(RealTimeTraders.com) - Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) moved gradually to the upside in the first hour of Wednesday's session and closed higher by 1.09 at $44.77.

Yahoo! Inc. rose past the upper end of a 10-week range and closed at a new 52-week high. The stock is now trading higher by 0.38 on 3K shares Friday morning on Instinet.

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