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Royal Dutch Shell and BP Profit Rises… Valero Net Drops 85%… Petro-Canada Profit Up 82%… Visa Beats Estimates, MasterCard Reports Impressive Results… Boyd Gaming Swings to Q1 Loss.
Asian stocks up… European stocks mixed… Dollar higher… And the futures are pointing to a slightly lower open.
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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know |
High Oil Prices Boost Shell Profit, Offsetting Lower Refining Margins – Wall Street Journal
Royal Dutch Shell and BP posted sharp net profit rises for the first quarter as the top two listed European oil companies continue to benefit from higher oil prices.
Deutsche Bank Posts First Loss in Five Years After $4.2 Billion Writedown – Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, reported its first quarterly loss in five years after writing down the value of loans for leveraged buyouts and asset-backed securities by 2.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion).
Archer Daniels Midland Quarterly Profit Up 42% – MarketWatch
Archer Daniels Midland’s third-quarter profit jump 42% as a result of sharp increase in prices for grain commodities.
Gaming the Options – Portfolio.com
Microsoft has been remarkably quiet since the passage of its Saturday deadline for striking a Yahoo deal. What options are being weighed?
United and US Airways Agreement Said to Be Close – Time
United Airlines and US Airways are in very advanced talks and expect to announce within weeks that they are combining, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday.
For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking News section.
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
- Shares of WM. Wrigley Jr.
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PowerRating) shares jumped nearly 10% after Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda announced it owns 4.7% of the company and plans to increase its holding. - After the close, Hartford Financial
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PowerRating) beat estimates by $0.05. - Visa
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PowerRating) reported Q2 earnings of $0.52 after the close, beating the consensus estimate by $0.07. - Before the market open and hot on the heels of Visa’s numbers, MasterCard
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PowerRating) beat estimates by $0.59 per share. - Valero Energy
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PowerRating) earnings were $0.19 better than forecast. - And finally, Archer Daniels Midland
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PowerRating) beat by $0.10.
For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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| NewMarket | NEU | 10 |
| Lindsay Corp. | LNN | 9 |
| DrilQuip | DRQ | 9 |
| World Wrestling Entertainment | WWE | 8 |
| Yahoo! | YHOO | 8 |
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