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Asian Stocks Lower on Earnings Fears … Chinese Stimulus Plan Dwarfs U.S. Stimulus Efforts … Starbucks Misses Earnings Monday After the Bell … American Express Gets Approval to Become Bank Holding Company … Tyco, TJX Companies Report Today …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Revenues for Google
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    were projected lower by a Barclays Capital analyst, who sees a slowdown in the search engine business.

  • Meet the new boss: the iPhone by Apple
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    has surpassed Motorola‘s
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    Razr as the number one consumer phone in the United States.

  • Missing estimates by three cents in its earnings announcement after the market closed on Monday, Starbucks
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    initially slid more than 5% in afterhours trading.

  • Retailer TJX Companies
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    reports quarterly earnings Tuesday morning. Analysts are expecting EPS of 0.55. Liz Clairborne
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    reported EPS of 0.39 Monday after the market closed, beating analyst estimates by two cents.

  • Barclays PLC suggested that Goldman Sachs
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    may announce its first quarterly loss ever in the fourth quarter of this year.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Life Partners Holdings Inc. LPHI 9
Unifi Inc. UFI 8
Telecommunications Systems Inc. TSYS 8
First Financial Corp. of Indiana THFF 8
Steris Corporation STE 7

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