LJ International Inc. (NasdaqGM: JADE) prospered 13.88 percent in price Thursday to $4.02. Volume of 942,250 shares nosed out its full-day average of 643,849 shares. The Hong Kong-based JADE is engaged in the designing, branding, marketing and distribution of a full range of jewelry

Claude Resources, Inc. (AMEX: CGR) blew its volume average out of the water Thursday, trading in 1,935,525 shares, quadrupling what it normally exchanges in a day. Share prices for CGR chugged ahead 17.42 percent to $2.09, after announcing positive results from sampling in excess of 22,000 metres of drill core from a total of 278 historic drill holes on the 13,900 hectare Amisk Gold Property in Manitoba.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) fell 12.63 percent Thursday to $67.22, on volume of 19,014,157 shares that quadrupled its daily average, on word of a lawsuit by the Canadian Competition Bureau.