. For the 2008 second quarter, net sales were $264 million, up from $151.9 million a year ago. Net income was $59.3 million, or $2.74 per share, compared with a net loss of $5.2 million, or $0.25 per share loss, for the same period a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings per share of $0.73 on revenues of $211.9 million. Innophos is a Cranbury, N.J.-based producer of specialty phosphates.

“We are also anticipating and rapidly responding to the dynamic rate of change in our markets,” said CEO Randy Gress, in a statement. “We are successfully increasing prices while striving to provide value to our customers through a high level of customer service, reliable product supply and quality, and to continuously improve the efficiency and the strength of our supply chain.”

At 2:26 p.m. ET, shares are at $36.82, up $7.45 from Thursday’s close. Trading volume is at more than 2.2 million shares, well above the average of about 439,000.

Astronics (Nasdaq:ATRO), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS) and USA Mobility Inc (Nasdaq:USMO) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc (Nasdaq:PEET), Nautilus Inc (Nasdaq:NLS), thinkorswim Group Inc (Nasdaq:SWIM), Universal American Corp (Nasdaq:UAM), Innovative Solutions and Support Inc (Nasdaq:ISSC) and RehabCare Group, Inc (Nasdaq:RHB).

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PetMed Express Inc (Nasdaq:PETS), Ness Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:NSTC) and American Commercial Lines Inc (Nasdaq:ACLI) are among the most actively traded companies in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS), Pharmasset Inc (Nasdaq:VRUS), Eresearchtechnology Inc (Nasdaq:ERES), Hansen Medical Inc (Nasdaq:HNSN), Finish Line Inc (Nasdaq:FINL) and STEC Inc (Nasdaq:STEC).

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Titan Machinery Inc (Nasdaq:TITN), Cyberonics Inc (Nasdaq:CYBX) and Abiomed Inc (Nasdaq:ABMD) are among the new 52-week highs in Monday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: GMX Resources Inc (Nasdaq:GMXR), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS), Gran Tierra Energy Inc (Nasdaq:GTE), A Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd (Nasdaq:APWR), CardioNet Inc (Nasdaq:BEAT) and Calgon Carbon Corp (Nasdaq:CCC).

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Sequenom Inc (Nasdaq:SQNM), Intersections Inc (Nasdaq:INTX) and Superior Well Services Inc (Nasdaq:SWSI) are among the new 52-week highs in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Houston American Energy Corp (Nasdaq:HUSA), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS), Balchem Corp (Nasdaq:BCPC), Digimarc Corp (Nasdaq:DMRC), Tailwind Financial Inc (Nasdaq:TNF) and NCI Inc (Nasdaq:NCIT).

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C&D Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:CHP), United States Oil Fund, LP (Nasdaq:USO) and Northern Oil and Gas Inc (Nasdaq:NOG) are among the new 52-week highs in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Sequenom Inc (Nasdaq:SQNM), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS) and NN Inc (Nasdaq:NNBR) are also among the new 52-week highs.

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BGC Partners Inc (Nasdaq:BGCP), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS) and INVESTools Inc (Nasdaq:SWIM) are among the most actively traded companies in Thursday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Fuelcell Energy Inc (Nasdaq:FCEL), Royale Energy Inc (Nasdaq:ROYL) and China Precision Steel Inc (Nasdaq:CPSL) are also among the most actively traded companies.

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Clayton Williams Energy Inc (Nasdaq:CWEI), Hackett Group Inc (Nasdaq:HCKT) and GMX Resources Inc (Nasdaq:GMXR) are among the new 52-week highs in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS), HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries Inc (Nasdaq:HQS) and Cytori Therapeutics Inc (Nasdaq:CYTX) are also among the new 52-week highs.

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Innophos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:IPHS) is a specialized company with a highly diversified product base: it makes phosphates that are used in a multitude of household and industrial products, from food and laundry detergent to fertilizer and pharmaceuticals.

And like the company’s vast product base, its investment story is a clever concoction of ingredients. Investors and analysts who follow Innophos have recently identified a number of distinct reasons to buy its shares, from its broad diversification that will help protect it from recessionary downturns in certain business segments, to its recent aggressive product price increases. Those price increases were adopted partly in response to price hikes in the raw materials that Innophos buys, but are now expected to produce a net gain for Innophos even after higher materials costs are factored in.

Shares of Innophos, which was founded in 2004 and went public in 2006, closed at a new 52-week high of $26.90 on Thursday. Bear Stearns analyst Scott Burk in May increased his price target on the rapidly rising stock by a full $5 to $32, saying that the company’s first quarter was very strong and its planned price increases “are passing through faster than we previously modeled.”

“Recent discussions with management affirmed … indications that price increases of 50% to 60% will be effective six to nine months before any appreciable cost increases,” Burk wrote. He said he expects this “mismatch” of prices to last through the first quarter of 2009.

As a backdrop to those generally strong fundamentals, there has been a growing expectation in recent months that Innophos’ largest shareholder, the private equity firm Bain Capital, would take advantage of the company’s strong stock price and begin reducing its stake, potentially spurring some near-term weakness. On Thursday, the company announced that Bain had indeed decided to sell a large chunk of its stock. In a prospectus filed the same day, Innophos said that Bain’s planned sale of . . .

GeoResources Inc (Nasdaq:GEOI), Callon Petroleum Co (NYSE:CPE) and Powell Industries Inc (NYSE:POWL) are among the new 52-week highs in Thursday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $750 million.

Metallica Resources Inc (Nasdaq:MRB), Encore Energy Partners LP (AMEX:ENP) and Innophos Holdings Inc (NYSE:IPHS) are also among the new 52-week highs.

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Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS), Callon Petroleum Co (NYSE:CPE) and James River Coal Co (NYSE:JRCC) are among the new 52-week highs in Tuesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $750 million.

Nexxus Lighting Inc (Nasdaq:NEXS), Vision Sciences Inc (Nasdaq:VSCI) and Gran Tierra Energy Inc (Nasdaq:GTE) are also among the new 52-week highs.

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Small-cap stocks posted a solid gain Tuesday, erasing morning losses to climb to the highest daily close since early February. By the close, the Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) was up 5.44, or 0.75%, at 729.79.

The impressive recovery move off morning lows generated a bullish outside reversal on daily charts, which helps offset some of the topping pattern formed by Friday’s lower close after making new move highs. It should be noted that downside action on Monday was forged on extremely light volume, which took some of the edge off the lower price action coming into today’s session.

Looking ahead to Wednesday’s session, the market still needs to establish the ability to hold above the 731 zone, which formed a double top back in early February. Clearly, sellers emerged in that area late Tuesday, pulling the index back off the highs. Above that 731 point, resistance is at 735 and 743. If the market starts to struggle, then support is at 726, 720.50 and 715.

Much of the bearish morning tone was linked to overnight losses in Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM), which tumbled 8% after investors were cool to earnings results and a downgrade in the company’s credit rating. However, Fannie Mae reversed course after a conference call with company officials, and ended up climbing more than 8%. Without that bearish impetus to stir jitters about the mortgage market, credit crunch and banking worries, the bears quickly lost favor. By late mid-morning, . . .

After declining in morning trading, small-cap stocks began a rally around 10 a.m. ET, surging to more than 729. Better-than-expected earnings from several small-cap companies helped to act as a catalyst for the market rally. At 1:24 p.m. ET, the Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) was up 5.60, or 0.77%, at 729.95.

Despite the rally, several bearish indicators gave investors pause early in the session. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said late Monday that increasing home foreclosures might harm the economy. Adding to investors’ concerns was mortgage firm Fannie Mae’s (NYSE:FNM) reported a $2.2 billion loss on credit-associated costs, which enabled the company to post a wider-than-expected quarterly loss of $2.5 billion. Swiss banking giant UBS AG (NYSE:UBS) reported early Tuesday that it will cut 5,500 employees and sell $15 billion in risky debt to BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) at 25% off its face value.

Among sectors, the big losers include airlines, water utilities, fabricated plastic and rubber materials producers and personal services firms. On the flip side, companies associated with oil and gas operations, coal, motion picture services, gold and silver were gaining ground.

Some of the firms that have broken out in Tuesday’s trading include China Finance Online Co. (Nasdaq:JRJC), which broke through $23 resistance and is now up about 9% at $23.94. After experiencing a sell-off at $56.75, vacuum and . . .

RH Donnelley Corp (NYSE:RHD), Innophos Holdings Inc (Nasdaq:IPHS) and Dixie Group Inc (Nasdaq:DXYN) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Tuesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $750 million.

Hudson Highland Group Inc (Nasdaq:HHGP), China Technology Development Group Corp (Nasdaq:CTDC) and Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc (Nasdaq:CRBC) are also among the biggest percentage gainers.

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Gigabeam Corp. (Nasdaq: GGBM), Fremont General Corp. (NYSE: FMT) and Enterprise Financial Services Corp. (Nasdaq: EFSC) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Monday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $500 million.

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