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Stocks End Holiday-Shortened Week on Winning Streak … Yahoo! Shoots Down Microsoft Rumors … Bank of Japan to Hold Emergency Meeting … Lower Rates Expected from Australia, New Zealand … Beazer, Toll Report Earnings This Week

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday

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

  • Carl Icahn reportedly boosted his stake in Yahoo!
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    by 6.8 million shares. Icahn is now the fourth largest shareholder in the Internet company.

  • Politicians are looking to revisit the Citigroup
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    bailout, suggesting that greater accountability should be required in return for the assistance given.

  • Ford Motor Company
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    is resisting calls for CEO Alan Mullaly to take a cut in pay at the same time Ford joins other automakers in requesting emergency Federal loans.

  • As part of a sizable restructuring effort, General Motors
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    is considering shutting down well-known brands including Saturn and Saab.

  • Among the earnings traders and investors will be looking for next week are those from Beazer Homes USA
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    and Toll Brothers
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    . Shares of both homebuilders have moved dramatically higher in recent days.

  • And among the retailers analysts are expecting to weather any down turn in holiday spending are Macy’s
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    , which has the advantage of larger size over its competitors.

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Rydex 2x Inverse Russell 2000 ETF RRZ 9
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ProShares Short QQQ ETF PSQ 8
ProShares UltraShort Technology REW 8

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