Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets
Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets
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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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PowerRating) 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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PowerRating) reports earnings Friday before the bell. - Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain resigned from recent acquirer Bank of America
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PowerRating) on Thursday. - Microsoft
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PowerRating) 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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PowerRating) 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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PowerRating) 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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PowerRating) is expected to report EPS of 34 cents.
For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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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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High Probability Strategies – TradingMarkets
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.
Combining Trading Strategies to Improve Your Odds – TradingMarkets
TradingMarkets contributor Austin Passamonte discusses two trading strategies to keep traders on the correct side of pending price direction.
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.
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TradingMarkets Daily PowerRatings Analysis |
PowerRatings, Microsoft and Mean Reversion Trading – TradingMarkets
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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