TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Stocks ended the week on a powerful note, with the Nasdaq closing up more than 2% on the day.

The Dow closed up by 165.77. The Nasdaq Composite ended the day 50.15. And the S&P 500 finished up by 20.16.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

Days after rallying on optimism on overseas sales, shares of Coca Cola (KO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) fell on Friday on the news that bottler Coca Cola Hellenic would be cutting sales and profit forecasts for the year due to rising raw materials costs.

Capital-raising and dividend-cutting appear to be in the future for Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), according to analysts at BMO Capital Markets. The stock was among Friday's biggest losers.

In the face of a $46.3 billion dollar bid from Belgian brewer InBev, Anheuser-Busch (BUD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it was in talks about a possible deal with Mexican beer maker, Grupo Modelo instead.

Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) was among the day's biggest gainers as investors bid the stock higher on news that Blackrock had purchased shares of the company during a secondary offering earlier this week.

Yahoo! (YHOO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced that it has ended talks with Microsoft (MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and instead completed a search partnership deal with rival Google (GOOG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

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