Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

  • March 13, 2009
  • David Penn

Good Morning!

U.S. Stock Rally Resumes, S&P 500 Up More than 4% … Optimism Grows on Mark-to-Market, Uptick Rule Changes … Madoff Pleads Guilty, Goes to Jail … Asian Stocks Advance … Top ETFs for the Week Include: USD, RKH, RWW, UYG, RSX …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • General Electric
    (
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    PowerRating)     finally lost the fight to preserve its AAA credit rating as Standard and Poor’s announced a downgrade to AA+. The stock was higher on the day, in part because the downgrade was not as steep as feared.

  • General Motors
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    PowerRating)     announced that it did not yet need the $2 billion in emergency public financing it has previously requested.

  • Bank of America
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    PowerRating)     soared on Thursday as CEO Ken Lewis said that he expected the company to be profitable in 2009. Lewis continued to argue aggressively against proposals to nationalize financial firms such as his.

  • Roche and Genentech
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    PowerRating)     have reached an agreement that will allow Roche to acquire the 44% of the biotech company that it doesn’t not already own. The final price was $95 per share.

  • Google
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    PowerRating)     is risking the ire of privacy advocates with proposals for a new, user-tracking system designed to help improve its targeted advertising.

  • Recipient of more than $50 billion in public assistance, Citigroup
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    PowerRating)     co-hosted a conference call to build opposition from to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to organize and collectively bargain. Citigroup downgraded Wal-Mart
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    PowerRating)     earlier this week on fears that the pro-union legislation would undermine earnings at the world’s largest retailer.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
 Symbol PowerRatings
ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 Value ETF SJH 10
ProShares UltraShort S&P Small Cap 600 ETF SDD 10
ProShares Short Russell 2000 ETF RWM 10
ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 ETF SDS 9
ProShares UltraShort Consumer Services ETF SCC 9

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Alternating up and down days over the past week, the Health Care Select Sector SPDRS ETF was up again on Thursday. While Short financial ETFs like the ProShares UltraShort Financials ETF traded at its lowest levels since late February.

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