DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Venezuela Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q1 2010″ report to their offering.

Oil prices gained Friday after a report showed that the U.S. economy grew last quarter at the fastest pace in over six years.

The economy grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, the quickest in more than six years, as businesses made less-aggressive cuts to inventories and stepped up spending.

Memory chip company Rambus Inc. reported an 18 percent decline in revenue and bigger losses during the fourth quarter, though business appeared to pick up from earlier in the year.

Newell Rubbermaid Inc posted a fourth-quarter profit on cost-cutting and lower raw materials prices, but the maker of Rubbermaid containers and Sharpie pens said the recent devaluation of Venezuela’s currency would hurt 2010 results, sending shares down 4 percent.

U.S. stocks advanced on Friday, sending major indexes up more than 1 percent, as reassuring reports on the fourth-quarter 2009 gross domestic product and January consumer sentiment rekindled the appetite for riskier assets.

Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc set a first-quarter profit target that fell short of analysts’ forecasts and its shares fell 4 percent.

Arch Coal Inc. cited nagging softness in coal demand from power plants and steelmakers for lower than expected earnings in the fourth quarter, but the miner insisted the industry was poised for a rebound this year.

Among the premarket stories for Friday, Jan. 29, from AP Financial News: — Analysts applauded Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter earnings report, and several raised their price targets for the stock.

Analysts applauded Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter earnings report, and several raised their price targets for the stock. Shares of the Internet retailer rose $3.98, or 3.2 percent, at $130.01 in premarket trading Friday.