The S&P 500 was down 0.3% in midday trading to 2,095.19.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.4% to 18,022.72.
The NASDAQ was up 0.1% to 4,951.94.
The yield on a 10-year Treasury bond was up 1.3% to 1.88%.
The price of gold was down 0.3% to $1,251
FINANCE
Irvine-based Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc. was up 5.7% to $22.91 and a $631 million market cap on a positive quarterly report.
HEALTHCARE
Irvine-based ChromaDex Corp. was up 7.9% to $4.67 and a $171 million market cap on receiving notice it would move from the Over the Counter Market to the NASDAQ Capital Market.
ENGINEERING
Anaheim-based Willdan Group Inc. was up 3.9% to $10.91 and an $89 million market cap on news of a two-year, $2.8 million contract with Puget Sound Energy to implement an energy efficiency program to the Washington-area utility’s lodging industry customers.
REAL ESTATE
Newport Beach-based CV Holdings Inc. was up 19.9% to 17 cents and a $6.6 million market cap on high volume. The REIT, which manages non-performing loans and lender-owned properties, had traded shares by midday at a rate 35 times its 90-day average.
