Stocks Turn South As Oil Rises


Stocks close in the red for
the day, as oil continues to rise and interest rate hikes remain ominous.

Crude oil futures closed up almost 3% for the day.

General Motors
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sold $9 billion of interest in GMAC Commercial Holding Corp to private-equity
firms. GM closed down fractionally.

Royal Gold, Inc.
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closed up over 8% for the day. Yesterday RGLD received a
Power Rating

of 9.

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

Carnival
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Power Rating

Q1 EPS Misses Estimates By $0.02; Shares Dip (full
story
).

Biovail
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Power Rating

Q4 Profit More Than Doubles On Stronger Sales; Sees Better-than-expected Q1,
FY06 EPS; Declares Quarterly Dividend Of $0.125/share; Stock Soars (full
story
).

Family Dollar
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Power Rating

Q2 Profit Dips On Litigation Charge; Non-GAAP EPS Rises, Beats Estimates; Guides
Q3; Revises FY06 Outlook (full
story
).

General Mills
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GIS |
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Power Rating

Q3 Profit Up 7% On Higher U.S. Retail Sales; Reaffirms FY06 EPS Outlook (full
story
).

ConAgra Foods
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Power Rating

Slips To Loss From Profit In Q3; Expects Major Operating Initiatives To Lower
FY07 Earnings Base (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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-47.14

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11,270.29

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NASDAQ

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-3.20

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2,300.15

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S&P 500

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-3.37

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1,301.67

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Volume

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1,980,706,000

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2,006,956,000

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Advances

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1586

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1605

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Declines

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1633

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1413

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Up Volume

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920

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945

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Down Volume

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979

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945

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New Hi’s

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131

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144

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New Lo’s

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32

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Sectors

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Strongest
Sectors


Weakest
Sectors

Oil Service
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Nasdaq Combined Transport
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Amex Gold Bugs
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Airline
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Disk Drive
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Pharmaceutical
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href=”https://tradingmarkets.com.site/news/Economic%20News/”>Economic
News



Existing Home Sales Unexpectedly Rebound In February (full
story
).



Weekly Jobless Claims Come In Below Economist Estimates (full
story
).




John Patrick Lee


johnl@tradingmarkets.com



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