American Airlines (AAL), EA (EA), Lam Research (LRCX) Gain Amid Addition to NASDAQ-100

Three stocks are benefiting today after NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced they will be added to the NASDAQ-100 (Nasdaq: NDX) with the annual re-ranking, which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, December 22, 2014 - American Airlines Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAL) (+1.6%), Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: EA) (+2.2%) and Lam Research Corporation (Nasdaq: LRCX) (+1.4%).

Also, as a result of the revision in the index methodology allowing multiple share classes of index participants to be included in the index, the following three securities will also be added to the index: Comcast Corporation Class A Special (Nasdaq: CMCSK), Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. Class B (Nasdaq: FOX) and Liberty Global plc Class C (Nasdaq: LBTYK).

As a result of the re-ranking, the following three companies will be removed from the Index: Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV) and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXIM).

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