Stocks rise on M&A activity – 2/7/11

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A couple of big merger and acquisition deals – neither in media (and bigger than the AOL buy of Huffington Post) – got Wall Street excited on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 69 points, or 0.6%, to 12,162. Broadcasting stocks also gained.


The RBR Radio Index was up 3.903, or 1.1%, to 361.968.

The TVBR Television Index was up 2.104, or 0.9%, to 226.719.

 

 

Winners
Radio One, up 7.1%
Salem, up 6.1%
LIN, up 3.8%

Losers
Beasley, down 8.9%
Gray, down 2.1%
Entravision, down 1.7%