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U.S. Stocks Soar as Dow Gains 100+ … Financials Lead as MS Gains Nearly 5%, AXP More than 3% … Crude Oil Rallies for Third Consecutive Session … Euro Reaches New High Against Greenback … Overbought Extremes Prevail in Most ETF Markets …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • FedEx Corp
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    finally releases its widely anticipated earnings for its fiscal 1st quarter 2010. Analysts are expecting an EPS of 58 cents prior to the bell on Thursday morning.

  • Third tier credit card company, Discover Financial
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    , is hoping its fiscal 3rd quarter 2009 earnings loss, announce Thursday prior to trading, do not exceed negative 16 cents/share.

  • Palm Inc
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    expecting a loss of 22 cents/share for their fiscal first quarter 2010. PALM will announce earnings on Thursday after the close.

  • Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen is selling 24 wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T
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  • Berkshire Hathaway
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    owned, Geico Insurance, will soon face competition from London’s Admiral Group and their Elephant.com website.

  • A Republican-backed bill hit the house that would require the U.S. Government to dump shares in companies whose stock it acquired including American International Group
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  • The New York Attorney General’s office has just subpoenaed 5 Bank of America
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    board members regarding the Merrill Lynch acquisition.

  • A media research group said newspaper advertising is showing improvement lifting the publishing sector higher including the New York Times
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
eHealth Inc. EHTH 9
Cabela’s Inc. CAB 9
DexCom Inc. 9
Big Lots Inc. BIG 8
Citigroup C 8

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Finding Great ETF Trades is Easy, Part 2
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Previously, I showed you a few simple rules as an example of what an ETF model should look like. And in today’s Trading Lesson, we’ll look at the test results on this very easy to follow model.

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Here are some tips from TradingMarkets contributing writer AJ Monte on how to make better investments, while reducing the emotional ties associated with managing your own money.

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Paul Azzopardi helps investors to get a much better feel of the market and where it might be heading, so they can participate instead of sitting on the sidelines.

TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today

Financials Surge, Leading Markets Deeper Still into Overbought Territory Above 200-DayTradingMarkets

Overbought extremes intensified on Wednesday for the Financial and Energy ETF sectors. Among the biggest gainers on the day was the iShares MSCI Australia Index ETF, EWA.

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