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Stocks End Week on High Note … Asian Stocks Advancing as China Announces $586 Billion Stimulus Package … Rate Cuts and Spending Encouraged by G-20 to Stave Off Economic Crisis … Nortel, DISH Networks, Starbucks Report Earnings Today …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

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

  • Steve Ballmer of Microsoft
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    said that the company was no longer interested in trying to work out a merger deal involving Yahoo!
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  • General Motors
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    widely missed analyst earnings estimates and warned of a significant shortage of cash in the first quarter of 2009 if the company does not get some kind of assistance. The company is also halting talks of a potential merger with Chrysler to focus on immediate financial concerns. Ford Motor Company
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    , which also reported earnings on Friday, similarly missed estimates and expressed grave concern over its deteriorating cash situation.

  • Wells Fargo
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    raised more than $11 billion in a stock offering designed to help raise capital for the bank’s acquisition of Wachovia
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    .

  • Starbucks
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    is expected to announce earnings per share of 0.13 when the company reports Monday after the bell.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Life Partners Holdings Inc. LPHI 9
Telecom System TSYS 8
Cryolife Inc. CRY 8
Integral Systems ISYS 8
Beneficial Mutual Bancorp BNCL 7

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