3M Climbs on Earnings Affirmation

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (MMM) - Get Report was up 5.4% to $120.29 a day after saying its first-quarter earnings would come in at the high end of or above its earlier expectations. The company now expects to earn at least $1.20 a share in the quarter and also set plans to officially change its name to 3M, the shorthand by which the manufacturing giant is already better known.