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WATERBURY, Vt.—-Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., today announced its results for the quarter and year ended September 26, 2009, reporting outstanding top and bottom line growth for both periods.

The Standard Poors 500 index closed at a fresh 13-month high on Wednesday as an upbeat forecast from a top homebuilder and data from China pointed to a strengthening global economy.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange:

The slump in the housing market ended around March, and while there is improvement, it will be slow and fitful, U.S. luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Incs Chief Executive Robert Toll said on Wednesday.

American International Group Inc.s CEO Robert Benmosche said Wednesday he plans to stay in his job at the embattled insurer.

Wal-Mart Stores said Wednesday it will keep its stores open 24 hours and take new crowd-control measures Thanksgiving weekend after a temporary employee was trampled to death in a Black Friday rush last year.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Wednesday its gross profit margin should improve next year as chip sales pick up. The worlds No. 2 microprocessor company expects gross margin of 40 percent to 45 percent in 2010.

The stock market managed modest gains Wednesday as a weaker dollar lifted gold and oil prices and Federal Reserve officials signaled that borrowing rates would remain low.

The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use. Good thing a lot can change in a year. Though not without flaws, the latest version of the device, the BlackBerry Storm2, is the phone Research In Motion Ltd. should have released last year: Its faster, smarter and more fun to use.

Biotechnology company ImmunoGen Inc. said Wednesday that Stephen McCluski is replacing Mitchel Sayare as chairman of the board.