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Geithner Bank Plan Announcement Delayed … Senate Stimulus Bill Passage Likely … Asian Stocks Down, Japanese Yen Up … U.S. Stocks Begin Week at Overbought Levels … Earnings On Deck for Today Include: BZH, HAS, SOHU, VMC, WHR …

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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today

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

  • Beazer Homes
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    reports quarterly earnings Monday morning before the market opens. Analysts are expecting EPS of -1.83.

  • The Wall Street Journal reported that GlaxoSmithKline
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    is in talks to buy Indian pharmaceutical company Piramal for $1.5 billion.

  • Beginning this Saturday and continuing through the end of March, Verizon Wireless – a joint venture between Vodafone
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    and Verizon Communications
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    – will launch a two-for-one sale of the wildly popular Blackberry smartphone.

  • Earnings per share of 78 cents is what analysts are expecting from Whirlpool
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    when it reports earnings Monday before the bell.

  • Hartford Financial
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    plunged on Friday, as the company reported losses of more than $800 million for the fourth quarter.

  • Announcing quarterly earnings Monday morning, Hasbro
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    is expected to report EPS of 75 cents.

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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today

Company
Symbol PowerRatings
Terra Nitrogen Company LP TNH 8
ProShares UltraShort Rus. Midcap Growth ETF SDK 8
NCI Inc. NCIT 8
ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF QID 8
NTT DoCoMo DCM 8

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