Here Are The Numbers The Street Is Looking For After The Close

Stocks are
higher on the news that the US trade deficit shrank by 0.2%.

After the bell today, Wall Street is expecting earnings from Computer
giant Intel
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, Yahoo!
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, drug maker
Genentech

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, and Apple Computers
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. Intel is
expected to report earnings of 0.25 cents, Yahoo! 0.11 cents, Genentech 0.25
cents and Apple 0.14 cents. These companies are all trading lower.

Yahoo! announced a deal with
Sina

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to jointly operate and run auction-based e-commerce
targeted towards small businesses in China. Sina is up 10% on the news.

AT&T Wireless
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shares are trading higher on news of a possible merger with Cingular Wireless
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. Plantronics
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surged 10% after reporting a 91% jump
in net income. Earnings rose to 17.6% million on sales of 107.6 million, well
ahead of analysts’ forecasts. Gold
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traded lower for the
third day in a row.

Dow
+74.67

10500.66
S&P 500 +5.45
1126.68
Nasdaq +7.48
2103.30

The day’s leading sectors are
Health Providers
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+1.17%, Telecoms
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+0.92%,
Airlines
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+0.92%,
Healthcare
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+0.89%.

Weak today are Amex Gold
Bugs

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-3.41%, and Gold and Silver
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-3.12%.

Economic news releases included
an improving trade deficit of $38 Billion, and Producer price index that rose by
0.3%.

10-year Notes are +25
at 114 065

The
dollar is +0.23 at 88.01

Gold is -2.00 at 423.10

Crude Oil is -1.90 at
33.33

Volume is 700,000,000 on
the NYSE, and 1,001,000,000 on the Nasdaq.

Market breadth is Positive

NYSE Issues
Advancing 1930 Up Vol
441
Declining 1212 Down Vol 242
Ratio 1.56 1.82
Nasdaq
Advancing 1728 Up Vol
561
Declining 1322 Down Vol
1.20
Ratio 1.31 2.56

Top Dow stocks are:

Honeywell [HON|HON],
+2.51% at 35.94, Boeing
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, +2.28% at 43.20, United Tech [UTX|UTX
],
+1.61% at 95.02, and DuPont [DD|
DD],
+1.66% at 44.54

Stocks in the news:

Taser International
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has
announced a three-for-one stock split in February, to iincrease liquidity and
attract private and institutional investors.

Battery maker Rayovac
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will close
plant-and-service centers operated by its Remington unit. It expects to cut 528
jobs, with restructuring costs around $8 million. Investors pushed the stock up
5%.

Delta Airlines
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reported a
fourth-quarter loss of $327 million on revenue of $3.4 billion. Excluding
unusual items, Delta lost $207 million, or $1.71 per share. This is 5 cents
higher than Wall Street consensus.

Shares of shoemaker Vans
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rose
7% on raised third-quarter and 2004 earnings. The company now expects to earn 25
cents a share for the third quarter and 62 cents a share for the full year.

bricew@tradingmarkets.com