TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Wednesday

A late rally brought all three of the major market indexes back into positive territory on Tuesday. The Nasdaq, however, lagged behind the Dow industrials and S&P 500.

The Dow closed up 151.17. The Nasdaq Composite edged up 1.22. And the S&P 500 ended the day higher by 8.37.

Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Wednesday.

With Jerry Yang stepping down as Yahoo!
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CEO, unresolved deals such as the company’s plan to buy Time Warner’s AOL unit, are likely to be revisited.

BJs Wholesale
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reports earnings Wednesday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of 0.46. After the bell on Wednesday, Men’s Warehouse
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is expected to announce quarterly earnings per share of 24 cents.

InBev received the final approval to complete its $52 billion dollar acquisition of Anheuser-Busch
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The CEOs of Ford Motor Company
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, General Motors
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and Chrysler LLC testified before Congress in favor of $25 billion in loans to avoid a collapse of the U.S. auto industry.

Hewlett-Packard
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beat quarterly analysts earnings estimates in a pre-announcement that also included a positive forecast despite widespread fears of a global PC sales slowdown in 2009.

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