Thursday's Small-Cap Winners & Losers

Continental Materials (CUO Quote) fell 2.4% to $28.20 after its second-quarter earnings declined from a year ago.

The company earned $1.19 million, or 74 cents a share, down from $1.43 million and 89 cents a share last year. Sales rose slightly.

Inovio Biomedical (INO Quote), a company involved in the development of DNA vaccines, said its partner Tripep AB of Sweden received approvals from the Swedish Medical Products Agency and local ethics committees to initiate a Phase I/II clinical trial of a novel DNA vaccine. ...