GE, QQQ, GILD, THC, AAPL Hit New 52-Week Highs

List of stocks who have just hit new 52-week highs as of Tuesday, September 18, 2012.

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) hit a new 52 week high of $22.24 in intraday trading and closed at $22.24 +0.59% on 38,732,100 shares traded. General Electric Company provides services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing & household appliances to medical imaging, business & consumer financing, media content & industrial products.

Powershares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) hit a new 52 week high of $70.30 in intraday trading and closed at $70.27 +0.13% on 27,151,700 shares traded. The investment is a unit investment trust designed to correspond generally to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Nasdaq-100 index. The fund holds all the stocks in the Nasdaq-100 index, which consists of the largest non-financial securities

Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) hit a new 52 week high of $67.55 in intraday trading and closed at $66.77 +7.66% on 18,574,500 shares traded. Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE:THC) hit a new 52 week high of $6.25 in intraday trading and closed at $6.09 +5.73% on 15,997,600 shares traded. Tenet Healthcare Corporation is an investor-owned health care services company whose subsidiaries and affiliates mainly operate acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers and related health care facilities.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) hit a new 52 week high of $702.33 in intraday trading and closed at $701.91 +1.54% on 13,195,300 shares traded. Apple Inc designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, mobile communication devices, and portable digital music and video players and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions.

Yamana Gold (NYSE:AUY) hit a new 52 week high of $19.15 in intraday trading and closed at $19.05 +1.49% on 7,868,000 shares traded. Yamana Gold Inc is a Canadian-based gold producer with significant gold production, gold development stage properties, exploration properties, and land positions in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia.

Technology Select Sector SPDR (AMEX:XLK) hit a new 52 week high of $31.63 in intraday trading and closed at $31.63 +0.16% on 5,308,800 shares traded. The investment seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the benchmark. The fund generally invests at least 95% of total assets in

Mfa Financial Inc (NYSE:MFA) hit a new 52 week high of $8.40 in intraday trading and closed at $8.38 +0.72% on 5,037,000 shares traded. MFA Financial, Inc. is engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in residential Agency and Non-Agency MBS.

Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (AMEX:XLP) hit a new 52 week high of $36.14 in intraday trading and closed at $36.08 +0.84% on 4,888,100 shares traded. The investment seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index. The fund normally invests at le

Hca Holdings Inc. Common Stock (NYSE:HCA) hit a new 52 week high of $33.29 in intraday trading and closed at $32.67 +4.85% on 4,804,400 shares traded.

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