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U.S. Stocks Soar as Financials Upgraded … BofA Shareholders Remove Lewis as Chairman … Chrysler Bankruptcy Announcement Due Today … Asian Stocks Rally … ETFs Closing Above 200-day MA on Wednesday: EWT, FXI, EEM …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Among the companies reporting quarterly earnings after the close on Wednesday were Starbucks
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    and Visa
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    . Starbucks reported per share earnings of 16 cents, topping analyst estimates by a penny. EPS of 73 cents from Visa beating analyst estimates by eight cents.

  • An upgrade of the group rating for the banking sector by a major global investment bank helped spur buying in shares of both Citigroup
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    and Bank of America
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    , both of which had become increasingly oversold over the past few days. Citigroup added nearly 8% on the day. Bank of America rallied more than 6%.

  • Exxon Mobil
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    is one of a large number of companies announcing quarterly earnings before the market opens on Thursday. Analysts are expecting EPS of 0.96.

  • Kellogg Company
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    is expected to announce per share earnings of 78 cents before the market opens Thursday morning. Motorola
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    , also reporting before the bell on Thursday, is expected to report an EPS loss of 11 cents.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Best Buy Inc. BBY 9
Brinker International EAT 9
Research in Motion 9
Open Text Corporation OTEX 8
Palm Inc. PALM 8

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