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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Congressional leaders heard testimony on Thursday that merger between Bank of America
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    and Merrill Lynch was a shotgun wedding induced by both the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Shares of Bank of America were up more than 8% on the day.

  • Boeing
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    lowered its long-term forecast for the airplane market. Both uncertainty surrounding fuel prices and the global economic slowdown were cited as major causes. Down 3%, the stock is increasingly oversold above its 200-day moving average.

  • New regulatory authority for the FDA to control tobacco products was granted by the Senate on Thursday. Meanwhile, shares of British American Tobacco
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    were up more than 2% after pulling back earlier in the week.

  • With retailers reporting higher sales boosted by gains in gasoline sales, online retailer Amazon
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    – which sells no gas – continues make inroads by way of third party sales. In other retail news, the Soros Fund is reportedly unloading shares of Best Buy
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    and adding both Wal-Mart
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    and Macy’s
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    . Shares of Macy’s were up more than 4% on the day, while Best Buy pulled back more than 3%. Interestingly, Wal-Mart is the only stock among this four that is trading below its 200-day moving average.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Jo-Ann Stores Inc. JAS 10
Helen of Troy Ltd. HELE 9
Prudential Financial 9
OptionsXpress OXPS 9
Sina Corporation SINA 9

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