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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
- One of the more surprising earnings announcements in recent quarters was MBIA‘s
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$1.37 per share. - Amazon.com
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since late June. - Dow stocks were among Friday’s big gainers, with shares of Home Depot
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day. - Shares of Qwest
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weight.” - Another impressive performance from the Dow industrials was Citigroup‘s
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PowerRating) foray into Southern style cuisine with its chicken biscuit sandwiches and sweet tea helped the number one restaurant chain
report better than expected sales in July.
For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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target=”_blank”>Making Great Traders – TradingMarkets
TradingMarkets VP Eddie Kwong provides his weekly digest of the best of the week that was at TradingMarkets – from our special Big Saturday Interview
with Linda Raschke to tips on how to beat the bear market.
target=”_blank”>Euro, Aussie and Pound at Critical Levels – TradingMarkets
TradingMarkets Select Contributor Chris Capre takes the measure of the rally in the U.S. dollar in his latest column for TradingMarkets.
target=”_blank”>7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today – TradingMarkets
Exchange-traded funds providing exposure to both the financial and technology sectors were among the best performing ETFs on Friday. ETF traders will be
alert for signs of follow-through or pullback this morning.
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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know |
An Interview with McDonalds CEO Alvarez – style=”color:#999999″>The Independent
Shares of McDonald’s soared by more than 6% on Friday. MCD is now more stretched above its 200-day moving average than at any time since the
December 2007 top.
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Verizon Reaches Deal, Strike
Averted – Wall Street Journal
2,500 new union jobs are part of the agreement tentatively reached between Verizon and both the Communications Workers of America and International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Time for the Greenback
to Shine? – DailyFX
DailyFX currency strategist John Kicklighter weighs the odds on whether or not the surge higher in the U.S. dollar against major currencies represents the
Big Breakout that dollar bulls have been waiting for.
target=”_blank”>The Gap Gets Back on Track – BusinessWeek
Rallying nearly 7% on Friday, shares of GPS are more overbought than at any time since the stock began its rally from the July lows. The stock has a Short
Term PowerRating of 3.
Retailers Turn Toward
Solar – New York Times
All that real estate gobbled up by retailers over the past few years is increasingly put to use in the service of generating energy and saving money.
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