Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

Good Morning!

U.S. Stocks Rally Off Intraday Lows on Thursday, Enter Friday Mildly Overbought … Sony’s Weak Forecast Weighs on Asian Stocks … Thain Out at Bank of America … Microsoft To Cut 5,000 Jobs … Google Beats Estimates … … Earnings on Deck for Today Include: GE, XRX, HOG

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Google
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    beat analyst estimates by 14 cents in its earnings announcement after the market closed on Thursday.

  • Analysts are expecting earnings per share of 1.06 when Schlumberger
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    reports earnings Friday before the bell.

  • Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain resigned from recent acquirer Bank of America
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    on Thursday.

  • Microsoft
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    surprised the markets with an earlier than expected earnings miss and news that the software giant would eliminate 5,000 jobs company wide.

  • General Electric
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    reports quarterly earnings Friday before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of 0.37.

  • Investors aggressively unloaded shares of Aflac
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    on Thursday following a Morgan Stanley report expressing concern over the company’s investments in securities in both Europe and the U.K.

  • Announcing its quarterly earnings Friday before the opening bell, Xerox
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    is expected to report EPS of 34 cents.

For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.

TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Usec Inc. USU 8
SkyWest Inc. SKYW 8
Odyssey Re Holdings Corporation ORH 8
Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index ETF EDV 8
iShares Lehman Brothers 20+ Year T Bond ETF TLT 7

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The S&P 500 index went out at 840.25 yesterday, led by energy and a significant short covering in financials. See Kevin Haggerty’s commentary on the market’s response to the capital problems so far declared by Bank of America and Citigroup.

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TradingMarkets contributor Austin Passamonte discusses two trading strategies to keep traders on the correct side of pending price direction.

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Technology ETFs managed to hold up relatively well on Thursday, with shares of the iShares S&P Global Technology ETF and the Technology Select Sector SPDRS ETF continuing to move more sideways than lower.

TradingMarkets Daily PowerRatings Analysis


PowerRatings, Microsoft and Mean Reversion Trading
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Microsoft’s disappointing earnings announcement was a surprise. But the stock’s weakness over the past several days should not have been news for traders who follow Short Term PowerRatings.

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