Upticks, downticksThe following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the Big Board and the Naz. Data from the Associated Press:

Wait until Monday to fill up?Gasoline prices in the Kansas City area are essentially unchanged heading into the weekend compared with a week ago.

Shars in most regional stocks fell Friday along with the rest of the market. The exceptions were bank stocks, including Commerce Bancshares and UMB Financial Corp.

Commerce gained 26 cents to $40.68, while UMB closed at $39.48, up 7 cents.

YRC Worldwide also finished in positive territory, at $1.25, up 12 cents.

Garmin down 64 cents, and Waddell & Reed, down 48 cents, led the losers' list for the day.

Barnes & Noble Inc. said Nook, its device for reading digital versions of books, sold out its initial production run and won’t ship new purchases until the week of Jan. 4.

The retailer said last month when it introduced the $259 device that it would ship purchases by Nov. 30. The Nook is Barnes & Noble’s entry into the market dominated by Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Corp.

“While we increased production based on the high consumer interest, we’ve sold out of our initial nook allotment available for delivery before the holidays,” said Mary Ellen Keating, a Barnes & Noble spokeswoman.

From Bloomberg News

Harley-Davidson Inc. reached a tentative labor agreement that would keep open a York, Pa.,factory that’s the motorcycle maker’s largest plant, a union official said.

Members of Local 175 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will vote on the proposed contract on Dec. 2, Paul Cover Jr., a union negotiator, said Friday. The plant had 2,400 employees as of May 13.

From the Orlando Sentinel
"Build quality top notch"As part of its restructuring, General Motors executives decided to save Buick, kill Pontiac and Saturn. I remain unconvinced that this was the right decision, but I have to admit that the 2010 LaCrosse makes a very strong case that there is life left in Buick.

the Associated Press
More than 314,000 taxpayers made inaccurate claims for a popular tax credit that helps pay college expenses, getting $532 million they weren’t entitled to receive, a government report said Thursday.

The Hope Credit provides up to $1,650 a year to help pay expenses for the first two years of college. The taxpayers claimed the credit for the same student for three consecutive years, instead of the two years available, said a report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. Auditors reviewed two three-year periods, ending in 2006 and 2007. About 58,000 claimed the credit for a fourth consecutive year in 2007.

What would Buck say?Here's a wake-up call for supporters of Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum:

The city fathers in Baltimore are backing a $4.1 million plan to build a Negro League museum there to draw tourists and rejuvenate a section of the town.

By Joyce Smith

Quaint downtown Parkville might have quivered a bit when shiny new shopping centers began to open nearby.

And while some small business left for these “greener” paved pastures, other local entrepreneurs have settled in with offerings that are draws in themselves.

Take the new Spaghetti Western at 112 Main St.
Oklahoma native and Northland resident Melissa Robbins has long been a fan of spaghetti Westerns, those mid-1960s films financed by Italian companies. Her husband also is bass player for The Wilders, a “classic country” band.

Harley plays the fieldKansas City was among the first to drop out of the running for landing a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant.