Lehman among stock market's big moversStocks that were moving substantially or trading heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., down 88 cents at $58.62 The brokerage, which reports quarterly results Tuesday, fell alongside other financial firms as investors grew pessimistic ahead of this week's earnings releases and as borrowers across the Atlantic made a run on British lender Northern Rock PLC. PHH Corp., down $4.26 at $24.24 The operator of mortgage-lending and fleet-management units said its pending acquisition by General Electric Co. may be hitting a financing snag. EDO Corp., up $3.33 at $54.84 Defense contractor ITT Corp. said it is buying EDO for about $1.19 billion in cash. NASDAQ Microsoft Corp., down 32 cents at $28.73 Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order that forces it to pay a record $613 million fine, share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player. InfoSpace Inc., up $4.13 at $17.38 Idearc Inc. said it is paying $225 million in cash to buy Switchboard.com and other online directory assets from InfoSpace. Amgen Inc., down 86 cents at $55.46 A Citigroup analyst said sales of Aranesp, an Amgen anemia drug, could decline after federal reimbursement changes but expense cuts would offset the loss.
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