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Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets
Good Morning!

U.S. Stocks Sell Off Late, Test November Lows ... Asian Stocks Fall on Earnings Anxieties ... Gold, Silver Pull Back As Crude Oil Soars ... Traders Pile Into Consumer Staples Stocks, ETFs ... Dollar Gains on Yen ... Earnings on Deck Include: ABX, JCP, LOW, THI, LPNT ...

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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  • Reporting quarterly earnings Monday morning is Barrick Gold (ABX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). Analysts are expecting EPS of 30 cents from the mining company.

  • A pair of retailers are also reporting earnings Friday before the market opens. JC Penny (JCP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is expected to announce EPS of 92 cents. And analysts are looking for earnings per share of 0.12 from Lowes (LOW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

  • Monsanto (MON | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) reported that it expected strong profit growth from its seed and genetics programs through the year 2012.

  • Among the increased holdings in billionaire George Soros' Soros Fund are commodity stocks Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (POT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Brazilian oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

  • Typical of the selling in financial stocks was the drop in Bank of America (BAC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which lost more than 13% on the day.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
InterMune Inc. ITMN 10
Palm Inc.PALM 9
Open Text Corporation OTEX 9
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. ARNA 8
Aqua America Inc. WTR 8
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Uncertainty over the details of the government's plan to help solve the financial crisis continues to put pressure on financial stocks and exchange-traded funds. As a result, the Financial Select Sector SPDRS ETF was down by nearly 3% intraday on Thursday.

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