Blue Chip Earnings Lead To Gains


Major indexes close in the green for the day;
sentiments helped by positive earnings from major corporations.

Unexpected positive quarterly results from
Caterpillar, AT&T, Verizon and Honeywell help to boost investor confidence,
lifting the Dow to close up 100, almost 1& higher.

General Motors
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closed down -3% after announcing a quarterly loss of nearly $5 billion. 
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href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Stock%20Alert/”>Stocks On The
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Marathon Oil
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Q4 Profit Nearly Triples (full
story
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Bumpy Road Rocks General
Motors

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Q4 (full
story
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Microsoft
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At The Sweetspot Of New Product (full
story
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Caterpillar
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Q4 EPS Soars 56% On Higher Revenue And Price Realization, Boosts FY06
EPS Forecasts (full
story
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Q4 Earnings Rise 20% On Top Line Growth Of 12.4%, Adj. EPS Misses
Estimates (full
story
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Honeywell
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Q4 Profit More Than Doubles, Guides FY06 EPS In Line With Consensus (full
story
).

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Dow

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+99.17

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10808.91

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NASDAQ

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+22.35

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2283.00

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S&P 500

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+9.23

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1273.91

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Volume

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2,789,625,000

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2,391,269,000

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Advances

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2106

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2042

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Declines

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1175

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981

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Up Volume

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1739

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1443

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Down Volume

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788

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760

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New Hi’s

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290

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238

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New Lo’s

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36

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