Four Stocks To Watch For The Second Half Of The Session

At the mid-point of trading, the markets are
dragging towards the worst levels of the day.
Chairman Alan Greenspan says
depressing factors are still affecting the economy and that the need for more
fiscal policy should be examined.

Many of the sectors are weak today: Home
Furnishings, Hotels, Restaurants, Tobacco, Chips and Chip Equipment, Banks,
Brokerage and Biotech. Crude oil for Oct.
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has been down over
a 1.00 after President George Bush addressed the United Nations. The Amex oil
sector

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is dropping to the worst levels of the day and the
Phlx Oil Service sector

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is also at its lows.

Stronger sectors are: Wireless Service and Gold.

Ashland
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is staging a counter
trend rally to an area just above its 20-day moving average.
ASH is carrying
a

3
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relative strength rank of 15
with a downtrending ADX of 45 from
TradingMarkets.com.

Deere Co.
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is breaking above the
resistance level from a cup and handle with increasing volume.

Corinthian Colleges
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is
trading in a mini running cup and handle atop the 20-day moving average.

COCO carries a

3
-month
relative strength rank of 98
from TradingMarkets.com.

Agco
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is breaking out of an
ascending triangle with unusually high volume to make a two-month high.

Barr Labs
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appears to be
breaking down from a triangle atop the 20-day moving average.
BRL is holding
a

3
-month
relative strength rank of 87
from TradingMarkets.com.

Nasdaq Breadth:

Adv: 963 UpVol: 10689985

Dec: 2095 DnVol: 51315920

Net: -1132 Net: -40625935

NYSE Breadth:

Adv: 889 UpVol: 14298200

Dec: 2265 DnVol: 53941486

Net: -1376 Net: -39643286