Stocks Hold On As Oil Soars


Markets hold onto
yesterday’s gains, despite another rise in oil.

Crude oil futures closed at a new high.

Six Dow components announced earnings this morning,
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and
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.  Notable standouts
were HON and IBM, both closed down over 1%, and UTX, which closed up over 6%.

href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Stock%20Alert/”>Stocks On The
Move

Abbott
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Q1 Profit Up 3.2%, Sales Misses Street’s View; Backs Full Year 2006 EPS Outlook
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Genzyme
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Q1 Profit Rises 6%, Adj. EPS Misses Estimate, Revenues Up 16%, Reiterates FY06
EPS Target (full
story
).

JP Morgan
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Q1 Profit Up 36%; Top-line Rises 12% (full
story
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Coca-Cola
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Q1 Profit Climbs 10% On Strong Results From Latin American, Other Emerging
Markets; Board Approves 11% Rise In Quarterly Dividend (full
story
).

Honeywell
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Q1 Earnings Rise 22%, Says Confident Of A 25% To 30% Earnings Growth In 2006 (full
story
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Huntington Bancshares
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Q1 Earnings Rise 8% (full
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).

For more stories as they happen, go to our href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Breaking%20News/”>Breaking
News
section.

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Dow

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+10.40

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11,279.17

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NASDAQ

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+17.74

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2,370.88

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S&P 500

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+0.54

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1,309.98

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Volume

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2,392,839,000

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2,075,119,000

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Advances

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1957

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1857

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Declines

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1326

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1177

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Up Volume

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1366

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1237

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Down Volume

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791

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650

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New Hi’s

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344

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296

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New Lo’s

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128

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Strongest
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Weakest
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Deutsche Bank Energy
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Computer Tech
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CBOE Internet
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S&P Retail
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Dow Jones Equity
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Down 10 Index
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href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Economic%20News/”>Economic
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Crude Oil Inventories Slip (full
story
).


Core Consumer Prices Rise Slightly More Than Expected
(full
story
).



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John Patrick Lee


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