Stocks Hold Steady As Investors Wait For Thursday’s Fed Report


The major markets
close the day with fractional change; Dow and Nas close green, S&P is barely
red.

Wachovia
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finalized plans to acquire Golden West
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for $26 Billion.  WB closed down 6.5% and GDW closed up 6%.

Intel
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closed up over 3% after receiving an upgrade from Caris & Co.

Crude oil futures closed lower, down $0.40.

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

American Vanguard
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Q1 Earnings Slump Impacted By Higher Interest Expenses (full
story
).

Coeur D’Alene
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Mines Posts Q1 Profit (full
story
).

Edison International
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Q1 Profit Up (full
story
).

Myogen
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Q1 Loss Narrows As Top-line More Than Doubles (full
story
).

Nabors
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Q1 EPS Surges On 48% Top Line Growth; Beats Estimate (full
story
).

UAL
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Posts Wider Loss In Q1, Excl. Items; Aims An Additional $400Mln In Cost Savings
(full
story
).

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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+6.84

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11,584.54

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NASDAQ

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+2.42

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2,344.99

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S&P 500

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-1.10

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1,324.66

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Volume

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2,138,972,000

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1,752,537,000

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Advances

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1654

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1431

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Declines

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1585

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1616

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Up Volume

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984

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756

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Down Volume

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862

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809

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New Hi’s

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288

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234

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New Lo’s

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69

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Dow Jones Internet Commerce
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Securities Broker Dealer
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Computer Technology
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GSTI Software
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Natural Gas
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Oil Service
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href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Economic%20News/”>Economic
News



A round of foreign economic reports was released
today. 
Check them
here
.




John Patrick Lee


johnl@tradingmarkets.com



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