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U.S. Stocks End Mixed … Amazon and American Express Beat Earnings Estimates … Asian Markets Advance … Cuomo: BofA’s Lewis Pressured in Merrill Deal … Debt Rating Worries Weigh On Pound … Overbought ETFs for Today Include: XLI, EWJ, QQQQ, OIH, UXI ….

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  • Amazon.com
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    reported quarterly per share earnings of 41 cents after the market closed on Thursday. The Internet retailer beat estimates by ten cents.

  • Also announcing after the bell on Thursday was American Express
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    and Microsoft
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    . American Express reported per share earnings of 32 cents, smashing analyst estimates by nearly 20 cents. Microsoft met analyst expectations with a quarterly EPS of 39 cents

  • New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said that Bank of America
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    had been pressured by both former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and current Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke not to pull out of their deal to acquire Merrill Lynch.

  • Among the companies reporting earnings Friday morning before the market opens is Ford Motor Company
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    , which is expected to report EPS of -1.26, and Schlumberger
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    , which is expected to announce per share earnings of 77 cents.

  • Closing higher for a third day in a row and up more than 19% on Thursday was Capital One Financial
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Pegasystems Inc. PEGA 9
Unifirst Corporation UNF 8
Netflix Inc. 8
Computer Programs and Systems CPSI 8
ACI Worldwide Inc. ACIW 8

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