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Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

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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

Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:

  • Reporting quarterly earnings Monday morning is Barrick Gold
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    . 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
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    is expected to announce EPS of 92 cents. And analysts are looking for earnings per share of 0.12 from Lowes
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  • Monsanto
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    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
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    and Brazilian oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA
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    .

  • Typical of the selling in financial stocks was the drop in Bank of America
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    , which lost more than 13% on the day.

For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.

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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