Stock Market News Briefs: Boeing Company (The), Citigroup Inc., Ford Motor Credit Company, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), Jefferies Group, Inc., Micron Technology, Inc., Morgan Stanley, Southwestern Energy Company, VeriSign, Inc.

•  Boeing  officials on Sunday said the Dreamliner's load test showed initial results were positive

•  Apollo Group (NADAQ:APOL) posted better than expected fiscal second quarter earnings of 84 cents a share, ahead of Zacks projections of 81 cents, on inline revenues of $1.07 billion

•  Morgan Stanley was selected to advise and manage sales of the government's position in Citigroup  common shares

•  Ford  said it agreed to sell Volvo to China's automotive firm, Geely, for $1.8 billion

•  Jefferies  downgraded VeriSign  to "hold" from "buy" with a $27 price target

•  Goldman Sachs  upgraded Southwestern Energy   to "Conviction Buy" from "neutral" with a price target of $54

•  According to the world's second-largest semiconductor manufacturer, Hynix Semiconductor, global memory chip supply remains very tight with second quarter conditions likely to remain stronger than expected

•  Auriga reiterated a "buy" on Micron, lifting the price target to $13 from $11