It is reported that Shares of Eclipsys Corp. rose Friday after Standard & Poor’s said it will add the health care software maker’s stock to its S&P SmallCap 600 index. The Atlanta-based company will replace W-H Energy Services Inc. on the index as W-H Energy is being purchased by oilfield services provider Smith International Inc., [...]

McGraw-Hill Cos. division Standard & Poor’s, a provider of financial services, said Wednesday natural gas distributor Spectra Energy Corp. will replace software maker Parametric Technology Corp. in the benchmark S&P 500 Index.
Parametric Technology will move to the S&P MidCap 400 to replace Pier 1 Imports Inc., a home furnishings retailer which, with a market capitalization [...]

European energy stocks, the worst- performing shares in the past three months, gained after crude prices rebounded. BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the region’s largest oil companies, paced the advance.
“We are still positive on oil stocks despite the recent correction in the oil price,” said Sergi Martin, who helps oversees $5.3 billion at [...]

U.K. mining stocks including Rio Tinto Group and Kazakhmys Plc fell as copper and other metal prices declined. Standard Chartered Plc, the bank that makes two- thirds of its profit in Asia, rose.
The FTSE 100 Index dropped 0.1 percent to 5,874.10 as of 1:38 p.m. in London. The measure is also little changed for the [...]

Investors looking to turn a profit on Ottawa-based companies during the first six months of 2006 would have been wise to shun the big technology names and focus on small-cap mining stocks.
Northern Shield Resources, which trades on the Venture Exchange, was the best-performing Ottawa stock in the six-month period ended June 30, soaring 173 [...]