TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Friday
Stocks were little changed for most of the day until the final hour when selling began to pick up. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 will open on Friday, an options expiration Friday, extremely oversold below the 200-day moving average.
The Dow closed lower by 89.68. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 25.15. And the S&P 500 ended the day down 9.48.
Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Friday.
Reporting quarterly earnings Monday morning is Barrick Gold
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A pair of retailers are also reporting earnings Friday before the market opens. JC Penny
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Monsanto
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Among the increased holdings in the billionaire George Soros’ Soros Fund are commodity stocks Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
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Typical of the selling in financial stocks was the drop in Bank of America
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