MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) is up .06% to 1 418.98 points as of 2:20 p.m. EST today. Leading the rise is Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE:CLF) which is up 5.25% to $31.10 per share after announcing the pricing of $500 million public offering of senior notes. Also up is Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) which rose 3.11% to $6.63 per share after RBC Capital gave the company an outperform rating today. On the other hand Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) is down for the day dropping 4.75% to 627.30 per share after an analyst downgrade.