Friday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

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Good Morning!

Hurricane Fears Keep Oil Prices High … Solar Power Stocks Continue to Draw Investor Interest … Trading Volumes in NYSE Reach
2001 Low … Halliburton Looks to Buy Expro for $3.4 Billion … Brevan
Howard Raises $1 Billion in Hedge Fund IPO … Existing Homes Sales Data Due Today … Apple Inc. Up in Premarket on Merrill Lynch $215 Target Announcement.

Asian stocks down … European stocks down … The dollar is moving lower against the Japanese yen … And the futures are trending lower in the hour before the bell.

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TradingMarkets 5 Business Stories You Need to Know

NYSE
Trading Volume Drops
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There are more U.S. stocks than ever being publicly traded. But fewer and fewer of those stocks are being traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Bizjournals

The skyrocking price of oil continues to reward stocks of companies engaged in the solar power industry. Evergreen Solar was up more than 10% on Thursday due to news of a new contracts totaling more than $1

billion.

The
Fed: To Cut or Not to Cut
DailyFX
Have we reached the end of days when it comes to the Fed’s monetary accommodation? Not so fast, says Kathy Lien, chief strategist for DailyFX.
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BCE
Bond Holders Strike Back
Reuters
A win for bond holders threatens the planned leveraged buyout of Canada’s largest communications company.

Ford
to Break Even in 2009
Wall Street Journal

An announcement that Ford’s return to profitability would be later than expected disappointed investors and traders on Thursday, sending the stock reeling by more than 8%.
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For more stories as they happen, go to our Breaking
News section
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Dick’s Sporting Goods
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    experienced its biggest drop since the bear market bottom in October 2002 after its annual profit forecast was less than analysts expected.

  • Evergreen Solar
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    , the solar power panel parts maker, ended the day up by more than 10% on news of a new $750 million contract.

  • The biggest producer of electricity from natural gas, Calpine
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    was up by more than 8% on the day on news that NRG Energy
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    was making an unsolicited bid for the company.

  • BCE, Inc.
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    was down by 12% as bondholders won the right to challenge a planned leveraged buyout of the company.

  • Gap Inc.
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    announced earnings on Thursday that beat analyst estimates by three cents.

  • Ford Motor Company
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    admitted that it would likely break even in 2009, later than analysts had expected. The stock was down more than 8% on the news.

For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click
here
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Systemax Inc. href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=SYX”>SYX 10
Aeropostale Inc. href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=ARO”>ARO 10
Rait Financial Trust href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=RAS”>RAS 9
Parker Hannifin Corp href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=PH”>PH 9
Navios Maritime Holdings href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/powerratings?sym=NM”>NM 9

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TradingMarkets Tracking the Wizards

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JWS has come from behind to join bigpaulie in the top spot in the TradingMarkets Up or Down Stock Contest.

Click the headline above to see the leaderboard – or to get in the game if you’ve been on the sidelines. It’s free

and you will have a chance to win $1,000 a month by correctly guessing the direction of a stock!

The
Straddle – Using Calls and Puts Together to Capture a Big Move
TradingMarkets
You see a stock and your analysis tells you a big move is coming. The only problem is you are not sure if the big move will take your stock higher or lower. The straddle is one of the more popular options strategies for just this

type of situation, as TradingMarkets contributor John Emery explains.

4
Simple Steps to Better Market Timing
TradingMarkets

This classic article shows traders how to use the TRIN to enter trades in the SPYs, E-minis or index options.

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