TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Wednesday: KO, FDO, AVP, NVDA, CSCO, YHOO, WFMI

Retail continued to serve as a destination for buyers ahead of trading on Wednesday, with retailers like ^JCP^ closed higher for a third day in a row. Up more than 3% were both ^AMZN^ and ^M^. Both stocks are trading above their 200-day moving averages.

Signs of profit-taking in the energy patch remain on the horizon, with shares of ^HAL^ pulling back by well over 2% and ^RIG^ closing lower for a third day in a row. Note that neither stock is yet in oversold territory.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Wednesday.

Reporting quarterly earnings Wednesday morning before the market opens is ^KO^. Shares of KO had pulled back for four consecutive trading days before bouncing modestly on Tuesday.

Strength in retail stocks helped send shares of  ^FDO^ up by more than 5% in Tuesday’s trading. The rally brings the stock back above its 200-day moving average.

Plunging by nearly 3% after becoming overbought below the 200-day moving average on Tuesday were shares of ^AVP^.

^NVDA^ (below) pulled back for a second day in a row ahead of trading on Wednesday.

NVDA chart

The stock was down nearly 3% and has closed lower for three out of the past four trading days.

^CSCO^ (below) is scheduled to report quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday.

CSCO chart

Shares of the stock were pulling back for a second day on Tuesday, following Cisco’s climb into overbought territory below the 200-day moving average.

After closing higher for six consecutive trading days and becoming overbought above the 200-day moving average, shares of ^YHOO^ (below) pulled back by more than 1%.

YHOO chart

Yahoo! had been moving higher in the wake of the stock’s last oversold close in late January.

^WFMI^ failed to hold on to intraday highs in trading on Tuesday. The stock has been rangebound since mid-January, oscillating between 54 and 51 cents. The company is scheduled to report quarterly earnings after the market closes on Wednesday.

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